NECA and
Walmart earlier this month launched what they called
AutoT which was meant to allow folks to be able to purchase 3 TMNT exclusive figures with the
Mirage Comics Black And White Shredder, Black And White FOOT Soldier and
Renet Blue Variant figures. Starting on October 15 the figures were supposed to be available at physical Walmart stores. Well according to
EachSoldSeparately what is showing up at stores are cards which features UPC #'s for the figures, but not the figures themselves. I guess the cards are meant to be redeemable for the figures, but here is the problem. People apparently can just manually enter in the UPC's from the cards at the register and be able to buy them without having the actual cards. So it seems like they are going to end up with more sales than actual figures since I don't think this is a made to pre-order type deal.
The moral of this story seems to be that I wouldn't pay for the figures unless the store has the actual figures in stock.