[whitemo58]

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Originally Posted by Shadow Ninja

He's got 3 in 5 days you got 1 in how many weeks? I'm just proving how good he is!

Clearly he has way too much time on his hand. I have found 1 in 1 day so my batting average is better

[JohnSage]

I don't go out of my way, but whenever I'm going anywhere I'll hit any store that's on the destination route that may have joes. If I find one cool. If not, when Renegades aren't on the shelf, I'll pay the ebay price. And I'll open it.

[whitemo58]

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Originally Posted by Shadow Ninja

He's got 3 in 5 days you got 1 in how many weeks? I'm just proving how good he is!

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Originally Posted by JohnSage

I don't go out of my way, but whenever I'm going anywhere I'll hit any store that's on the destination route that may have joes. If I find one cool. If not, when Renegades aren't on the shelf, I'll pay the ebay price. And I'll open it.

Exactly I don't go out of my way to go hunting..if I'm at a store or its on my way home and I have time ill stop. But ill be damned if I go out every damn day. It's not worth it for me.

[JohnSage]

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Originally Posted by whitemo58

Exactly I don't go out of my way to go hunting..if I'm at a store or its on my way home and I have time ill stop. But ill be damned if I go out every damn day. It's not worth it for me.

Me either. Sometimes in my travels I'm an hour away so I hit stores I've never hit. Just has to be on the destination route or the stores close to work or home that only take 20 minutes out of my day to walk in and out of.

[whitemo58]

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Originally Posted by JohnSage

Me either. Sometimes in my travels I'm an hour away so I hit stores I've never hit. Just has to be on the destination route or the stores close to work or home that only take 20 minutes out of my day to walk in and out of.

See I'm in the same boat. Your have a better chance on seeing God then me travelling the whole frikin day goin store to store. Ain't happening . Ive got tru 2 targets a Walmart and a comic book shop and a newbury comics within a half hour of my house. And I have everything I've been looking for.

[Shadow Ninja]

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Originally Posted by whitemo58

Exactly I don't go out of my way to go hunting..if I'm at a store or its on my way home and I have time ill stop. But ill be damned if I go out every damn day. It's not worth it for me.

It's not worth it in general anymore. With gas at an average of $3.75 and driving around you waste 3 gallons of gas you waste $11.25 on gas plus another $11-$12 with tax for a fig for a total of $22-$23 It's just not worth going out hunting anymore and better just to order online now or buy on ebay. The math doesn't lie. If you happen to bounce in a store and find one great but to go out of your way looking you might as well forget it now a days...

[whitemo58]

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Originally Posted by Shadow Ninja

It's not worth it in general anymore. With gas at an average of $3.75 and driving around you waste 3 gallons of gas you waste $11.25 on gas plus another $11-$12 with tax for a fig for a total of $22-$23 It's just not worth going out hunting anymore and better just to order online now or buy on ebay. The math doesn't lie. If you happen to bounce in a store and find one great but to go out of your way looking you might as well forget it now a days...

Total agreement sir!

[Air-tight]

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Originally Posted by kingofpain26

Anime Boston is the SAME DAY as the Hama Signing...

decisions, decisions.

I went to anime Boston in 2008... It was THE BIGGEST waste of time in my life. My best friend asked me to join him, so I did. We got there early and still waited FOUR HOURS total in line to get in, 3 of which was spent in a line to GET INTO the main line... I had hoped that at the very least (since I'm not into anime) that the dealer's room would have some kind of cool Japanese import transformers, henkei figures etc that would actually warrant me being there, but it was tiny and terrible. I begrudge no one their pleasure, and have nothing against anime, but the whole registration/admission process was abominable and I ended up leaving after 30 minutes and was frustrated that I lost all that valuable time. Just warning people that are considering "stopping in" to anime Boston. Hopefully it's gotten better since '08.

Anyway, I'll never go there again. Larry- see you Saturday!

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Originally Posted by mike000

I think they've just learned from waves of various toy lines that their warehouse is overflowing with the versions of "main" characters. All those Bumblebee and Iron Man figures take up real estate.

They've fallen in line with the independent online retailers. People want those hard to find figures, they will buy a set to get them. I'm guessing, being affiliated with Hasbro, they can't mark up and sell the rare figures like Smalljoes can, so they went with the set only policy.

Mike is absolutely right here. All of this complex speculation and mysterious aura surrounding storm shadow is getting a bit out of hand with the fans.

It's a pretty simple concept: Hasbro releases the storm shadow figure. For whatever reason, either cost or dwinding popularity in recent years or some other reason, they short-pack him. While Hasbro seems to have cut costs with accessories on some of the other 30th/renegades figures, they definitely kept 90% of SS's goodies, and basically made him 2-figures-in-one on top of that. The main reason everyone wants him though, is because he's rare- the fact that he's a fantastic action figure (a fact I can personally attest to) only makes him even more desirable. I bet if it was "library-viper" or "hotdog-viper", people would want him just as badly.

Take those "unreleased POC variant blowtorch and croc-master" figures. Those would probably peg-warm like an arctic destro I they were all over the place. It seems to be that the concept of 'getting something exclusive' that generally appeals to a lot of people.

The whole "I have to buy a case just to get SS?" theory is just more brilliance on hasbro's/online retailers' parts too, they're getting us to pay $80-90 for a bulk amount of their product just to get one SS. When we're "stuck with figures we don't want", there's always the option to return them to retail or trade them or whatever.

[Air-tight]

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Originally Posted by whitemo58

Oh hell no I'm keeping him moc

You're missing out!

[whitemo58]

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Originally Posted by Air-tight

You're missing out!

Oh hell no A.T.!!! I'm keeping him in there until I find another one