Blackbird 13
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Post by Blackbird 13 on Aug 29, 2020 9:31:37 GMT -5
This is getting ridiculous. 20ish Walmarts in my area, not one has received a single shipment of AEW figures, according to Brickseek. Almost a whole month from release date now. Have you checked Brickseek daily? Because if not there's a very good chance they came and went. It seems like distribution on the shippers was pretty widespread. Multiple times a day, every day. Talked to a few of the toy department managers, who pull up the SKU to see that there are "42 on the way", but with no specific date listed... this at two different Walmarts. It shouldn't be this hard to get ahold of these.
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Post by stc13 on Aug 29, 2020 9:46:32 GMT -5
Have you checked Brickseek daily? Because if not there's a very good chance they came and went. It seems like distribution on the shippers was pretty widespread. Multiple times a day, every day. Talked to a few of the toy department managers, who pull up the SKU to see that there are "42 on the way", but with no specific date listed... this at two different Walmarts. It shouldn't be this hard to get ahold of these. I found them thanks to a heads up from a board member. Completely agree that it shouldn't be this hard to find toys, whether it's AEW, Mattel, or Hasbro. I have yet to find a single GI Joe figure in stores. I thought about casually collecting the line, but I have zero interest if the figures are impossible to find. I'm hoping AEW distribution improves as the series goes on now that they have sales data. But overall I'm getting sick of the hunt.
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Post by Yambag Jones on Aug 29, 2020 9:55:35 GMT -5
Multiple times a day, every day. Talked to a few of the toy department managers, who pull up the SKU to see that there are "42 on the way", but with no specific date listed... this at two different Walmarts. It shouldn't be this hard to get ahold of these. I found them thanks to a heads up from a board member. Completely agree that it shouldn't be this hard to find toys, whether it's AEW, Mattel, or Hasbro. I have yet to find a single GI Joe figure in stores. I thought about casually collecting the line, but I have zero interest if the figures are impossible to find. I'm hoping AEW distribution improves as the series goes on now that they have sales data. But overall I'm getting sick of the hunt. It's pretty deflating. It's pre-order or bust for me at this point.
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Post by Bpatrick on Aug 31, 2020 18:45:43 GMT -5
I’ve chronicled before in my mind I thought it was best for the brand to buy at Walmart for the first wave to entice the big stores to carry the line, rather than running risk it becomes a niche line ordering from Ringeide. And what a mistake that was.
I still have my Walmart orders for Kenny, Cody and Jericho pending. I ordered the Bucks and Brandi on back order from RSC when the release first started to look messy.
I ordered a backup set of the five available on Amazon for that Jan 1 date, since after holidays are settling down and it’d be nice to have an open and sealed set.
Just got notice, in August, the January date Amazon had is now delayed until a April 2021.
I really hope that is temporary because that is awful for this line if Amazon isn’t going to carry them until eight months after initial release.
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Post by vcf4850 on Aug 31, 2020 23:45:01 GMT -5
Finally got a case in. Grabbed all 6 with the extra Omega going to a friend who wanted him badly.
Also got my authentic ring and bubbly Jericho, so outside of Chases and Brandi I'm all set. I have a MOC set due from ringside in early September.
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Post by PJ on Sept 1, 2020 4:04:53 GMT -5
I’ve chronicled before in my mind I thought it was best for the brand to buy at Walmart for the first wave to entice the big stores to carry the line, rather than running risk it becomes a niche line ordering from Ringeide. And what a mistake that was. I still have my Walmart orders for Kenny, Cody and Jericho pending. I ordered the Bucks and Brandi on back order from RSC when the release first started to look messy. I ordered a backup set of the five available on Amazon for that Jan 1 date, since after holidays are settling down and it’d be nice to have an open and sealed set. Just got notice, in August, the January date Amazon had is now delayed until a April 2021.I really hope that is temporary because that is awful for this line if Amazon isn’t going to carry them until eight months after initial release. Yup the Matt Jackson I ordered got pushed to April 1 also. I expect it to be canceled though just like they did with the Mattel Backlund and Sherri I had preordered when Amazon first listed those. They first got pushed back then canceled when they finally realized they were WalMart Exclusives. And seeing these are Walmart exclusives right now I don’t see Amazon fulfilling them. Maybe series 2 or 3 if what was said is true and Target picked up the line for spring then Amazon might as well. But I don’t see series 1 still being in production next spring for Amazon or any retailer to be getting fresh shipments of series 1 then.
