Want this Walmart pony display!

[Bebopgroove]

It would make an awesome pony shelf..

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Even though I work here, not sure how I'd go about obtaining this. I guess I'll just have to ask.

[ApertureScience]

I want it too... and I don't work there.  So you're in a better position than me, that's for sure. :/

But I agree with you; it would make an excellent display shelf.  I love how they used the vectors of Blind Bag ponies on it.

[emery]

Dude... that would be cool to get! Hopefully since you work there you can put first dibs on it!

[achab1984]

I wonder if all the wal marts will get that?

[Novavelle]

that's awesome! I'd love to have on too, but none of our walmarts have that.

[Dragonflitter]

If you ask, I think you can get it easily! The trick is to get it right when they're changing displays. I've asked before at my local Walmart, after I noticed a pony display had been replaced with a different toy display, and I was told all displays go right in the trash bin after they're taken off the floor. So if you're there when they're changing it out, I think they'll let you have it! :3

[RavenFeather]

I work at Walmart in the Toy Department, and I set up that display!  (Well the one over here in MN) and unfortunately.....we can't keep them.  Something about copyright stuff I guess...and every single endcap I've seen like that ends up in the compactor.  Walmart is very strict about this stuff.  I was lucky that I got the little topper to a Pony Sidekick last year.   Most of the boxed displays end up trashed too, occasionally we get the ok to auction those off for charity and the price gets way out of my price range too quickly.

[MsTwilight]

I've been to several walmarts and I was told the same thing that ravenfeather said.  I've even tried to get a display when the merchandiser was taking one down. Under no circumstances can they be removed from the store, so I was told. It's such a waste. 

[medleysong]

I was going to second that store displays can't be kept I remember a guy in TRU telling me that all of the great stand ups, cut outs, etc. had to be tossed in the trash because of copy right and the like. My son works at Lego and said the same thing regarding displays there. He even said that if someone returns a lego set that has been opened the staff can't keep it, that it goes straight into the trash even if all the pieces are there. I remember the good ol' days when I was a kid, most places would gladly put your name down for something like that and call you to pick it up when they were done with it. My dad got so many things that way. I think with ebay came concerns about selling on the secondary market. Such a bummer...

[Lorelei Redfern]

true but there are ways to get TRU dispalys and posters  ^^ i  acutly got a skylanders  poster when they  changed  them. only becuase i was  right there  when  they changed them and hte guy rmemebered me asking  he knew i'd be in that day and he saved the poster for me. and hes like quickly go put it in your car before the manage sees.

and then a freind tried to get one and htey told him they couldnt be given out.

[Ivy]

I work at wal-mart too and they are pretty strict about that stuff - which is a shame since I got a lot of cool displays when I worked at TRU

[Dragonflitter]

Aww, that's sad to hear! I guess I was mistaken.

[Loona]

oh, it's pretty cool! I would love to have one like that too ^^ just how nice it would be to display ponies on!

it's quite disappointing to hear cool stuff like this is most likely to end up in the trash for silly reasons (don't get me wrong, copyright is a serious reason. but in this context I just find it silly), and the few exceptions are only due to kind workers (who may even risk their jobs - from what you wrote, if a boss saw them handing them out I guess they would be in trouble). I have both happy and sad stories about such things (nothing this big though, just some paper display boxes and that - non-pony), but they happened in different shops and I always thought it depends on the store's policy (or someone who works there wanted it too). now I know it isn't store-dependant.

[PrincessTiffy]

That's very interesting to hear. When I first asked a Target worker about getting the canterlot display, the lady said that they have to throw them away or if the company wanted them back they had to give them back to the company. But then I was talking to these 2 really nice guys that worked there and they said they take things home all the time when the store is done with them after they ask the manager says its ok. And since I told him that I collect my little pony and him also being a collector said that he would ask his manager if he could have it and then give it to me when they were done. A couple days later I got a call from him saying that he got dibs on it. I was so excited and very greatful to him!

That's too bad about Walmart, I'll probably still ask though Lol.

[okiegurl1981]

*looks at bottom of display*   OMG!  Is that where the new pony posters everyone has been talking about are?!    Everytime I go to WM I look with the trading cards and the regular posters.  No wonder I haven't been able to find them!  I bet any they did have are all gone now.