[Run NMC]

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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?

I have to diagree with you on this theory. I'm as pissed off as everyone else about the lack of wave 10, yet at the same time I'm able to get the last two friggen figures I never had the chance of finding at retail. So I'm able to have a "complete" roster of Joes, and I didn't have to resort to selling a kidney on the black market. I got Flint and Storm Shadow for the price they should be in the first place. Some of us are in this for the love of collecting, and the whole "nastalgic feeling" of having these figures all over again. Most of us our collectors, not traders. No offense, this is just how I feel.

[QBERT]

Run NMC, trust me i'm a collector, more than anything else. I buy these things for the love...not money.

[Run NMC]

Quote:

Originally Posted by QBERT

Run NMC, trust me i'm a collector, more than anything else. I buy these things for the love...not money.

I figured that. I was just throwing in my two cents. Also, got wave 10 at Stop and Shop today. So they have hit, just at the supermarket.

[Dreadnok619]

S&S is where I found my wave 10 also. I have this strange feeling that this wave will never hit regular retail stores( Walmart, Target, TRU). The way it has hit the internet and grocery stores chains in other areas is just plain odd.

[Jedi Adrian]

finally found an iron grenadiers destro at a target...that took forever....!

maybe 1 year from now I'll see a firebat.

[Shadow Ninja]

I have 4 firbats and seen 6 altogether now all in Ma.

[Steel Brigade]

I took a ride to Natick today. The TRU has plenty of revisions including wave 1 '85 Snake Eyes with the fixed crotch, Snake Eyes '82 Black, & Snow Job. And like the other TRU I was at last week, more of the original 5 packs... @_@ ... I picked up all of the COMBAT HEROES packs as they had a slew of them & I had a lot of paint jobs to sift through. Ultimately I was going to pass on these, but I want the wave 2 releases so... ^_-
The Natick Walmart has TONS of revision cases, even a Stalker & Firefly on the peg.
I found all the new Star Wars stuff there including the new comic packs & 1 Ahsoka Tano, which I already have, so I left her for the next kid/collector but I picked up Jodo Cast, Commander Faie, Commander Cody, & Stass Allie.
Last week I found the new SW comic packs @ TRU Waterford CT & 2 Ahsoka Tano's... A guy (collector) came up to me & said "Is there anymore Ahsoka's?" I said "Just the 2 I have here." I quickly glanced at the 2 & picked the one that I liked the paint job on better (best I have seen actually of about 6 now) & gladly handed him the other one.. He said "Thanks Man" & thanked me again as we were ringing up... the cashier was checking out my Darth Talon & Ganner Krieg comic packs...
Ya see, that time I also made someone else's day. ^_-

[Lody]

Anything else in MA?

[sha_ckwave]

Finally ! Some new Joe stuff to report in MA.

Target in Plainville had a case of Wave 10 on the pegs this evening... I already got my case from BBTS so I left them all except for the Wraith (regular version) which I grabbed for troop building. Also found and picked up an AVAC/Firebat there... no other new vehicles left.

And, the biggee... I FINALLY found the new TRU 3-packs (Sea & Air Command, Iron Grenadiers) locally... Found two sets of them at TRU Bellingham this evening... still one set remaining as of 7:30, although the paint apps on the Joe sets I left behind weren't spectacular.

Yay!.... I've been looking for those damn 3-packs for months.

[QBERT]

So i guess wave 10 is showing up at retail after all, beautiful.