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01-18-2008, 01:55 PM | #11 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Houston, TX
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Totally understand the frustration. Since wave 4 and wave, as I make quote marks with both hands, 5 showed up over a month ago I've only seen one Duke and one CC. The CC's card was beat to hell as was the bubble. The bubble was so damaged that the figure has scuff marks and in places the bubble and figure were melted together. It was on the rack forever and still may be. Getting back on track, I finally found Scarlett, Gung Ho, Destro, Roadblock, CC and Stormie last night. When Target scanned them they would scan. Point being...many of these stores inventroies can't be right 100% of the time. Last night it was like the figures I bought didn't even exist in Target's system.
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01-18-2008, 02:02 PM | #12 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: Nov 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Porkchop Sandwiches
Totally understand the frustration. Since wave 4 and wave, as I make quote marks with both hands, 5 showed up over a month ago I've only seen one Duke and one CC. The CC's card was beat to hell as was the bubble. The bubble was so damaged that the figure has scuff marks and in places the bubble and figure were melted together. It was on the rack forever and still may be. Getting back on track, I finally found Scarlett, Gung Ho, Destro, Roadblock, CC and Stormie last night. When Target scanned them they would scan. Point being...many of these stores inventroies can't be right 100% of the time. Last night it was like the figures I bought didn't even exist in Target's system.
Back in late November I found the complete wave 4 and one Crimson Guard at a local Wal-mart. I have to assume there was the rest of Wave 5 to go along with the CG but it had already been purchased. As for the rest of wave 5, I've given in and made a pre-order for BBTS...for some reason I get the feeling I won't be finding the rest of that wave in any stores so overpaying an online retailer seems to be my only choice at this point... Hopefully wave 6 and/or 7 make it here... |
01-18-2008, 02:19 PM | #13 |
Crimson Commander
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Oakdale, PA
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Thank you for the responses. That seems to explain a little. I used to collect marvel legends (toy biz) and went through the same thing. I know that stores have problems with scalpers, which is understandable. It just seems that every time I ask for help in searching for an action figure, I get an evil glare from the associate like I am some kind of scalper trying to horde up all of the figures from the kids.
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01-18-2008, 02:24 PM | #14 |
Iron Grenadier
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Phoenix
Posts: 823
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Don't give up on Targets. I've seen Wave 5 twice in the last 2-3 weeks at my local Target. They're gone within a day.
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01-18-2008, 02:45 PM | #15 |
aka Real One
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: NorCal
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Cobra-La
Don't give up on Targets. I've seen Wave 5 twice in the last 2-3 weeks at my local Target. They're gone within a day.
I found 1 case of Wave 4 and 2 cases of Wave 5 on Tuesday. I went to the same Target today and saw another case of Wave 4. |
01-18-2008, 03:30 PM | #16 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Houston, TX
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Yeah I really think we'll see wave 4 and 5 as peg warmers when newer waves are released. Just as we're (at least me) seeing Serpentors, Buzzers, and Stalkers warming those pegs now. It just takes time I guess...
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01-18-2008, 03:30 PM | #17 |
Ground Support Pilot
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Strafing runs over S.E. Michigan
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jgasbo1 I understand your frustration. I can't speak for Wal-Mart. But something to keep in mind about trying to get these figures. Hasbro rushed Wave 4 & Wave 5 (aka Wave 1 2008) to the stores for the holidays. Wave 5 wasn't even supposed to be available until this month. So don't give up the hunt just yet. I think you'll start seeing the figures more in the coming weeks.
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01-18-2008, 03:56 PM | #18 |
"The gangs all here!"
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: WW in the RI
Posts: 474
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I work overnight at Wal-mart. They set the action fig section just this week at my store. I scanned the single and comic pack shelf tags and found that we had one box of the comic packs and two boxes of the single. Problem is that only one person stocks the toy depo and thats overnight. He,s a cool guy but he's like a hundred years old and does a pallet a night. Another thing is when I checked the system for the stock at other stores in the area it was very random. Most of the other Wal-marts did their sets at the same time as us. One store had 22 while another only had 5. I checked these stores that same day and they had nothing on the shelf. You know the store with only 5 left had to have at least one case meaning that they were bought before they hit the shelves.
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01-18-2008, 03:59 PM | #19 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: TX
Posts: 166
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Porkchop Sandwiches
Yeah I really think we'll see wave 4 and 5 as peg warmers when newer waves are released. Just as we're (at least me) seeing Serpentors, Buzzers, and Stalkers warming those pegs now. It just takes time I guess...
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01-18-2008, 04:08 PM | #20 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Colorado Springs, CO
Posts: 4,223
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I just left 2 WM's. Both finished the reset last week, but 1 had no Joe pegs and the other did. The one that had no Joe pegs before, finally got Wave 2 comic packs, so I was able to get the Nok's & Breaker packs. Slowly new stuff is coming, even had the Exclusive SW comic packs.
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