Summerslam Shippers

[wrestlingcollector80]

I would have to believe most shippers have been released. There maybe a couple Walmart's that hasn't yet. I'm still waiting on my one local one, they usually do but they seem extremely under staffed. 2 out of the 3 released theirs already 1 like a month ago and the other just last Wednesday.

[azraelms]

Jul 19, 2024 13:42:16 GMT -5 wrestlingcollector80 said:

I would have to believe most shippers have been released. There maybe a couple Walmart's that hasn't yet. I'm still waiting on my one local one, they usually do but they seem extremely under staffed. 2 out of the 3 released theirs already 1 like a month ago and the other just last Wednesday.

Honestly, I am sure every Walmart is getting one. This seems like a big promotion, and in times past, virtually all stores have carried these. I am sure they have all shipped out, but the issue is most likely at a local level. It has been put out at one of my two stores, and I am guessing that it is in the back room of the remaining store that has not put it out. It is just a matter of store staffing, and if the existing staff gets them put out. I would guess by the end of July, most stores would have had then out in one form or another, weather they actually drag the display out, or they empty the display on an endcap, or simply just put as many figures on the shelf and overstock as they can.

[Deep Figure Value]

All the shippers I've found so far have been MNW2. Wouldn't hate finding Harlem Heat, but it is what it is. Found another today and got the new Damian Priest.

[Grenouille]

I’ve only found one shipper thus far. It’s still pretty full of regular elites. As for MNW it had series 2, but all that’s left of that are 7 Triple Hs.

[teammadness]

Yesterday I went to 4 Walmarts. I saw 4 shippers and they were all pretty full and barely touched EXCEPT for MNW series 2…..each shipper only had a few Triple H’s.

[Deep Figure Value]

Wal-Mart is going to be sitting on those Rollins and Doms for a looooong time

[Flair Forever]

Jul 19, 2024 14:53:59 GMT -5 Deep Figure Value said:

Wal-Mart is going to be sitting on those Rollins and Doms for a looooong time

And Shinsukes.....

[thep1]

My local WMs haven't put theirs out yet, but by golly, one of them sure put out a play-doh shipper yesterday!

[AxelSmackdown]

Jul 20, 2024 7:37:55 GMT -5 thep1 said:

My local WMs haven't put theirs out yet, but by golly, one of them sure put out a play-doh shipper yesterday!

kids gotta have something to eat

[thep1]

Jul 20, 2024 9:42:46 GMT -5 AxelSmackdown said:

Jul 20, 2024 7:37:55 GMT -5 thep1 said:

My local WMs haven't put theirs out yet, but by golly, one of them sure put out a play-doh shipper yesterday!

kids gotta have something to eat

HAHAHA!!!

[Deep Figure Value]

Play-Doh probably prints money. I feel like TRU used to always have dump bins full of the singles.

Also, is red Shinsuke really the chase? I saw a shipper yesterday with like 7 of him, and just assumed he was the regular.
I'm all set on Shinsuke with the Ultimate, but still.

[thep1]

Jul 20, 2024 10:08:06 GMT -5 Deep Figure Value said:

Play-Doh probably prints money. I feel like TRU used to always have dump bins full of the singles.

Also, is red Shinsuke really the chase? I saw a shipper yesterday with like 7 of him, and just assumed he was the regular.
I'm all set on Shinsuke with the Ultimate, but still.

Correct! I don't blame WM for putting it out, cheap to buy so they sell lots, just saying!
Just like I've seen in other hunt videos, the black Waller chase is prevalent just like the red Shin chase. I haven't seen many chase Chelseas on shippers and others have reported not seeing many. These shippers are weird. 

[Deep Figure Value]

Jul 20, 2024 10:12:35 GMT -5 thep1 said:

Jul 20, 2024 10:08:06 GMT -5 Deep Figure Value said:

Play-Doh probably prints money. I feel like TRU used to always have dump bins full of the singles.

