Anybody have a harder time finding basics?

[marino13]

Depends on the Basic. Most fly off the shelves around here. To the point where I just preorder the ones I really want. But then guys like Show & Truth will be around here forever.

I usually always find an Elite I'm looking for at some point. Except Diesel. I've never seen him at retail.

[The Madness]

In my area, new shipments of WWE figures are so few and far between that you don't even know they've shown up unless you see a couple of the pegwarmers left. That said, I tend to find those basic pegwarmers more often than elite ones.

[gelatinoustapeworm]

Both can be difficult to find in my area, but the newer Basics tend to be harder, especially if there has been a Signature Series recently released that is clogging shelves. For example, three of my local Walmarts got the Easter cubes filled with Signature Series. I know those three stores will be dead zones for Basics for at least a couple of months as a result.

[Deleted]

It's really random around Dallas. I never know what I am going to find. I finally came across B27 for my first time the other day at Wal Mart.

[Halloween King]

I have a hard time finding any kind of figure that isnt John Cena. I dont know what the problem is. I wonder if it's mattel doesnt make as many figures as Jakks? Or if Mattel has crappier distribution? Or idk what. The point is Back in the Jakks days I remember taking a drive to pretty much any store and finding a figure I wanted. Now though I drive to a store and cant find anything other than Cena.

Once every few months maybe I'll find a figure I want.

And to make things worse I log on here and see people finding figures I want, or even worse I see sales. And then I go to try and get some figures on sale and find nothing but Cena.

[poindizzle]

Mar 18, 2013 11:22:36 GMT -5 Halloween King said:

I have a hard time finding any kind of figure that isnt John Cena. I dont know what the problem is. I wonder if it's mattel doesnt make as many figures as Jakks? Or if Mattel has crappier distribution? Or idk what. The point is Back in the Jakks days I remember taking a drive to pretty much any store and finding a figure I wanted. Now though I drive to a store and cant find anything other than Cena.

Once every few months maybe I'll find a figure I want.

And to make things worse I log on here and see people finding figures I want, or even worse I see sales. And then I go to try and get some figures on sale and find nothing but Cena.

I know the feeling. TRU is having a basic sale of 8.99 this week. They have one SS Sheamus, and everything else is B22 or SS Cena.

[GreyHaze:Big Bad Booty Daddy]

I have trouble finding figures period. Most of the time I waste money on transportation only to find nothing but flexforce. Mattel should really try and fix their distribution problem.

[Halloween King]

Mar 18, 2013 12:29:05 GMT -5 GreyHaze:Big Bad Booty Daddy said:

I have trouble finding figures period. Most of the time I waste money on transportation only to find nothing but flexforce. Mattel should really try and fix their distribution problem.

They've cleared out Flex Force in most places. They're getting replaced by what looks like a hybrid between flex force and rumblers.

I know that at first I didnt like mattel but now I want them. So since I've taken to wanting mattel figures I've always missed out on figures only because I never saw them in store.

Like for example I wanted Papa Shango and Kane. Never found them at any regular retailer like Target/Walmart/Tru. I was very lucky to have found them at a C.W. Price (a discount store) for 9.99 a peice. So I guess those peg clogging Cenas made some distribution center sell off cases of figures to a discount chain?

My point is I go to stores pretty regularly and rarely find wwe figures I want.

[Next Man’s Knowing Rock]

All figures have been pretty easy for me to come by lately. I don't know if less people are buying (big increase on elite prices last summer) or if stores are just stocking more.