Wal-Mart Mystery Solved
 

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To plagiarizer myself from your blog:
"Oye, this wangs chung, but I think I know exactly why Wal-mart isn't carrying them anymore. All the freaking Turtle variants that Playmates continues to produce (and nothing else...douche bags.) are freakin' peg warmers. Wal-mart is in the business of making money, and why keep a toy line around that only supplies endless variations on the same four flipping characters. Heck, maybe if more businesses follow Wally World's lead, Playmates may get it's act together and MAKE OTHER CHARACTERS!"

Or go out of business, either way it would be great news!:lol:

Touche'. Heck it's not like some other, more fan oriented toymaker couldn't step in and fill the void. *coff*NECA*coff*

That really is a shame...

I haven't been to a Walmart (besides to run in and out as quickly as possible) for a bit now, and before that I didn't check the toys very often. Mostly because they carried about four figures max for TMNT.

I wonder, does Target still carry the toys? Before FF started, they'd pretty much stopped carrying them around here.

Ah, good. I hope other retailers follow suit.

Target does still carry them... For now.

Targets in this area are the best place to find TMNT.

That said, I need to get off of my duff and see what they have. I still haven't even seen Sub-Sewers yet.

Yeah like S here said Target is the best place for the newest Playmates TMNT stuff.
Don't bother S there's nothing really out, I went out today after the dr's looking for that Mini dino set that Darth found but with no luck.
I'm sure you'll go anyway let me know if you find anything cool, I'm still trying to hunt down a damn marvel legends spiral figure!:evil:

Like I've probably said before I haven't bought a Playmates TMNT figure for myself since Movie Shredder...and I only have the 4 Turtles and Splinter in that particular wave...They haven't been producing what I wanted, and I've let them know with my wallet.

EDIT: Vaughn, you've seen new ML figures? Last wave I bought I think was Brood Queen.

Oh, I probably won't go. I've been telling myself I've got to go up there for over a year now.

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my kmart sells tmnt toys:)

So does mine, but their selection is ass. Wave 2 Mini-Mutants, Mutations, and Thrashmor is all they have.

Yeah I saw a new wolvie at a local target we have about 3 in the area.
but other than that i've not seen them in stores, damn scalpers!:x they're all over ebay of course.
So I've been buying all the new DC Universe figures I can find I really want that build a figure Solomon Grundy! I just need an arm and 2 legs and i'll be done with em' wee!:lol:
eh then screw it, go for the hell of it hahah
to be honest I'm suprised they still do, but that store hardly ever has things on clearance and holds onto them to the very end.

Wait....Grundy series is out....all I have is Superman and Firestorm from the Grodd wave. Blast being in Arkansas. Oh well....to the Internets!

We didn't even get that series here in PA, either that or once again the magical toy faires took em' all.:roll:

Damned scalpers.

Seriously, as if the damn toys don't cost enough as it is at prices like 12.99 - 15.99.:|

I used to buy all sorts of figures...and now...nothing. The last figures I actually bought were the Superman and Firestorm figures, and that was about 6 months ago.

*blinks* Wow, maybe Target stepped up... That'd be cool.

I think really deppends on the area or maybe even the person that works in the toy section.
I've started working in the toy section at my local wal-mart and god is it messed up.
I'm trying to put figures out that will sell while mixing box's with a few crappy things that won't, if only all stores had some one like that.

yeah, guessed that.

but i doubt that tmnt are in trouble solely because of playmates.

thing is, i suspect toy sales are down across the board (the quality sure is), and that a niche property like tmnt is lucky to have anything at all.
combine that with the fact that the production/manufacturing of toys and buying them is nothing like it was in the 80's-90's...

or..

playmates' aggresive anti-marketing strategies have backfired! maybe in terms of what it costs the company, it saves them money to have such a sparse and (recycled) upcoming line-up? are things so bad?

Playmates needs to really keep in mind what Mattel did with MotU and the US Winx doll line. Alls they did was Variants of the main characters, and they would over stock the main characters. Playmates is getting dangerously close to following in the steps of MotU 2k2. Both were hot sellers until Mattel saturated the market. Then stores started refusing to stock them.

You are correct, sir. There is much blame to put in Mirage themselves.

