[netkid]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Air-tight

.. You mean the shock trooper wave (3) and lowlight wave (4), right? Because some fools are screwing up a perfectly good system and calling them "POC wave 1 and 2 (of 2011)". Ugh, can't stand that. It's wave 3 and 4, let's make it easy on ourselves! But yeah, no sign of the 2 new waves (5 and 6) out here in norfolk county either.

Ha! I agree with you Air Tight! People get the wave numbers so mixed up that I just say "the wave with so-and-so in it."

[homer_sapien]

Yeah, the actual wave 3 and 4, not wave 3 and 4 of 2011.

[Dreadnok619]

Went to the Fall River Walmart today, and they did their summer re-set. While they only had 2 Artic Destro's, they do have Joe tags back up in the aisle. Hopefully as Walmarts across the area do their re-sets, we should see them return to most if not all of them.

[mynamehere]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Air-tight

.. You mean the shock trooper wave (3) and lowlight wave (4), right? Because some fools are screwing up a perfectly good system and calling them "POC wave 1 and 2 (of 2011)". Ugh, can't stand that. It's wave 3 and 4, let's make it easy on ourselves! But yeah, no sign of the 2 new waves (5 and 6) out here in norfolk county either.

It's Hasbro that renumbers the waves starting back at 1 every new year. BBTS and others are just following Hasbro's year numbering. Also, the Hasbro cases themselves have the year/wave format, so wave 4 cases are actually labeled as "2011 W2" on the box. It can be confusing, but comes in handy to know whats inside unopened cases.

[Air-tight]

Quote:

Originally Posted by mynamehere

It's Hasbro that renumbers the waves starting back at 1 every new year. BBTS and others are just following Hasbro's year numbering. Also, the Hasbro cases themselves have the year/wave format, so wave 4 cases are actually labeled as "2011 W2" on the box. It can be confusing, but comes in handy to know whats inside unopened cases.

Yeah, I totally follow their system and know to identify newer cases based on such designations, I just think it makes more sense to continue the wave numbering sequentially rather than to reset every year and is less confusing in basic conversation. For rxample, I hate having to refer to which "POC wave 2" I'm referring to. I know that with the 25th line, most collectors now refer to them in sequential order too (wave 12, 13, etc) regardless of how Hasbro labeled their cases.

[Gattison]

Hey Joes, just learning to drive a HissTank here.

Glad to see there's a MA spotting list, that's awesome, but it doesn't look like there's anybody from central MA except me, so let me introduce myself to this thread properly:

Wal-Mart in Oxford pretty much sucks, i was there recently.
As does the Wal-Mart is West Boylston, except even more in my experience. They never had anything during the 25th series. (I suspect a "poacher" lives in the area actually lol)
The new Super-Wal-Mart in Millbury i've been to recently and they have an average selection, though I'm only interested in non-o-ring and non-25th figures for parts, and I was there on errands, so I didn't look at the selection.
The Targets in and around Worcester were always my favorite places to snag good figures.
The Toy R Us in Auburn used to have a good selection of 25th figures, but i haven't been back there in forever.

Keep in mind I hate everything that isn't Joe, so I never look at SW or MU figures or even TF for that matter. I'm hardcore oldschool ha.

Has anyone mentioned or noticed that Price Chopper and I think Shaws also often carry at least a peg's worth of Joes? I think they may switch it up with MU figures too.

There is a ToyVault in the Greendale Mall in Auburn, and I believe it's still there. They have Joes, of course.
There's also a ToyVault in the Salomon Pond Mall in Marlborough, I believe, and that's a bigger store than the Auburn one. They have a good selection and individual filecards too.

Also, there's That's Entertainment in Worcester, but there's customers who've already reserved EVERY CG, IG, etc. that ever enters that store, so that option is out. Still decent last time I looked, though it's been a while.

I used to do a Newbury Comics (for a time, they sold 25th Joes too) circuit in Central MA with a friend of mine, and occasionally check out a Toyr R Us in Natick or something too, but that's been a while.

Let me also add, I don't collect anything but G.I. Joe figures, the original o-ring kind and the 25th only, everything I will hulk smash for custom parts, so I have no problem picking up a MU or SW figure for trading. If I got a Shock trooper i'd smash it cuz it's not "real" to me lol, so instead I could just use that to trade for something else I want, so whatever, as long as it's a good trade.
I also collect ARAH comics.

I also collect Rage cards, which is a CCG (Collectible/Customizeable Card Game) from White Wolf Studios/Publishing based on their table-top RPG, Werewolf: the Apocalypse.
Speaking of which, I also collect original World of Darkness books from White Wolf, including Vampire: the Masquerade and Werewolf mentioned above.

Don't get me wrong though, even though I only collect a few things, I'm a super-dork about it , so I should fit in lol.

[kingofpain26]

hey guys, I may have to reschedule or cancel the New England joe meet this coming June, too much personal stuff getting in the way...

[netkid]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gattison

Also, there's That's Entertainment in Worcester, but there's customers who've already reserved EVERY CG, IG, etc. that ever enters that store, so that option is out. Still decent last time I looked, though it's been a while.

Aw man, that store is still around? They used to have a location in the Wrentham Premium Outlets and it usually had a great selection of toys (this was years ago though, 2000-2001ish?). But Worcester is too far a drive for me when it comes to just shopping for figures. Eh, no loss.

[Tragic Habits]

Hey Gattison, good to have you aboard.

King, that blows. I wish I had a bigger place.

I hit a few walmarts and targets this weekend. Found nothing.

[homer_sapien]

Sorry to tell you but Toy Vault is no longer at that mall. They left last summer. Still sorry I did't pick up 25th Alpine before they left.