No Gundams at Target or Wal-Mart
Kris
removed from the toy sections at Target and Walmart. They both remodeled
recently and all the old stuff is gone. Although yesterday, one of my
Wal-Marts had new small Seed models (Buster, Sword Strike, and pictures of
Blitz model on the box) - that was a suprise. As I was saying, neither store
has any Gundam action figures - not even the damn Mandor Gundam. I've got a
bad feeling about all of this ! The only place around here that has Gundams
in Toys-R-Us and they never even received Strike or Buster way back when.
What's it like in your town ?
Kris
Paul Segal
>
>What's it like in your town ?
I'm in New Jersey here (half an hour from New York City), and it's mixed...
Many Toys R Uses have Gundam stuff left, but the one closest to me only has SD
stuff left and is putting some of it on clearance even though the
minifigure/vehicle boxed sets just came out (I got all three Wing SD minifigure
packs for three bucks each, and I'm thinking of getting more for extra
Magaunacs and grunt suits). K-Marts still get some new Gundam stuff, including
SDs and Aile Strike boxed sets but for some reason no other Seed toys. Targets
almost all have piles of Gundam figs and SDs... though supplies of Buster
Gundams, once overwhelming, are now dwindling, they're still getting new
shipments of SD toys. My single nearby Wal-Mart seems to have dumped their
Gundam section - though I've heard other reports of new kits showing up there,
I haven't seen them yet myself. Kay-Bees have nothing new.
-Paul Segal
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Why u always hatin'?
Stephen FPilot Bierce
> >
> >What's it like in your town ?
Eastern Tennessee (Morristown and Jefferson City): The K-Mart has
about half of the SD merchandise on the Bargain Cart, while the
G-Gundam MSiAs and the G-Gundam and Gundam Seed 1/144th model kits are
still on the racks. The regular SD figures are still on the racks
too, but the mini sets and the deluxe box sets are being remaindered.
The Wal-Marts have pulled all the Gundam stuff, both SD and everything
else. They aren't even in the Bargain section.
Stephen Bierce
Def Scythe
One Target in my area moved the stuff to the clearance section, while
the other one still displays it's stuff. This is Queens NY
David & Lisa
& Duel Assortment today. Prior to this, things were looking pretty
grim...(ok, they still are, but not so bad as before)
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Steven Roberts
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> Kris
My local Toys'R'Us has a lot of G Gundam MSiAs still there, and a lot of
1/100 scale UC Gundam models at discount prices. The Wal-Mart has gotten
nothing since that disasterous Superior Defender stuff. I've seen a MSiA
Duel Gundam at Target the other day. And as I was buying a Strike Gundam
MSiA the computer didn't have it in it's file. So I got it for $3.99. The
cleck thinks it's a discontinued item. I told her impossible, it just came
out.
twobluelights
The thing is if these US Gundam figures released throughout this year
weren't readily available in the stores and not readily available on
ebay, where are they hiding?
I wasn't particularly thrilled with the G Gundam series, but I did
collect all the figures with little difficulty. (I don't think I ever
found the mysterious battle scarred Zeus...) Those figures started
coming out quite some time before the series first aired on Cartoon
Network and there still remains thousands of Toros, etc. well after it's
final run on CN ages ago. (Heck, I coulda told them they shouldn't
produce as many of the "characters" that only appear in one episode as
the ones that are key to the series...)
I can't see why this Seed series can't be shown Monday thru Thursday
during the late afternoon on CN. This one day a week is too slow and I
hardly find the "drama" above the understanding of a 8-11 year old (what
I consider to be the core audience of CN late afternoons). Is Seed
getting enough exposure stuck in that time slot? With 2 big toy
departments cutting them off, why hasn't Bandai USA come out and thrown
us a bone? They were at the San Diego Comic Con, but their press
releases did not raise concern to the fact. Has the US version of these
figures gone the way of the World of Springfield Playmates line?
Or are they waiting for the XMas rush to push their product?
As Kip Dynamite says, "I'm getting kinda T.O'd..."
Steven Roberts
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>
> I can't see why this Seed series can't be shown Monday thru Thursday
> during the late afternoon on CN. This one day a week is too slow and I
> hardly find the "drama" above the understanding of a 8-11 year old (what
> I consider to be the core audience of CN late afternoons). Is Seed
> getting enough exposure stuck in that time slot? With 2 big toy
> departments cutting them off, why hasn't Bandai USA come out and thrown
> us a bone? They were at the San Diego Comic Con, but their press
> releases did not raise concern to the fact. Has the US version of these
> figures gone the way of the World of Springfield Playmates line?
>
> Or are they waiting for the XMas rush to push their product?
> As Kip Dynamite says, "I'm getting kinda T.O'd..."
>
Bandai was aparently throwing their bones out at the Otakon. With the
primere of Gundam F-91 and a premature release of Gundam Seed on DVD there.
Bandai is a strange company where you hate them one minute and love them
then next. I'm wondering what is planned for Nov. when Bandai releases
Gundam F-91 on DVD. I'm not expecting any of the harder to find models from
that one in the stores. Seed models are rare as it is. I think it has as
much to do with the time slot G Gundam held compaired to Seed as it does how
the stores overstocked on G Gundam stuff. Some one should have given them a
clue that this isn't the end of it.
GI Trekker
Christmas. And there's always TRU, which for all of their present clearances
have NOT clearanced the Gundam section (except to get rid of the long-dead kits
and more recently dead SD). The most recent missive I got from Bandai says the
toys are still shipping. All we can really do is hope for the best.
GI Trekker
weren't readily available in the stores and not readily available on
ebay, where are they hiding?>>
Distribution warehouses.
GI Trekker
& Duel Assortment today.>>
Did this include the ASTRAYS and the Strike "Inactive" Mode?
BlazeEagle
> I'm not giving up hope.
Nor am I.
>Both stores will continue to reset between now and
> Christmas. And there's always TRU, which for all of their present clearances
> have NOT clearanced the Gundam section (except to get rid of the long-dead kits
> and more recently dead SD).
I hope so.
>The most recent missive I got from Bandai says the
> toys are still shipping. All we can really do is hope for the best.
Yep! I remember that. Like your other post said, they're likely sitting
in a distro. centers.
I'm pretty tired of everyone being so bummed out over this. I don't have
to read this NG and other online forums that is true but I *DO* if I
wanna know what's going on.
Anyway, Gundam is to Japan what Star Wars is to America and the fact is,
largely due to culture differences, Gundam will likely always never be
hugely popular in America.
These are toys here. If everyone is REALLY as upset as they act over
this, Whew!, grab your Prozak folks! ^_^ I'm concerned but I'm not
losing sleep over this.
As long as they continue to slowly release official English DVD's of all
of Gundam, I'm happy. I fully suppport U.S. Gundam toys with my wallet
but unlike anime, import toys have no language barrier.
Steven Roberts
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I saw a Strike "Inactive" mode, but no ASTRAYS yet.
