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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2013 23:47:40 GMT -5
Saw him once and bought him. Never saw him again.
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Post by BCizzle on Apr 28, 2013 18:22:00 GMT -5
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Post by JC Motors on Apr 28, 2013 18:34:00 GMT -5
I only saw him in the Kmart cube they had earlier this year. there was 2 in the Cube. Other than that I never saw it in stores again. If I'm not mistaken there were revision cases without Jerry Lawler
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Post by WWE Common Terry on Apr 28, 2013 18:47:34 GMT -5
I hope so. I had to fight TRU tooth and nail to get him for the right price!
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Post by slappy on Apr 28, 2013 18:51:53 GMT -5
Not when you are talking about action figures. Rare means not much produced. Hard to find doesn't mean that. It just means the person cannot find it. There could be a million made and someone could not find it in their area. Does not mean it is rare. Rare - Jakks Warrior America Not rare - E18 Jerry Lawler
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2013 18:54:16 GMT -5
Oh look another fight a brewing
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Post by Lorenzo Alcazar on Apr 28, 2013 19:22:21 GMT -5
I think it depends on the area. We've seen people in this thread say they've still got them in their stores, others are saying they never saw the figure once. The situation is clearly different for everyone.
With Mattel's distribution problems, you never know if your stores/area is going to get flooded with a certain Series or if a specific Series is going to miss you all together.
I can only speak to what my specific stores went through in my area (Fishkill, NY/Poughkeepsie, NY):
The week after Thanksgiving, my Toys R Us got about 15 cases of Elite 18, so I had no problems finding any of the Elite 18 figures. My Walmart and Kmart never got Elite 18, and my Target stocked it probably 3 times.
With Elite 19, it was a totally different story. My Walmart got ONE case in, which I had been told my my friend who works there when they were going to be in, and he helped me get Brock, Dolph, and Kane. I never saw Liz or HBK in stores, but was lucky enough to get them off Mattelshop. No other stores near me (TRU, Kmart or Target have gotten in Elite 19), my TRU skipped straight to 20 and my Walmart and Target haven't had ANY Elites since mid February. My Kamart only has 3 Elite 17 John Cena's.
So, I think the figure situation is different for everyone depending on what area we are in, so arguing is pretty pointless because we are technically all right pertaining to our own specific situations.
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Post by Chip on Apr 28, 2013 19:29:17 GMT -5
no figure that is released to mass retail stores across the country is "rare"
i saw E18 Lawler at TRU a couple times, and no more than 2 at a time. That's it. Mattel's distribution is horrendous.
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Post by Last Trent Barreta Fan on Apr 28, 2013 19:57:22 GMT -5
I actually never saw E18 at all.
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Post by gps on Apr 28, 2013 20:07:29 GMT -5
In my area he was. Never seen him once,yet i seen everyone else numerous times.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2013 20:08:08 GMT -5
Saw Lawler once and didn't purchase because I was short on funds at the time. Thought I would see him again but never did and ordered from RSC.
Saw ABA Taker once and luckily didn't test my luck again.
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Post by BCizzle on Apr 28, 2013 21:43:19 GMT -5
no figure that is released to mass retail stores across the country is "rare" i saw E18 Lawler at TRU a couple times, and no more than 2 at a time. That's it. Mattel's distribution is horrendous. In theory, your first statement is true. But in practice, it's not. Since Ebay has made it so easy for so many to scalp from the comforts of their homes, finding in-demand figures can be awful. They can pack Ryback three per case, but if most stores don't get in the series, and those that get out on shelves are grabbed up by some greedy hoarder who wants to squeeze some bucks outta desperate buyers, then the figure ends up being rare. I guess they are rare to find in stores but not rare in actual numbers of existence. But if the supply doesn't mean the demand, or the supply is artificially lessened by scalpers/hoarders/etc, then they do become rare. If there is only one of something that no one wants, it's not rare because no one wants to find it. If there are 100s of somethings that 1000s want to buy, then it will acquire rarity. It's all economics stuff. But I do hate when people ask if something here is rare because they normally just want to know if they should pick it up to scalp or how much they can get after having scooped it up. That said, I got Ryback on my mind because I finally found one in a junky Wal-Mart today - and it didn't cost me $40! It's definitely rare where I live, even though I remember that d-bag who had a pic of 8 of them in his TRU shopping cart.
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Post by PJ on Apr 29, 2013 5:30:13 GMT -5
No that just makes it popular not rare. Especially the B27 Ryback. That figure was produced in greater numbers than everyone else in the set. (I saw stores get full cases of just Ryback) so nothing about that figure was rare. Just because scalpers grabbed every one of them doesn't make it rare. Because numbers wise it was the most common figure produced in the set regardless of who found/purchased them or not.
Rare figures = lower production number like the 1/1000 figures
Popular/Hard to find figures are not the same thing as rare.
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