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04-22-2011, 11:35 PM | #31 |
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04-22-2011, 11:40 PM | #32 |
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I don't mean to be hitting the POC Panic button (we already have a thread for that) but I just want to pass on what was told to me at TRU.
So I asked the nice lady to look in their computer to see if they had any POC figures in the back. She looked it up and said "no we don't have any right now, but it looks like this item has been discontinued" WTF? She even showed me the screen and sure enough it said the item was discontinued. She said that doesn't mean the store won't receive anymore, only that whatever is in the TRU warehouse is all that there will ever be...no more POC coming tot he warehouse. What could that mean? That Hasbro has already told the stores that POC is ending and 30th is starting soon? I hope that's all that it means. Hasbro telling the retailers that they won't be producing anymore POC makes sense, a little early if you ask me considering there is still another wave not released yet. You should also know that it was a Arctic Destro that she scanned. Maybe their computers differentiate between 2010 POC and 2011 POC. So 2010 POC might be discontinued but 2011 POC is alive and well. Anyways, what do you guys think? |
04-22-2011, 11:45 PM | #33 |
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I agree when it comes to people being rude and all, but I think their rudeness comes from not understanding what the real deal is.
The word "cancelled" gets tossed around here quite often, but most of the time it really isn't used in the correct way. I'm not trying to say what the original poster was told by the TRU employee is true, but I do think that there is something to it. When the TRU employee said that POC was "cancelled" it didn't mean that Hasbro was ending the line. I think that TRU, or only that particular store, decided to "cancel" their order because Joes are pegwarming in that store and they no longer want to carry that particular series. It's the same with all of the Target stuff that ended up at Ross. The word "cancelled" was used then too but we saw boxed items so obviously Hasbro didn't "cancel" anything. It was Target who had enough with ROC Joes so they "cancelled" their order after the figures were already made. It seems as this is happening quite often lately with many other toy lines as well. The stores get sick of the overstock and they don't want any more. Then the later waves don't get shipped out to stores here in the US and are listed as "cancelled" even though they show up elsewhere in other countries. This happened to the Indiana Jones Temple of Doom wave, the final Iron Man 2 wave which was to include Mandarin, and most recently the latest wave of Transformers such as the Scout wave which was to include Windcharger. I also have a bad feeling that Generations Thundercracker, Wheeljack and Reveal the Shield Voyager Grapple might not make it to stores as well if this trend continues. Right now I'm even having a hard time trying to locate Generations Scourge as well as Reveal the Shield Perceptor and Wreckgar. |
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04-23-2011, 12:33 AM | #34 |
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It said DISCONTINUED ???? not so sure I believe that
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04-23-2011, 12:54 AM | #35 |
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Here we go again
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04-23-2011, 01:26 AM | #36 |
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I talked to a woman at Toys R Us today and she told me I was too old to be worried about the fate of little toy soldiers...
So I sucker-punched her. Or attempted to. She blocked and countered with a head-butt that left me sprawled across the floor dazed. I came to my senses in the cargo area of a minivan stuffed in a large plastic bag with a $28 price tag in my ear. The weird part is I had to pay the good people of the McDungal family fifty bucks just to get my freedon back. Long story short, reckon my ex was wrong, I am worth something. Stupid girl... Last edited by Hicks_Royel; 04-23-2011 at 01:28 AM.. |
04-23-2011, 01:52 AM | #37 |
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Finally, let me add this:
http://www.hisstank.com/forum/g-i-jo...hest-hole.html Quote:
so i went to tru today and they had remants of wv 4 (crazylegs and croc). i picked up crazy legs, which is a pretty cool pretty decent figure. i prefer his cherry red colors but whatever.
anyway i was hoping the chest hole would be coverable by the harness strap, but the strap crosses the body just under the chest hole. wtf and it looks hideous to me. anybody got any solutions? i was thinking of plugging it with some black plastic from a rifle nozzle or something or maybe throwing on some alternative web gear. |
04-23-2011, 01:59 AM | #38 |
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i think technically the PoC line may be cancelled and its being relabelled just G.I.Joe
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04-23-2011, 02:06 AM | #39 |
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It has to do with the year/series/sku numbers. Nothing to worry about. A lot of Star Wars product shows as discontinued as well.
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04-23-2011, 02:13 AM | #40 |
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The item number is diff for the 2011 figures. Someone at Tru has not given these a new item number yet.
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