Monday Night Wars

[Grenouille]

Hit 2 Walmarts this morning and only saw 2 Hogans at one of them. Plenty of Ultimates, but I'm looking for Series 2. Figure it'll be easy enough in time considering Series 3 is supposedly only due near the end of August.

[mrtheiphonekid]

Came to get some contacts, left with Teddy Long. Was surprised to see a fresh set of MNW Wave 2 sitting on the shelves of my local Walmart in Wisconsin alongside 3 Ultimate Brets and Pipers. Only thing that could have made my trip even better is some Knuckle Crunchers, but the peg was empty. Guess they're more in-demand than these.

[DZ: WF Legacy]

I cannot believe they haven't stocked these yet at my Walmart...they did the reset, they stocked more Superstars and Basic/Main Events, The Rock set, etc. but we never got the MNW series, just the Ultimates (which are now gone). I checked 3 times this past week-and-a-half. I wish this line was free from Walmart, and Walmart just got the variants as their big exclusive or something.

[Flair Forever]

May 16, 2024 13:31:53 GMT -5 DZ: WF Legacy said:

I cannot believe they haven't stocked these yet at my Walmart...they did the reset, they stocked more Superstars and Basic/Main Events, The Rock set, etc. but we never got the MNW series, just the Ultimates (which are now gone). I checked 3 times this past week-and-a-half. I wish this line was free from Walmart, and Walmart just got the variants as their big exclusive or something.

I'm having a hard time finding MNW Series 2.... and I can't even say for sure if any of my Walmarts got them;

Seems like most people saying they found it, the stores only had 1 case - - -Two collectors or scalpers will easily wipe out 1 case quickly.

NO, I haven't been able to check all 5 Walmarts within an hour of my house every day - I have a full-time job. I've been checking the closest one to my house and MAYBE one other Walmart each evening after work.

It's very possible that one or some of my area Walmarts did get them in and I just missed them. Which sucks.

[zen411]

May 16, 2024 13:45:35 GMT -5 Flair Forever said:

May 16, 2024 13:31:53 GMT -5 DZ: WF Legacy said:

I cannot believe they haven't stocked these yet at my Walmart...they did the reset, they stocked more Superstars and Basic/Main Events, The Rock set, etc. but we never got the MNW series, just the Ultimates (which are now gone). I checked 3 times this past week-and-a-half. I wish this line was free from Walmart, and Walmart just got the variants as their big exclusive or something.

I'm having a hard time finding MNW Series 2.... and I can't even say for sure if any of my Walmarts got them;

Seems like most people saying they found it, the stores only had 1 case - - -Two collectors or scalpers will easily wipe out 1 case quickly.

NO, I haven't been able to check all 5 Walmarts within an hour of my house every day - I have a full-time job. I've been checking the closest one to my house and MAYBE one other Walmart each evening after work.

It's very possible that one or some of my area Walmarts did get them in and I just missed them. Which sucks.

Same here. Seemingly every other figure available is readily stocked at my walmart but not series 2. I saw a lone hhh (the one I do not want) at a nearby Walmart last night but it was being grabbed by a sketchy looking collector or scalper.

[benh911f]

May 16, 2024 13:31:53 GMT -5 DZ: WF Legacy said:

I cannot believe they haven't stocked these yet at my Walmart...they did the reset, they stocked more Superstars and Basic/Main Events, The Rock set, etc. but we never got the MNW series, just the Ultimates (which are now gone). I checked 3 times this past week-and-a-half. I wish this line was free from Walmart, and Walmart just got the variants as their big exclusive or something.

Same here. Went to 3 Walmarts today and absolutely nothing. It’s not even enjoyable when you there’s no shot, but you go anyway just to be on the safe side. The only reason I even found Series 1 is because I happened to be there when they were unboxing them, and even then I had to wait around for an hour while they did it. Really wish there was another option besides being lucky or paying an absurd amount on eBay.

[jjh1292]

I’ve pretty much had enough. The 3 wal-marts around me have had nothing and I’ve resorted to the secondary market. I’m not doing it for series 2 and going forward. I work too much to waste time and gas like I have been.

