Wave 5 out at Canadian Walmarts. UGLY cards!!!! |
01-08-2008, 03:30 PM
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| | Banned Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 171 | Wave 5 out at Canadian Walmarts. UGLY cards!!!!
Well after reading about a sighting of Wave 5 Joes at Walmart I decided to take a look for myself at my local Walmart. I was lucky enough to come across 2 lonely figs. Crimson Guard (YAY!!!!) and Sgt. Flash.
HOWEVER!!!! Much to my dismay they have butchered the cards for the figs to be released in Canada. I could describe them to you, but as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words...... | 
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01-08-2008, 03:35 PM
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| | Boner Ninja Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: The IL Posts: 3,249 | I would pick them up to open but not to keep MOSC. | |
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01-08-2008, 03:36 PM
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| | Resolute = Awesome Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 3,171 | I can't believe they didn't even do something like put a generic picture of Snake Eyes, Duke or Cobra Commander on the cards (like how the Star Wars 30th line has Darth Vader on all the cards in canada, iirc).
those are just embarrassing. On the other hand, i still haven't seen wave 5 :(
heh, and those name stickers are dead sexy ;)
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01-08-2008, 03:43 PM
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| | Crimson Guard Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Charlotte, NC Posts: 1,224 | Did they do that for previous waves? I would LOVE to get Zartan on a card like that. | |
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01-08-2008, 03:56 PM
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| | Cobra Viper Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Canada Posts: 496 | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Compulsive Collector Did they do that for previous waves? I would LOVE to get Zartan on a card like that. | We never received previous waves (well a few wave 2 cases with the standard cards poped up, but that was it.)
If you look at the card back the "other figures" images start at wave 5. | |
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01-08-2008, 04:03 PM
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| | Ground Support Pilot Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Strafing runs over S.E. Michigan Posts: 1,024 | Wow, that's pretty lame of Hasbro to do that. Any body know (or guess) as to why they do the cards like that? | |
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01-08-2008, 04:18 PM
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| | JOES BEFORE HOES Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Westland, MI Posts: 5,800 | 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!" | |
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01-08-2008, 04:28 PM
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| | Crimson Guard Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Vancouver, BC Posts: 2,459 | Quote: |
Originally Posted by WildWeasel Wow, that's pretty lame of Hasbro to do that. Any body know (or guess) as to why they do the cards like that? | They do that for a lot of things in Canada. We have a stupid language law that requires that all things sold here must have both English and French. To save the costs of making changes to all the different cards, they would usually make one generic card. The amount of stuff we get in total is a lot less than what there is in the US so that's why it's cheaper for them to do this. As a kid and up to this day, I absolutely hate that law and I'm a bit biased cause I live in the west coast where French is hardly used. As a kid, I hated it cause our filecards will have a lot less text so that they can accomodate the French. Just look at a US and a CDN filecard comparison on Yojoe.com and you'll know what I mean. | |
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01-08-2008, 04:37 PM
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| | Cobra Viper Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: BC, Canada Posts: 475 | Well those suck, we dont even get a filecard this way :(
*edit: looks like the filecard is behind the figure, I guess thats better than nothing | |
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01-08-2008, 04:40 PM
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| | Ground Support Pilot Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Strafing runs over S.E. Michigan Posts: 1,024 | Quote: |
Originally Posted by nighthawk They do that for a lot of things in Canada. We have a stupid language law that requires that all things sold here must have both English and French. To save the costs of making changes to all the different cards, they would usually make one generic card. The amount of stuff we get in total is a lot less than what there is in the US so that's why it's cheaper for them to do this. As a kid and up to this day, I absolutely hate that law and I'm a bit biased cause I live in the west coast where French is hardly used. As a kid, I hated it cause our filecards will have a lot less text so that they can accomodate the French. Just look at a US and a CDN filecard comparison on Yojoe.com and you'll know what I mean. | Well that certainly does suck. Sorry to hear that. The cards have always been part of the fun in getting the figures. | |
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