Irwin (5 inch) Figure, Vehicle, & Playset Visual Guide
Jul 14, 2020 16:45:22 GMT -6
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Post by Branjita on Jul 14, 2020 16:45:22 GMT -6
I loveeeee digging up old sites on archive.org! This one was about smart shopping for DBZ figures in 2001 and includes the prices the figures were!
Dragon Ball Z action figures are sold in a good variety of regular "brick and mortar" (B&M;) stores, as well as in many online toy stores. In addition to these B&M; stores, be sure to check places like drugstores (Walgreens, Rite-Aid) and specialty stores in malls (Hot Topic, Spencers Gifts).
Dragon Ball Z (regular figures)
$9.99 KB
$6.99 Target
$5.99 TRU
$5.96 Wal-Mart
16" Dragon Ball Z figures
$18.89 Blain's Farm & Fleet
$19.99 TRU
$9.99 KB (marked down from $27.99)
Flying Nimbus Cloud
$39.99 Target
$24.99 TRU
$9.99 KB (marked down)
$10.00 Amazon.com clearance
Dragon Ball Z Model Kits (to assemble your own figures)
$9.99 Electronics Boutique
$7.93 Wal-Mart
$8.99 TRU
$7.99 Target
Dragon Ball Z (regular figures)
$9.99 KB
$6.99 Target
$5.99 TRU
$5.96 Wal-Mart
16" Dragon Ball Z figures
$18.89 Blain's Farm & Fleet
$19.99 TRU
$9.99 KB (marked down from $27.99)
Flying Nimbus Cloud
$39.99 Target
$24.99 TRU
$9.99 KB (marked down)
$10.00 Amazon.com clearance
Dragon Ball Z Model Kits (to assemble your own figures)
$9.99 Electronics Boutique
$7.93 Wal-Mart
$8.99 TRU
$7.99 Target
The page also links to online stores that existed back then. It should be excellent to take a trip down memory lane...
Also... since KB Toys was a great place to find DBZ figures at overpriced prices, I thought I'd share this article I ran across:
KB TOYS TO CLOSE 375 STORES! -@ 15:49 PST
From YahooNews:
KB Toys to Close 375 Stores
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bankrupt toy retailer KB Toys Inc. said on Wednesday it will close at least 30 percent of its stores and cut 29 percent of its jobs as it tries to revamp itself in time for the 2004 holiday shopping season.
KB Toys, controlled by private equity firm Bain Capital, said it plans to close at least 375 stores and fire about 3,500 of its 12,000 employees.
Pittsfield, Massachusetts-based KB filed for bankruptcy earlier this month after fierce competition from big discount retailers and toy price wars cut deeply into the key toy buying weeks after Thanksgiving.
"Closing these stores is a major step in KB Toy's restructuring process," KB Chief Executive Michael Glazer said in a statement.
The stores slated for closing are underperforming or do not fit in with KB's "strategic plans," Glazer said, and the closures will allow the company to cut costs.
The holiday period is usually the big money maker for toy retailers, but this latest season brought severe competition as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE:WMT - news), Target Corp. (NYSE:TGT - news) and other major players slashed prices to lure customers.
FAO Inc. (Other OTC:FAOOQ - news), parent of upscale FAO Schwarz toy stores filed for bankruptcy twice in 2003, both times crippled by weak sales and stiff price cutting by rivals.
KB, which runs mostly mall-based stores, said it received bankruptcy court approval to hire The Ozer Group LLC, The Nassi Group LLC and SB Capital Group LLC to conduct the store-closing inventory sales in at least 356 stores beginning Jan. 29.
By Feb. 11, KB will choose 19 to 115 more stores for closing, and ultimately will run roughly 750 stores. KB will post a list of stores to be closed on a company Web site (http://www.kbtinfo.com).
The company expects to sell up to $122.5 million worth of inventory through the store-closing process.
From YahooNews:
KB Toys to Close 375 Stores
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bankrupt toy retailer KB Toys Inc. said on Wednesday it will close at least 30 percent of its stores and cut 29 percent of its jobs as it tries to revamp itself in time for the 2004 holiday shopping season.
KB Toys, controlled by private equity firm Bain Capital, said it plans to close at least 375 stores and fire about 3,500 of its 12,000 employees.
Pittsfield, Massachusetts-based KB filed for bankruptcy earlier this month after fierce competition from big discount retailers and toy price wars cut deeply into the key toy buying weeks after Thanksgiving.
"Closing these stores is a major step in KB Toy's restructuring process," KB Chief Executive Michael Glazer said in a statement.
The stores slated for closing are underperforming or do not fit in with KB's "strategic plans," Glazer said, and the closures will allow the company to cut costs.
The holiday period is usually the big money maker for toy retailers, but this latest season brought severe competition as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE:WMT - news), Target Corp. (NYSE:TGT - news) and other major players slashed prices to lure customers.
FAO Inc. (Other OTC:FAOOQ - news), parent of upscale FAO Schwarz toy stores filed for bankruptcy twice in 2003, both times crippled by weak sales and stiff price cutting by rivals.
KB, which runs mostly mall-based stores, said it received bankruptcy court approval to hire The Ozer Group LLC, The Nassi Group LLC and SB Capital Group LLC to conduct the store-closing inventory sales in at least 356 stores beginning Jan. 29.
By Feb. 11, KB will choose 19 to 115 more stores for closing, and ultimately will run roughly 750 stores. KB will post a list of stores to be closed on a company Web site (http://www.kbtinfo.com).
The company expects to sell up to $122.5 million worth of inventory through the store-closing process.
Later in 2004...
