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Post by frinspar on Nov 27, 2020 17:57:48 GMT -5
Hey guess what Target actually had on the shelf today? 7 CI Roadblocks and 2 regular Roadblocks?
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Post by okcomputer on Nov 27, 2020 19:26:13 GMT -5
They haven’t had any GI Joes in months, but today they had Baroness and the bike. Either the exclusive wave is shipping again or someone’s stash spot got discovered.
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Post by frinspar on Nov 28, 2020 12:04:07 GMT -5
I hope they're shipping again, I've had Destro in pre-order limbo forever.
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Post by S. Griffin on Dec 24, 2020 1:17:37 GMT -5
So the Target exclusive Cobra Island Viper and Firefly are due out any day now, and my Wisconsin connection was just taken out of the equation tonight (my mother slipped on the ice and broke her patella. She'll get better, and hopefully she'll finally figure out that she oughtta move somewhere with milder winters), so I'm again asking for the help of my friends here in finding Firefly. I am providing the link to the search page on POPFINDR, and I believe there should an icon lower down on the page under "Recommended by Item" that will take you to the Viper figure search page, if you guys want to look for that one as well (I'm holding out for Crimson Guardsmen and Alley Vipers, so y'all go ahead and help yourselves to all the regular Vipers you can find). POPFINDR Firefly search pageThanks in advance, and I hope you guys have a pleasant holiday and that we all have a better new year. Edit: BTW. You guys are mods. Why isn't that link blue?
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Post by okcomputer on Dec 24, 2020 2:03:22 GMT -5
More exclusives. Yaaaaaay.
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Post by S. Griffin on Dec 24, 2020 12:52:40 GMT -5
More exclusives. Yaaaaaay. Sure, Griff. I'll keep an eye out for ya. Thanks for finding me a Baroness, even though I didn't take you up on sending it. Lucky thing I found one myself, eventually. Exclusives sure do suck.
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Post by okcomputer on Dec 24, 2020 21:37:55 GMT -5
I’ll look. Some new NECA TMNT sets are hitting soon so I’ll be checking Target more regularly. If I see anything I’ll get one for you.
But the only Cobra Island stuff I’ve seen was Baroness and Beret Guy, and they were months apart.
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Post by S. Griffin on Dec 24, 2020 23:24:19 GMT -5
We only saw Baroness and Roadblock out here. Baroness and Beach Head were very sought after, so that's still very good luck that you saw them. Those two were second (and third? tied?) only to the Cobra Trooper army builder, which was super hard to find because people would grab all of them, but only one each of the others. If there's an even packout, the Viper is going to move much faster than Firefly. BTW, POPFINDR should prove pretty useful for the Turtles stuff, too.
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Post by frinspar on Dec 25, 2020 19:34:22 GMT -5
I'm gonna grab whatever I see, no Joes left behind. So hopefully I'll see some and they'll be useful.
One of my gifts was the HISS tank from WM. Which is cool since I never had one when I was a kid.
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Post by okcomputer on Dec 27, 2020 17:46:43 GMT -5
Griff, I did a Target run today and no Joes in sight. But they did have both the TMNT sets I was after so... score!
The zip code for our Target is 47401 in case you want to check Popfinder.
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Post by S. Griffin on Dec 27, 2020 22:59:37 GMT -5
Griff, I did a Target run today and no Joes in sight. But they did have both the TMNT sets I was after so... score!
The zip code for our Target is 47401 in case you want to check Popfinder. That's great about the Turtles stuff. According to POPFINDR, there's apparently six Viper figures in Bloomington and Six in Columbus tonight. No Firefly in the system yet tho (apparently anywhere right now). I assume the Vipers are in the back rooms waiting. If you'd seen them on the pegs, which some people have, they're register locked for the 1st, anyway.
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Post by okcomputer on Dec 28, 2020 9:41:51 GMT -5
Griff, I did a Target run today and no Joes in sight. But they did have both the TMNT sets I was after so... score!
