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Post by One Punch Reigns on Dec 5, 2019 16:12:57 GMT -5
One Punch Reigns, I appreciate you posting this. It gives me some insight I didn't think about. Again I wasn't talking to you, it was just in general, cause it's been a thing for as long as I can remember. I hear you on these people who snag an exclusive to sell on ebay. People who don't even watch wrestling, but can look at this forum without being a member of the site. That gets me. Years ago, when TNA/Jakks was out, there was a 1/500 or whatever the number, with a Kurt Angle. But I walked in 2 minutes after they opened, and by the time I got to the figures, a "Hot Wheels Guy" had it in his hand. I was pissed, and you know what? I still am. And it ended up on ebay and I think he got like $70 for it. Now I would have eventually sold it, but it was gonna go w/my 17 WWE Jakks 1/500 collection, all of them I found at retail. Now, I am ok with a collector, doing whatever they do to acquire something, if they flip and make a profit, let's face it, it's gonna go back into their collection in one way or another. I mean, we all know that if we collect anything. But someone paying $200 on a figure, it's out of my hands, so I look at it like, it's not my business. Goes for this and for usually in my daily life it happens. And I move on. (Another essay from me!) I had considered that people snapping it up might not even collect but try to capitalize on an in-demand figure. See it all the time in the Funko community. There's no love lost to the community that way. That said I visited 3 Walmarts with no sniff of E72, just leftovers of E71 and surprisingly the MotWWEU rings. Gorilla's my top priority but looking at the eBay prices now, yeah I think I can keep hunting, wait for the price to drop, or see if a friend can hook me up. My birthday's coming up so this would be a Hell of a gift.
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Post by Artie Kendall on Dec 5, 2019 16:24:07 GMT -5
Cr@p my Walmart had a case of e72 out today. I didn’t even look for Gorilla. I saw Murphy and Strong as the first two figures and stopped there. I didn’t think he was in E72 I thought he was in E73. lol anyone by the Monroe NY WalMart he may be there. Someone on facebook said the Monroe Walmart had two cases and posted a picture that he bought the two Gorillas.
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Post by hbchris on Dec 5, 2019 18:09:55 GMT -5
Woo! Managed to find two Gorillas while driving to Northern California today. Never found any of these before except Sherri, and this was definitely my biggest want. (Only bought one, BTW; there's still one in Gilroy, CA as of an hour ago.)
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Post by terraryzing on Dec 6, 2019 17:52:50 GMT -5
Just did a search for Gorilla Monsoon on walmart.com and the 3rd item to come up was a cd I have from an underground rapper Nems, who titled the album "Gorilla Monsoon". Last thing I expected to see on walmart.com. And the cd is pretty damn good too.
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Post by Bpatrick on Dec 7, 2019 18:04:53 GMT -5
Some incredible figure fate today. Went hunting many Wal-Marts for Gorilla the past few days with no luck. Multiple in my area have shown Over 6 in stock on Brickseek but nothing on the floor and no help. Hitting one of several yesterday, I struck out figure-wise but bought a Christmas decoration. Tried putting it up last night but when I opened it, it had been resealed and was missing pieces. I did a return to my local Wal-Mart midday today and decided to peek on the figure aisle when I was going back to the Garden Shop to buy a replacement.
As I get to the figure aisle, there is this loud lady talking and blocking the aisle but I can see all the Elite 72 packaging staring at me. I get around her and sure enough, mid-peg is Gorilla! I was so pumped. Some guy was stocking other toys nearby and I must've had great timing because there was what I presume a fresh case mixed amongst the chunks of E70 that were remaining. 2 of Rey, 1 of everyone else. I grabbed Gorilla, Becky and Roderick. It was non-Chase Buddy. I actually had gotten Buddy, Roderick and Dream off Amazon but picked up the Roddy for my buddy who would want it. I haven't seen Lynch make it to Amazon yet but was most stoked of all to get Gorilla. I had been fairly lucky with the store chases up until recently. Up until Brisco I had gotten everyone but Sherri with relative luck and ease, as no Wal-Marts in my area seemed to get that series. I was lucky enough to snag Brisco online but most of my luck in-person had been the Target ones in the early part of the wave. Starting to shift and I am so super stoked to have Gorilla down early and for the beautiful $15.88 price. After a very long week in my personal life, very fun figure moment to remind me of the joys of collecting.
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Post by BIGMAC2570 on Dec 7, 2019 18:18:29 GMT -5
Wth...is taking so long to get the WM figure number for Gorilla...i'm tired of searching WM online....lol
Those find anything beyond series 70..Congrats..yet to see 71 or He-man display yet..
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Post by rydiddy on Dec 7, 2019 18:57:14 GMT -5
Any one else's area looking like this? 69-71 At Wal-Mart and 70 at target
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Post by Bobby Heenan on Dec 7, 2019 19:30:58 GMT -5
Seeing as to how El Paso is my neck of the woods, I decided to spend a morning hunting yesterday, because if I didn't find it before the weekend, he'd be gone by then. El Paso is deceptively large, and there are a dozen Walmarts scattered all over town. I made up a route going through the most out of the way ones first, and struck gold on my second try! They only had 1, and the rest of the peg had nothing but Nikki Bellas. EXTREMELY happy to have scored him! Will look around again in the following days, if I find more, I'll pick them up to help who needs it.
