Xevoz Truly Dead

[mach9]

I was at my nearby Target, the one that always had the latest Xevoz wave the moment it came out. I've seen every Xevoz(not counting TRU exclusives) there including all the two packs, Iron Spectre, Tomb wraith etc.

Well the most shocking thing I saw was that the Xevoz section was completely gone!!! It was wiped out to make room for more Star Wars and GI Joe figures. By the way if you're a Star wars fan it looks like Target is getting the Episode III preview figures. I looked all over and couldn't find the tags for Xevoz at all. Xevoz always sold out pretty well there. For them to remove it from the shelf means that Hasbro has truly froze all orders for Xevoz.

[Secter]

Out of the three Targets that use to carry Xevoz, two of the stores have moved them to a special "after Christmas" clearance aisle way at the end of the toy section. I thought at first they had disappeared till I found them there. I would check to make sure they arn't in a clearance aisle like that, if you havn't already done so. The other Target store here has them totally gone though, so maybe that happened at the Target near you too. One of the Targets that still has them however in the clearance, has nothing but Alpha Rangers and Sledge Troopers.[/b]

[MoonKnight]

Secter said:

One of the Targets that still has them however in the clearance, has nothing but Alpha Rangers and Sledge Troopers.

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Like usual ..

[mach9]

The thing that has me worried is that they don't even have the price tag shelf for Xevoz. The last time I saw them do that at another Target where they clearanced Xevoz(during wave 2) they never had any more.

But at my Target in LI, NY Xevoz always sold well. Leading me to think that it's not even possible to order Xevoz anymore, or that was a mandate not to order any more Xevoz at all stores.

[Secter]

Here the clearance aisles are just thown together. I didn't look, but I doubt they had any price tags either. It looked like they cleared an aisle out real quick and threw all their after Christmas clearance items in it, including all the Xevoz they could find that were in the regular aisles. One of the Targets doesn't even have them hanging on pegs, the boosters are sitting on a top shelf.

As for wave 3, its a very likely possability that they don't have any more wave 3 left to order atm. I doubt any of the Targets will re-stock them though, even if they can re-order em, considering they had to be pretty heavily clearanced to finally get rid of most their stock. Before any clearances, at the $6.74 there seemed to be all the same figures here, even wave 3 like QS and SB. They sold great at first, but slowed down to a stop not to long after. It was only after clearances I noticed them selling again [/b]

[Batman]

I went a few days after Xmas to Target. They had pretty much every xevoz marked down. I went yesterday. Nothing. This is quite depressing.

[Past-Watch]

That's been my experience as well. Target is just out of Xevoz in my area (NYC). KB has various waves 1 and 2 floating around along with the 2-packs and IS. I've checked 2 Kmarts and one had nothing while the other had very few wave 3, only QuickSlinger and Shield Breaker actually, one of each last time I checked. TRU has nothing except for the promopacks, Omega and Grim Skull.

Right now I'm still hoping that KB moves their inventory around and sends some leftover wave 3 figs my way.

[Ming]

Like I had said in a previous thread, my KB had NOTHING for a while. Literally nothing. Then all of a sudden, they were fully stocked with Waves 1 and 2 and with the IS cases and Transcorcher sets.

I found it interesting, and I actually questioned a manager about it. The only problem is that you can never get a straight answer because retail stores don't really know s**t about their inventory. They just stock whatever the hell it is the company sends to them. I also asked the manager if they were expecting any more shipments of Xevoz and all she basically told me was that they wounldn't know until the truck comes in, because they don't know what they're getting until they unload the truck. Finally, I asked if the stuff that they did seem to miraculously get in was a new shipment or just stuff that was shipped from a closing down KB that couldn't get rid of their inventory. All she basically told me was that "it was possible that it could be either". I figured that maybe I could strike some sort of deal with them where they would order me a case of the Wave 3 stuff or something, and I would gladly pay for it, but it occurred to me that they're at the disposal of not only Hasbro, but of the corporation. I really don't think that individual stores do any ordering themselves. Not like an old toystore I used to work for where the owner did all the ordering himself.

Also, about that KB...they MUST be getting new stuff in and/or horde it in the back somewhere. The first time I saw it all, there were 2 Skulljacks on the shelf, which I bought. I went back sometime later, and ANOTHER Skulljack appeared, which I also bought. Then, when I was there yesterday, there was yet ANOTHER Skulljack that just seemed to appear. I asked an associate if they had anymore in the back, and she checked and said no. All I know is that I can't keep buying these damn Skulljacks!

But I digress...I think KB is a place that we should continue to monitor. Aside from the online places, I think that this is the place that will most likely be getting the newer stuff in. That is, if we can ever get through the endless supply of Waves 1 and 2.

Sorry that was so long...

~Ming

[Machineman]

ok, new to this and have been to 3 KBs in my area with 3 more i could. What exactly is wave 3? is there a link? The one last night had a bunch of 2 packs (a wolf vs demon and a ninja vs a bug) and some game case. the one before had a pile of a biker vs robot with bike. these are absolutley new to the store cause I go there a lot. (and mall KBs have very little storage out back)

[MoonKnight]

Wave 3 is the third group of xevoz. Like wave 4 which might not come out...

[Machineman]

being new to this, how do i id them? are they like figures #12 to 18 or is the a link I can go to?
are they on this list www.hasbro.com/xevoz/checklist.cfm

[Secter]

Aye, wave 3 consist of the biker and robot you spotted. It also includes a human soldier in mostly black and green with some transparent green armor and weapons named Shield breaker and a cowboy in red with two HUGE revolvers and a cool brown tench coat without arms named Quick Slinger.

It also has some harder to find figures in the assortment such as a black skeleton with orange wings, gauntlets, "flaming" sword and a pumpkin head named Tomb Wraith, an eagle figure with blue armor named Storm Wing, a "deluxe kit" with a mummy and some gold weapons and armor named Crypt Curse, and finally another two pack that has an ice creature fighting a robot with four legs and a somewhat human looking upper body that is white and has a huge clawed arm named Cryo Katana v Preda Crawler.

Lastly in the wave 3 assortment is a big black case with an exlusive figure called Iron Spectre (with transporter casr) No one has spotted any wave 3 in KB or TRU recently to my knowledge other then the IS with case and the biker and robot you saw known as Street Punk v Transcorcher.

To ID them from that list, you can look at all of the figure SKU numbers starting with a 14, such as 14596 which happens to be Tomb Wraith I talked about above. Included in in there though, are some figs starting with 14 that are not yet released and may not be unfortunatly. I listed all the wave 3 assortment names though, so if you just look up the 14 numbers and then the names you will see which are released so far and part of wave 3. [/b]

[Grayfox]

machineman said:

the one before had a pile of a biker vs robot with bike.

What if this was the Street Pursuit wave 4 figure(s)?