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Post by JC Motors on Oct 30, 2013 15:18:15 GMT -5
I went to AutoZone up the street from where I live and bought Inferno. I was surprised that inferno was still there since the last time I was in AutoZone. I almost thought it would be like making the mistake of passing on Airborne Ranger at AutoZone.
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Post by Gangrel-Brood on Oct 31, 2013 13:30:39 GMT -5
I'm thinking there are a lot of Inferno hanging on the pegs across the nation, it's only seen live at special shows and hadn't been on TV. Mattel made a good call by only making it one-per.
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Post by JC Motors on Nov 1, 2013 21:07:36 GMT -5
Inferno's 1:24 is warming pretty bad at my Walmart
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Post by Sizzle on Nov 18, 2013 21:49:44 GMT -5
This was my hobby before wrestling figures. I have like 30.
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Post by Gangrel-Brood on Nov 20, 2013 9:03:03 GMT -5
Just a heads-up, from the 22nd-28th, basic Hot Wheels cars will be sixty cents at Walmart. A lot of other HW products are being greatly reduced during that timeframe, too. Also, I dug around in the backroom and happened across a special MJ Boneyard Bash rerelease which comes with Grave Digger, GD the Legend, and Son-Uva Digger for fifteen bucks. The playset is pretty cool, and the addition of the trucks sweetens the pot. I'm unsure as to whether this will be available for purchase during the pre-Black Friday sale or Black Friday itself, but I'm totally getting one, even though I already have the playset and trucks.
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Post by JC Motors on Nov 21, 2013 12:16:33 GMT -5
Just a heads-up, from the 22nd-28th, basic Hot Wheels cars will be sixty cents at Walmart. A lot of other HW products are being greatly reduced during that timeframe, too. Also, I dug around in the backroom and happened across a special MJ Boneyard Bash rerelease which comes with Grave Digger, GD the Legend, and Son-Uva Digger for fifteen bucks. The playset is pretty cool, and the addition of the trucks sweetens the pot. I'm unsure as to whether this will be available for purchase during the pre-Black Friday sale or Black Friday itself, but I'm totally getting one, even though I already have the playset and trucks. That's a good price for a basic car. I remember in 2004 and 2005ish they were $0.78 in the summer time
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Post by Gangrel-Brood on Nov 23, 2013 9:55:23 GMT -5
They used to be fifty cents (sometimes twenty-five) back when I was a little boy, and my dad loved cars, so I have quite the collection because of the price.
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Post by JC Motors on Nov 25, 2013 15:38:00 GMT -5
I bought Donkey Kong at a thrift store today for $0.25
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Post by JC Motors on Nov 30, 2013 20:59:14 GMT -5
Walmart put out more 2014 Hot Wheels cars, I picked up 2 Herbie's the 1990 Honda Civic EF, the Porsche Panamera, and the Alfa Romeo 8C
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Post by Gangrel-Brood on Dec 5, 2013 13:31:15 GMT -5
Picked up the new purple Bad News Travels Fast...only because the chassis appears to be made of metal (or, at the very least, vac-metalized). I've yet to open it, so I can't tell you for sure which is the case. This is the kind of purchase I make when we've been getting the same set over and over again and I'm fiending for some fresh plastic. EDIT: Crap, it's X-Rays, that explains why the chassis is so purdy.
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Post by JC Motors on Dec 6, 2013 9:43:36 GMT -5
2014 trucks come with a figure
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Post by Gangrel-Brood on Dec 6, 2013 14:33:00 GMT -5
2014 trucks come with a figure ...guess I'll be rebuying a lot of trucks I already have. EDIT: nevermind, I just looked up some pictures...I THINK I can live without those figures...of course, I say this before I have any in-hand. The new packaging looks sweet, though!...even though they'll blend in with the regular Hot Wheels cars now.
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Post by Gangrel-Brood on Dec 7, 2013 12:12:26 GMT -5
Just ordered some Radio Shack Zip Zaps of Bigfoot, Monster Patrol, and Carolina Crusher on eBay, along with upgrade motor and wheel sets. This is either going to be the best lunchtime fun investment I've ever made, or a big ol' headache. I can't believe how crazy I go with purchasing things when I get a quarterly bonus on top of selling my stocks.
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Post by JC Motors on Dec 20, 2013 12:17:33 GMT -5
Anyway I wonder what Then trucks are going to be released in 2014. I'm guessing it will be Samson I, Predator and Sudden Impact. We might see a new Backdraft body as well. I managed to find the Hot Wheels 1974 Brazilian Dodge Charger at Walmart the other day
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Post by Gangrel-Brood on Dec 20, 2013 20:23:01 GMT -5
The first set of 2014 MJ models is out. I picked up the more colorful Max-D (is it supposed to be the "spiked" version without the spikes?) and noticed that the Batman from the set has exactly what I wanted: the Arkham games logo where the '89 movie logo used to be. Of course, the store I visited didn't have it, so I had to settle for ordering it online along with Razin' Kane, since it's a truck that's been on my hitlist for a while and the Amazon seller of Batman had it listed in their store.
The minifigures are a downgrade of the crushable cars of last year, they don't necessarily come in handy for anything and the decal work is poor (probably due to the size of them). The Mighty Minis can knock 'em down, anyway...
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Post by JC Motors on Dec 22, 2013 19:20:37 GMT -5
I think the mini figures are as pointless as the tattoos and flags
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Post by Gangrel-Brood on Dec 23, 2013 9:24:53 GMT -5
I think the mini figures are as pointless as the tattoos and flags I agree, the crush cars are at least useful. They should've just stuck with them. I just realized how silly the Batman truck looks in the 2014 series...the way the real one looks now, it's missing the "jets" and instead has a big ugly Bat logo to help keep the fins from getting crushed, as it often did with Seasock behind the wheel. Considering how long it takes Mattel to make new MJ molds, we won't see a correct body for Batman until '16, after it's been taken off the tour again. For those unaware, there's a MJ app coming out next month (there's a countdown timer on the official website). I'm excited, seeing that the last game was in 2011 and was a step in the right direction in terms of realism and fun, even on DS. Hopefully my iPod can handle it, it struggles with Monster Truck Destruction (which is an awesome game, too).
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Post by JC Motors on Dec 26, 2013 12:58:07 GMT -5
I would love to see Hot Wheels make some Then trucks that used to compete in the USHRA circuit and Monster Jam from many years ago, such as Thunder Chicken. Also I find it odd that in the Monster Jam lines infancy, they made 1:64 ride trucks that never competed such as The Monster Bus owned by Jack Koberna and Super Trucker. Both of those trucks are worth some money
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Post by Gangrel-Brood on Jan 2, 2014 11:11:59 GMT -5
My store got in a new set of MJ 2-packs. I bought CRUSHSTATION~!/Shark Wreak, Grave Digger/Max-D (tenth anniversary "spikes"), Batman (Arkham logo)/Superman (clean with clear windows, the Supes I got before had amber windows, which bugged me to no end), and left HW Firestorm/Metal Mulisha on the pegs. I'm not entirely sure why I purchased so many, seeing that I have all but Shark Wreak, but hey, gotta bulk up my GD collection by one more and I'm one Max-D away from being able to recreate this past World Finals encore.
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Post by JC Motors on Jan 2, 2014 17:41:48 GMT -5
Scooby Doo is one of the New 2014 trucks. It's going for some bucks on eBay because it just came out.
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