Real Gears move O.K. in my neck of the woods.
Signal flare and Offshoot however, despite their awesomeness, lasted for years.Chiasaur11 03:30, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
- Yeah, I'm not sure the entire Real Gear line could be lumped in as "pegwarmers". I know there's some give and take depending on where you're located, but it's not like there's pegs and pegs of these things just sittin' around for months on end... -- Repowers 03:59, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
- ...well, there are everyplace I've looked since July. I guess it is a regional difference, but if so it's a very stark and extreme one.--Thylacine 2000 13:18, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
- I'd say Signal Flare and Offshoot should replace the Real Gears. The Real Gears are moving well, I haven't seen Meantime and the gorilla game controller since I picked up my own. Signal Flare and Offshoot were hanging around well into 2006. --Detour 04:11, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
Yeah the way things went over the summer, I don't think one can objectively call any of the movie toyline "shelfwarmers" in the truest sense. At least in the case of the actual transforming toys rather than all the tie-in merchandise, nearly every store has had trouble keeping them on the shelves.--Rosicrucian 04:31, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
Power-Up is the only RGR who I'd say would qualify as a shelfwarmer. Everyone eles moved and moved well... and I've hit a LOT of stores in a fair few states since the movei-line launch. --M Sipher 13:26, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
Swindle and Bonecrusher in Germany. Seriously. I know I might sound like a broken record, but these fuckers are STILL warming the pegs in half a dozen stores I visited over the past few weeks, and that's more than three months after the two of them first came out. One TRU store even still has TWO ENTIRE SHELVES full of them.--Nevermore 19:57, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
Supreme Cheetor and Alternators Swindle should be added to this page, I think. Also, I don't know if it was only my area that was like this, but the stores in my area were LOADED with Drill Bit and Manterror for years, even after Beast Machines was on the shelves and even after Transquito and BW Scavenger finally vanished. Wal-Mart, Target, K-Mart (ESPECIALLY K-Mart), even the GROCERY STORES had these guys flooding the shelves for years. They made it hard to get early Beast Machines toys until the stores finally decided to take them off the shelves. C.V. Reynolds 11:15, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
- Oh, excuse me. I should tried to make my comment actually make some... sense. Yes, Drill Bit and Manterror were on the shelves all through the remainder of Beast Wars, but they didn't cause as much trouble as I made out. Some of the stores were giving more space to Transformers at the time, after all. It did briefly seem like Drill Bit and Manterror were disappearing at one point, but they returned in full before Beast Machines. I believe that the stores may have wanted to take one more try to clear their inventory of an ending line, and put out their remaining shelfwarmers in hopes they might actually sell. Much like in the case of the Fuzors, clearance failed to work for these guys as well. Still don't know if any other places were flooded with Drill Bit or Manterror, though. 71.243.235.10 11:32, 26 December 2007 (UTC) It logged me out while I was typing my message for some reason, so I'm re-signing. Sorry about that. C.V. Reynolds 11:33, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
As a random aside, and possibly an isolated case, but I remember as late as... I dunno, but the first waves of Toy Biz Marvel Heroes were out, there were still reasonable piles of Insecticons at some toy stores in the Atlanta area. (Specifically, at a Lionel Toy World near my childhood home - I found them while looking for the first Toy-Biz Daredevil, shoulda bought 'em). -hx 02:45, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
This might be pointless to ask, but can we get some verification on the shelfwarmer/pegwarmer status of some of these toys, especially Transformers Movie Stockade? I can verify as a personal eyewitness that Movie version Payload is a pegwarmer (my local Wal-Mart store has about two or three pegs filled with nothing but Payload). However, I've only seen Stockade from time to time, so he seems to be quite popular in my area. - Zadok Rox 02:31, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Does this qualify as a shelfwarmer?[]
Here in the Netherlands, the Movie leader redecos - Nightwatch Prime and Deep Desert Brawl - are so badly sold they're now 50% off... and still not selling. -- 217.121.229.141 12:21, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
- I haven't seen DDBrawl in Australia, but Nightwatch Prime is clogging the shelves down here. Anybody want some? Galvanisation 12:47, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
Cleanup of the Movie section?[]
Might it be a good idea to clean up the movie section? A lot of those toys at this point aren't really warming shelves anymore, save maybe Payload and the odd Real Gear here and there... Most of those aren't shelfwarmers like Mudflap or Energon Ironhide were... --Detour 05:24, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
The Movie Legend Two-Packs seems to be warming the pegs at my local Wal-Mart store (and I believe at other stores), so perhaps they could be added. However, since the Movie line is pretty much over, it could be a mote point. - Zadok Rox 03:15, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
Here in the UK Legends Megatron is a persistent shelf warmer. To the point where there is nothing but whole masses of legends Megatron in the large trays that are used for displaying the legends figures on the shelves. They have been reduced by a pound everywhere I see them (which is about a third of the price I think), but I believe they will still be present even into the beginnings of the sequels’ toy line. --Guest 20:18, 06 November 2008
Et tu Blackarachnia?[]
Guess this means there won't be any Arcee toys for a while. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 147.140.233.16 (talk • contribs).