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02-10-2021, 06:15 PM | #7071 |
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I managed to find Scarlett today!
Hit up 4 different locations, and this was the only figure I found. Ironically the location I found her had no tags or pegs for Joe, but another location I visited did have tags/pegs but no stock. Note that the bubble is already starting to come off the card; I don't know if that's due to handling or if it's the same problem that Hasbro never seems to manage to fix no matter how many times it comes up. Also, she rang up at just $5.30, which has to be an error. The one location that had pegs listed them as around $12.90-something. Quote:
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You will have to wait for my pics tonight to see the running change!!! Quote:
I checked out of G.I. Joe collecting for almost the entirety of the "modern era" and only came back to it recently. I gather that Bobby Vala is held in some esteem as a G.I. Joe designer, but when I look at photos of figures like this one I have to admit that I'm left kind of baffled.
In addition to the diaper waist, why is he wearing two belts with one riding way up over his stomach? It looks like he's wearing a puffy, long-sleeve crop-top jacket belted above his belly button with a full shirt on underneath and really bulky diapers under his pants. It's utterly bizarre. (Yes, I know that the original 1982/3 CC also wore two belts, but it somehow didn't look as ridiculous as this.) What are some good figures that Vala designed? Anyway, Bobby was put in charge of getting the figure builds together for the SDCC MCC. Even though there are better parts out there for CC (Ret. Ult. CC) he said he chose these parts so that this look would match up the most with the V1 CC that came with the original MCC. I do not agree with his build, but none-the-less, this is what we got. It seems the new designer in charge of the retro line (we call him the mustache) just lazily copied this build and included it on this retro line. He also lazily just copied the latest release of Duke (3 pack 50th Duke) and put that on the retro card. It has been documented on the tank the number of shortcomings and poor decisions ... oops, I said I wouldn't rip on the mustache again. Bobby kitbashed a lot of the FSS 7.0 and 8.0 figures together. His best ones IMO are FSS Payload, and FSS Banzai.
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02-10-2021, 06:20 PM | #7072 |
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Looks like all of these stores are getting 2 cases of W3. Man are Duke and CC going to peg warm hard!!! I hope they re-release W1 and W2. Especially Scarlett.
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02-10-2021, 06:34 PM | #7073 |
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They just kind of stuffed them like like that?
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02-10-2021, 06:54 PM | #7074 |
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If someone wants a Scarlett or Destro I can check my local Walmarts. There was 1 Scarlett peg warming, and a few Destros last I checked. They may not be there anymore but I am willing to look.
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02-10-2021, 08:20 PM | #7075 |
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Delighted to see Wave 3 hit so many stores in abundance.
Will be curious to see if Wal-Mart manages to also fulfill my W3 preorders, with an estimated delivery date of 3.5 months from now. Heh.
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02-11-2021, 01:21 AM | #7076 |
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Saw W3 in Michigan, specifically LJ and Duke.
Considered LJ, but hair paint app is poor on the figure I saw, so I left her. Duke figure sucks balls even worse in person.
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02-11-2021, 01:30 AM | #7077 |
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I got all excited that my Walmarts restocked this week (according to brickseek) and hit a couple of them hoping to find Wave 3... only to have them be restocks of Wave 1.
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02-11-2021, 02:23 AM | #7078 |
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As I said before, the case breakdown is 1 LJ, 1 SE, 2 Dukes and 2 CC's. Well I must have got lucky again as I found the following running changes in that case:
FYI, these repacks were made for fun and these are not actual running changes. Wish it would happen though.
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02-11-2021, 03:02 AM | #7079 |
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You can add MO to the Wave 3 sightings. Saw them in the Maplewood Wal-Mart on Tuesday.
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02-11-2021, 03:04 AM | #7080 |
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Here are some comparison pics of the Retro CC with some other ME CC's:
25th, Ret. Ultimate, SDCC MCC, Retro. You can see that the SDCC was made from the 25th CC torso, and Ret. Ult CC legs. The forearms and hands are from the ROC Zartan in Joe disguise. They don't work that well with those upper arms as they look weird when bent. You can see the Retro is the SDCC one w/o the MM Cobra emblem. SDCC, Retro, Ret. Ultimate They painted the Retro helmet with a white stripe and we lost the chrome dome as seen in the Ret. ultimate CC. I'll say it again, this was a missed opportunity to reuse the Ret. Ultimate CC build painted in V2 colors. I would have been ok getting that figure for a 3rd time. Oh well.
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