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01-31-2023, 10:15 AM | #1831 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: May 2022
Location: Thailand
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Pardon my ignorance on geography, but aren't you at least somewhat closer to manufacturing where you are? For instance, folks in the Philippines (granted Thailand is not the Philippines and I'm not saying it is) are always getting stuff before we do here in the U.S. I feel you on import tax and so forth, but I would wager you get things earlier at least.
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01-31-2023, 10:55 AM | #1832 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Northern California
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Being in the Motherlode as I am, I basically have 2 "local" Walmarts (30 minutes for one, almost an hour for the other), and no local Targets. If I wanted to seriously hunt, I'd have to go into Stockton or Sac, and unfortunately, they'd be wiped out by the time I could conceivably get there. Were it not for pre-orders, I'd have skipped this line entirely.
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01-31-2023, 10:57 AM | #1833 |
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Join Date: Dec 2021
Location: Philadelphia, PA
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We have a lot of users/posters in and around PA. Curious if there are flea markets or pop-ups that are worth checking out within an hour or so of Philly. (Related, I'm hoping to get to the event in Cherry Hill that Destro posted about recently, that's too close to me to miss.)
I'd check with Toyshows.org and Philafleamarkets.org as those seem to be the ones held most often in terms of toy shows and flea markets. The April Fools Toy Show (well, the October one) is where I picked up stuff like a mint out of package Dreadnok Cycle for $25 and two mint out of package Sluggers for $5 each. Seemed like people were dumping o-Ring Joes hard. They also had a few sellers who were "dumping" (?) newer stuff. Like i picked up the Amazon exclusive Cad Bane for $15 and Profit Director Destro for $15. |
01-31-2023, 11:17 AM | #1834 |
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Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: Slitherin' around the tank- It's cool, though, 'cause I'm being "watched"
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Of course, to touch on another post I made last night, I'm not very sad about that. I hands-down prefer the convenience of preordering to the bad old crap-shoot days that hunting used to be. I only miss the hunt when Target is cancelling POs as people are posting in-hand pics of Joes they found in the wild, or even worse, pics of full pegs. I also don't miss living in Sac... although I do miss drunkenly wolfing down Adelberto's at 3 AM.
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01-31-2023, 12:43 PM | #1835 |
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Location: Surf City, CA
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Yeah, here in the San Fernando Valley there are like 15 Targets. I have 8 Targets alone that are within 5 miles from my house according to Yelp. WalMarts aren't nearly as common around here though and there is only 1 in that same 5-mile radius from me. Think there's only maybe 10 WM stores within a 50-miles radius. Target easily has 3-4x that amount in the same area. I do know WalMart is way bigger in the midwest and east coast compared to here on the west coast though where Target dominates. Southern CA didn't even have WalMart stores until the mid 1990s.
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01-31-2023, 12:52 PM | #1836 |
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Philippines has US military bases there and are more westernized so they have more people who want this stuff there. Thailand has a niche group if GI Joe collectors and they buy from importers that hike the price up and they buy everything. We do get some things early but it's gone lightning fast and doesn't show up after until basically figures go for clearance in the US
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01-31-2023, 01:27 PM | #1837 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: May 2022
Location: Thailand
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Like I said if I can get a decent deal I'll send it to family in the US. If I just want it I'll buy it here for more.
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01-31-2023, 01:39 PM | #1838 |
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Join Date: Feb 2020
Location: Right here, baby
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I pretty much stopped toy hunting completely about 12 years ago due to scalpers here. Unfortunately, it's a scalper haven here in Southern CA. Which always annoyed me because we probably get more inventory stock than any other metro region in the world here, yet it is really hard to find some figures.
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01-31-2023, 01:44 PM | #1839 |
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Join Date: Feb 2017
Location: Redondo Beach
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DB, I ever tell you my Cobra Island story? Alhambra Target?about ten other guys the day they were supposed to drop. Nothing on the shelves. Out-waited eight others, then the stock associate waved me to a cart where she had hidden the whole drop under plastic sand forms. It?s a ruthless game toy hunting in SoCal!
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01-31-2023, 02:11 PM | #1840 |
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Location: PA
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Has anyone seen Retro cardback Zartan or Storm Shadow in the wild? Not in your neighborhood, I mean - but anywhere at all? No reveals, no Pulse UK shipping early, no Singapore YouTubers who managed to score?
Just seeing the Transformers that were announced in today's stream posted on Pulse with a "May 1 2023" release date, it's interesting to think that's the same day as those two retro cardbacks (preordered starting July 21, 2022) are set to be released. Seems like those two are straight up MIA. I'm expecting to see the Cover Girl wave in the US by March 1st (just me speculating, zero evidence or knowledge), and we know Retro CG/SE are out there somewhere. But Zartan and Storm Shadow? Nothin'. Last of the 2022 bottleneck, I guess.
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