For me its mostly online, but I do hit these places from time to time:

 

Japantown Model Shop

Super7

Yes Anime

The shop in the J-Town mall

Jeffery's Toys

Cards & Comics

TRU - Geary

TRU - Colma

Toy Shop - Taraval

 

None of these is all that stocked. Sure would be nice to have something really focused on TF stuff.

Target-Colma

Target-Serramonte

Target-Tanfran

TRU-Colma

TRU-Bridgepoint

Walmart-Union City

 

Shop for Takara superlink and reissues online

If there was a store in the area that carred Japanese stuff would you guys shop there?

Yeah, I'd go buy the imports at a local shop if there was one. I went to Japantown to try and pick up SuperLink Wing Saber but no one carried them. So I got mine from BigBadToyStore.

 

I tend to shop a lot online because I don't have as much time for the hunt as I used to. The comic book shops down here in the south bay stopped carrying transformers, so I tend to go to the Target in Sunnyvale, the TRU in Sunnyvale, and the Wal-Mart in Mountain View.

TRU

Forbidden Planet

A1 Comics

Woolworths

Toymaster

 

The last 2 aren't really favourite's but they're worth a look as they sometimes have things the others don't. Forbidden Planet gets a lot of Superlink and collection imports, while A1 is the only place I've managed to find any Universe.

I was like, There's a Forbidden Planet in the Bay Area? :)

 

Sorry man, note the section. This topic is for people who live in the San Francisco Bay area, USA. :tflaugh

he he he :-) thnx guys *Writes store names* Now i can ask my uncle to buy tf's in san francisco as x-mass pressent.

I go to SF once in a while because i life about 40 minutes away (Near Hayward/Fremont/Newark). When I do go to SF, I stop by Jeffrey's. I hit the malls, all Targets and TRUs. I have mad love for the city of SF, though.

I'm in Fremont, so I typically hit...

 

Target and KB in the Newpark Mall

Toys R' Us across from said mall

Fremont HUB Target

Milpitas Wal*Mart

Union City Wal*Mart

 

Don't get out to the city much, but if there was a nice import shop that carried a lot of Japanese TFs, I would totally make it out there a few times a month.

Wal-Mart and Toys R Us because we have 2 types of stores here - jack & sh*t.