Playmates is doing exactly what killed the line the first time in the 90's, and yet they wonder duuuurr why our toys not be selling well duuurr!:roll:

Anyone who is still bothering to care about the strength (or lack there-of) of the TMNT brand should remember that Walmart is bound to change their mind and bring the TMNT back to toy shelves when the Music Turtles are released and save everything.

Yeah that's also a good point. They just take longer to kill their own lines than Mattel did haha.

Yes, those figures are our savior.

Man, text really doesn't convey sarecasm well, does it? :P

Y'know, I'm not a Star Wars fan, but Hasbro (is it Hasbro? I thought it was Kenner but I don't think they exist.... Too tired to look) has always done something impressive with their series that I wish Playmates would emulate with the TMNT series. They continuously release interesting variants on the main characters, alongside just about every minor character you can imagine. Guy that shows up for 1/18th of a second in a background shot amongst 200 other people, that even the most eagle eyed fan can't catch? He either already has or will have his own figure. And we can't even get a damn Darius Dunn, Ancient One, Ultimate Drako, Demon Shredder, human Baxter....

Indeed, Hasbro (formerly Kenner) has done a great job with Star Wars, and GI Joe. Marvel Legends leave something to be desired (wish they were still Toybiz...er...Marvel Toys...heck do they even still exist?) but Star Wars is what any figure maker should strive for. Good figures and an extensive list of characters.

That's because Hasbro understands the need for and is able to deliver on products catered to the adult fan while simultaneously appealing to the target market of 7-11 boys (or younger, for some products).

Hasbro is probably the most effective toy company anymore...though the 3 1/2 inch scale bugs me.

Same here... if Playmates could apply the Hasbro-Star Wars strategy I explained previously with normal TMNT scaled figures, they'd be printing enough gold bars to fill Fort Knox.

Seriously... you can't afford to slack off if you're not making money, Playmates. This is like not doing anything all through high school and having graduation day approaching... and you're too damn stupid to realize that you're not going to make it to the ceremony because you're out getting faced with your friends every night instead of cramming.

My analogies suck when I'm sleepy.

i just don't get not releasing stuff...the unreleased ff and movie figures, the as-yet unreleased sub sewer and global missions characters.
i can understand using pre-existing sculpts, even though it's gotten real lame, and even the poor detailing/articulaton, but not releasing toys when you're a toy company is dumb. is playmates stupid?

looking back, these past few years have been littered with mis-steps. the 4th movie was good, but definitely not the way to re-introduce the tmnt to older audiences. fast forward and ninja tribunal had their moments, but the transitions were so jarring and contrived. btts is good so far, but the lack of toys/merchandizing is worrisome. tmnt used to have such awide array of characters, taken from all their incarnations, but since the revival it's been relatively limited and regulated.

so yeah, i'm looking forward to the forever war next year and stuff, but i can't see it "saving" things at tis point.

i dunno. could be the kids who caught the turtles oin 2k3 reach that point where the tmnt are no longer cool to them. five years was about the span of the original peak.

Will that happen in the UK? we have asdas over in the UK

I've seen some TMNT figs

If it gets cut off at the head (the US) then it will have a carry on effect. I guess supplies would just stop even if orders were being placed (unless the orders were high enough -- unlikely as it is -- to meet the cost demands of continued manufacturing), and stores would just have to deal with what is on hand.

Darn... my local Wal-mart always has TMNT figs...ah well...I don't go there enough to really care.... Target and Big K-Mart it is then....I wish there was a toy store in my area.... *sighs*

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I will say, since I never go to WalMart (a location thing, not some political thing) it doesn't really effect me. TMNT is ALL Playmates has now... look at the dreadful failure of the Eon Kid line (though it isn't entirely their fault, about 5 people even watched that show). And now that they're just lackadaisically slumming around with pathetic variants of the overpriced movie line with random monster that have nothing to do with TMNT (which are, ironically the only good thing about them), and no one's buying them. You'd think they would have at LEAST made new toys for BTTS, since they made them do Cybercrap to sell figures... and they have nothing to do with the show at all, yet again. They force variants and don't even watch the show?

I'm sorry, but how poorly did the FF line sell? How Poorly that a bunch of 6 dollar action figures with hundreds of different collectible characters fail on such a level that putting the same 4 10 dollar turtles out over and over is a good idea? If it wasn't for the mini-line, and the fact I still need half the first 2 waves of the movie line, I'd never buy anything from them again.

i hope that logo is not real:cry: