When will Toys R Us start selling the LOTR sets?

[Aragorn]

Does anyone know when Toys R Us will start selling the new LOTR sets?

Aragorn

[Legobrandon]

They should be at TRU.com and brick and mortar stores a little after the official release on LEGO S@H which is supposedly in June.

[legitimatealex]

They should be at TRU.com and brick and mortar stores a little after the official release on LEGO S@H which is supposedly in June.

Toys R Us has a pretty big history of releasing sets before LEGO does due to lax company policy or stores trying to fill up their shelves when they are empty. They will probably be out earlier than that.

[Legobrandon]

Available for pre-order on Target.com expected ship date is June 1st: http://www.target.com/s?searchTerm=Lego ... categories" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
OR search LEGO Tolkien.

[il padrino]

TRU in my area put them out on Friday.

[zak001]

TRU may need to be hiring a copy editor:

Product Description
Battle the Cave Troll in The Mines of Moria in the LEGO Ninjago Lasha's Bite Cycle (9447) buildable playset! Defeat the giant cave troll with 6 MiniFigures at The Mines of Moria, packed with realistic details, hidden features and action functions! On their epic journey across the lands of Middle-earth, the heroic Fellowship of the Ring travels through the abandoned Mines of Moria. Pursued by the evil Moria orcs and a giant Cave Troll, Pippin, Boromir, Gimli and Legolas make a stand in Balin's Tomb. Can the heroes hold back the evil horde and make it out of the mine unhurt?

The LEGO Ninjago Lasha's Bite Cycle (9447) features:
6 MiniFigures: Pippin, Boromir, Gimli, Legolas and 2 Moria orcs

[starfailure]

how long until walmart and/or kmart get these?
is it a matter of weeks or months?

[mooslug]

Just a note, but I did the math and the Toys R Us markups on the LOTR line are some of the worst yet:

9474 Helms Deep 23% over MSRP
9473 Mines Of Moria 25% over MSRP
9472 Weathertop 33% over MSRP
9471 Uruk-hai Army 16% over MSRP
9470 Shelob Attacks 25% over MSRP
9469 Gandalf Arrives 30% over MSRP

The maximum 'sale' Toys R Us usually does is 25% off of their price during a BOGO 1/2 off. With that high of a markup, you aren't even hitting MSRP during a sale, so it wouldn't make sense to buy from them even at that point (except for the Uruk-hai Army set).



The Monster Fighters line doesn't have that bad of a markup at TRU, so you could get a good deal on them during a sale (except the werewolf/mummy sets), but LOTR at TRU is atrocious.

[dho7622u]

TRU in North Attleboro Mass has both the LOTR and Monster Fighters (Is that officially MF...which kinda freaks me out). New City Miners as well.

anywho, I don't know the local markup, since I don't follow these sets and the MSRP.

david

[Deathleech]

9472 Weathertop 60% over MSRP

Is that right, or was it a typo? Mines of Moria is marked up the same 20 dollars more than MSRP and only 25% more. I knew most of the sets were around 20-30% marked up over MSRP, but Weathertop is 60??

[mooslug]

Yes, that was a typo, sorry- I had the official LEGO price at $50 instead of $60 in my spreadsheet. So TRU has marked it up $20 at "only" 33% over retail :P

[Deathleech]

Yup, 33% still terrible and makes me never want to shop at TRU again, but not AS bad as a 60% mark up, lol!

[ricefields]

Here is a comparison of TRU markup in US vs cdn msrp vs toyrus canada markup
9474 Helms Deep 159.99 usd vs $169.99 cdn vs 179.99 cdn (6% above msrp)
9473 Mines Of Moria 99.99 usd vs $99.99 cdn vs $109.99 cdn (10% above msrp)
9472 Weathertop 79.99 usd vs $74.99 cdn vs $79.99 cdn (7% above msrp)
9471 Uruk-hai Army 34.99 usd vs $39.99 cdn vs $41.99 cdn (5% above msrp)
9470 Shelob Attacks 24.99 usd vs $24.99 cdn vs $26.99 cdn (8% above msrp)
9469 Gandalf Arrives 16.99 usd vs $15.99 cdn vs $16.99 cdn (6% above msrp)

I can't believe this has happened. TRU in the US has bumped up prices even above canadian msrp for the weathertop and gandalf sets, and matched the cdn msrp for mines of moria and shelob attacks. With these prices in TRU US, there is no longer any reason for canadians to buy off the US site or store unless there are stackable discounts. Maybe the urukhai army set is the only possible purchase but thats it! and the tru markup in canada is significantly less than that of tru markup in US (obviously).

Just a note, but I did the math and the Toys R Us markups on the LOTR line are some of the worst yet:

9474 Helms Deep 23% over MSRP
9473 Mines Of Moria 25% over MSRP
9472 Weathertop 33% over MSRP
9471 Uruk-hai Army 16% over MSRP
9470 Shelob Attacks 25% over MSRP
9469 Gandalf Arrives 30% over MSRP

The maximum 'sale' Toys R Us usually does is 25% off of their price during a BOGO 1/2 off. With that high of a markup, you aren't even hitting MSRP during a sale, so it wouldn't make sense to buy from them even at that point (except for the Uruk-hai Army set).



The Monster Fighters line doesn't have that bad of a markup at TRU, so you could get a good deal on them during a sale (except the werewolf/mummy sets), but LOTR at TRU is atrocious.

[unclephn]

^Yeah, this is pretty much why I never bothered to check out any TRU's anytime I made a trip down to the US. And that was before the release of the LotR sets, which have the biggest markups to date.

Now our American friends can feel our pain!