americanhyena
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Post by americanhyena on Aug 27, 2017 16:21:07 GMT -5
I've got about eight Walmarts in driving distance, and I'd say maybe half of them have Natural Disasters in stock. At least half of them still have the WCW Savage too (and at least one of them still have Breeze and Bam Bam).
I don't think we have anything to worry about. Breeze and Bigelow were pretty easy to find for a long time around me too. Weirdly, I've only ever seen Rock and Rusev in person once (passed on both--can't speak for everyone but Rock just didn't do it for me and that Rusev headscan is...uh...somethin' else.)
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Post by hitmancmedge on Aug 27, 2017 16:34:03 GMT -5
I've got about eight Walmarts in driving distance, and I'd say maybe half of them have Natural Disasters in stock. At least half of them still have the WCW Savage too (and at least one of them still have Breeze and Bam Bam). I don't think we have anything to worry about. Breeze and Bigelow were pretty easy to find for a long time around me too. Weirdly, I've only ever seen Rock and Rusev in person once (passed on both--can't speak for everyone but Rock just didn't do it for me and that Rusev headscan is...uh...somethin' else.) I'd buy that breeze and bam bam if I was you and use it as trade bait. Not a lot of them him the east coast and I have seen some guys on fb trade good stuff for them.
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Post by Artie Kendall on Aug 27, 2017 16:38:11 GMT -5
TNF will die when they release no legends/flashbacks. Well it will be dead to me.
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Post by marino13 on Aug 27, 2017 17:26:19 GMT -5
I think this was the perfect set to release the Natural Disasters. But I think limiting their numbers may have been a wise move. The market for them is very small. I mean I grew up watching them. Remember both very well. And even I wasn't crazy about buying them. Just wasn't much of a fan. But the figures looked so good that I went ahead and grabbed a set. There are 7 Walmarts within driving distance of me. 0 have Natural Disasters. All of them have Sami Zayn That's so weird. I too have traveled to 6-7 Walmart stores and Sami is the only one sold out in my area. I saw him when they first hit. Bought him. And only seen him one other time. Meanwhile, Savage, Earthquake, & Typhoon are just sitting and waiting.
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Post by rkmo: Cheats & Geeks on Aug 27, 2017 18:09:22 GMT -5
The hardest fig to find in my area out of the 1st two TNF Elite Series has been The Rock, followed by Bam Bam. A couple Breeze figs sat for the majority of the year among TNF 2, which are still plentiful. All 4 available at one Walmart the last time I checked.
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Post by bradpitt on Aug 27, 2017 19:17:55 GMT -5
4 walmarts near me all have loads of these
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Post by DZ: WF Legacy on Aug 27, 2017 19:22:18 GMT -5
Just checked mine. They just have about 4 of them, so definitely not too shabby. Anxiously awaiting the Liz set.
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Post by The neferious brotha Hargrove on Aug 27, 2017 19:54:00 GMT -5
Flashbacks clog shelves unless it's a big name(they sit shelves awhile too), and all the obscure wrestlers Mattel puts they kill lines and rot on shelves
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Post by Calcifer Boheme on Aug 27, 2017 20:13:36 GMT -5
I think there are three Quakes, one Typhoon, and a couple of Machos here, so not too bad.
The thing that sucks is that all but one Quake has had the title belts taken, and the packages torn up. They are still charging full price for them though. If they'd drop the price, I'd probably get them, as don't really need the belts. But I don't want to pay full price for an incomplete figure just out of principle.
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Post by Matt Hardy Collector on Aug 27, 2017 20:21:57 GMT -5
Earthquake and Typhoon are nice, but they aren't well known by enough of the younger crowd to warrant them buying them. Tugboat was recently released and he still can be found on some shelves. Natural Disasters should've been a HOF 2 pack or even a Ringside exclusive set. While they aren't the death of the line, they will clog the arteries for a bit and slow the newer figures from hitting. This happens all the time though, the Elites have Apollo Crews and Regal sitting on pegs in quite a few stores around me.
