We are getting some reports that readers' local TARGET stores are no longer carrying The Black Series 6" line. While this has panned out nicely for some (they were able to get the Stormtrooper for cheap), there aren't full details on the accuracy of this claim. Before you leap to any conclusions, remember that it's July: convention/reset season. Has Hasbro maybe alerted retail that new assortment numbers are in the works? We don't know any of the details yet, so we have JTA reader TARGET employees on this like white on rice to help us make better sense of this all. Stay tuned! But click through for JTA reader Mike W.'s report.

Paul,

I came across another fresh six inch Black Series Wave 3 case earlier this evening at a local Target (Stormtrooper intact). The wave appears to finally be hitting hard in this area. Sure enough when I checked to see if the item was in the store's system it was not. This Target is located in Huntersville, N.C. (a Charlotte suburb).

That makes three out of four Target stores in the Charlotte, N.C. metro area that I have visited this week that no longer have Star Wars six inch Black Series figures in the store's computer system. All of the stores have Black Series figures on the pegs, marked at regular price, and two had just received fresh cases.

The good news is that after I told the customer service representative that a manager at another store said they no longer carried these figures, I was able to score my second Stormtrooper this week at half price - $9.99 plus tax.

Michael W.