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I have heard everything from March to May to July from a few stores,
including Target, TRU, Meijer, etc. UGH! Well, we will wait and see, I
am betting sometime in April. I am still looking eagerly, however...
Scott Sanburn
Scott wrote:
>
> According to someone at my local TRU they should be getting their
> shipment mid-March. I really don't know but I hope so.
>
> Ryan
>
> James Brown wrote:
> >
> > <follow-up set to market.shopping>
> > Ok, I take back everything I've said about the availability of SW sets, and
> > apologize to all those whose warnings of scalpers I've scoffed at...
> >
> > It seems (due to a TRU employee, who will remain nameless, and therefore
> > blameless) that there isn't going to be much Star Wars hitting the shelves at
> > all in March.
> >
> > TRU Canada uses a central warehouse that then ships out to all Canadian
> > locations (neat - I didn't know that before), and my friendly informant let me
> > know a couple of relevant numbers - unfortunately, it was very near closing by
> > the time I got out there, so I was only able to get a 'partial' information
> > grab before involuntary extraction. ;)
> >
> > 7110 Landspeeder - 3000 units ordered for Canada
> > 7130 Snowspeeder - 1800 units ordered for Canada
> >
> > The landspeeder is going to get about 1% distribution to each store(1), and I
> > would assume the snowspeeder is about the same. - possibly more in larger
> > centers like Vancouver and Toronto
> >
> > Now is it just me, or are those numbers WAY short of the kind of volume these
> > things should be selling at? I mean, come on,TRU! Do you really think that
> > only 1 in 10,000 people is going to want a Landspeeder?
> >
> > I'm planning on picking up around 15 or so of these just for the blond and grey
> > hairpieces - I should not be qualifying as .5% of the national market!
> > You would think that something that intersects two wide-appeal markets (Lego
> > and SW) would see a greater turn-out, especially for the <$10.00 set! Aren't
> > those the ones that generally sell better?
> >
> > Even the other Lego themes have a higher volume - the <$10.00 Western sets are
> > easily 50 to a store here - even after 2 months at 50% off. (2)
> >
> > Any, this seems to be devolving into a rant, so I'll stop here.
> >
> > I'll also try to get some more numbers tomorrow.
> >
> > James
> > http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
> >
> > 1: based on the store where my anonymous benefactor worked (32 units)
> > 2: of course, that might be just a comment of the popularity of western ;)
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