What Happened to Target?
 

Maybe its just me. But Target has been a total Sausage Festival for new figures. I haven't seen any new stock there since December. I've been to five different stores lately and they all have the same crap. They must have the market cornered on Arctic Destro. There's at least a dozen of them at each store. Followed by Dusty and Zartan. And vehicles, forget it. They have the same Ghost Hawks and Doom Cycles since the series came out. No "Speed Buggies" or Ice Cutter things either. Target used to be a pretty decent place to find Joe stuff. Maybe it's a local problem. Anyone else notice the same issues? :confused:

Lets look at this in a positive spin! You remember when target was loaded with those now awesome Baroness figure(because there are no more female scuplts)?
Then they went on clearance for like .88 cents. Those Destros will make a nice arctic team for .88 cents ea.!!! But yeah, that blows!

You're right SIC DETH, sometime in April or May they will close out all of the Destro's for some cheap price. I almost regret getting the figure, because that's all I see on the pegs. And the other bad part is the local scalper gets the good releases at the Walmart by his store. I think Target has pulled the plug on the POC series. They never really committed much space for it and I think they quit ordering stock if it doesn't meet their numbers. Just my paranoid hunch. :rolleyes:

I have such fond memories of my folks taking me to Target to buy my GI Joe figures. That's where I got some of my favorites like TARGAT (no pun intended), Rampart, and Pathfinder. I remember there shelves being lined with dozens of Joes to choose from.
I don't buy the new figures, but I still browse, and notice a severe lack of Joe presence on the shelves. two or three figures here or there and one or two mechs.
I'm hoping to get my paws on a couple of the new Vamps, any idea when these are due out?

We didn't get a Target here until 2000! We had Child World and Bradlees...both gone :( Regarding Target, yeah, I hope Sic is right about them going clearance...I need more of that Destro head for some clown customs :D

I'm seeing the same problem at Wal Mart. And the closest Wal Mart had stopped carrying them at all. Imagine that, not even carrying. My best choice now is paying TRU outlandish prices. Oh well, at least they carry a decent selection.

I'm hoping this isn't a trend for Hasbro. GI Joe is still a great merchandise, even if it is just us childlike adults who collect and pose.

Same with my Walmart, for the past 6 weeks, there have been 4 pegs full of the old movie figures, 2 POC Destros, and 1 POC Cobra Commander. Stupid.

I'm hoping to get my paws on a couple of the new Vamps, any idea when these are due out?

jogunwarrior, they have been out since August of 2010. I saw my first and only one at Ross on close out. I looked for months for one and never did see any at retail. Same goes for the HISS and Fury. I can't figure out what the retailers are doing with the Joe stuff. :confused:

I hope Sic is right about them going clearance...I need more of that Destro head for some clown customs.

Dan-O, I'll let you know when they bag'em here. There's enough Destro's sitting around to build a whole clown army! And that's just one Target. :eek:

I went to two Walmarts today and only found empty pegs for the Joe stuff. They had some Ice Cutters and AWE Strikers, but no figures. They had a sh*tload of Corps stuff. Hard to tell what's going on.