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Post by Gangrel-Brood on May 10, 2014 18:29:28 GMT -5
Gangrel-Brood @monoxide23 I went to Kmart today and found Thunder 4x4 and Mega Bite and the new Captain's Curse All I know about Thunder 4x4 is that it was at the show I didn't go to this past February. Mega Bite was included, as well. Kind of surprising it took 'em this long to make MB, considering all it took was a repaint job on Brutus. As for Captain's Curse...I guess I'll have to live with another Zombie. I know it's a little early, but...what could they include with trucks next year? We've gotten tattoos, flags, cards, cars, minifigures...what else is there? Barricade pieces? I personally hope they go back to crush cars, but Mattel isn't exactly known for repeating things like that.
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2014 18:45:32 GMT -5
Gangrel-Brood @monoxide23 I went to Kmart today and found Thunder 4x4 and Mega Bite and the new Captain's Curse I've never heard of Thunder 4x4. And I like CC in black, he looks more like Blacksmith
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Post by JC Motors on May 10, 2014 18:55:03 GMT -5
Gangrel-Brood @monoxide23 I went to Kmart today and found Thunder 4x4 and Mega Bite and the new Captain's Curse All I know about Thunder 4x4 is that it was at the show I didn't go to this past February. Mega Bite was included, as well. Kind of surprising it took 'em this long to make MB, considering all it took was a repaint job on Brutus. As for Captain's Curse...I guess I'll have to live with another Zombie. I know it's a little early, but...what could they include with trucks next year? We've gotten tattoos, flags, cards, cars, minifigures...what else is there? Barricade pieces? I personally hope they go back to crush cars, but Mattel isn't exactly known for repeating things like that. maybe barrels ramps, mini posters
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Post by Gangrel-Brood on May 15, 2014 10:01:00 GMT -5
I got my eBay lot of trucks yesterday! Most of them are in pretty good condition, with only a handful having deep chips in the paint, which I'm trying to fix with some acrylic paint pens and sealer for metal. I thought I'd like metal based-trucks more than I do...they're not the best and I'm sort of happy they switched to plastic. I'm debating on whether I want to try a couple on my motorized MJ playsets, but fear the extra heft of the metal will put more strain on the mechanisms and burn the motors out. A few days ago, I purchased Mud Trucks Wrecking Crew and Edge Glow Jurassic Attack. Yes, I know gimmick trucks are dumb, but I never found either truck in their "ungimmicked" form and decided I may as well pick them up. The Edge Glow is hardly noticeable on JA and the Mud Trucks look pretty okay for the most part, with Batman being the only exception out of the ones I have (horrible brown spots placed at random all over). I also have yellow El Toro Loco on the way via a seller on Amazon...I simply couldn't wait to find it on store shelves and Becky McDonough is my favorite of the El Toro Loco drivers, so impatience got the better of me.
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Post by JC Motors on May 25, 2014 16:40:56 GMT -5
I still haven't been able to find The Homer. My Walmart and Kmart haven't gotten new cars in months
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Post by Gangrel-Brood on May 26, 2014 8:46:21 GMT -5
I still haven't been able to find The Homer. My Walmart and Kmart haven't gotten new cars in months The last case we got a few weeks ago had some sort of Klingon ship and a Batmobile from a cartoon series I've never seen (I'm guessing). The scalping has gotten to the point of having the majority of the pegs filled with the unrealistic crap that even little kids wouldn't want, so fresh cases are few and far between. We still have the Fig Rig in Hot Wheels (blue with the logo plastered all over it) colors, but I only have, like, one minifigure left of my entire collection and the first two Fig Rigs are just sitting around and collecting dust. The Mighty Minis of yellow El Toro Loco and King Krunch in black and purple should be here soon, so I'm all caught up on those.
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Post by JC Motors on May 26, 2014 15:34:01 GMT -5
I still haven't been able to find The Homer. My Walmart and Kmart haven't gotten new cars in months The last case we got a few weeks ago had some sort of Klingon ship and a Batmobile from a cartoon series I've never seen (I'm guessing). The scalping has gotten to the point of having the majority of the pegs filled with the unrealistic crap that even little kids wouldn't want, so fresh cases are few and far between. We still have the Fig Rig in Hot Wheels (blue with the logo plastered all over it) colors, but I only have, like, one minifigure left of my entire collection and the first two Fig Rigs are just sitting around and collecting dust. The Mighty Minis of yellow El Toro Loco and King Krunch in black and purple should be here soon, so I'm all caught up on those. That's the USS Vengeance from Star Trek Into Darkness. It's going to be hot commodity like the Enterprise was
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Post by JC Motors on May 30, 2014 11:29:48 GMT -5
I found the USS Vengeance today at the grocery store. I bought the only 2. one to open and one to leave MOC
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Post by JC Motors on Jun 19, 2014 17:50:20 GMT -5
Gangrel-Brood @monoxide23 I was in the grocery store today when I saw the new The Patriot. It has the updated Chevrolet bodystyle on it. It looks amazing. Also you should check out lamleydlm.blogspot.com/ they have an exclusive deal with Mattel to be the first to unveil the latest upcoming Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars. sadly they don't show Monster Jam trucks
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2014 23:29:03 GMT -5
Glad they finally got new molds.
