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Post by The Dave on May 16, 2012 10:41:17 GMT -5
Here's a picture I took yesterday at my local Wal-Mart. Only the finest and most current lines of figures for us up here! Shocking that we have to deal south of the border for 99% of the figures in our collections.  |
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Eustache
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Post by Eustache on May 16, 2012 10:47:00 GMT -5
I feel your pain. My Walmart looks exactly like that...
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Post by Von Hooten on May 16, 2012 10:52:11 GMT -5
Damn that sucks. I live in NEPA and our Walmarts are more up-to-date than this, but it is mostly Flex Force Lightning figs. What was the last Elite series you guys got up north?
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Post by The Dave on May 16, 2012 11:03:47 GMT -5
There's a second Wal-Mart not too much farther from me that's loaded with the new FF figs as well, but all the basics are still the same. I want to say the last line of Elites that I saw at a WM here was series 5. Canada only got 2 guys from any Elite line that came in and I believe we got Mark Henry and Rey Mysterio from it. We don't get Elites here anymore though, at least at our WMs. Some series 7 figures randomly showed up at a store called Winners and I saw a couple at a TRU, but those had to have been some sort of fluke.
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Post by puppetmasters24 on May 16, 2012 11:36:18 GMT -5
That looks identical to my wal mart  |
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Post by The Dave on May 16, 2012 11:53:56 GMT -5
I guess I just don't understand distribution, or maybe Canada just doesn't want wrestling figures. You could throw a stone to the States from here, yet we can't get new lines of WWE figs. Plenty of them make it overseas though with no problem, it seems. What blows my mind is that, as far as I know, Canada never even got the Defining Moments Bret Hart! Yeah, he only comes with a giant Canadian flag so I can see why Canada wouldn't want that on their shelves.
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Post by YES! YES! YES! on May 16, 2012 12:13:26 GMT -5
Masters. BTW, wouldn't you think Canada wants WWE related things since Canadians are usually big stars in WWE???
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Post by fearofdread on May 16, 2012 16:11:23 GMT -5
The 2 Walmarts near me in Toronto have Series 6 Basic. All of them, Maryese included in spades. It is pretty sweet (if I didn't have her already).
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Post by jammer311 on May 16, 2012 16:18:06 GMT -5
Damn that sucks. I live in NEPA and our Walmarts are more up-to-date than this, but it is mostly Flex Force Lightning figs. What was the last Elite series you guys got up north? We don't get elites in Canada anymore. And when we did, we would just get 2 figures out of each series. Canada rocks!! |
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Post by Next Man’s Knowing Rock on May 16, 2012 16:31:28 GMT -5
I want that Masters. Series 8 never came out in the UK for some reason.
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Post by Biff Slamkovich™ on May 16, 2012 17:07:20 GMT -5
The last line of Elite figures that I saw out here in Vancouver was Elite 8 which was at Winners. Elite 7 popped up at my local TRU recently but it was only one case. It's pretty sad actually.
For some reason, they'll stock Flexforce and Rumblers but won't carry anything else. Even Basics are becoming impossible to find and it seems that only smaller independent toy stores are carrying new stuff, albeit for more expensive prices.
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Post by koreygunz on May 16, 2012 17:08:31 GMT -5
Actually, I wish I could find that Ted/Cody pack still
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Post by skribbel24 on May 16, 2012 17:16:33 GMT -5
I went to Canada a few years ago and went home empty-handed.
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Post by jammer311 on May 16, 2012 17:27:49 GMT -5
The last line of Elite figures that I saw out here in Vancouver was Elite 8 which was at Winners. Elite 7 popped up at my local TRU recently but it was only one case. It's pretty sad actually. For some reason, they'll stock Flexforce and Rumblers but won't carry anything else. Even Basics are becoming impossible to find and it seems that only smaller independent toy stores are carrying new stuff, albeit for more expensive prices. I know for our Rumblers they were only bringing in 2 out of 4 packs a series too. For Series 2 we only got Edge/Orton and Cena/Hornswoggle. I will never understand why Canada can't get everything. Even Bret Hart Defining Moments never came to Canada, and it has a giant Canadian flag with the figure!! It just makes no sense. |
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Post by JC Motors on May 16, 2012 17:56:56 GMT -5
That is terrible
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Post by The Dave on May 16, 2012 18:01:29 GMT -5
It's very frustrating to say the least. RSC and some cool members on here are our only option for anything recent it seems. eBay as well to a lesser extent.
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Post by Mr. Show on May 16, 2012 19:04:18 GMT -5
One walmart near me only sells flexforce and kid belts. Thats seriously all they have shelf space set up for.
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Post by gwtpunk on May 16, 2012 19:07:00 GMT -5
I feel your pain bro!
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Post by The Dave on May 16, 2012 19:18:05 GMT -5
Does anyone know why things are like this? Is there a particular reason? It seems like it's a problem all across the country, not just where I am.
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Post by jazzyxena on May 16, 2012 20:01:29 GMT -5
Yep here in Montreal the last Elites I saw were at Winners and it was Elite 7, that was actually right before Christmas and were there as a fluke, since then nothing but Rumblers and Flex Force in all the stores I try  |
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