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Post by Gangrel-Brood on Jul 9, 2010 8:37:59 GMT -5
I went to my local Supercenter in the wee hours of the morning to find the 2-packs pegs were full...but of series 1 DiBiase/Rhodes, series 2 Miz/Morrison, and series 3 Edge/Big Show. Less than a week ago, the only set there was a single Edge/Big Show. Either someone scalped 'em all only to find they don't fetch very much on eBay, or Mattel has been putting the 2-packs of lesser-demand in cases and shipping them to Walmarts. Is anyone else having this experience at their local store(s), or am I thinking too far into it?
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Post by laythvandam on Jul 9, 2010 8:41:19 GMT -5
Maybe you're thinking too much about it, Rhodes and Dibiase sold ok here even though only two shops got them and they were in short supply over here, and Miz and Morrison sold much faster than the other two packs of recent memory that I've seen.
I agree on Edge/Show though, they're all over the place, and I for one won't pay $30 (£16.99) on a re-release Big Show that I have already and an Edge I can live without.
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Post by Searching for a Former Clarity on Jul 9, 2010 8:58:59 GMT -5
I've noticed it too at a couple walmarts actually and it was those same 3 packs too. I dont mind seeing it to be honest because you can always pick up something you passed on before, as long as these re-release waves (would that be the correct term?) don't affect any new series ofcourse.
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Post by Kollecting King on Jul 9, 2010 9:13:32 GMT -5
They are releasing mixed cases which some places are calling "Best Of" that contain 2 Legacy, 2 Miz & Morrison, & 2 Big Show & Edge. They have been getting these cases in at walmart for the past 2 months or so along with the normal 2 packs as well. Nothing on these 2 packs is changed as they are identical to the original release so they are basically just taking left overs and reshipping them together.
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Post by punksnotdead on Jul 9, 2010 9:38:21 GMT -5
Its not just Wal-mart, I have seen them at TRU as well. Waste of peg space imo. All the power to Mattel though if people are actually picking those up the second time around. I have a feeling they are not going anywhere for awhile though because none of those sets were that popular to begin with.
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Post by Lorenzo Alcazar on Jul 9, 2010 10:32:56 GMT -5
Yeah my Walmart just got flooded with DiBiase/Rhodes 2-packs this week. Very strange. Even crazier than when Walmarts got nothing but Elite Batista and Triple H...I mean, at least those guys are popular.
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Post by D-Bry on Jul 9, 2010 10:41:48 GMT -5
same at my walmart
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Post by ricflair4ever on Jul 9, 2010 10:45:12 GMT -5
The downside to this is due to these cases it delayed the arrival of series 4 here. Even worse for those here who did not capitolize on the 2 whole days series 4 was on the shelves,the next shipment of 2 packs was these mixed cases again. Hopefully it doesn't hamper the arrival of series 5 as well.
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Post by EDGEHEAD41 on Jul 9, 2010 11:05:58 GMT -5
Same exact thing at my WalMart yesterday dude.
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Post by Gangrel-Brood on Jul 9, 2010 11:22:29 GMT -5
Glad to see I'm not the only one who's come across this weirdness. I mean, it's cool that Mattel is putting out the old sets others may not have come across, but as others have said, them warming the pegs will hinder the chances of Walmarts (or any retail chains) getting new sets in, since they only go by how many are on the pegs, not which sets are in higher demand.
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Post by punksnotdead on Jul 9, 2010 11:28:04 GMT -5
The downside to this is due to these cases it delayed the arrival of series 4 here. Even worse for those here who did not capitolize on the 2 whole days series 4 was on the shelves,the next shipment of 2 packs was these mixed cases again. Hopefully it doesn't hamper the arrival of series 5 as well. This is what I am afraid is going to happen. I got 2packs 4 around me so fast because most stores around me only get one case of 2packs and they usually are gone pretty quickly but not to the point where I can't still find everything. If this re-release case is peg warming I may not get 5 forever. |
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Post by Drdoom on Jul 9, 2010 11:32:51 GMT -5
Elite Edge and Santino along with the Royal Rumble series are blocking series 4 here
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Post by Mike Novak on Jul 9, 2010 11:54:13 GMT -5
What I think is weird is that the exact same thing is happening here, except instead of Miz/Morrison it was the Colon's which still ended up selling.
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Post by "The Visionary" Eldniw on Jul 9, 2010 12:47:32 GMT -5
It's happening here too. I just took advantage of it from Walmart and TRU though. Grabbed the Edge/Big Show 2pk because in my customization attempt, my Edge torso from PPV3 got all muffed up so this got me a new Edge, and from TRU I grabbed Elite 2 Batista. I passed on him the first time he was around, didn't think he'd leave. I know he'll be in Elite 6 but I needed a good Batista now. LoL.
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Post by TheChamp420 on Jul 9, 2010 16:28:23 GMT -5
mY Walmart recieved them aswell. But they dont seem like the "worst of" 2 packs to me. Infact my favorite sets from series 2 and 3, are miz/jomo and edge/show. As for dibiase and rhodes ehh.
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Post by dizcoduck on Jul 9, 2010 18:20:57 GMT -5
My WM sold out of series 4 2packs & were sent these old sets. They also cut the space down to 1peg to make room for the old flexweapon sets and kiddy attire wristbands.
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Post by James St. James on Jul 9, 2010 22:52:18 GMT -5
Its a fairly common retail practice, when one store sells out of a product and another in the same region has overstock, store A (overstocked) will send repacked cases of figures to store B (sold out) to make way for fresh product in their store while providing items for the shelf of the sold out store. I know this goes on at Target because I worked there, which is why (in the case of jakks wwe, dc universe classics and now apparently mattel wwe) you will sometimes find 1 or 2 figures from a series months after its initial release with no sign of the rest of the casepack they were initially packed in.
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Post by The Outsider on Jul 9, 2010 23:26:13 GMT -5
LOL!
I just got back from my WM about 4 hours ago, and they've just restocked 2 pegs full of nothing but those!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2010 1:10:39 GMT -5
My local Wal-Marts got them about three weeks ago and none of them have moved. Guess I'll have to find the wave 5 2-packs at Target.  |
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Post by Rob Furious on Jul 10, 2010 2:18:22 GMT -5
I was at the Valley Stream Walmart today, they too had these but all they had left were 1 JoMo/Miz & 9 or so Ted/Cody.
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