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Post by PJ on Aug 7, 2008 17:26:08 GMT -5
UPDATED! - Today I drove over to the PO at 8am and asked if my package had turned up yet and Low and behold 10 minutes later it had! Of course the box looked like it had been in a war (crushed /w a lovely footprint on it  ) Anyway I'm loving this figure although I do with he was in the white WMIII attire, but still just to have a real Dynamite Kid figure on my shelves in any attire is worth it. Here's some quick pics -     Scale Pics - He is slightly shorter than Bret   And a quick fix-up I was able to start before everyone was up-  I gave him the shorter RA arms, because the others looked like they belonged on a gorilla.  And here's what I'm shooting for - black trunks -  And what I've been able to do so far -  I still have to straighten out the socks stripes along with the stripes on the Union jack a bit more, but that'll be a few days before I can find the time for that - This is really starting to p!$$ me off! My order for my 2 Dynamite Kid figures was shipped from RSC on Monday. And as we all know I've been dying for a Dynamite Kid since the start of CS...so when he was signed and up for pre-order I ordered 2 that day. Anyway like I said they shipped my order out Monday...And RSC is only an hour away (61 miles) Yet here it is four days later and still no sign of this package. I am really getting pissed as I have had my extra knee pads & paint along with some ideas for fixing him up ready since Tuesday...along with the spot I cleared off for him on my shelves all ready for him. Now if he comes tomorrow all I can do is add on the pads and maybe paint on some white for the socks. Then I'll have to wait until next week for the rest of the fixup as this weekend is pretty much shot for fixing him up. Sorry I had to rant. Oh and if anyone wants to see the Lobo figure I posted pics of him here - www.pointsofarticulation.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4918&sid=5bfda44b1555c36aa30f64f55b37c3e9And in the "Non-wrestling figures board" |
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Post by DKR on Aug 7, 2008 17:32:07 GMT -5
Damn PJ, that sucks. I live in Jersey and got mine Tuesday...
BTW, Lobo rocks. I picked up a few in San Diego. Great figure.
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Post by PJ on Aug 7, 2008 18:05:35 GMT -5
Yes, the Lobo is pretty sweet. Watch I had placed another order for Lobo & Giganta for a friend in Ireland which finally shipped from Mattel yesterday that'll probably arrive first! The sad thing is I send thing to JokerFC in Ireland all the time and he gets his stuff in 5 days. And the other day I received a few DC statues from Him which took 5 days to arrive...yet a package 61 miles away being delivered from the same carrier (USPS) can't get here in 4 days or less! It just makes no sense. Usually it takes 3-4 days for me to receive a package from RSC, but my last order from RSC arrived in one day...Of course that was for a figure I got from the sale that I was in no rush to receive because I had it already. I just can't win.
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Post by bigtaker2 on Aug 7, 2008 18:10:34 GMT -5
Doesn't matter how close or far you are from RSC. I only live like 4 hours from there but it doesn't come for 5 to 9 days through the mail.
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Post by acura143 on Aug 7, 2008 18:22:09 GMT -5
Man that sucks, i order my set the day it was in stock and received them
yesterday but my box came all f*ck up. All of the card are dented.
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Post by CF9™ on Aug 7, 2008 18:22:34 GMT -5
Just wait a while, just because your closer doesn't mean they well get it to you faster, although I would think it would.
But hey, It's been two years since I ordered an AJ Styles, and no sign of him....
*Waits for the last thing to be deleted*.
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Post by PJ on Aug 7, 2008 18:27:20 GMT -5
I'm sorry but there's no excuse for me to be able to ship & receive packages to & from Ireland in 5 days, but not get a package in under 4 days from an hour away from the same carrier service. There is no excuse. I used to think that the USPS did like we do at UPS with the NDA/2DA to meet the guarantee service time...which is hold all 2nd day air packages until the next day and then treat them like NDA packages. So I figured the USPS did sort of the same thing with their Priority mail to meet their 3-4 business day guarantee...Which would be service the farther away destinations first and then work on the closer ones. Which seemed to be the case as I get Priority mail packages from my Mom in CA in 2 days yet Priority mail packages from around here NY/NJ/CT/PA are almost always 3-4 days, but if DKR1047 used the USPS and received his order in one day from them then that theory is shot. But again there should be no excuse for a package that close to take more than 2 days tops to be delivered.
From the USPS website on Priority mail -
"If a Priority Mail package is going to a major city, or is traveling less than 600 miles, it should arrive in 2 days. Otherwise, it should arrive in 3 days."
All I know is today was the fourth day that the USPS had my package in their system so they didn't meet their guarantee Priority mail service.
