Why does it seem that like the new MM's are not being released on time? I live in a town with 2 K-marts, 2 Targets, 5 Wal-marts and a Hobby Lobby. Only Hobby Lobby is close to the MM release schedule. But they are two months behind. And they are getting worse. I know the law of supply and demand counts but around here, the demand is not high. I refuse to pay double off of ebay just to stay current with the MM releases. I guess I don't understand why the department stores can't see that the old stuff isn't selling and just put out the new stuff. The manager of the toy dept. at the Wal-mart closest to me said he has a "ton" of MM stock in back but won't put it out until the items on the shelf sells. No real point to my post, just ranting a little. Thanks for the ear.

Buy the old, hold on to them for a week and then take them back! Novel approach.

Buy the old, hold on to them for a week and then take them back! Novel approach.I will use this! :devil:
Why didn't I ever think of it!

The manager of the toy dept. at the Wal-mart closest to me said he has a "ton" of MM stock in back but won't put it out until the items on the shelf sells.
And he will continue to get new stock until he will have a pile in the back a mile high, while the MM's on the shelf will continue to get dusty. Finally, his $6.50/hr less-than-average-thinking will kick in and he'll have to put out more, but only to knock his pile down in the back (not really giving a sh** what the customer wants). Problem is, is that he will take from the top of his pile, which will be releases newer than the bottom (that came in a year ago). The releases that are due now, you won't see in a year and a half from now.

I'll never understand that way of selling. :drunk:

So I am not the only one faced with this type of "sales" mentallity. Recently at the same W-M, the manager had a "New Case" opening of Hot Wheels. Each Saturday in August, he had ten unopened cases of Hotwheels brought out and allowed the customers to open them on a first come first serve basis. After four Saturdays of opening the SAME cases, I have a handful of the same treasure hunt and nothing else to show for being there. "Next week I will have newer cases, I promise." Not. Turns out it was just over-stock he needed to move out of the back.

Buy the old, hold on to them for a week and then take them back! Novel approach.

I've done that at Auto Zone. A week isn't enough time. They didn't get any new stuff for over a month. Then I never ended up returning the stuff I bought. I gave a lot of them to kids.

I bought every MM they had on their pegs (about 30 cars). They had been hanging there for about a month. And like I said it took over a month for them to restock. But they restocked good the Stars and Stripes with the Mustang & Nomad. I got the whole set the day they put them out. And they put out the Military ones and I bought a couple. This was about a year ago.

So I am not the only one faced with this type of "sales" mentallity.
Nope.

I finally saw the lime green 1:18 Nova at our local WM a few weeks ago.
When was that released? Well over a year and a half ago? Nutz.

I have been trying to get in good with a couple of the stockers at the Hobby Lobby. On a good day, one of them will drop a case of new stuff in the aisle and let me stock the shelf. Occasionally I get the newer stuff that way. Lately it's been all the import stuff and the monster garage cars. I favor the originals more than any of the other stuff. The last time I "stocked" (about 3 weeks ago) I opened a case of the white tire grocery getters. I picked up a set and put the other set up high in the back. It was still there a couple of days ago when I went looking for the newest set. IT'S STILL NOT IN!?!?!

From what i've heard MM was having trouble with whoever was doing their work,the chrome plating was terrible and they were getting tons of complaints about the overall finished product.Thus leading them to switch to a new production company,that's what i was told from the company i order all of my W.C.C.s. I'm still waiting on an order from July, but the company i order from is very good on keeping every1 informed.Sorry for the long reply but maybe this will answer your ?s.

Often wondered where the new stock was....
always ....lots of "New" stocked on shelves that I was looking for the previous year.. :confused:
gave up getting excited over the new releases and now just pick up the MM's that interest me when I do see them on the pegs.. :)
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all we are seeing up here right now is MMs police. WM and toys 'r' us suck, if you want zebra striped jeeps T-r-U is the place to go. I know it sounds like I`m bitching. ok I am.

all we are seeing up here right now is MMs police. WM and toys 'r' us suck, if you want zebra striped jeeps T-r-U is the place to go. I know it sounds like I`m bitching. ok I am.

That's all I see down here.

I see lots of the MM Police and SS Tuners. Even found fresh batch of Cartoons set C & D at Wally World and they just put out the next wave of Vote America although the election was almost a month ago.

I'm hoping to find a set of those '71 Camaros someday.

I asked the young guy stocking the shelves at WM today if they had anymore MMs outback and he told me what you see is all they have. I think he was lying to me.

The new cars just keep coming to my house ... I order on~line, & pre~order what I want. Now I know many of You don't wish to pay those prices, and who wants to pay for shipping . . . but I find it much cheaper by the time ya figure all the wasted trips to different stores, the gas, the traffic, the time it takes out of Your day ... only to always come up empty handed !

I don't mind the prices of online shopping, its just that when I order online its too easy or something. I enjoy getting out and seeing whats available and buying what I like. I wish I could actually see whats out though. The stuff I know is available never shows up around here until its so old. Usually I look and look and ask, then when I finally give in to ebay or online ordering the stuff I was looking for shows up 9 months to a year later in the stores around here.

