Great Britain and Northern Ireland 2014 Finds - Part 2

[millimoo]

Found Jungle Miles & Grem with Camera in Tesco the other day, no way on God's earth was I paying £12 each for them

[VANDANCE]

Interesting, thanks for the info. It may be worth seeing if Tesco would price match Asda? I am not sure what Tesco price policy is but no harm in asking. Deluxe are seriously overpriced at £12 but surprisingly Tesco Cars singles are the cheapest around at £5 each. It must have been VERY hard walking out of the store without them. Well done for resisting!

[niftynigel]

Toys R Us are the latest stores to get the Mama Bernoulli and Luigi/Guido Headset singles case (998W).

Toys R Us have also got a new Radiator Springs Classic case!

I picked up singles Mama Bernouilli, Luigi/Guido Headsets along with RSC Constanza Della Corsa and RSC Dirt Track McQueen.

The RSC singles are now £4.99 at TRU. It looks like there are two of each Costanza and DT McQueen in the case?

[niftynigel]

Interesting, thanks for the info. It may be worth seeing if Tesco would price match Asda? I am not sure what Tesco price policy is but no harm in asking. Deluxe are seriously overpriced at £12 but surprisingly Tesco Cars singles are the cheapest around at £5 each. It must have been VERY hard walking out of the store without them. Well done for resisting!

Tesco stores publish their price match rules. Price matching doesn't include toys! I've tried to match there before and failed each time as they've pointed this ruling out! They suggested writing to Tesco HQ!

[Nick Stickers]

Will nip to TRU when the little man finishes school, fingers crossed

[BirchTiger]

I've seen those new deluxes in sainsburys a few times but they are still 9.99 each in there. I checked TRU today but there was nothing new in there.

[boogity]

sainsbury still has the deluxes at 4.99, as I got grem with camera on monday, had previously bought jungle miles and the iveco tow truck about a fortnight ago

[Nick Stickers]

TRU was a bust for me today, nothing new at all.

[niftynigel]

sainsbury still has the deluxes at 4.99, as I got grem with camera on monday, had previously bought jungle miles and the iveco tow truck about a fortnight ago

Good to see you back on this forum, Rodger!

[niftynigel]

TRU was a bust for me today, nothing new at all.

The four Cars I got today looked like they had only just been put out, so they may well be in TRU's initial batches of them?

Sales of Cars traditionally increases this time of the year, so the latest international singles case 998W will find it's way around very quickly. Before you know it, 998Y will be here. Until now, ASDA have got most of this years cases on a first to market basis, followed by most of the other major retailers.

It remains to be seen if that happens again or we get two cases simultaneously in stores? It was quite rare for Sainsbury's and Tesco to have the same case but as Tesco has scaled down their non-food departments (and replaced many of their cafe's too) someone had to step in and take some of Tesco's allocation (unless Mattel reduced the production run)?

My guess is that Mattel reduced the production run, maybe from average 2,000 of each case to 1,500. Tesco used to order big. Even in the dark days of 2012, Tesco ordered 5,500 cases plus clipstrips for the Christmas market. I don't see them doing that now! Cars and toys is one example why Tesco have got it all horribly wrong. Many stores had two or three cases up on the top shelf. Now there isn't a top shelf and quite often the actual shelves are devoid of any cars!

A recap on this years cases so far in the UK:

W1938-998K (Europe - France 20.11.2013; Spain 16.12.2013)

W1938-998L (Sainsburys 22.01.2014; Tesco 16.02.2014) (3333EAA)
W1938-998N (Sainsburys 04.02.2014; Morrisons 05.02.2014; ASDA 15.02.2014; Toymaster/TRU 18.02.2014) (3363EAA; 3603EAA)
W1938-998P (ASDA 01.03.2014; Morrisons 07.03.2014; Argos 13.03.2014; Sainsburys 19.03.2014) (3543EAA; 0074EAA)
W1938-988Q (Morrisons 14.03.2014; TRU 19.03.2014; Toymaster 25.03.2014; ASDA 26.03.2014; Tesco 27.03.2014; Sainsbury 09.04.2014; Smyths 16.04.2014) (0174EAA)
W1938-988S (Toymaster 14.05.2014; Tesco 16.05.2014; Wilkinson 21.05.2014; Sainsburys 23.05.2014; ASDA 30.05.2014) (0794EAA)
W1938-988T (Wilkinson 12.07.2014; ASDA 15.07.2014; Tesco 28.07.2014; Sainsburys 29.07.2014; TRU 02.08.2014) (0984EAA)
W1938-998U (ASDA 27.08.2014; Tesco 05.09.2014; TRU 11.09.2014; Smyths 11.09.2014; Sainsburys 24.09.2014; Toymaster 25.09.2014; Morrison 27.09.2014) (1084EAA)
W1938-998W (ASDA 02.10.2014; TRU 07.10.2014) (1604EAA)

W1938-998Y (Canada 14.09.2014; Australia 22.09.2014)

Two more to follow ...

[foxrfc]

I still haven't see 998U anywhere during my US trip or in the UK, must either be bad timing or just the distribution not reaching my stores

[BirchTiger]

Sainsburys pricing on gm is not national. None of my local stores has had deluxes at less than 9.99 for a long time. You are lucky boogity, I would have loved to of gotten those new deluxes for only 4.99!

[BirchTiger]

Do we know the case contents of international 998Y yet if this is the selection after the mama box?

[niftynigel]

Do we know the case contents of international 998Y yet if this is the selection after the mama box?

If the contents follow the corresponding US case, then we can expect new cars, Sally (with Tattoo), Alberto and the first UK appearance of Timothy Twostroke!

[BirchTiger]

Thanks Nigel; Just Sally and Alberto for me to find then after I hopefully nab mama from somewhere.