Is Wal-mart phasing out Heroscape?

[Jacks_lament]

Made two calls this morning to different Wal-marts and was told by one that they are going to stop carrying HS and the other said they would not be getting anymore castle sets. That the castles were unreplenishable. Anyone heard likewise?

[DarkSpade]

Wal-mart always craming in heroscape one month, and putting it on clearence the next. There doesn't even seem to be a pattern to it anymore.

[Retlaw]

The Plainfield, IN Walmart just got in a bunch of wave 5 this past week and has plenty of shelf space dedicated to HS - MS, large hero/terrain, castle (although they don't have any in stock), and small expansion sets (even have some on the "ask for help in getting this" top shelf). But the Walmart in Avon, IN may only have the MS and space for one set of expansions

BTW, your location says "the circle city" -- are you from Indy?

I think this is more store by store and month to month -- I remember last Christmas the Plainfield Walmart only had EOV master sets, but the Target and Meijer had MS and all the expansions (except MP).

[Hahnarama]

Jack only posts when he's on the hunt for new stuff. :P Ya he's a southside Indy dude.


I bet once teh WW finish their Christmas toy area reset you swill see plenty of stuff on the shelf.

[RichardD]

Let me get this straight - they take pretty much the whole allocation of Castle sets, sell out in lots of places in about a month flat, and might be considering dropping the line completely? Sure.

[huskers]

Another indy guy here. I tried buying the castle set at the greenfield, lawrence, south emerson and 86th stores. All stated non replenishable, couldn't order them if they wanted to. They said the warehouse might just automatically send them to the stores. I called up the district manager and they are having two sent to me from another store in indiana. All the stores mentioned above showed they had the castles in stock when viewed from a different stores computers.

[johnny139]

Mine is. They didn't have any small expansions left, only one Master set, and RttFF. They didn't even have spaces for the others!

And that's the only place I can find them...

[Finrod]

Some Wal-Mart stores apparently have more leeway than others in what they do. I'm not sure if this a franchise/corporate thing or what. But for example, some people post on here regularly about finding tremendous discounts on HS stuff. But none of the multitude of Wal-marts in my area have ever discounted ANYTHING HS.

Then there's always the possibility that the person you talked to on the phone was an ignorant jerk. I had that happen with my local TRU. A person on the phone wouldn't listen to me, kept interrupting and insisted, "I don't carry ANY Heroscape expansions here." I walked into the store later that day and they were all over the shelf.

[K/H_Addict]

I got my Castle on the monday they were released. I was in that same walmart on sunday and they no longer had a spot for castles.

[yanks114kd]

That is the same thing my Wal-mart to me. That the castles were unreplenishable. But the toy manager said that it doesn't mean they won't get more in like 3 or 4 months. Just none right now.

[jcb231]

No way is Wal-Mart phasing out HS. Maybe some stores will get less than others, but that's always been the case.

[Grungebob]

It is all about shelf space. Walmart gambled on getting it all before the other retailers and do NOT want to waste shelf space on a product that isn't there and won't be replenished soon, so they give that space over to some holiday toys and games and then make room again when the time is right.