TOYS R US PROFITS DROP! -@ 10:49 PST
From Yahoo News:
Toys R us Profit Falls, Game Sales Down
Wed Mar 3, 9:44 AM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Toys R Us Inc (NYSE:TOY - news) , the No. 2 toy retailer behind Wal-Mart Stores (NYSE:WMT - news), on Wednesday said quarterly profit fell, hurt by plunging video game sales at U.S. toy stores and on charges from closing its Kids R Us and Imaginarium stores.
The Wayne, New Jersey-based retailer posted a net profit of $144 million, or 67 cents per share, for the fourth quarter ended Jan. 31, compared with $278 million, or $1.30 per share, a year earlier.
Excluding items, the company posted a quarterly profit of $234 million, or $1.08 per share.
Analysts, on average, had been expecting it to earn $1.05 per share on an operating basis, according to Reuters Research, a unit of Reuters Group Plc.
TOUGH TIMES FOR TOY STORES
Toys R Us, which in January said it was evaluating how it runs its U.S. toy business, said it hired Credit Suisse First Boston to advise it during a "strategic evaluation of all of our assets and operations." The company said the review will take a "number of additional months of work.
Analysts have been expecting the company to close underperforming U.S. toy stores and expand its Babies R Us and international divisions.
Shares of Toy R Us rose 20 cents, or 1.3 percent, to $15.50 in early trade on the New York Stock Exchange (news - web sites).
Price competition among toy sellers was particularly cutthroat during the 2003 holiday season. Wal-Mart started cutting prices earlier than usual, forcing many other toy sellers to follow suit. Aggressive price cuts can clear out a lot of merchandise, but crimp profits.
Rival toy sellers FAO Inc., parent of FAO Schwarz, and the mall-based chain KB Toys both cited stiff price competition in their filings for bankruptcy in recent months,
Toys R Us fourth-quarter sales rose 1.4 percent to $4.94 billion from $4.87 billion, but would have been down at $4.76 billion without the benefit from the weak dollar, which increases the value of overseas sales when they are converted into dollars. Sales at U.S. toy stores open at least a year fell 5.1 percent, primarily due to a 22 percent fall in video game sales, the company said.
Sales at international toy stores open at least one year were flat in local currency terms in the fourth quarter.
The Babies R Us unit posted a 8.9 percent jump in total fourth quarter sales, and a 2.9 percent increase in same-store sales. Sales at its Internet arm Toysrus.com rose 2.6 percent.
Toys R Us said Office Depot Inc (NYSE:ODP - news) agreed to buy 124 of its former Kids R Us locations for $197 million in cash plus the assumption of lease payments and other obligations.
Toys R Us said total charges related to the closing of the stores will be about $168 million, including $158 million taken in the fourth quarter and about $10 million to be taken in the current first quarter. The company had originally estimated the charges would be $280 million pre-tax.
From Yahoo News:
Toys R us Profit Falls, Game Sales Down
Wed Mar 3, 9:44 AM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Toys R Us Inc (NYSE:TOY - news) , the No. 2 toy retailer behind Wal-Mart Stores (NYSE:WMT - news), on Wednesday said quarterly profit fell, hurt by plunging video game sales at U.S. toy stores and on charges from closing its Kids R Us and Imaginarium stores.
The Wayne, New Jersey-based retailer posted a net profit of $144 million, or 67 cents per share, for the fourth quarter ended Jan. 31, compared with $278 million, or $1.30 per share, a year earlier.
Excluding items, the company posted a quarterly profit of $234 million, or $1.08 per share.
Analysts, on average, had been expecting it to earn $1.05 per share on an operating basis, according to Reuters Research, a unit of Reuters Group Plc.
TOUGH TIMES FOR TOY STORES
Toys R Us, which in January said it was evaluating how it runs its U.S. toy business, said it hired Credit Suisse First Boston to advise it during a "strategic evaluation of all of our assets and operations." The company said the review will take a "number of additional months of work.
Analysts have been expecting the company to close underperforming U.S. toy stores and expand its Babies R Us and international divisions.
Shares of Toy R Us rose 20 cents, or 1.3 percent, to $15.50 in early trade on the New York Stock Exchange (news - web sites).
Price competition among toy sellers was particularly cutthroat during the 2003 holiday season. Wal-Mart started cutting prices earlier than usual, forcing many other toy sellers to follow suit. Aggressive price cuts can clear out a lot of merchandise, but crimp profits.
Rival toy sellers FAO Inc., parent of FAO Schwarz, and the mall-based chain KB Toys both cited stiff price competition in their filings for bankruptcy in recent months,
Toys R Us fourth-quarter sales rose 1.4 percent to $4.94 billion from $4.87 billion, but would have been down at $4.76 billion without the benefit from the weak dollar, which increases the value of overseas sales when they are converted into dollars. Sales at U.S. toy stores open at least a year fell 5.1 percent, primarily due to a 22 percent fall in video game sales, the company said.
Sales at international toy stores open at least one year were flat in local currency terms in the fourth quarter.
The Babies R Us unit posted a 8.9 percent jump in total fourth quarter sales, and a 2.9 percent increase in same-store sales. Sales at its Internet arm Toysrus.com rose 2.6 percent.
Toys R Us said Office Depot Inc (NYSE:ODP - news) agreed to buy 124 of its former Kids R Us locations for $197 million in cash plus the assumption of lease payments and other obligations.
Toys R Us said total charges related to the closing of the stores will be about $168 million, including $158 million taken in the fourth quarter and about $10 million to be taken in the current first quarter. The company had originally estimated the charges would be $280 million pre-tax.