Also, is red Shinsuke really the chase? I saw a shipper yesterday with like 7 of him, and just assumed he was the regular.
I'm all set on Shinsuke with the Ultimate, but still.

Correct! I don't blame WM for putting it out, cheap to buy so they sell lots, just saying!
Just like I've seen in other hunt videos, the black Waller chase is prevalent just like the red Shin chase. I haven't seen many chase Chelseas on shippers and others have reported not seeing many. These shippers are weird. 

It is definitely a weird assortment. All of the ones in my area have been E109, SummerSlam, and MNW2, and the newest Top Picks with Roman/Gunther/Mysterio, but even within those assortments, on SummerSlam seems "balanced".
E109 has been a butt load of Rollins and Dominiks, less but still bountiful Shinsukes and Codys, a smattering of Damians, and exactly no Bayleys (I have her from Amazon so that's fine).
MNW has obviously been super heavy on Triple H, and I've seen "Diesel", Nash, and Mysterio exactly once - "one" of each on Diesel and Nash (both of which I bought), and maybe 2-3 Mysterio.
The Top Picks have been dowright plentiful with Gunther and Roman, with Mysterio (surprisingly) being the tougher find (he usually sticks around for ages in my area).

[Crossfit Jesus]

I haven’t found mnw 3 or 2 in my area yet. Sigh I did find a lot when I went 7 hours away

[thep1]

Jul 20, 2024 10:18:18 GMT -5 Deep Figure Value said:

Jul 20, 2024 10:12:35 GMT -5 thep1 said:

Correct! I don't blame WM for putting it out, cheap to buy so they sell lots, just saying!
Just like I've seen in other hunt videos, the black Waller chase is prevalent just like the red Shin chase. I haven't seen many chase Chelseas on shippers and others have reported not seeing many. These shippers are weird. 

It is definitely a weird assortment. All of the ones in my area have been E109, SummerSlam, and MNW2, and the newest Top Picks with Roman/Gunther/Mysterio, but even within those assortments, on SummerSlam seems "balanced".
E109 has been a butt load of Rollins and Dominiks, less but still bountiful Shinsukes and Codys, a smattering of Damians, and exactly no Bayleys (I have her from Amazon so that's fine).
MNW has obviously been super heavy on Triple H, and I've seen "Diesel", Nash, and Mysterio exactly once - "one" of each on Diesel and Nash (both of which I bought), and maybe 2-3 Mysterio.
The Top Picks have been dowright plentiful with Gunther and Roman, with Mysterio (surprisingly) being the tougher find (he usually sticks around for ages in my area).

And to follow up, those that are finding S107 there are no Cora Jades being packed on shippers. Yup, weird!

[AxelSmackdown]

Jul 20, 2024 16:12:24 GMT -5 thep1 said:

Jul 20, 2024 10:18:18 GMT -5 Deep Figure Value said:

It is definitely a weird assortment. All of the ones in my area have been E109, SummerSlam, and MNW2, and the newest Top Picks with Roman/Gunther/Mysterio, but even within those assortments, on SummerSlam seems "balanced".
E109 has been a butt load of Rollins and Dominiks, less but still bountiful Shinsukes and Codys, a smattering of Damians, and exactly no Bayleys (I have her from Amazon so that's fine).
MNW has obviously been super heavy on Triple H, and I've seen "Diesel", Nash, and Mysterio exactly once - "one" of each on Diesel and Nash (both of which I bought), and maybe 2-3 Mysterio.
The Top Picks have been dowright plentiful with Gunther and Roman, with Mysterio (surprisingly) being the tougher find (he usually sticks around for ages in my area).

And to follow up, those that are finding S107 there are no Cora Jades being packed on shippers. Yup, weird!

now that you mention it the 2 shippers I found I don’t remember seeing any Coras. Strange.

[Chip]

I just hate that Walmart has basically been hoarding its inventory ALL YEAR so they can dump 30 cases of elites all at once. It's such a crap business practice.

