I know it's a tiny bit early but thanks to GameStop and Hot Topic, it's time for the usual Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Black Friday early preview week sales thread (did this back over on VO for the past few years). The sales are listed for continental US stores.
Hot Topic
Not particularly exciting seeing how little Miku stuff they've carried lately
but today the store is doing a $10 sale on all shirts sale for today only (Nov 16th) and that includes the only women's Miku shirt they sell
Hatsune Miku Galaxy Silhouette Girls T-Shirt
The only other Miku thing they sell on there is a cycling Miku Figma (
link) so keep an eye out for any other sitewide sales over the next week.
GameStop/ThinkGeek
Starting this sunday (Nov 18th) GameStop has a sale on various merch items and board games. You have to buy a bag for $5 and every single merch item you buy that can fit in it gets it's price marked off 30% (
you can read the fine details here). The only way you can get a discount on Miku stuff like figurines is if you have a larger than usual GameStop that carries a ton of merch. You can
check on their site if they carry those in your nearby store.
Certain supermarkets also have deals on GameStop gift cards like $10 off a $50 card if you buy $50 groceries like my
local grocery store does. The important thing to note is that GameStop gift cards also work at sister store ThinkGeek (the same for ThinkGeek cards working at GameStop). The only Miku thing ThinkGeek carries in the webstore is that Miku Keytar bag which happened to be on sale for $20 the past few days
Hatsune Miku Keytar Sling Bag
Five Below
Their Black Friday ad hasn't really leaked yet.
But until this sunday certain stores are offering a $5 drone if you spend at least $45 on other items. Seeing how
much cryptonloid stuff they sell there, it wouldn't take much to take advantage of a deal like that. You can easily buy close to $25 on those items. Will update this part of the list when the ad does come out.
November 19th edit:
the ad is out and it has nothing particularly interesting in terms of deals. Sorry.
Barnes & Noble
They sold alot Miku artbooks and manga over the years. They have the usual $10 back when you buy a $50 gift card so there's that I guess. They might put out more details on deals over the
next week on their site.
Half Price Books
They're embarrassing Barnes & Noble in the quality of their sales this year. Yes they're doing the discounted gift card thing (get $5 after buying a $25 gift card), but also in store on Black Friday they're offering a 20% off discount on everything along with the first 100 customers receiving a $5 gift card and a tote bag with a random tote including a $100 gift card (
details). The chain has a wide selection of Miku artbooks & manga
HPB | Search for hatsune miku . Last year a few of their stores offered a deeper discount lower than 20% so try looking for your local store's social media page to see if they going to do that at that particular store.
Pop In A Box
It's a pop vinyl focused store that carries several cryptonloid Funkos (
here &
here). Their
Black Friday page so far is only a tease for the sale so keep an eye on it for now.
Edit: All the vocaloid pops are sold out.
For Fans By Fans, Squishables and Crunchyroll Store
Not sure what they're doing this year but they did some discounts last year. Yet again, keep an eye on their socials.
Michael's
Haven't been in the crafts retailer in a pretty long time but I do remember that certain stores do carry posters from Trends International. Not sure if they carry any Miku posters. If you do see one over there on Black Friday weekend, here's a few coupon codes you could use
Michaels Black Friday Ad Posted!
Play Asia
They have some deals too this month with their own dedicated launch page
Black Friday Sale
By the way, you might want to keep an eye on
Vocaloid Buy Blog on tumblr. They spot a bunch of deals this time of year.
November 20th update: GameStop's
frontpage (under 'Collectables & Offers') mentioned their webstore is offering 30% off all merch purchases over $100 discount. That means the
bridal Miku figure you can preorder from them for $319.99 would be marked down to $223.99 with this deal. For purchases made during this time over $35 will also get free shipping too. When thanksgiving begins, they're just be offering a general 25% off figurine discount instead
GameStop Black Friday 2018 Adscan - Page 11
For Fans By Fans have an early Black Friday offer
Crunchyroll and Crunchyroll store is
hyping up their upcoming sale on twitter also.
Half Price Books are offering a early online black friday sale with 20% the total purchase online until the 23rd
Half Price Books - 20% off your entire order at HPB.com . HBP's outlet stores are offering a much better discount in their three outlet locations.