I worked for UPS for 10 years and if I hadn't gotten injured on the job and been bitter for how I was treated I'd have used them...But they would never take this long to deliver a package this close. It would have been in my hub and out for delivery within 2 days the latest. Hell, when I was at UPS there were a few times I didn't do my route so I could deliver a package to another state (NY/PA) or down the shore because it was mis-sorted to our hub and they didn't want to miss the guarantee on the package.
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Post by rickyslick on Aug 7, 2008 19:01:52 GMT -5
PJ , not to rub it in , but let me tell you it will be well worth the wait! My other Dynamite is in the city . I will pick him up this weekend. A day away from having my GREATEST figure hopes realized. God Bless Jakks.  |
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Post by PJ on Aug 7, 2008 19:30:03 GMT -5
Sure rub it in.  |
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Post by rickyslick on Aug 7, 2008 19:44:42 GMT -5
Oh come on PJ you've got one of the best collection of multiple lines I have ever seen. JLU,DCUC,ALL THINGS BATMAN, JAKKS, and I Belive Toy Biz ML, one day and one figure won't hurt  |
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Post by D-Rock on Aug 7, 2008 19:55:57 GMT -5
I'm making my order later on tonight.
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Post by PJ on Aug 7, 2008 20:15:06 GMT -5
Oh come on PJ you've got one of the best collection of multiple lines I have ever seen. JLU,DCUC,ALL THINGS BATMAN, JAKKS, and I Belive Toy Biz ML, one day and one figure won't hurt It's just very frustrating...especially seeing I was hoping/planning to fix him up over today & tomorrow. But now I don't think I'll have the time until at least Tuesday. As this weekend is shot and Monday I have to take & pick up my wife & daughter to the Weehawken Ferry staiton so my wife can take our daughter to see the Jonus Bros. at the Garden...So Monday is out as well. as I'll probaby just hang out at the ferry station until they get back so I don't have to waste all that gas driving back & forth. |
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Post by Greensborohill on Aug 7, 2008 20:45:10 GMT -5
I'm in Hatteras right now but mine came yesterday and will be waiting in the house when I get home. . .
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Post by plasticsuperstar on Aug 7, 2008 20:58:58 GMT -5
I'm desperate for you to get your Dynamite Kid too PJ because I want to see some awesome high quality loose photos of the figure that I too have wanted most since I started collecting. I wasn't impressed with the proto, it looked like it had both the HW thighs and longer shin tongueless boots which was going to make him the wrong shape and too tall. It looks like the body is perfect now on the final product. I also saw no resemblence at all in the face of the proto but even that was looking better in the MOC pics and now I'm really looking forward to getting the figure. Your photos are the next best thing to actually getting the figure myself so I've got my fingers crossed that it turns up either later today (if possible) or tommorrow morning.
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Post by carly1988 on Aug 7, 2008 21:02:33 GMT -5
Thats crazy PJ....I got mine in the mail today (actually came yesterday but I wasnt here to sign for it) im doing some fix ups on Flair and Sullivan and then Ill post some pics
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Post by PJ on Aug 7, 2008 21:07:34 GMT -5
Today's done as it 10PM...And he comes around 2-3PM. I know he'd have been out of scale, but I actually didn't mind that the proto had the tongue-less boots. Mainly because I hate the tongue boots mold. I don't know why, but there is something about it I don't like. (I think it's because it makes the ankles look even fatter) So I wouldn't have minded the other boots, especially seeing we are on CS20 and there are so many great figures that aren't in scale. (Studd, All managers, Rick Steiner, Kane, Taker just to name a few) But I really can't wait for Dynamite. (I feel like a kid waiting for Christams) I wanted to do one of these two attires with one of them, but I don't think I will now as I really won't have the time for a while - blue trunks-  or black trunks - |
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Post by 49% Motherf**ker, 51% SOB on Aug 8, 2008 11:24:43 GMT -5
He's probaly beating his wife up still.
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Post by PJ on Aug 8, 2008 13:17:13 GMT -5
OK Now I'm really going to snap. Today I get a package from RSC, but it's not my CS20 Dynamite Kids that shipped Monday...It's my CS19 Cactus Jack & Tatanka that RSC shipped out yesterday! Called the PO and they have no clue to where my other package is right now.
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Post by skribbel24 on Aug 8, 2008 14:02:49 GMT -5
Wow, PJ, it seems that you always get bad luck out of shipping. Hope it turns up soon, I know I'd be upset if I were in your position.
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Post by adramelech on Aug 9, 2008 6:15:52 GMT -5
Ringside sends me a tracking number and it tells me when it will be delivered so I'm not shocked when it gets here. I got my set on Friday just like the website said I would.
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