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01-09-2008, 07:15 PM | #51 |
Gone Fishing
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Playing Outside In B.C. Canada
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Originally Posted by jeremywatts
These are popping up all over ebay as prototypes. The sellers are all from overseas. There putting in terms like rare or unusual to make them sound like they are some special thing that was leaked from the factory. A total scam I reported like 20 of these today to EBay. They are all international sellers and I could see some poor parent buying this for their kid thinking it was some special collectable for them to put up and save. But it is nothing more than a lousy international card.
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01-09-2008, 07:24 PM | #52 |
Totally lost Techno Viper
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Backwoods of KY!!!!
Posts: 594
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If you want to you can send em my way and ill send ya some nice minty US carded figs.
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01-09-2008, 07:39 PM | #53 |
Filecard Maker
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: NJ
Posts: 7,300
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These look like third world packaged figures.
Viva el Combat 25th's! |
01-11-2008, 11:09 PM | #54 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 314
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I was able to pick a flash,destro and crimson gaurd tonight at my local walmart.If anyones interested i'd would trade for the u.s versions of these figures.I have an extra crimson gaurd as well.
would alos trade for the dreadnok and breaker comic packs.I would pay the differance.Please email me directly if interested. thank's [email protected] |
01-13-2008, 03:03 AM | #55 |
Fashion Photographer
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: .
Posts: 1,067
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found US carded comic 2 packs at Zellers today.
YAY |
01-13-2008, 09:03 AM | #56 |
PROUD AMERICAN
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Florida
Posts: 803
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At least you found some Joes.I Hunt on a regular basis and still missing wave 5.On subject,those cards are a DISGRACE!!!!
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01-13-2008, 01:48 PM | #57 |
Infantry
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Canada
Posts: 2
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Originally Posted by wheeljaxx
found US carded comic 2 packs at Zellers today.
YAY On the specific topic, while it is true up in Canada we do have a requirement that all literature needs to be in both French and English, this is in fact a mixed blessing. On the bad side, our classic figures always had less text to accommodate the French translation on a single file card. On the positive side, we had characters that were actually listed as being from Canada - check out Canadian editions of Scarlett and Steeler for details. And it made the toys accessible in the Quebec market (7 million people or a little less than a quarter of the entire population) and parts of Ontario and the Atlantic Provinces. And Hasbro Canada always packed Canadian stickers with our products so we had a Canadian army. Even now, my preference is for the Canadian stickers. More recently, as anyone familiar with the bootleg issues in the Transformer community (i.e. near perfect looking boxed edition of Optimus Prime, Grimlock, Mirage, etc., that look like the original G1s which have been known to be passed off as originals by unscrutable sellers on eBay), it is now becoming apparent that the Canadian editions (with two languages) are not being used in the same way and represent an easy way of telling an original from a fake. Who knew? But that was the 1980s. Today is a different story. Since the North American Free Trade Agreement, Canada has tended to get trilingual cards and boxes, owing to the manufacturers' desire to market to both Canada and Mexico. So most products (Transformers and GIJoe) that you see in Canada intended for this market tend to be in three languages. And while I have no problem with sharing my hobby with hispanic and francophone speakers, I am irritated by the companies that don't seem to understand that we are ALL missing out when they take shortcuts. You see it is not simply a matter that Hasbro (to pick the contemporary example but who is by no means the only offender) puts three languages on a card or box. It is the way they present it. Take a look at the 6" Transformable Titanium like of Transformers. While each U.S. single-language box has unique artwork on the box sides and a full display of the tech spec info on the back. In Canada, our Titaniums are all released in the same box (i.e., the War Within Optimus Prime box used in the first round of releases), and a generic back showing two figures who are no longer being produced (WW Optimus and the first Megatron). Even though the tech spec info is inside, in all three languages, it is still in B/W. And you have to open it to see it. For MIB collectors in this case, the glitch on bootlegs noted above aside, our MIB/MOC toys are worth less on the secondary market. For the company, they cannot advertise recent product this way, so they deliberately excuse themselves from directly marketing to buyers. Now take MIB Movie Transformers. U.S. cards have biographical information on 3/4 of the back of the card and other figures listed in the remaining space. In Canada, we get pics of a bunch of figures but a translated, in package biography (though at least it is in colour). And if you come up with something that can't be translated, like a comic book or a DVD? Well, companies will just NOT INCLUDE it. For instance, the Optimus Prime/Wing Sabre two-pack from Costco - in the U.S., it came with a DVD. In Canada, the same two pack even HAD A PACKAGE SPACE FOR THE DVD THAT WAS NOT INCLUDED. And the old Marvel figures that came with comic books found their comic books (we do sell comic books in English in Canada after all) REMOVED and replaced with a poster. More importantly, companies also make decisions that, rather than go through and create amended box art, they won't release certain product in Canada (and presumably Mexico too). This means we have to either inport directly from the U.S. (which has the result of adding cost and creating for a less-than-cohesive collection where some MOC items are trilingual and some are uniligual). But it also means they ceed market share. Now I would be surprised if the GIJoe figures in Canada stayed like the pics in this post, but who knows? I collect both MIB and loose, but I like many fans save packaging. I don't want to save this kind of packaging. It is not a problem of languages - it is a problem of a company cutting corners. They could have created a nice generic card and put an 8.5 X 11 piece of paper inside the package with individual translation of each file card. It wouldn't help the MOC collectors but at least it would be better for those who opened. |
01-13-2008, 01:49 PM | #58 |
Infantry
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Canada
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Please let someone raise this with Hasbro Canada at the upcoming GIJoe convention in Ontario!
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01-13-2008, 03:47 PM | #59 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Canada
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01-18-2008, 07:47 PM | #60 |
Bend over Scarlett
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Vancouver, BC
Posts: 91
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Originally Posted by G.I.Eddie
ya know, those might be kinda rare...definitely hard to get here in the states...watch em' sky rocket on e-bay..."VHTF"..."VERY RARE!"
They are damned ugly, I'm glad I can buy the US carded ones locally. As a kid I don't even remember how our GI Joes came? Any Canadians remember when they first came out in 82'? |
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