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View Poll Results: Who's your favorite retailer for G.I. Joes? | |
Meijer
|     | 2 | 0.62% | |
Target
|    | 94 | 29.10% | |
Toys 'R' Us
|    | 19 | 5.88% | |
Wal-Mart
|    | 123 | 38.08% | |
Online retailer
|    | 69 | 21.36% | |
Other
|    | 16 | 4.95% | What happend to Toys 'R' Us? |
11-20-2008, 02:47 PM
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#81 (permalink)
| | Mr. Conspiracy!! Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Texas Posts: 1,066 | Screw em all!! Screw every store ther is right now!! I am mad because I got cash to spend and nothing is there. I really am pissed at my area because I know they have stuff in the backroom but they refuse to put it out!! Damn them! Damn the stores to hell!!
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11-20-2008, 02:52 PM
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#82 (permalink)
| | Dremel Happy! Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Tukwila (Seattle) WA Posts: 1,069 | I do remember TRU back in the day.... Man, they had walls of Joe's! Now, the sized of my dresser.....
I voted for other, as I get most of them from other Tankers here... Thanks guys.... | |
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11-20-2008, 02:52 PM
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#83 (permalink)
| | G.I. Devil Doc Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: taxes Posts: 105 | Target in my area is my choice, if they don't have it they check on their computer and find which store has it and hold it for me. | |
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11-20-2008, 03:00 PM
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#84 (permalink)
| | Battle Damaged Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Hunting Joes Posts: 2,573 | Quote:
Originally Posted by arashikage tat  Okay I'm gonna go way back! Earlier people were talking about how awesome the trips to TRU use to be when we were kids, I remember that too...but then I started thinking about how I use to get my joes from Woolworths, Gemco (bought out by Target) Newberry's and Zody's...does anybody remember these little gems of a store...haha | That's cool. I remember buying my first Joe's at Woolworths.
I was only 8 at the time (yup straight arm Joes) so I would gather up $3 worth of change and ride my bike uptown to check out the Joes.
Good memories. | 
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11-20-2008, 03:04 PM
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#85 (permalink)
| | Baronesslover Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: CT,USA Posts: 721 | What about Child World and PETER PANDA???????????? That store used to have entire endcaps full of single joes in the 80's here in Connecticut and I think New York. | |
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11-20-2008, 03:04 PM
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#86 (permalink)
| | Bizarro Cobra loyalist Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Baton Rouge, LA Posts: 1,126 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Batmandk02 Screw em all!! Screw every store ther is right now!! I am mad because I got cash to spend and nothing is there. I really am pissed at my area because I know they have stuff in the backroom but they refuse to put it out!! Damn them! Damn the stores to hell!! | Dang dude. I honestly feel really bad for you. Tell you what, just shoot me that money, and I'll try to find something to do with it.
I'm always happy to help out a fellow collector with problems, so this offer stands for any others out there who have "money to burn."
No, no, you are welcome.
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11-20-2008, 03:15 PM
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#87 (permalink)
| | Mad Scientist at Large Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Hell (New Jersey) Posts: 1,255 | their prices aren't so great, but Target scored a few points with their service when I got a really nice guy to go in the back for an Ultimate Battle Pack for me.
TRU tries, but their prices are the worst of the lot, which doubly sucks because they have the most exclusives and selection here. | |
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11-20-2008, 03:16 PM
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#88 (permalink)
| | Dremel Happy! Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Tukwila (Seattle) WA Posts: 1,069 | Quote:
Originally Posted by karamazov80 Dang dude. I honestly feel really bad for you. Tell you what, just shoot me that money, and I'll try to find something to do with it.
I'm always happy to help out a fellow collector with problems, so this offer stands for any others out there who have "money to burn."
No, no, you are welcome. | ahahahaahaaahahaha!!!!!!!!!!! | |
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11-20-2008, 03:24 PM
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#89 (permalink)
| | Graphic Design Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Southern California: The Inland Empire Posts: 1,625 | Quote:
Originally Posted by arashikage tat Okay I'm gonna go way back! Earlier people were talking about how awesome the trips to TRU use to be when we were kids, I remember that too...but then I started thinking about how I use to get my joes from Woolworths, Gemco (bought out by Target) Newberry's and Zody's...does anybody remember these little gems of a store...haha | Hell yes bro!
Gemco was the place!!! Up here in Victorville you could walk in at any given time and find everything you wanted! Also, we had a killer TG&Y in Hesperia that carried Joes in droves!
And I'm not seeing the world through rose colored glasses of the past either. I stopped collecting these things originally back when these stores were around, and just remember thinking, good grief, there's a lot of toys!
Those were the days! | |
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11-20-2008, 03:26 PM
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#90 (permalink)
| | Iron Grenadier Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Maryland Posts: 647 | Let's all hang our head in a moment of silence for the once mighty TRU. Long gone are the days when TRU was GI JOE HEAVEN. I have fond childhood memmories of once was but will never be again. | |
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