The zip code for our Target is 47401 in case you want to check Popfinder. That's great about the Turtles stuff. According to POPFINDR, there's apparently six Viper figures in Bloomington and Six in Columbus tonight. No Firefly in the system yet tho (apparently anywhere right now). I assume the Vipers are in the back rooms waiting. If you'd seen them on the pegs, which some people have, they're register locked for the 1st, anyway. I wasn't have any luck with Popfindr (couldn't seem to get to the screen that actually shows stock), but Brickseek (maybe less reliable, but I've had luck with it before) shows the Viper in stock at all the Targets within 50 miles. I also checked Firefly but it showed no stock for that one, and I wasn't sure what else was in this wave. I'm hitting up Target at lunch today to see if they have any Android Krangs left. They had at least 10 yesterday, and of course with my luck the Baby Shredder accessory was missing one of his shoulder blade guard things. It thought it had come loose in the package, but I looked all over the place and I think it just wasn't attached at the factory. And NECA was doing so well lately too! The days of their stuff falling apart the second to try moving it are long over, but I guess some factory snafus are inevitable for a smaller company like them. Anyway, when I'm there I'll check for any Joes, although if they're streetdated I'm not optimistic even if they are on the shelves, since I had the whole wave (minus Baroness) in my shopping basket when the line first hit last summer and they wouldn't let me buy them. And of course by the time the official street date rolled around all their stock was long sold out by people who gamed the system.
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Post by S. Griffin on Dec 28, 2020 12:42:24 GMT -5
Only two figures in this wave.
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Post by okcomputer on Dec 28, 2020 13:43:59 GMT -5
I checked Target over lunch, and no Joes (the GI Joe pegs were full of Ghostbusters). Also no Krangs left, but the helpful clerk told me they expect more soon. Plenty of Splinter/Baxter sets still left, so maybe (don't jinx it...) NECA's distribution on this line is getting better.
Anyway, I'll check again on the date the Joes are supposed to go on the shelves. I'll just have to beat the scalpers, which for this line seems like an Olympic sport.
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Post by S. Griffin on Dec 28, 2020 16:05:35 GMT -5
I checked Target over lunch, and no Joes (the GI Joe pegs were full of Ghostbusters). Also no Krangs left, but the helpful clerk told me they expect more soon. Plenty of Splinter/Baxter sets still left, so maybe (don't jinx it...) NECA's distribution on this line is getting better. Anyway, I'll check again on the date the Joes are supposed to go on the shelves. I'll just have to beat the scalpers, which for this line seems like an Olympic sport. What we found helps is kind of annoying, but if one has a day job, it's not too much of a hassle, and that's to check Popfinder about an hour or so before the Target should open (6 or 7 am as most Targets seem to open at 8, but a few open at 7), and then if it says the figures are there, get there and be there right when they open or maybe even a bit earlier to try to beat some of the other collectors there if there are other collectors (this would presumably be less necessary with Firefly or Krang or some other figure that people wouldn't be army building than with the Vipers or the Cobra Troopers before them, unless you anticipate a line of Joe collectors). And then, unless Target and work are far away from each other, there should be enough time to get in, get out, and then get to work if it's a 9 to 5 type job.
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Post by S. Griffin on Dec 31, 2020 18:54:31 GMT -5
Right now I'm seeing a dearth of Firefly figures in your area, but PopFinder is currently showing six Vipers at pretty much every store around Bloomington.
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Post by S. Griffin on Jan 1, 2021 10:41:50 GMT -5
So, after a week of lying on her couch and finally being told by her doctor yesterday that her tendons were fine, her patella fracture was vertical and small, and that she was free to walk around (but use a walker), my mom said to me last night "I want to go somewhere badly. I need some groceries. And I want to look for that GI Joe figure for you." I gave her the PopFinder link and she texted me a picture of the Firefly figure she found this morning.
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Post by okcomputer on Jan 1, 2021 16:25:52 GMT -5
Awww, that’s cool.
I hit up Target this morning, but not early enough apparently because there were no Joes to be found...
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Post by frinspar on Jan 4, 2021 11:36:52 GMT -5
That's probably the only trip I'm making this week. Total bust. Not just the toys, but the entire goddamn Target was bereft of merchandise. Looked like early pandemic kinda shit.
Hit up a second and the toys were even more empty. Rest of the store looked a little better but still not great.
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Post by frinspar on Jan 26, 2021 14:00:14 GMT -5
Thanks to Mr. Stewie I now have a Firefly. He's a really damn good figure. After playing for a minute, I checked to see if the vest comes off. It doesn't. At least not without cutting, or some convoluted way with heat and incremental nudging. So the vest stays. I might've cut it and just picked up an urban assault accessory set from the Valaverse stuff coming out soon, but it doesn't look right for him. And besides, Firefly is not painted underneath with camo, just plain gray. Firefly has always been a favorite. As a kid he was much more the enemy of Snake Eyes for me than Storm Shadow when I'd play with them. But now, after seeing it mentioned in a review, I am considering cutting the vest off of Roadblock and getting a tiny little camo tank top off of eBay. Mine's carrying a tan sniper rifle I got from Marauder Inc. instead of the gigantic laser salad tongs he comes with. He'd look cool with the shirt. I also grabbed an A.W.E. Striker at WM last week. Very surprised to see one there on a bottom shelf, or anything GI Joe at all. And my wife got me the HISS Tank for Christmas, so now I have the pair of re-released exclusives.