[Flair Forever]

Ugh.... three more Walmart stops tonight, not a single Monday Night Wars figure to be found.... no Elites at all, either.

I'm really getting discouraged. Driving home empty-handed (again), I sorta promised myself that once I find Nash, I might just save myself this aggravation & quit collecting the Monday Night Wars series altogether. We knew this was gonna suck, but it's actually a little worse than I expected. And we were told Walmart was trying to improve - I'm just not seeing it. Didn't they do a "reset" like two weeks ago? How do they run out of product two weeks after resetting their shelves, and have no plan to replenish?

I think I've made 12-15 Walmart stops since last weekend, this is too much to keep coming up short.

[ChuckPOORis55 Cody Gang 4 Lyfe]

Seen plenty of Hogans, Piper's and Bret's but no sight of series 2. The only figure I want out of the whole line so far is "Diesel" so I'm hoping it actually gets stocked.

[mrh]

May 16, 2024 22:13:25 GMT -5 ChuckPOORis55 Cody Gang 4 Lyfe said:

Seen plenty of Hogans, Piper's and Bret's but no sight of series 2. The only figure I want out of the whole line so far is "Diesel" so I'm hoping it actually gets stocked.

Hopefully they'll show up -- part of the problem is that it's SO unpleasant to shop at Walmart for anything. I think if it were a nicer store and more pleasant experience, it wouldn't be quite *so* aggravating.

That's the horror of a store that has 4 racks for actions figures, and probably 1,200 racks in total. We shouldn't have to go there for figures. And the online system is even worse.

[walkingturtles]

I just need the line to make it to series 3, I want those Harlem Heat figures and I’ll have to get all four to get Disciple.

[Bafio]

Guys, a question for those who knows more than me. UE series 3 is next year? Or we should have 2 EU each series?

[rastlinfigures]

May 17, 2024 12:27:36 GMT -5 Bafio said:

Guys, a question for those who knows more than me. UE series 3 is next year? Or we should have 2 EU each series?

I think it may be two UE for every odd elite series, at least based on how the first two waves of UE are being released.

[J-MANN]

May 17, 2024 12:27:36 GMT -5 Bafio said:

Guys, a question for those who knows more than me. UE series 3 is next year? Or we should have 2 EU each series?

Two MNW Ultimate Edition series a year. So four total figures. Eddie and Mankind are the last set for this year.

[azraelms]

May 16, 2024 12:48:31 GMT -5 mrtheiphonekid said:

Came to get some contacts, left with Teddy Long. Was surprised to see a fresh set of MNW Wave 2 sitting on the shelves of my local Walmart in Wisconsin alongside 3 Ultimate Brets and Pipers. Only thing that could have made my trip even better is some Knuckle Crunchers, but the peg was empty. Guess they're more in-demand than these.

Where in Wisconsin was this?

[Flair Forever]

Getting super frustrated; Hit one Walmart late last night, and three more this morning when they opened; Zero Elites, Zero Monday Night Wars, very few Superstars. It's a mix of empty pegs and Basics + Two Pack Basics, and Maivia 3-packs.

To add to my frustration - the Walmart last night had brought the pallets in, and TWO of the Walmarts this morning still had their pallets sitting out; I didn't see ANY WWE Mattel boxes .... but I did notice one thing;

The pallets were all the same. A pack of Operation Board games. Monster High Dolls. Barbie sets. A few other things but they all matched. No WWE. They were pretty much identical;

Which means Walmart's just sending out identical pallets to each store. There is no "magic inventory system" placing the orders based on sales/needs, there's no difference between stores regardless of volume, and no one is ordering anything based on empty pegs. Whether a store sells 10 WWE figures or 100 - they're all getting the same quantity of stock shipments in. Just identical pallets, sent to each store, when it's gone, it's gone and we'll send another generic pallet of toys in week or two. From what I've observed, usually just one case of WWE items per-store.

All these stores I've been visiting have been out of Elites for weeks and weeks. So don't tell me there's any sort of inventory system that's flagging items for order/delivery. They're just sent randomly.

