[netkid]

Kidding aside, I'd honestly like to see his figure get the same amount per case as wave 3 Snake Eyes did. That made his figure easy to get and they still sold.

[Mainframe]

Yeah, saw only one SE in the wild. 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?

[mike000]

Hmm. the Thanos comic pack came out already? Has anyone seen the Wonderman/Quicksilver pack in there travels? I thought that was supposed to release before Thanos/Warlock

[netkid]

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Originally Posted by 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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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.

[Mainframe]

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Hmm. the Thanos comic pack came out already? Has anyone seen the Wonderman/Quicksilver pack in there travels? I thought that was supposed to release before Thanos/Warlock

Nope, looking for that myself. Stores here keep restocking comic packs but it's with those damn revision cases, over and over. Haven't seen that wave, looking for that 2 pack also, but if I ever see 2 I'll grab an extra. 2 pack was at Newbury comics, they'rer a different entity with what they stock comapred to Target/Walmart, they function to different stock plan. I checked E-bay and the only one up the day I bought mine was some dude in Malaysia. Which is a shocker because I feel here in the NorhtEast distribution hits us last. We never get things new, they always hit the West coast first.

[Mainframe]

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Originally Posted by netkid

That's crazy.

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.

Yeah, that's dead on, a vicious cycle. There's much more to things between the lines, it's not just Hasbro's choice to pick and choose figs for wave selection but they are bound by contract to release "recognizable" figs in each line. Yes Arctic Destro is a bad idea and clogs waves, but Snake Eyes, Storm Shadow, Duke, ect....
There are contract stuipulations that Hasbro must include certain figs or large retailers won't carry the waves/brand in large quantities. Why are the Dreadnocks online only? They won't sell to the massese but this above is especailly why. There's alot to the business that the general public doesn't know about why it gets rounded out with usually "Hasblow's fault". Not the case at all.

I would prefer to support local business and love the thrill of the hunt, it's the best part of this hobby, not knowing what you are going to walk into when you hit the Joe isle, hoping to see a fresh peg of Joes. But with your above statement that rarely happens nowadays, the 25th seemed to move more easily, they always sold out at my Target's. Except for that damn Buzzer, he was Arctic Destro back in the day, and I only have one carded and don't have one open to put with my Dreadnock set......and they're not cheap on E-bay either.

On that note today I went and cleared out the Renegades at my local Target and dropped by Toys for Tots drop off by my house and donated all of them. I have't bought one for myslef, not my thing but the damn things are clogging the pegs and I can't take it anymore. I want to see wave 3 and 4! So stay the hell away from my Target :0

[homer_sapien]

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Originally Posted by Mainframe

Yeah, saw only one SE in the wild. 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 had one sighting of wave 3 when Target put out the endcap display just before Christmas last year. That was the last time I saw new stock. I'm still trying to get a Jungle BAT.

[netkid]

Seems like we are all looking for Jungle BATs. I hope wave 5 POC shows up at the discounters.

[homer_sapien]

That's what I've been hoping for a while. I just want 1 Jungle BAT and General Hawk.

[Mainframe]

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That's what I've been hoping for a while. I just want 1 Jungle BAT and General Hawk.

I bought the wave online when they first came out and wonder where the heck all the stock has gone. Where they that underproduced?