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Post by frinspar on Feb 25, 2021 16:02:20 GMT -5
Just got notice the Destro I pre-ordered from Wave 1 is finally in.
My pimp daddy Destro that just showed up has a fucked up hip. Super loose and drops down, no way he'll stand up on it for long. So he's staying in the box. At least that one looks okay in the package. Hope my regular version has solid joints.
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Post by okcomputer on Mar 18, 2021 8:00:04 GMT -5
Yo peep this: Pretty cool. Not really a GI Joe fan so I'll pass (especially for $100), but One:12 is a fun line and that's a cool Silverface toy.
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Post by frinspar on Apr 11, 2021 14:00:11 GMT -5
I don't want a single figure from the Snake Eyes movie line. Not one of them looks interesting, all very dull. I think it was a bold choice to make Storm Shadow so completely bland in a single off-white getup with zero ornamentation, color or insignia. Works fine on film, but it makes for a very boring action figure. I didn't like the previous SS version either. Now, if they come out with a version of the desert look that'd be worth getting.
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Post by GhostRider5289 on Apr 11, 2021 17:16:57 GMT -5
I'd probably get Scarlett and Baroness if they were regular sized figures.
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Post by S. Griffin on Apr 11, 2021 17:28:06 GMT -5
I think they are regular sized. Except for Baroness's neck. That shit is too damn long.
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Post by GhostRider5289 on Apr 11, 2021 18:31:46 GMT -5
I meant regular 4 inch figures. Pretty sure they're the 6 inch Classified figures.
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Post by frinspar on Apr 11, 2021 21:20:26 GMT -5
They're 6". To me Baroness looks like an emo college girl who should come with a pack of cloves and a bottle of Bacardi. The original Scarlett (all the way from last year! ) is great. She hangs out on my tabletop amp with Rulk, Col. Steve Austin and Thanos. The movie one isn't bad, just not as good and with a boring color scheme. Mrs. was at Target earlier and got Zartan for me. I wasn't expecting them out yet and haven't been to a store in weeks. Cool.
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Post by S. Griffin on Apr 12, 2021 0:37:22 GMT -5
I meant regular 4 inch figures. Pretty sure they're the 6 inch Classified figures. Gotcha. I'm so used to collecting 6" figures, it somehow kind of slipped my fucking mind that 4" was the standard for GI Joe figures and that's what you would be talking about. I think the 6" Classified series, for better and for worse, is the standard now, though. They're 6". To me Baroness looks like an emo college girl who should come with a pack of cloves and a bottle of Bacardi. The original Scarlett (all the way from last year! ) is great. She hangs out on my tabletop amp with Rulk, Col. Steve Austin and Thanos. The movie one isn't bad, just not as good and with a boring color scheme. Mrs. was at Target earlier and got Zartan for me. I wasn't expecting them out yet and haven't been to a store in weeks. Cool. The original Scarlett figure, I could take it or leave it. The color scheme on the redeco Classified Scarlett is great, but the head still kinda looks too much like Race Bannon's daughter Jessie, i.e. a teenage girl from a cartoon, to me and the head on the movie figure looks so good, I kinda want to buy a redeco Scarlett and movie Scarlett just to try a head swap. Of course if it didn't work, I'd be pissed, so I probably won't. Also, fuckin' A on scoring Zartan. I'm not so much a fan of that character, so I'm kinda indifferent on the figure, but I do love that he comes with a god damn monkey's paw. Love it!
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Post by frinspar on Apr 12, 2021 11:29:19 GMT -5
Yeah, I didn't expect him to hit pegs at all around here. She said he was just sitting on the shelf with the Scarlett and Roadblock reissues in a pile like someone had just dropped them all there.
He was a favorite as a kid with his weird little swamp sled and color-changing skin.
That's not a bad idea on the head swap with Scarlett, but it would be a waste if it didn't work out.
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Post by okcomputer on Apr 12, 2021 12:22:49 GMT -5
They had some new ones at Target today. Cobra Commander, Joe, and Girl. I don't really know the names of GI Joe people.
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