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04-07-2012, 03:18 PM | #1931 |
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True heroes stuff is buy one get one half off at TRU. Sale going on at my TRU not sure if its nation wide.
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04-10-2012, 03:30 PM | #1932 |
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I just got the PTE World Peacekeepers Combat Helicopter (AH-6 Little Bird) from BBTS.
gawd, i love this little bad-ass! I decided to put my RoC Wild Bill in the pilot's seat and he looks great. needless to say, the 2 figures that came with it are utter garbage. but who cares?
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04-10-2012, 03:32 PM | #1933 |
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I just got the PTE World Peacekeepers Combat Helicopter (AH-6 Little Bird) from BBTS.
gawd, i love this little bad-ass! I decided to put my RoC Wild Bill in the pilot's seat and he looks great. needless to say, the 2 figures that came with it are utter garbage. but who cares?
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04-10-2012, 09:48 PM | #1934 |
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Just look at the Toys R Us True Heroes figures.
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04-11-2012, 01:18 AM | #1935 |
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To be fair, the TRU Heroes figures must be made for pennies. They KNOW they can't rival Joes for design and articulation so they put in a token figure or two(In case some kids get them who don't have any figures), and expect MOST people to bin them. If they wanted to make Joe-rivalling figures(The way their vehicles do), i expect they could. But they'd probably still expect you to bin them, so what's the point in wasting that tooling money that they could just use to either make the product's tooling cheaper, or just reduce the cost to consumer? That's the way i look at the TH figures. |
04-11-2012, 02:49 AM | #1936 |
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To be fair, the TRU Heroes figures must be made for pennies. They KNOW they can't rival Joes for design and articulation so they put in a token figure or two(In case some kids get them who don't have any figures), and expect MOST people to bin them. If they wanted to make Joe-rivalling figures(The way their vehicles do), i expect they could. But they'd probably still expect you to bin them, so what's the point in wasting that tooling money that they could just use to either make the product's tooling cheaper, or just reduce the cost to consumer?
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04-11-2012, 03:47 AM | #1937 |
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I don't care about the figs, I just buy the stuff for the vehicles. I think I might find me some M-80's and blow the True Heroes figures up. Dam I can see them coming back to life and trying to kill me like Sid from Toy Story. If I had kids maybe I would give them to them to play with.
That was kind of my point. *YOU* know that the figures are useless. *I* know the figures are useless. No matter how good they made them, you'd still chuck them in favour of your joes, so TRU makes them as token figures. They *know* they will get dumped. Or blown up with firecrackers, lol. So they don't waste time or money on their development that could be saved. |
04-11-2012, 03:56 AM | #1938 |
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That was kind of my point. *YOU* know that the figures are useless. *I* know the figures are useless. No matter how good they made them, you'd still chuck them in favour of your joes, so TRU makes them as token figures. They *know* they will get dumped. Or blown up with firecrackers, lol.
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04-11-2012, 04:00 AM | #1939 |
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Yeah. Although little kids will find a use for them, they are just token figures. Joe fans will always have better soldiers and pilots in their possession. |
04-11-2012, 04:02 AM | #1940 |
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One possiblity that I've considered is that they are trying to clear space for Retaliation toys because there is only a very thin sliver of shelf for GI Joe right now, and currently a whole isle for Chap Mei at my local TRU.
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