Want this Walmart pony display!

[Bebopgroove]

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.

I did get a Butterfly Island display way back in the day, although I guess times have changed since then.


Post Merge: August 27, 2012, 08:15:58 AM

*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.

Yeah, if your Walmart has this display, it's where the posters are, although like some other members have said, they don't even have the end-cap display, so I would at least check around the pony isle. I can grab you some posters if you like

[MikaylaIsSoCoolLike]

I actually have the little poster boxes! Well, one of them; my niece has the other. My Walmart was throwing them away and my mom saved them from visiting the garbage. I wish I could have been with her, the last time I went to Walmart was the day they were doing the whole reset. 

[hathorcat]

Yes alas times have certainly changed - it used to be if not easy then certainly possible for people to occasionally request and get such displays. Now the protection of image and brand is vitally important so its more likely things will be destroyed and recycled than passed on. Yes its copyright and image issues but it is also to stop a company's brand and product from being misused and misrepresented and to prevent the system from being abused.

But all that being said if you work there there is no harm in asking All they can do is say no!

[HavACrumpet452]

Mlp4me managed to get one of the care bear displays with 4 talking care bear stuffies in a plastic dome that you push a button and watch them talk. Don't remember if it was TRU or Walmart.

[Galactica]

Your best bet is to figure out somehow when they are being tossed- and then get them out of the garbage...

[Ivy]

Your best bet is to figure out somehow when they are being tossed- and then get them out of the garbage...

won't work - compact all our cardboard for recycling - when our store tosses it the display will be destroyed.

[Galactica]

compact all our cardboard for recycling - when our store tosses it the display will be destroyed.

So sad...

[Sweetie-Swirl]

It's really too bad they can't give it to you, it would've been so awesome! 

[egyptiondragon]

awwww i really do need some pony selfs my collection has out grown their shelf

[RavenFeather]

*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.

We still have a large amount of the posters at my store.  As soon as the endcap goes down I am taking all leftover posters!  Probably send a bunch through here, and save some for my 'My Little History' panel at Anime Detour next April.

[lovesbabysquirmy]

Pretty neat display - it can't hurt to ask, but don't get upset if the store's policy is to destroy/recycle/send back to the company.    I used to get Disney posters all the time this way, but it involves being very nice to management! 

[SwordPony]

I use to work at Wal Mart and they don't allow anything to be taken home. When the first Transformers movie came out we had a huge display. One of the guys I worked with really wanted it. But they couldn't give it to him due to some kind of contract Wal Mart had signed with Hasbro. He was even willing to purchase it.

Wal Mart is such a drag about stuff like that though. I mean I understand copy right laws and such but what will it hurt to let someone take the display home.

[Bebopgroove]

I wonder if it has to do with that particular company (like Hasbro) not wanting anyone to use the displays to make their own profit? That would have to be the case, seeing how the displays are completely destroyed after use.

[Iceglider]

I would still ask. The worst they can say is no. Then at least you tried. I got a cardboard poster/box thing of the Lion King that way at Kmart. The guy looked at me funny and said I could have it if I came back the next week. When I showed up all of the posters were gone except one that he had saved for me. I had that thing in my room until I left for college and my little sisters adopted it.

[windsong]

OMG, that is too cool.