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Post by Thought Collector on Sept 8, 2018 7:58:45 GMT -5
For years I thought about how different my Hasbro collecting would've been had the internet existed; all the information, the shared knowledge of findings, ease of ordering online - it would’ve made collecting so easy. And then the Retros were released... Oh, man lol. Never could I have dreamed as a kid of just touching a screen and having all the figures I was dreaming about finding. Imagine the 'Undertake Em All' ad where you could just select each figure pictured and have them sent to your house lol. I would have drove my parents even more mad if that were possible lol.
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bix
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Post by bix on Oct 3, 2018 22:13:31 GMT -5
My educated guess, based both on the speculation here and my own experiences as a kid (and I have no idea how I remember this), is that the chains ordered way too much of series 1 & 2. I don't think I got ANYTHING from series 3 at KB, which was usually the most reliable spot.
I got these at the listed stores: Beefcake, Earthquake, & Typhoon (a local pharmacy) Greg "The Hammer" Valentine (a small, non-chain toy store) Hulk Hogan (Lionel's Play World — the only one I got at a chain)
I remember distinctly that my mom had gone to the pharmacy and picked up Brutus and the Natural Disasters to divide among myself and a friend whose birthday was coming up, not realizing I had none of the three. So all of them were mine. I believe that he ended up getting Slaughter, Perfect, and Tornado, but I don't remember what store he got them at. Same goes for my cousin picking up Savage.
At least when my local KB got the French/Spanish card clearance dump, I know that Tornado was the only one that caught my eye as not being something that I already had. I do think there's something to there being less of them on English cards.
With the LOD/Nastys tag series, I think I've posted this here before, but I had both, and neither was in a store. Nastys were at a house show where they were the only figures available, while LOD were as a make good that Hasbro sent me for a Tonka Monster Truck knockoff set that was missing a part (Hasbro and Tonka were the same company). They also sent The Bushwackers, which I gave to my cousin because I already had them. (I got them at a different non-chain pharmacy from above that inexplicably had the two-pack for just $3.99.)
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