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Maryland G.I. Joe Sightings
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11-30-2009, 08:02 PM
blackman2005
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Was traveling over Thanksgiving and found a white coat Rex and Kamakura at a TRU and a CS SE and Desert Viper at Kmart in Ohio.
I bought none of them, but it was cool to see the new waves in stores.
I have bought waves 4 and 5 online due to MD's sucky distribution and my frustration at driving to stores mostly to find the same ole stuff.
I did finally find a Sgt Slaughter at a KMart in WV!
I'm starting to think that Maryland will always be the last to get newer waves of anything. We still don't have waves 4 and 5 on shelves while places in Cali, Ohio, Virginia, Rhode Island and Texas have them in good amounts. I don't know if its because of the overstock of older waves or just laziness by retailers to order newer stuff once it becomes available.
Does anyone remember how hard it was to finally find Waves 11 and 13 last year after months of seeing revision waves clog the shelves? Remember how hard it was to get those Resolute 2-packs at retail after they flooded the pegs with comic 2-packs that contained two lame repainted figures? Remember how many times you looked for a dag on Ghost Hawk and Sting Raider only to find out they were repacks or the last one left at that store? Mass Device DVD Pack # 5 was basically made in small enough amounts that only those with ESP could get one. If you wanted the huge battle set with repainted figures just to get a crappy version of Short Fuse you had to wait months for it become affordable at Target and by that time they magically disappeared off shelves. It sucked!!!!
I almost gave up on looking but struck gold before my hopes went down the drain. We never had a superfluous amount of Resolute Troopers, Cobra Eels or Blowtorches here in Maryland because of poor distribution problems in many areas; especially in the main Baltimore, Howard and Montgomery county regions. This last weekend I saw all of Wave 5 at the Super Kmart off of Oyster Point Rd. in Newport News,VA. However, any Kmart I go to in Maryland is stagnant with only Waves 1 and 2. Whenever there is a 2 for 1 or 2 for $10 sale at Kmart or TRU they don't restock with newer Joes so it defeats the purpose of looking.
I'm literally not even getting my hopes up too high for PoC stuff anymore. Most likely they'll repaint everything we've seen one hundred times and package it with vehicles or playsets we might like. Hasbro is jerking retailers off by making them believe that the same characters being placed in every assortment is good for the brand. Thats the most backasswards way to see a brand succeed by making people get sick of redundancy. HASBRO, please go back to the strategy of the 1980's and make awesome vehicles that accomodate the figures instead of these ranky dank off scaled vehicles that only fit one figure. Jeesh... thats just my rant...sorry about that...
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