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07-15-2011, 05:58 PM | #61 |
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Wal mart killed Wal mart!!!!
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07-15-2011, 06:40 PM | #62 |
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I only have 2 Walmarts near me that carry Joes. I went to one today & it was loaded, I mean LOADED with old refresh figures. Now Shock Troopers & Alley Vipers are pegwarmers. There's no hope of finding Steel Brigade now. These friggin refresh cases completely fucked everything up. I don't understand why Hasbro would be shipping refresh cases when waves 5 & 6 should be shipping. 2 waves of new figures & now there's no hope of finding them.
Those refresh figures are never going to sell. We're probably never going to see the 30th figures here unless we can figure out a way to get rid of all the refresh crap. |
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07-15-2011, 08:11 PM | #63 |
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Except for a case of the Low-Light wave at one TRU a few months ago, there's been nothing new around here since January, and even then it was only at Target (Shock Trooper wave endcaps in December-January). My local Wal-Mart got a revision case in a couple of weeks ago with the pegs marked $.69 and a few of the figures ringing up at that price (the rest rang up at the normal $6.97 price). I suppose that's one way to clear them out in a hurry, but the pegs have since disappeared (no more 69 cent Alley Vipers for me...). I'm guessing the waves are going out in the order they were received, which means we have 6 months of backlog to go through before we get to whatever the current wave is (I've lost track in this sea of nothing). The other stores aren't doing any better - Target still has a bunch of Arctic Destros and Zartans, TRU has had a lone Duke mixed in with the clearance Terminator figures for the last few months, and K-Mart is a wasteland. If Hasbro had bothered to ship anything out on a regular basis this year (I refuse to believe that every single store was sitting on cases of figures while the pegs were empty), we wouldn't be in this mess now. The story is the same for just about every other non-movie Hasbro property this year (plus Iron Man 2, which stopped last spring and now won't go away). Online stores have had plenty of stock, so we know these things are getting made and shipped, so why has there been so much trouble getting them into physical stores?
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07-15-2011, 08:18 PM | #64 |
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My Walmart has a peg and a half of just the wave 3 duke. That guy just isn't selling well. Nice figure but you just can't army build it. down to three arctic destro's hurray!
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07-15-2011, 08:22 PM | #65 |
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My Wal-Mart hasn't restocked since selling out their one case a couple months back. The Targets in Garner are pathetic. Nothing but frozen Destros.
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07-15-2011, 08:27 PM | #66 |
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Obligatory "At least you guys have stores that bother with GI Joe" response
(Steevy continues cursing Walmart for ditching Joe and never getting the Gigantic Battles MU figures!)
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07-15-2011, 08:35 PM | #67 |
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lol I know! What's up with that line. Doesn't look like a single figure has sold in months. The Iron Man 2 section is frozen in time or something. Meanwhile Hasbrotoyshop & BBTS have a ton of cool new Iron Man figures.
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