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Target Toy Sale Catalogue is out now —Deidre Rushton Brumby

Lego can be seen here: (URL) starts Thursday. Deidre (20 years ago, 19-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: Target Toy Sale Catalogue is out now —Richie Dulin

(...) Thanks for the link! Not quite as cool as last year's... I need to make some cpp calculations (and maybe read a review of HC2). Cheers Richie Dulin (20 years ago, 20-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: Target Toy Sale Catalogue is out now —Deidre Rushton Brumby

(...) I was quite disappointed, Kmart was definitely the better sale, not just for Lego but all up. Incidentally, I missed the Bionicles, they're tucked away on the back page (so that would be (URL) I think). BTW the Kmart sale has been extended (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: Target Toy Sale Catalogue is out now (some things really amuse me) —Melody Brown

(...) Heh, ya not wrong! I thought it was rather funny after looking at the catalog that I scanned the bundle pack with the bonus tub thingy (which isn't even LEGO) and it scanned at $89.95 or there abouts.. (.99 or .95)... and in the catalog they (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: Target Toy Sale Catalogue is out now (some things really amuse me) —Pete White

(...) Do LEGO make their own tubs ? It's the same colour scheme as another tub from a few years back. Maybe the combo will be $10 more expensive for the sale ;^) Interesting to see that MB get a whole page and LEGO shares their page with Magnetix (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: Target Toy Sale Catalogue is out now (some things really amuse me) —Aaron Amatnieks

<snip> (...) Yep. about $25 for a little Blurple bus (And I really do want it...) This is based on targets "sale" price of $139, compared to BigW's sale price of $114 (which is still running) , same goes for the bundeled Spiderman sets. the bucket (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: Target Toy Sale Catalogue is out now (some things really amuse me) —Pete White

(...) Due to my fondness for minority colours, I'll no doubt acquire some blurple some time (I was just jumping on the Blandwagon for a couple of stops). Bit of a pain to have to purchase a HC2 for every MKB though. Is Target's extra profit an (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: Target Toy Sale Catalogue is out now (some things really amuse me) —Deidre Rushton Brumby

(...) They are advertising a hell of a lot for not a hell of a lot, aren't they? I suppose they think they'll fool the masses with lots of bright light and noise, but from the conversations I've had so far I don't think it's working very well! (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: Target Toy Sale Catalogue is out now (some things really amuse me) —Pete White

(...) Do Big Dubya even have an advertising campaign, if they do it shows the impact it has on me, though I only watch satellite TV (which does have Target ads). I wonder how many normal toy shoppers do the price-checking Lugnet ALFs do. Maybe they (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: Target Toy Sale Catalogue is out now (some things really amuse me) —Deidre Rushton Brumby

(...) I don't watch much TV at all, and I only ever buy the weekend newspapers. Catalogues in my letterbox seem to be rather a hit and miss affair at the moment (not delivered in a timely manner if at all). From this rather limited perspective I can (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: Target Toy Sale Catalogue is out now (some things really amuse me) —Pete White

(...) Foxtel does have National Geographic, Discovery and History Channels though ;^) (...) 1 Big W ! You have more senators ! (...) Mothers (stay@home dads too) tend to be fairly astute, there are some ebay magnates masquerading as harmless moms (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: Target Toy Sale is on (and they folded) —Aaron Amatnieks

(...) Went to the opening day to grab a spiderman origins during lunch. Had a look and low and behold, HC2 is now down to $114. Looks like someone informed target that BigW was still on sale. This is for the Melbourne City store, so I don't know (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: Target Toy Sale is on (and they folded) —Melody Brown

(...) 20 mins? that's nothing! When I went during lunch to a local Big W store on toy sale opening week, I almost fainted when I saw this HUGE line of trolleys... 76 to be exact! one lady who was around the 30th trolley in line said she had been (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: Target Toy Sale is on (and they folded) —Jason Wilson

(...) My wife any myself braved one of these opening sales last year at a local K-mart. Arriving 30 minutes before the store even opened and had to queue at the door to get in. The astute shoppers had already collected empty trolleys (some with (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: Target Toy Sale is on (and they folded) —Ross Crawford

(...) Dunno about Brisbane, but my local K-mart (Chadstone VIC) didn't have them the first day - I went back a couple of days later and they had some. ROSCO (20 years ago, 24-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: Target Toy Sale is on (and they folded) —Pete White

(...) Any stores in the welfare belt have huge queues for these sales. The mums are well-prepared for this campaign. (...) Empty trolleys are the key, an offensive weapon in the right hands. (...) Recruit your own crutchees and impede competition. (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: Target Toy Sale is on (and they folded) —Kerry Raymond

(...) (as (...) my (...) about (...) also (...) raincheck, (...) them (...) quickly. Well, Indooroopilly KMart claimed they had not yet arrived when the sale started (which had them in the catalogue) and that I would be called when they arrived. No (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: Target Toy Sale is on (and they folded) —Troy Walker

(...) I was told that NO store in Australia had them before the sale - but most stores were claiming sold-out (as to not have to give rainchecks) Northland (which told me this) was giving rainchecks (they have to if its not in stock before the sale (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: Target Toy Sale Catalogue is out now (some things really amuse me) —Deidre Rushton Brumby

(...) 'Tis interesting that you bring that up... When that bundle first showed up on the shelves in Target Hobart about 10 days ago the shelf tag very clearly said $101.xx. I remember that quite clearly because I thought it was such an odd amount! (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: Target Toy Sale Catalogue is out now (some things really amuse me) —Deidre Rushton Brumby

(...) Today the bundle scanned at $109.95, same as shelf tag. As Aaron pointed out, even at the sale price of $99.99 the "free" tub certainly isn't free, plus it looks pretty cheap and cr*ppy. Deidre (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: Target Toy Sale Catalogue is out now (some things really amuse me) —Pete White

In lugnet.loc.au, Deidre Rushton Brumby wrote: (snippage) (...) The scanners shall inherit the earth (or at least pick up the bargains). Certain Targets and Kmarts are slack when it comes to shelf tags. What is to stop astute shoppers removing (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: Target Toy Sale Catalogue is out now —Jonathan Wilson

(...) I was in the city TRU yesterday (monday) and they had Tie Bombers, Hailfire Droids, the large red helicoptor thingo and some other stuff on clearence (forget what) Nothing noteworthy (unless the passenger train or the train station come down (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)

Re: Target Toy Sale Catalogue is out now —Dave Low

Hi folks, As Jonathan said, some good deals at TRU: 4101 $30; 4403 $50; 3615 $40; 7194 $80 among others... (I might say that TRU's schizoid pricing and poor store layout make it less and less attractive to visit.) Nothing too special at Target (HP (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)