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Post by Nivro™ on Aug 27, 2017 20:53:07 GMT -5
I think this was the perfect set to release the Natural Disasters. But I think limiting their numbers may have been a wise move. The market for them is very small. I mean I grew up watching them. Remember both very well. And even I wasn't crazy about buying them. Just wasn't much of a fan. But the figures looked so good that I went ahead and grabbed a set. There are 7 Walmarts within driving distance of me. 0 have Natural Disasters. All of them have Sami Zayn That's so weird. I too have traveled to 6-7 Walmart stores and Sami is the only one sold out in my area. I saw him when they first hit. Bought him. And only seen him one other time. Meanwhile, Savage, Earthquake, & Typhoon are just sitting and waiting. Distribution as well as clientele is just so hit and miss depending on location. My Target has 8 Tito still on the shelf. 35mins up the road, 0 Titos and 5 Eddies. Unless its just completely out of hand, its hard to tell what is a shelf warmer and whats not.
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Post by qdogg on Aug 27, 2017 20:56:36 GMT -5
A few very vocal people on here wanted Natural Disasters and Ultimate Maniacs but honestly those 2 tag teams we're not needed in the line. I don't know what the other options we're however but that Warrior really helped kill the DM line and the Savage was popular but they could of done any number of Savage figures. We had already got Shockmaster and Tugboat and got a 3rd figure of a guy when we don't even have 2 Razor Ramon elite's, 2 Surfer Sting elite singles if you don't count the TNF 3 pack one and 2nd figures of any number of better characters than Fred Ottman.
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Post by Joe/Smurf on Aug 27, 2017 23:43:20 GMT -5
Today, I went to a few Walmarts searching for Series 3. Two were overloaded with Natural Disasters,, one Rollins and Liz but no AA (only two I want), and the last one just put out a fresh case of SERIES 1. I can pretty much forget about ever going to that one again...
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Post by dustin0704 on Aug 28, 2017 0:23:41 GMT -5
I still want to get them I just have a hard time pulling the trigger on them for some reason. I do need another set of tag titles do I don't know why I pass on them when I see them
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Post by RKOrton on Aug 28, 2017 2:04:08 GMT -5
It was a mistake from the beginning to put them in a TNF line. no one really care about them. if they were in regular elite series, no one will ever remember that they exist.
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Post by rtc1485 on Aug 28, 2017 4:53:00 GMT -5
All the Wal-Mart's in my area seem to be stuck with disasters and macho man (of all figs) I can walk into any in my area and see at least one of each....the rest have sold pretty well. TNF 3 has hit at least one here already
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Post by vandamin8or on Aug 28, 2017 5:32:36 GMT -5
MattelDesignTeam - post some of these 'Shelf Warmers' to UK stores for UK collectors for the love of God. This Yep. I'd love these figures. Also Macho Man, and Bam Bam from the first series.
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Post by sisterabigail on Aug 28, 2017 5:43:09 GMT -5
These threads are always ridiculous. The moment some warms at all... "Is ______ the death of the line?"
Just because something sitting on your shelves doesn't mean it is everywhere.
Remember when taker was the death of the dm line?
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Post by theaxehennig on Aug 28, 2017 6:08:12 GMT -5
These are store exclusives, specific to Walmart. I first found these on February 7 of this year. Here it is, nearly seven months later and Walmart is still ordering them. Why are they "warming" you ask? Not because of necessarily who they are, but because Mattel has yet to offer a new assortment to replace these.
These exclusives are intended to supplement the main waves, but what we've seen from the HOF in Target, TNF in Walmart and NS in Toysrus, Elites vanish, are not replenished, and these get ordered the way Elites should
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Post by robi2184 on Aug 28, 2017 7:33:28 GMT -5
All I know Is TNF series 3 has been out for almost a month and it has yet to hit my area, I made countless trips to several Walmarts in my area and never found the figures, even had a more than nice Walmart employee check for me in the back. So I went on ebay and got my figures.
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