T-Phunk
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Post by T-Phunk on Dec 17, 2009 22:49:50 GMT -5
Well, I guess I am also one of the lucky ones. My wife and I were Christmas shopping for the nieces and we stumbled on the Animal. Although I agreed not to buy Mattel figures until we were in a better place financially, my wife insisted that she had to get it for me as an early stocking stuffer since it was pre-street date and therefore all the more special.   The figure looks great except the color of the head does not match the color of the rest of the body. It was really noticeable under the fluorescent lights of TRU, but not as bad in my less brightly lit home. Since there are others already posted I am not going to show loose pics for now, but wanted to share the good news with fellow hunters and sing the praises of my super awesome wife. |
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Post by kjtoys on Dec 17, 2009 22:55:31 GMT -5
nice find. I called all my tru's looking for them today but no luck.
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Post by JCF on Dec 17, 2009 23:00:49 GMT -5
RT. 17 bro? Congrats on the find man. I'm gonna check one more TRU tomorrow and hopefully I find Cena, Kofi and Batista. If I don't, oh well.
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T-Phunk
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Post by T-Phunk on Dec 17, 2009 23:09:09 GMT -5
RT. 17 bro? Congrats on the find man. I'm gonna check one more TRU tomorrow and hopefully I find Cena, Kofi and Batista. If I don't, oh well. Yeah Johnny 17. I would have preferred to find Show, but I have always wanted a Batista in the red on read gear and have passed on Jakks due to the lack of back design on the trunks. Either way, it was a great early gift from the Mrs. I thought I wouldn't see these in my collection until mid 2010 or so. I was at 46 yesterday and didn't see anything. No idea about today, but they were unloading a major truck right to the floor at the time. |
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Post by JCF on Dec 17, 2009 23:15:01 GMT -5
Yeah I'll have to try my luck with one of these crazy places tomorrow. It sucks they open at 6 in the morning now because I won't have the time until at least 2 or 3 in the afternoon to go looking. Hopefully they don't sell out or better yet, hopefully whatever store I go to HAS the set...
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Post by CollectiblesRob on Dec 17, 2009 23:36:53 GMT -5
DAMNN! haha, I went to North Bergen, Seacacus [where I purchased the RAW ring], Union, RT 46 and Wayne Hills today and no luck. And literally, the only other Toys R Us' in North Jersey are the Paramus on 17, and 4 =/. Well I'm definitely happy for you regardless, enjoy! Mattel is shaping up to be a phenominal line. And I completely understand your appreciation of your wife, I'm licenseless at the moment and my brave and loving girlfriend has been carting me around for these bad boys. Enjoy the tista!
Also T-Phunk, was he the only one there im assuming?
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T-Phunk
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Post by T-Phunk on Dec 18, 2009 1:51:09 GMT -5
Yep he was all alone on the peg. And Johnny, fear not about going out at 2:00, you can see on the receipt that I didn't pick up mine until 7:00 PM. Of course with toy hunting the early bird gets the worm, but no a lot of collectors were expecting these, so you may still get lucky.
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Post by PJ on Dec 18, 2009 5:28:45 GMT -5
Very cool, my wife found a complete set at Nanuet last night on the way home from work. It was about 5pm when she got there and the Cena was a 1/1000. She left Kofi & Bourne, because I didn't want them.
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Post by The Silent Flute (joepetree) on Dec 18, 2009 9:59:33 GMT -5
Man i wish i had money to buy some Of The Mattel figs
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Post by Mirror Images on Dec 18, 2009 10:00:39 GMT -5
I think the shops are trying to cash in on the christmas sales so they got them out early. Must have been a nice surprise.
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