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Massachusetts G.I. Joe Sightings
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12-19-2011, 01:45 AM
netkid
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Mainframe
Yeah, saw only one SE in the wild.
That's crazy.
I only saw 1 Snake Eyes at providence wal-mart. I bought that one.
Then I saw a bunch at warwick toysRus, at least 12. I think I picked up a few for friends.
I don't think I ever saw him at any Target, even though he did appear there.
Never saw any at Benny's, but I don't know if they even carried that wave.
Then I saw and bought another at a Walgreens.
I remember I bought the one at Walgreens because unlike all the others I ever came across, the grey knee pads on this particular figure have a flat/non-glossy finish to them, whereas the regular figure has kinda glossy painted grey knee-pads.
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Originally Posted by
Mainframe
And never saw the Jungle BAT wave, was into getting everything online then thank god. That's the thing that worries me about the new stuff; are they going to be like that POC wave 4 and 5 and have very rare distribution or come aplenty eventually?
I only saw Blowtorch, Hawk, and Cobra Commander from wave 5, and only at 2 different Benny's. Never saw the troops anywhere, hence my Signature down below. :P
I recently bought all of POC wave 6 from BBTS because I only saw it once at a Target and then never again.*idiot*
And yeah, I think the next 2 30th waves *might* be hard to find/non-existent at retail and become future TJ Maxx/Marshalls/Ross/5-Below fodder if they don't hit mass retail due to a Renegades/Arctic Destro shelf-warmer jam up.
The way I see it:
as Air-Tight explained to me earlier, even though the line is reaching stores, it's getting clogged up by waves with no troop builders. We will only buy one of a non-troopbuilder (instead of buying a ton of vipers), thus, causing shelfwarmers and preventing newer waves from appearing, by which we are then unknowingly forcing ourselves to buy online to get the new stuff. Then if/whenever the new stuff finally hits retail, we will already have it from buying online. Now, by having no need to buy these figures(again), we are creating
even more
shelfwarmers and harming the retail performance of the line, which then causes retailers to see and say "hmm...these Joes aren't selling well" and decide to drop the line which then forces the line into another online-only product (or worse...), and has us once again buying Joes only online. Vicious a cycle it could become. Mmh.
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THANK YOU Hasbro, for releasing POC Python Patrol Croc Master and POC Jungle Camo Blowtorch in the 50th line!
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