This is very frustrating. One case per store isn't enough for any area that has more than one "collector" or "scalper" looking for these things. They aren't available on the website and cannot be ordered.

I'm giving serious thought that after I find MNW Nash I'm banning all Walmart exclusives from my collection moving forward. It isn't worth this headache, they aren't even trying, and I have no interest in paying double to scalpers.

Target has done so much better with this, Walmart refuses to address it.

[MonsoonMan]

i hit 6 wal marts yesterday; most in northern Illinois. MNW series 2 WAS on pegs but i only saw 2 triple h and 1 rey; i bought one hhh and the rey. MNW ultimates bret and piper were present at every wal mart. the closer i got back to WI the less new figures were on pegs; as i got back into WI no stores had MNW 2 out just remnants of MNW 1--i saw all 4 figures from the series scattered across a few stores so that was obtainable BUT i only saw 1 scott and 1 steve, some stores had multiple hogans and takers on pegs but no stores had everything in one place.


im really worried about finding the Nash and fake Diesel figures in the wild. too many re-sellers out here, TONS of them for sale on ebay and mercari but so little on pegs its really infuriating.

[arossi417]

May 18, 2024 8:12:49 GMT -5 Flair Forever said:

Getting super frustrated; Hit one Walmart late last night, and three more this morning when they opened; Zero Elites, Zero Monday Night Wars, very few Superstars. It's a mix of empty pegs and Basics + Two Pack Basics, and Maivia 3-packs.

To add to my frustration - the Walmart last night had brought the pallets in, and TWO of the Walmarts this morning still had their pallets sitting out; I didn't see ANY WWE Mattel boxes .... but I did notice one thing;

The pallets were all the same. A pack of Operation Board games. Monster High Dolls. Barbie sets. A few other things but they all matched. No WWE. They were pretty much identical;

Which means Walmart's just sending out identical pallets to each store. There is no "magic inventory system" placing the orders based on sales/needs, there's no difference between stores regardless of volume, and no one is ordering anything based on empty pegs. Whether a store sells 10 WWE figures or 100 - they're all getting the same quantity of stock shipments in. Just identical pallets, sent to each store, when it's gone, it's gone and we'll send another generic pallet of toys in week or two. From what I've observed, usually just one case of WWE items per-store.

All these stores I've been visiting have been out of Elites for weeks and weeks. So don't tell me there's any sort of inventory system that's flagging items for order/delivery. They're just sent randomly.

This is very frustrating. One case per store isn't enough for any area that has more than one "collector" or "scalper" looking for these things. They aren't available on the website and cannot be ordered.

I'm giving serious thought that after I find MNW Nash I'm banning all Walmart exclusives from my collection moving forward. It isn't worth this headache, they aren't even trying, and I have no interest in paying double to scalpers.

Target has done so much better with this, Walmart refuses to address it.

I hit a bunch on my way to central PA and found they restocked series 1 instead of getting anything new in. I'd love for them to get a little cardboard display and have a ton of these out for a couple weeks (fully aware someone will scalp the first shipment and also post themselves taking the display), but it's very stupid to have an exclusive product and then you know, not have said product to sell your captive audience.

I hadn't looked on the bay for these yet, but those prices for arguably the weakest set is hilarious. This is all so dumb while in the Legends 22 thread we're all posting about having the stuff yesterday and doing store pickup for fun. Wild.

[Scotty Flamingo]

The stores get a truck everyday so they should have no excuse why they don’t have Elites & MNW on the shelves at all times. The pallets always have Barbie products on them.

They should also be ordering more than one case at a time to make sure they don’t sell out in one day like they usually do. They should know there is more than one customer in the area looking for these figures.

There was also the problem where they would have no AEW figures but the exclusives for months. Why they couldn’t get any other AEW figures was ridiculous.

If Walmart has no trouble has keeping the rest of the store stocked they should be able to keep the WwE figures stocked all the time.

[bigvis497]

There is no excuse for such an absence of product. Not a single Elite on shelves for weeks and weeks. And it's not like something else is taking their place. Its just empty space.