[Run NMC]

Got this at Walmart in Salem!

[QBERT]

I think HASBRO made a huge mistake on releasing all these figures on new cards. It now makes trading (not like that matters to them) useless and not fun because everyone has every single figure. (the main reason babeball cards are now extinct)
Values & collectibilty are destroyed, and now the pegs are clogged with figures nobody wants. Wave10 now is MIA because of the push to get all this junk out of circulation.

I think the cons greatly outweigh the pros in this decision. Any thoughts?

[Shadow Ninja]

Now they just need to rerelease Black Timber Snake Eyes and Yellow Stalker!!!

[QBERT]

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Originally Posted by Shadow Ninja

Now they just need to rerelease Black Timber Snake Eyes and Yellow Stalker!!!

LOL, I will seriously loose it and leave GI JOE forever if that happens. Where in the world is wave 10?

SCALPER KING, can you help a brother out ...wherever you are?

[Shadow Ninja]

I've got Wave 10!!! Nice figures I might say!!! I love the paratrooper..!!

[mttlg]

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Originally Posted by QBERT

I think HASBRO made a huge mistake on releasing all these figures on new cards. It now makes trading (not like that matters to them) useless and not fun because everyone has every single figure. (the main reason babeball cards are now extinct)
Values & collectibilty are destroyed, and now the pegs are clogged with figures nobody wants. Wave10 now is MIA because of the push to get all this junk out of circulation.

I think the cons greatly outweigh the pros in this decision. Any thoughts?

Trading? Why should Hasbro care about trading? If people buy up all of the popular figures with the intent to trade them later, that only makes it harder for the people who want them to get them. There shouldn't be a need to trade these, you should just be able to buy what you want and be done with it. And you're off base on the problems with baseball card collecting. I could write you a book on that, but I would rather not (I already have several long essays on that subject). Suffice it to say, it wasn't an abundance of availability that killed baseball card collecting, it was the arms race to increase value and scarcity that made everything desirable impossible to get and pointless to try and collect (while making everything else impossible to trade or even give away) that killed it. I would hate to see Hasbro go down that road.

Anyway, the revision cases are popping up everywhere now (well, Wal-Marts at least) so you should be able to get most of last year's figures if you missed them the first time around. The timing isn't that great (these would make great holiday season filler as a follow-on to Wave 10 and Wave 11), but at least they're getting something out there. Even my local Wal-Mart-that-restocks-once-every-six-months has these, which is good now that the Wave 6 revision cases from last spring have started to sell through. Who knows, maybe everyone searching for sold out Bakugan stuff will turn to Joes instead (Overheard in Wal-Mart today: "If they're so popular, why can't they just make more?" Sound familiar?).

As in the world of baseball cards, you can't count on any of these holding (or gaining) value, so just get what you like and don't look back. With any luck, we'll see the Wave 10 and 11 figures in revision cases when the line returns in 2010...

[Dreadnok619]

Wave 10? I heard that was a urban legend.

[QBERT]

mttlg, if you read closer i said "not like it matters to HASBRO". I honestly don't care what you wrote or what you think is the reason, I collected baseball cards for many years and knew a few dealers, and they all know the reason that hobby died was they made millions (and technology had a big role as well...kids wanted XBOX's instead of cardboard that does nothing exciting) of cards as opposed to a limited amount like back in the 50's - early 80's ( I say this because as of about 1987, cards were pretty much worthless).
The whole point of "collecting" is to interact with other collector's, trade, talk about, hunt for, etc...that is what makes this hobby so great. Like "hey, I got something you need...you got something I can't find", secondary market values, "rarity", having a "holy grail", having a super-rare piece that is the pride of your collection, etc...I can go on.

stop bickering and stand-offish about it and go to sleep.

["SR"]

I've been finding my Wave 10 at Stop and Shops. I'd suggest checking there. I've gotten the whole set at one point or another there, and they are only 5.99 a figure!

[kingofpain26]

Boston area is a wash.

Nothing in South Bay Mall, Watertown or Everett Targets. Havent trooped down to Dedham TRU yet.

Co sign on the Stop n shops though. I did get an old Barroness I dneeded for customizing, and several Clone wars and droid star wars figures that are hard to find.