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Post by Gangrel-Brood on Jun 20, 2014 8:16:07 GMT -5
I discovered they made a buttload more Mighty Minis for 2014 and kind of went crazy scoopin' 'em up on eBay. Among the new ones is Avenger (both in normal and red World Finals colors), Mohawk Warrior, Zombie, Stone Crusher (?!), Inferno, and Bad Habit. I believe I'm all caught up yet again. Thank goodness I bought more storage boxes that have compartments that are the perfect size to hold the trucks so I don't wind up stepping on them, because they look like they'd hurt. I remember seeing something about a new HWMJ playset, but have yet to see it anywhere on the secondary market. Guess I'll just have to keep waitin'. EDIT: oopsie-doodle! It appears that in my Mighty Mini-buying frenzy, I'd somehow missed the black El Toro Loco/HW Firestorm set. I've since corrected that oversight and should be expecting it in the mail soon. I DID find a new MM playset, however, in the form of Grave Digger's Graveyard, which is another one of the mid-priced sets with lil' accessories 'n ramps 'n whatnot, with a ghoulish theme. I'm not gonna lie, it's a pretty awesome set and I'm just so happy to have found something new in a store as opposed to paying online prices due to hardly ever finding anything new in the area. I didn't purchase any regular HWMJ, but I did see a pretty cool Demolition Doubles set I hadn't seen before; El Toro Loco (red) and Bulldozer. I find it interesting because Bulldozer doesn't get many releases nowadays and it's a good opportunity for people like me who've wanted more trucks that were prominent in the late-nineties/early-oughts that aren't around anymore. Fortunately, I'd already gotten a singles Bulldozer a couple of years ago, so I passed on the set. The other new two-pack I saw was Edge Glow Predator and Monster Mutt with the '14 body tooling. I like how Mattel has been rereleasing rather hard-to-find trucks this way to give customers more chances to pick them up. Sure, you may wind up with an extra truck you don't need (Grave Digger, I'm looking in your direction), but having spares isn't necessarily a bad thing.
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Post by Gangrel-Brood on Jun 21, 2014 22:23:37 GMT -5
Mike Vaters and I One of my favorite drivers/trucks Sorry to double-post and quote something from so long ago, but seeing this picture reminds me of the Youtube video that I've probably watched more times than any other monster truck video online. Monster trucks of the eighties and early-nineties were so crazy, using experimental ideas (such as airbags in lieu of springs or hydraulics as shown in the above video) and heavy bodies that were expensive to replace. This stuff is what got me into monster trucks in the first place, and I hope that one day, Mattel will make more trucks from this era so weirdos like me can have a whole field of them.
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Post by JC Motors on Jul 2, 2014 12:33:45 GMT -5
@monoxide23 Gangrel-Brood I haven't bought a monster jam truck in ages, my Walmart hasn't stocked new trucks in months. Remember the Speed Racer cars that came out in 2008 and how the flopped so bad just like the movie? I remember seeing tons of them in the Dollar Tree
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2014 13:19:56 GMT -5
Yeah, it's been pretty dry around here
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Post by Gangrel-Brood on Jul 3, 2014 15:00:42 GMT -5
@monoxide23 Gangrel-Brood I haven't bought a monster jam truck in ages, my Walmart hasn't stocked new trucks in months. Remember the Speed Racer cars that came out in 2008 and how the flopped so bad just like the movie? I remember seeing tons of them in the Dollar Tree I bought the pack that had the Mach 4, Mach 5, Mach 6, Racer X, and Snake Oiler's cars...and that was all I wanted. My store got a new case of HWMJ this past Monday, but it was the one with Scooby Doo again (which the town scalper promptly scooped up shortly thereafter). I'm hoping new cases will start flooding the pegs when we get closer to fall, I hate having to pay secondary market prices for trucks simply because new cases never make it to my area.
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Post by JC Motors on Jul 3, 2014 15:16:16 GMT -5
I still haven't found The Homer yet, It's frustrating
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Post by JC Motors on Jul 5, 2014 15:25:53 GMT -5
I saw the new Rev Rod, I'm not going to buy it even though it is from the Hot Wheels animated special or movie.
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Post by PJ on Jul 6, 2014 4:36:27 GMT -5
The other day I picked up two of the battle damaged Enterprise ships.
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Post by JC Motors on Jul 6, 2014 9:42:58 GMT -5
The other day I picked up two of the battle damaged Enterprise ships. They have the USS Vengeance now too.
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Post by Gangrel-Brood on Jul 19, 2014 15:19:00 GMT -5
Some of the New Bright Monster Jam RCs have popped up on TRU.com. Hopefully they make their way to stores in my area so I can buy an El Toro Loco, pop the body off, put it on a hobby grade RC truck, then throw the rest of it away.
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