top secret elmo tmx launched !!!!

Stockie

Don't know if it's been mentioned yet but Argos have them in now @ £34.99 Link

Stockie

rdwarr

Stockie wrote:

Don't know if it's been mentioned yet but Argos have them in now @ £34.99 Link

Stockie

Plenty of stock in my local stores too.

Clasics

Stockie wrote:

Don't know if it's been mentioned yet but Argos have them in now @ £34.99 Link

Stockie

No, not been mentioned as I don't think they have stocked them until today. Looks like the Warning boxes, though. Obviously no probs if buying as a pressie, though...

W1zz

Mmm.. Warning boxes.

I've already got one with 'Secret' on the box which I've opened to test then re-boxed and put away for Christmas.

Just an idea, what's to stop my buying one in a 'warning' box and then swapping the Elmo's across.

Dealmad

I was informed by someone from Woolworths that there on back order so check your account ....they dont know if or when they could possible get them in and they have not charged my card so i just cancelled my order....they said 24th OCT is only a guide.

I was told they would be the ones with TOP SECRET boxes though.

Clasics

W1zz wrote:

Mmm.. Warning boxes.

I've already got one with 'Secret' on the box which I've opened to test then re-boxed and put away for Christmas.

Just an idea, what's to stop my buying one in a 'warning' box and then swapping the Elmo's across.

I read somewhere that Mattel have programmed Elmo to react to this dodgy marketing exercise by screaming 'SCAMMER' at the top of his annoying vocal range until you return him to his correct packaging. No idea if that's true, of course....:rolleyes:

rebl43

What would be the point of swapping them? Is it not just the boxes that are different?

Clasics

First time I've seen any actual sales figures mentioned.


http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061004/BUSINESS10/610040406/-1/BUSINESS

Mattel produced only 700,000 of the toys, generating speculation that it may have deliberately over-hyped the item and limited the quantity in an effort to create a hot toy. Mattel and Fisher-Price denied such accusations.

Jim Silver, editor and publisher of Toy Wishes magazine, said he accepted Mattel denials. No toy has been this hot this early, he said.

Sales have exceeded expectations by five times and although Mattel projected it could sell 700,000 Elmos, it is on track to sell 3 million, he said.

"In the first 24 hours they sold 250,000. Nobody plans on that. If you sell 400,000 units for a season, it is considered a hit, and 500,000 is a huge hit," Mr. Silver said.


No way they can possibly manufacture another 2.3 million of these before this Xmas!

lil_me

Loads in our local argos stores

Clasics

lil_me wrote:

Loads in our local argos stores

I think that's because they've only just started stocking it today. The big test will be how many there are in a week's time...