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Post by Glorydaysofwrestling on Dec 7, 2019 19:53:31 GMT -5
Seeing as to how El Paso is my neck of the woods, I decided to spend a morning hunting yesterday, because if I didn't find it before the weekend, he'd be gone by then. El Paso is deceptively large, and there are a dozen Walmarts scattered all over town. I made up a route going through the most out of the way ones first, and struck gold on my second try! They only had 1, and the rest of the peg had nothing but Nikki Bellas. EXTREMELY happy to have scored him! Will look around again in the following days, if I find more, I'll pick them up to help who needs it. Congrats!I bet your collection is going bananas!!
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Post by One Punch Reigns on Dec 7, 2019 19:57:02 GMT -5
Checked my stores again, same song and dance but shockingly the E71 Cenas sold. I'll give it another week or two before I start eyeing up eBay. Hunting in this holiday traffic is tiresome
EDIT: Congrats Heenan! If you do find another PM me, maybe we can work something out
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Post by 4life on Dec 7, 2019 20:09:59 GMT -5
I went to my Walmart, nothing on the self but like 3 Basics. There was an employee working the toys, I asked about WWE stuff. He told me he didn't know, but I could look through his 5 pallets. No WWE stuff on the 5 pallets of toys he had out on the floor. I will probably have to take the eBay route.
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Post by One Punch Reigns on Dec 7, 2019 20:41:25 GMT -5
I went to my Walmart, nothing on the self but like 3 Basics. There was an employee working the toys, I asked about WWE stuff. He told me he didn't know, but I could look through his 5 pallets. No WWE stuff on the 5 pallets of toys he had out on the floor. I will probably have to take the eBay route. Same here, lots of boxes but no dice. Careful on the eBay route though, still rich for my blood and the only one taking offers rejected mine.
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Post by The Brain on Dec 7, 2019 20:57:14 GMT -5
Seeing as to how El Paso is my neck of the woods, I decided to spend a morning hunting yesterday, because if I didn't find it before the weekend, he'd be gone by then. El Paso is deceptively large, and there are a dozen Walmarts scattered all over town. I made up a route going through the most out of the way ones first, and struck gold on my second try! They only had 1, and the rest of the peg had nothing but Nikki Bellas. EXTREMELY happy to have scored him! Will look around again in the following days, if I find more, I'll pick them up to help who needs it. Congrats! It's a happening here on the old WF!
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Post by rkmo: 9 Month Warning on Dec 7, 2019 21:20:43 GMT -5
Both my Walmarts put out another case each of E70 this past week. Maybe the next one...
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Post by arthur214 on Dec 7, 2019 23:07:27 GMT -5
Stopped at an out of the way Walmart this evening to discover 8 Aj Styles basics on the pegs and nothing else. Couldn't believe it!
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Post by terraryzing on Dec 8, 2019 5:10:46 GMT -5
Some incredible figure fate today. Went hunting many Wal-Marts for Gorilla the past few days with no luck. Multiple in my area have shown Over 6 in stock on Brickseek but nothing on the floor and no help. Hitting one of several yesterday, I struck out figure-wise but bought a Christmas decoration. Tried putting it up last night but when I opened it, it had been resealed and was missing pieces. I did a return to my local Wal-Mart midday today and decided to peek on the figure aisle when I was going back to the Garden Shop to buy a replacement. As I get to the figure aisle, there is this loud lady talking and blocking the aisle but I can see all the Elite 72 packaging staring at me. I get around her and sure enough, mid-peg is Gorilla! I was so pumped. Some guy was stocking other toys nearby and I must've had great timing because there was what I presume a fresh case mixed amongst the chunks of E70 that were remaining. 2 of Rey, 1 of everyone else. I grabbed Gorilla, Becky and Roderick. It was non-Chase Buddy. I actually had gotten Buddy, Roderick and Dream off Amazon but picked up the Roddy for my buddy who would want it. I haven't seen Lynch make it to Amazon yet but was most stoked of all to get Gorilla. I had been fairly lucky with the store chases up until recently. Up until Brisco I had gotten everyone but Sherri with relative luck and ease, as no Wal-Marts in my area seemed to get that series. I was lucky enough to snag Brisco online but most of my luck in-person had been the Target ones in the early part of the wave. Starting to shift and I am so super stoked to have Gorilla down early and for the beautiful $15.88 price. After a very long week in my personal life, very fun figure moment to remind me of the joys of collecting. This right here is what it's all about. Congrats on finding it!
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Post by Gorilla on Dec 8, 2019 6:34:55 GMT -5
I live to see a pic of him with the Brain and Vince McMahon
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Post by WalterF on Dec 8, 2019 6:36:13 GMT -5
Congrats to those who have found it. This and Strong are my biggest wants right now at retail land
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Post by Bobby Heenan on Dec 8, 2019 15:37:53 GMT -5
I live to see a pic of him with the Brain and Vince McMahon Let me get back home after lunch, open Gorilla, and fish out my Broadcast Journalist custom Brain, and I'll snap a pic
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Post by Bobby Heenan on Dec 8, 2019 15:41:08 GMT -5
Congrats to those who have found it. This and Strong are my biggest wants right now at retail land I didn't bother hunting for Strong (haven't seen him at retail, either) I just bought him from Ringside. Zero paint issues! I usually order at least $50 so the shipping is never an issue. Might be able to shave a few bucks off him today with the Cyber Monday 2.0 sale.
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