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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2013 23:19:51 GMT -5
I'm starting to believe more and more that this does not exist.
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Post by savagepoffo on Sept 2, 2013 23:38:27 GMT -5
I wish the Mattel Design Team would just speak up on the situation......it's not a big deal but would like to know
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Post by poindizzle on Sept 3, 2013 0:16:26 GMT -5
The point was to see if anyone has found one. Maybe somebody had seen one and didn't even realize there had been a variant. I updated the old thread to avoid needless questions that would arise from bringing the topic up again. 3 pages worth of explanations are in this thread.
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Post by skribbel24 on Sept 3, 2013 2:23:43 GMT -5
Aw, I was expecting pictures of the corrected Honky.
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Post by The Mask of Truth on Sept 3, 2013 3:46:52 GMT -5
Lol, we're all disappointed, I thought you had found the Damn thing.
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Post by The Madness on Sept 3, 2013 7:48:55 GMT -5
It's commendable to want to keep everything in the same thread, but you might want to take off the "update" part of the title, since it's already bumped anyway (if it will let you edit).
I thought you found one or Mattel had confirmed or denied it.
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Post by YES! YES! YES! on Sept 3, 2013 8:55:31 GMT -5
I THINK I saw it at the Wildwood NJ figure store. Dont quote me though.
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Post by WMDman on Sept 3, 2013 9:00:29 GMT -5
Well, I'm disappointed
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Post by MrPerfect25 on Sept 3, 2013 9:22:49 GMT -5
I did not wanna hold out for some dumb painted on belt at the risk of missing out on ever getting a HTM. I bought the first 2 I ever saw.
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Post by poindizzle on Sept 3, 2013 9:25:05 GMT -5
Okay, I changed the title to not get anyone's hopes up, and now let's all shift the conversation. It would appear that nobody had ever found the updated Honky Tonk Man.
Is this a big deal? Yes and No. See, Mattel didn't fulfill something that they said they would and there could be any number of reasons for it, probably all good. I can imagine since Mattel Design Team is completely removed from Mattel Corporate that they are all just a bunch of artists working blue and the man says that they can't afford it after promising that they could budget for it. Budget cuts at jobs happen all the time and corporate always seem to back-pedal on it's workers.
I really wish that MDT could just put this topic to rest. I really do. The reason why it has been an issue has nothing to do with whether or not it is a grievous omission to not have the belt. The figure looks all-right without it. The problem is when Mattel tells collectors that this collector item that only the adults on this page will be truly interested in is going to have a better version coming in a revision wave, how many people held out and didn't buy the first one and have now missed the opportunity to get it. See, they basically planted this idea in their main market for this particular item that they shouldn't buy it but wait.
So who among the board didn't buy one and now can't find one?
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Post by MrPerfect25 on Sept 3, 2013 9:45:37 GMT -5
It is a big deal because MDT said it was made and would be available. No grey area. They confirmed it.
Not a big deal to me however.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2013 11:47:55 GMT -5
I bought one the moment I saw it retail. Not having the belt doesn't bother me and to be honest, I probably would have never noticed it missing if not for these message boards.
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Post by AlexWestCollects on Sept 3, 2013 12:06:35 GMT -5
Every title has been deceiving. I thought MDT chimed in or something. Just lock this thread n let us be done with it.
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Post by kingnothing ~ Hardwired... on Sept 3, 2013 13:36:48 GMT -5
It is a big deal because MDT said it was made and would be available. No grey area. They confirmed it. Not a big deal to me however. I politely disagree. Maybe Mattel made it. It's sitting in their warehouses waiting to be ordered, but by the time it got there retailers had already purchased the revision case and moved on. Every so often a Ross, TJ Max, Marshall's etc, gets figures just like this at discounted prices and sell them cheaper as well. I'd consider that grey area. But the reality is simple: they designed the figure, the belt design was missed for any number of reasons, and here we are, moved on two sets passed. We are the Internet and we're dramatic to the point of threatening boycotts if things don't go our way, but we "should" be thankful that we have a representative that gets on the boards from time to time to give us follow up that really isn't "owed" to us by any contract or fine print listed on the back of a plastic toy box.
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Post by MrPerfect25 on Sept 3, 2013 14:30:26 GMT -5
The grey area was people wondering whether MDT speculated that there might be a revision, or if they actually said 100% that there was one and it was already in production.
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Post by "Deadman"13tazz13 on Sept 3, 2013 14:40:10 GMT -5
I bought two and neither had the belt.
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Post by poindizzle on Sept 3, 2013 21:58:07 GMT -5
Every title has been deceiving. I thought MDT chimed in or something. Just lock this thread n let us be done with it. Oh my God, I give up. How is this deceiving? Changed a-farking-gain.
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Post by AlexWestCollects on Sept 3, 2013 22:00:15 GMT -5
Every title has been deceiving. I thought MDT chimed in or something. Just lock this thread n let us be done with it. Oh my God, I give up. How is this deceiving? Changed a-farking-gain. It says updated. What proof or confirmation do u have that it doesn't exist? While I agree it doesn't exist there's no need to have update in caps like there's breaking news.
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Post by poindizzle on Sept 3, 2013 22:02:55 GMT -5
Oh my God, I give up. How is this deceiving? Changed a-farking-gain. It says updated. What proof or confirmation do u have that it doesn't exist? While I agree it doesn't exist there's no need to have update in caps like there's breaking news. Look, I'm really not trying to be rude or jerk anybody around. I put update so that someone doesn't inevitably either say "WTF, I didn't realize that this thread was old" or scold me by saying "Y U bump old Thread?!?!?" It's the only reason I wrote update in the title. It's completely changed now.
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Post by AlexWestCollects on Sept 3, 2013 22:04:52 GMT -5
It says updated. What proof or confirmation do u have that it doesn't exist? While I agree it doesn't exist there's no need to have update in caps like there's breaking news. Look, I'm really not trying to be rude or jerk anybody around. I put update so that someone doesn't inevitably either say "WTF, I didn't realize that this thread was old" or scold me by saying "Y U bump old Thread?!?!?" It's the only reason I wrote update in the title. It's completely changed now. All good buddy. It's just when u read it, it's like oh MDT said something.
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