I have the luxury of being able to hit literally dozens of Walmarts to figure hunt. I'm pretty sure since the post-christmas clearout of all the top picks Jey Uso & Roman Reigns the only mainline elite set I saw with any consistency was Series 105 and 106.....but even that was like 1 case here or there. And usually it was gone within a week or two.

Now all these Walmarts have 14 cases of Top Picks, and either Elite 107/108/109....I saw a couple shippers with Greatest hits Wave 3.
It's like instead of just continuing to order/ship and stock product they just said "ok what do we need to get to last another 6 months? get that and put it all on one pre-pack"

Now that's all picked through, the guys who have 30 figures on each shipper will sit there until Christmas when parents are looking for a Seth for their kid. And we're back to square one.

Whoever is managing inventory and ordering for toys at Walmart is horrible at their job...but since these things are getting cleared out by collectors and scalpers, they will see HUGE numbers and say "well the shipper thing works"

[wrestlingcollector80]

Jul 20, 2024 21:02:43 GMT -5 Chip said:

I just hate that Walmart has basically been hoarding its inventory ALL YEAR so they can dump 30 cases of elites all at once. It's such a crap business practice.

I have the luxury of being able to hit literally dozens of Walmarts to figure hunt. I'm pretty sure since the post-christmas clearout of all the top picks Jey Uso & Roman Reigns the only mainline elite set I saw with any consistency was Series 105 and 106.....but even that was like 1 case here or there. And usually it was gone within a week or two.

Now all these Walmarts have 14 cases of Top Picks, and either Elite 107/108/109....I saw a couple shippers with Greatest hits Wave 3.
It's like instead of just continuing to order/ship and stock product they just said "ok what do we need to get to last another 6 months? get that and put it all on one pre-pack"

Now that's all picked through, the guys who have 30 figures on each shipper will sit there until Christmas when parents are looking for a Seth for their kid. And we're back to square one.

Whoever is managing inventory and ordering for toys at Walmart is horrible at their job...but since these things are getting cleared out by collectors and scalpers, they will see HUGE numbers and say "well the shipper thing works"

Exactly, and miavia sets still sit on shelves for $70 not moving. Shippers are good, I’m sure Walmart doesn’t know what shipper they will get, who is charge of packing these shippers at Mattel? Some have mnw series 2 some have 3 some have both, some have only 6 different figures.

[arossi417]

I finally caught up with the MNW elites, but it genuinely doesn't make sense to me these get ONE whole peg on the current planogram and the only method of reliable delivery to dedicated collectors is a shipper that Mattel puts together and sends to Walmart (the supposed "distributor" in this "retail partnership") that lasts a week before it goes out in the recycle bin. At this point I don't even know if the stuff is marketed that well, or the usual folks just gobble up WM exclusives thinking that nobody else is ever going to find them.

This feels resigned to be a massive time sink for collectors until some sort of TRU/Smyths enters the market which I also do not believe will happen. It's nice Target gets exclusives out without a shipper (they do use endcaps nicely), but I also don't think they stock mainline stuff well. I don't have a good solution and I feel like I'm in these threads once a week reporting the same thing and asking the same dumb questions about a billion dollar company or two.

[shanieomaniac]

Jul 19, 2024 13:42:16 GMT -5 wrestlingcollector80 said:

I would have to believe most shippers have been released. There maybe a couple Walmart's that hasn't yet. I'm still waiting on my one local one, they usually do but they seem extremely under staffed. 2 out of the 3 released theirs already 1 like a month ago and the other just last Wednesday.

If there was ever a shipper at my walmart, the reseller here in town bought every single figure on it, and then walked off with the display itself, all within a 5 day span at most.

Entirely possible, but not a certainty.

Seriously, the reseller moving in on the other side of town has pretty much ensured that I will never find decent figures at my lone walmart ever again.