Quote: MatteomaxBah, even though they seem common, they're rarer than you think. I went to 2 other ToysRUs stores near me, and looked through the last few boxes they had (3 per store).. and nothing.
I seriously don't want to resort to eBay for these guys.
I think this wave is very generous with the clear variants according to the reports of so many people finding them...we just have the misfortune of living in NJ where there's plenty of scalpers about. I know my TRU has a nerdy man-child running around in electronics and probably keeps any chase variants for himself rather than putting them out. I've never had the privilege of them opening any boxes of Skylanders in front of me. This late in the franchise, maybe Activision is upping the production on chase variants as sort of a reward for fans who've stuck with Skylanders...the odds of finding a chase variant going from almost impossible to somewhat improbable.
I leisurely strolled into my central NJ TRU right before close last night. I wasn't there for the figures as I will wait until they hit Best Buy for my GCU 20% off. I did pick up a bunch of traps since they were ringing up buy 1, get 1 for $1 (the red hot tussle sprout trap was not ringing up as part of the promo like the others, but a manager came by and gave an override to $1 for it). I did notice that they had all the new figures except for Echo and Spotlight which had probably sold out earlier in the day. Wave 4 traps were scarce except for the triple pack with the Kaos trap. One end cap was overflowing with the Easter minis and traps...I couldn't bring myself to forking out $9 for them...I have a feeling they'll be shelf warmers soon enough at that price point. I didn't see any chase variants, but didn't expect to since I was there just before close. It seemed that they had dumped all their new Trapmaster stock onto a bin just outside electronics.