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05-12-2009, 09:26 AM | #1 |
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just wondering are their many gi joe's with manufacter mistakes, because i have a "outback" action figure still in orignal rapper for the 1992 hasbro series, thats not the right colors of all the other outbacks.
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05-12-2009, 09:32 AM | #2 |
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There's a fair amount out there, more so with today's toys than older ones.
BTW, you may not have an error at all. There were two different colored Outbacks released during the same year: YOJOE.COM | Outback YOJOE.COM | Outback |
05-12-2009, 09:54 AM | #3 |
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errors.... how about how brutal hasbro is with paint apps. THEY SUCK!!!
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06-16-2022, 08:35 PM | #4 |
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Awhile back I picked up a ?Rise of Cobra? Cobra Gunship because I noticed it had a Flint figure instead of the Firefly pilot. I thought it was strange. I took it home and have it ever since. Until recently I figured out the flint figure is the 1985 edition. Even stranger. Has anyone else experienced this? I personally purchased the gunship from either Walmart or target. I can?t remember which and I?ve never opened it. How could the two come together from different eras? I guess some could of returned it with a different figure but why swap with something much more valuable. And the box doesn?t appear to have ever been opened?
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06-16-2022, 08:45 PM | #5 |
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Awhile back I picked up a ?Rise of Cobra? Cobra Gunship because I noticed it had a Flint figure instead of the Firefly pilot. I thought it was strange. I took it home and have it ever since. Until recently I figured out the flint figure is the 1985 edition. Even stranger. Has anyone else experienced this? I personally purchased the gunship from either Walmart or target. I can?t remember which and I?ve never opened it. How could the two come together from different eras? I guess some could of returned it with a different figure but why swap with something much more valuable. And the box doesn?t appear to have ever been opened?
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06-16-2022, 08:48 PM | #6 |
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That is a Funskool Flint.
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06-16-2022, 09:01 PM | #7 |
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Awhile back I picked up a ?Rise of Cobra? Cobra Gunship because I noticed it had a Flint figure instead of the Firefly pilot. I thought it was strange. I took it home and have it ever since. Until recently I figured out the flint figure is the 1985 edition. Even stranger. Has anyone else experienced this? I personally purchased the gunship from either Walmart or target. I can?t remember which and I?ve never opened it. How could the two come together from different eras? I guess some could of returned it with a different figure but why swap with something much more valuable. And the box doesn?t appear to have ever been opened?
https://www.yojoe.com/action/int/ind-flint.shtml The bad news is that at the time that was likely swapped in, it was less valuable, bordering on worthless. Now, the Firefly is bordering on worthless, while Funskool Flint has appreciated substantially.
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06-16-2022, 10:36 PM | #8 |
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I wonder if they swapped out the gunship too.
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06-16-2022, 11:05 PM | #9 |
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Repackers are a strange bunch, and can be incredibly sneaky with how they swap things. I remember coming across the target exclusive version 6 Eel with Wavecrusher packs that a repacker had replaced all the figures with the 2004 Electric Eel and the packages still looked factory fresh. In the Hotwheels community its common for people to make fake error variants all the time by removing the bubble without damaging the package and break out the windows or remove the wheels.
In this case a repacker probably used a blow dryer to remove the tape without tearing the the box to grab the Pilot Firefly and just resealed it. I used to come across repacked figures all the time. There's a chain of stores in the Southeast US called Treasure Hunt or Dirt Cheap. This store has a deal with insurance companies and big box stores to buy up all merchandise wrote off as unsalable salvage. So damaged, returned, smoke damaged, flood damaged, or otherwise destroyed by a disaster and wrote off for an insurance claim ends up at these stores. You can usually get a great deal on toys with damaged boxes or return stickers on them at this chain but you have to be careful and know what your looking for. Like I got a perfect condition 25th Hiss tank and Driver years ago in a beat up box that looked like a tornado had spit it out for $0.25USD. But their toy aisles are filled with repacked stuff other stores couldn't sale because they got scammed by a repackager and the store had to write it off. Like there would be toybiz 5 inch figures or dollar tree ninjas in Marvel legends packages. Last edited by sisco; 06-16-2022 at 11:10 PM.. |
06-17-2022, 05:56 PM | #10 |
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I once got a 25th Firebat at Marshalls for a few bucks because someone swiped the AVAC figure.
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