That makes perfect sense why didn`t I think of that, espcially this time of year. thanks much, I think I will try it.

I talked with some folks at Hobby Lobby. They made it sound like the person responsible for the hobby cars area has to make an order to receive them. I think the person at the store near me has slacked of on ordering because nothing new has come in for awhile and the stock on hand has been slowly dwindling down...or maybe they're just trying to rotate stuff out????

They just put out some Stars and Stripes at the Auto Zone I go to. I saw the Anglia, Mustang, Nomad, two different Willys, T-bird and some others. They put out stuff that came out over a year ago. What gives?

I also saw and picked up a '96 Impala and a Corvair.

My Wife Worked With Auto Zone 5 Years, But No Longer Does . . . It Was At One Time A Very Good Place To Find The New Stuff ... Don't See Much There These Days.

well guys, its pretty much the same here in cheeseheadland. word for word on the retailers and deliveries. mark has the right idea tho for completists. which i no longer am. due to finances and no desire to have them all.

I feel for all of you. I worked many years in retail and people don't work in retail for the fun of it. They work in it because it is the easiest job to get besides fast food. If a retail job was the last job on earth, I still wouldn't take it.

Some of the '05 stuff is starting to show up in the stores now ... The last set from the '04 Tuners, & the new '05 Tuners, + the 5th year Annaversary "A"&"B" sets.

The best place around here to get the new stuff is hobby lobby and meijer. I have found meijer to be more up to date. They have some of the '05 stuff too.

Buy the old, hold on to them for a week and then take them back! Novel approach.
Take them back to a store that you hardly ever go to.This way they order or put out more at your store.

At target all I am seeing is JGTC cars. At TRUS and Walmart I don't see any at all!

It Takes Forever To Get New Ones In Atlanta,no Matter What Scale

You should live where I live we still have MMs police still on the pegs and 1/18th nothing.

Not any kind of Muscle Machines(except for the tuners versions) cars have been put out at any of the stores here in Rock Hill for at least 4 months. We have a Target, K-mart, and Wal-Mart. The one's that are left at K-mart are sitting on the clearnace rack at $2, and have been for quite some time.

Only thing I've seen was a few sets of MM Wave 3 in the 5th anniv. package a couple of months ago at HL.

I believe I saw that all MMs except for the Jesse James are cancelled and the company is going under?

Fred has more info at his site

www.1stopdiecast.com

12/2/05
On 12/2/05 the Board of Directors accepted the offer from Motorsports Authentics for the purchase of Action Performance and all its holdings. The Deal is to be finalized on December 9th and the effects of this on Muscle machines should come to light in the next few months.

At this time the only Future Product Know to be Manufactured are the 1/12th Scale Jesse James Cars (Shipping Now) and the 1/64th Scale Muscle Machines Originals Release G (although we do not have a delivery date on these as of yet).

We continue to be told that the line will be brought back in the first Quarter of 2006. Of course the all ready produced product is still available and in recent months has become very active in the market as collectors scramble to finish or build their collections.

We all look forward to any additional information and will keep you well informed of any news.

The Following items have been canceled and all back orders are now canceled. Should any of these items go into production (there are rumors that some will be put into production at the close of the sale). We will let you all know and will THEN TAKE PRE-ORDERS AGAIN. ALL ORDER ALREADY PLACED WILL NOT CARRY FORWARD AND ARE CANCELED NOW.

All 1/18th Scale Hybrid NASCAR Items.

1/18th Scale M2 David Chang Cobra, and BRIDE Honda.

1/18th Scale Mega Graphics 55 Nomad (Sold Out), 1958 Impala (Sold Out), 1966 Mustang, 1969 Dodge Charger, 1967 Nova, 1956 Olds 88, 1966 GTO, and 1969 Chevelle.

1/18th Scale Originals 1949 Merc -Re-Color, and 1964 Cobra

1/18th Scale Gassers Stone, Woods, and Cook and Big John.

1/64th Scale Originals Releases H&I and J&K.

1/64th Scale Import Tuners Released C&D

1/64th Scale Trucking Magazine Releases A&B, C&D, and E&F

1/64th Scale Monster Trucks Releases E, F, and G

1/24th Scale Monster Trucks Release E-05

1/24th Scale WCC Cars Release CD-05

1/10th Scale WCC Bikes Releases C, D, and E-05

1/64th Scale Trucking Magazine 5 Pack

1/64th Scale NASCAR Originals Releases C, D, E, F, and G

1/24th Scale NASCAR Monster Trucks Releases B, C, and D-05

1/8th Scale Radio Controlled Mustang Boss in Black and Red

1/64th Scale NASCAR Monster Trucks Releases B, C, and D-05

SURE HOPE THIS NEW COMPANY WILL BRING BACK THE 1/64th ORIGINAL MUSCLE MACHINE !!! I'M GONNA e~MAIL THEM EVERYDAY ... ASKING FOR 1/64 ORIGINALS :thumbsup:

Well I guess this answers the question from my other post. How much of a scramble will it be to get these last set of 12 originals? Probably will see them on ebay soon for big bucks.......

Ahh, now it makes more sense why I haven't see any new 1/64 MM for a long time with the exception of some of the overpriced NASCAR versions at the big box marts.