Are you guys noticing the Lego isles are looking pretty pathetic in the past 2 weeks? I've been to several Walmarts in Canada and half to 3/4 of the shelves are empty! The only thing that seems to be in-stock are the new Star Wars, City and Friends sets.

TRU have decent amount of stock, but then Nov/Dec is their bread and butter so I assume they arranged to make sure to have lots of inventory on hand.

Kind of frustrating when I cannot even find small sets like the Minecraft The Dungeon in 5 Walmarts! Nearest TRU is OOS.

There are two normally dressed people with Lego branded bags and scanners loading up my TRU with inventory. I've never seen this before, but maybe I just have never been there when they are. There are millennium Falcons spilling out onto the floor. Ridiculously well stocked.

2 hours ago, Dbroncoboy said:

There are two normally dressed people with Lego branded bags and scanners loading up my TRU with inventory. I've never seen this before, but maybe I just have never been there when they are. There are millennium Falcons spilling out onto the floor. Ridiculously well stocked.

I have seen stuff like that at TRU and a Target once before setting up display models.

My local Walmart

Pick up that Raptor Escape!

On ‎12‎/‎12‎/‎2015 at 9:47 AM, labfreak7 said:

My local Walmart

That is what my walmarts look like too. Last year at this time they were almost empty. Looks like lego way overproduced based on sales to the horde and not end users. And who says the horde doesn't affect anything. Either that or every consumer in america has lego fatigue at once. Let's see, Occam's razor, yadda yadda, I pick the first one.

Buy your Shopkins and leave the clearance LEGO for me.

I think walmart, target, etc are blowing through stock and restocking it just as fast.  One snapshot doesn't paint a whole picture.  Let's see a time-lapse from the walmart cameras that shows a typical lego isle from black friday to January 1st.  Guarantee you will see a lot of stock being moved, added, etc.  

I know that the employees at my local walmart are stocking constantly. 

I see this at Wal-Marts around here, but we are more rural.

24 hours later.....

Target....

Long Island ny

First two the same Walmart as yesterday- last two are target

Target near was wiped out except for lots of Chima, a few ninjago, and several of Kylo Ren's shuttle. Walmart down the road was pretty fully stocked still.

That's what my local Wal-Mart Lego aisles look like year round.

My target Put stuffed animals on an entire row of Lego (left side animals, right Lego, because sold out of half)

Went into Toys R us Woking over the weekend and looks like they haven't had any stock since Christmas. Ninjago and City sets spread out to fill all the gaps. No Technic or Star Wars, looked pretty sparse.

On 1/17/2016 at 10:44 PM, Crustybeaver said:

Went into Toys R us Woking over the weekend and looks like they haven't had any stock since Christmas. Ninjago and City sets spread out to fill all the gaps. No Technic or Star Wars, looked pretty sparse.

Still like that near us. There's only so much space you can cover with the full left behind ranges of Chima and Ninjago. I would say i almost have more Lego than they do. Hopefully more value!

That's because employees are buying them just to sell the minifigures