Your Exclusivity Guide For 1HY 2018

14 thoughts on “Your Exclusivity Guide For 1HY 2018”

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   Owen January 11, 2018Reply

   How does TRU with such a small number of stores score so many exclusives? Big W got robbed with this lot.

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     Michael Post authorJanuary 11, 2018Reply

     I think it helps being a dedicated toy store. Big W probably doesn’t push as hard for exclusives and when they do it’s usually around the toy sale.

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   Magmafrost13 January 11, 2018Reply

   Might as well take the firehouse away from big w, its not like its actually been available from them for at least the past year. I wish they wouldnt do toyworld exclusives thougb, as Im pretty sure the chain doesnt even know what a sale is

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   Owen January 11, 2018Reply

   186 Big W stores around Australia not just in major cities.
   30 TRU – almost exclusively in capital cities and no concept of a competitive freigh cost.
   Personally – 3 Big W within 100km and no TRU less than 200km away.
   Not impressed.

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   tacenda January 11, 2018Reply

   This list is so helpful, thank you!

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   Nekoo January 11, 2018Reply

   Thanks for the list! TRU has no stores here what so ever so I made an online purchase with their store and what a horror it was! Glad I already have Ninjago City from LEGO when it launched 🙂

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   dkwt January 11, 2018Reply

   TRU is not my favourite store chain but toyworld rarely has a sale. Lucky it is only the london bus and usual xmas sets they have that I want. I will wait for a rare sale at toyworld to get the bus. It should hopefully be easier to get ninjago city at a TRU as I am in the Melb city area. Hopefully the ucs falcon gets a sale in second half of the year.

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   Mark January 11, 2018Reply

   Thanks Michael, it’s a really useful list! It sucks that Disney castle will remain a LEGO brand store exclusive; removing any hope of a decent discount. How does Toys R Us manage to gain so many exclusives? Is the company even solvent? I’m glad I got Ninjago City from Barnes & Noble with the recent discount glitch.

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   Murph January 12, 2018Reply

   Thanks Michael. Any word on the Joker Manor set?

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     Michael Post authorJanuary 12, 2018Reply

     It wasn’t on the list. It wouldn’t surprise me if somebody gets it for their mid-year toy sale.

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   Andy January 12, 2018Reply

   Damn, TRU have ninjago city, they seem to put the price of exclusives above RRP. Check out the online price of garmadons shark mech, $20 above RRP. ????
   It wouldn’t surprise me if they put the price up by $50
   I was preying for big w to get it, as I got GBFH for $361 and UCS snow speeder $224, cos I also get Woolies discount.

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     Matt Smith January 15, 2018Reply

     How much is ninjago city at TRU? I don’t see it listed on their site.

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    DownUnder Bricks January 12, 2018Reply

    Appreciate you putting this list together, top stuff!

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    Harry January 13, 2018Reply

    Thanks for this. I’ve only heard of the UCS snowspeeder being available at Big W I wonder if they will be stocked at other stores too this year.