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Post by LK3 on Sept 1, 2020 5:34:02 GMT -5
It was said to be exclusive to Walmart in 2020, so it should be fair game to Amazon after the new year.
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Post by jacob6428 on Sept 1, 2020 6:00:23 GMT -5
Are the series 1 going to be available to back order again, same for series 2?
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Post by PJ on Sept 1, 2020 6:35:11 GMT -5
It was said to be exclusive to Walmart in 2020, so it should be fair game to Amazon after the new year. Right but they aren’t going to get series 1. Jazwares has to be producing series 2 by now. So I don’t see how Amazon will be getting cases of series 1 in April. That’s 8 months away.
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Post by willshred on Sept 1, 2020 8:56:16 GMT -5
Haven’t check this thread in a couple weeks, it’s crazy people are still scrambling around to multiple Walmart’s to find these. I would say there’s a supply and demand issue but I feel like they intentionally limited the amounts released like Jeremy alluded to. Glad I preordered the whole series 2 set before they disappeared.
Also I do live in Florida, I have to realize that most of the people that live in the middle of the country probably don’t have access to the “bounty” of figures we get down here either. Jazz wares is based here in FL luckily
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Post by akawildfire on Sept 2, 2020 8:17:07 GMT -5
Central VA just received the 2nd shipment of figures today. The 1st shipment was the shipper container and now the 2nd one is hanging on the pegs. Don’t know if Brandi is included this time or not because there was only 7 figures (5 different and 1 extra Cody and 1 extra omega) and 6 ufc figures (3 Conor’s and 1 dc,max,Jones).. Atleast round 2 is coming in now for the people who missed them the 1st time
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Post by slayerfan on Sept 2, 2020 14:15:53 GMT -5
Central VA just received the 2nd shipment of figures today. The 1st shipment was the shipper container and now the 2nd one is hanging on the pegs. Don’t know if Brandi is included this time or not because there was only 7 figures (5 different and 1 extra Cody and 1 extra omega) and 6 ufc figures (3 Conor’s and 1 dc,max,Jones).. Atleast round 2 is coming in now for the people who missed them the 1st time What part of Central Va are you in?
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Post by jabird27 on Sept 2, 2020 15:06:21 GMT -5
Maybe I am in the minority, but I am fine with the scarcity of these figures. It drove me batty trying to find them, and yes it was frustrating but to me that is the definition of collecting. If you could just walk into any store and there are boxes and boxes of a certain item, that isnt collecting to me. You are simply buying toys at that point. I treat these and other figures as collector items. So if they are scarce, yes it sucks, but that is half the fun of the hobby for me.
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Post by mikey1974 on Sept 2, 2020 17:35:34 GMT -5
I still have not seen even one figure in the wild. That said, I do have 5 of the 6 (with Brandi preordered). Never thought I'd say this, but thank you eBay!
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Post by RV F'N D on Sept 2, 2020 18:43:33 GMT -5
After the shippers were wiped out I have seen a single round of restocks at two different stores. No Brandi or chases in them. Those restocks are now sold out again, so hoping to see some of these revision cases start hitting.
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Post by newworldoz on Sept 2, 2020 18:47:07 GMT -5
Maybe I am in the minority, but I am fine with the scarcity of these figures. It drove me batty trying to find them, and yes it was frustrating but to me that is the definition of collecting. If you could just walk into any store and there are boxes and boxes of a certain item, that isnt collecting to me. You are simply buying toys at that point. I treat these and other figures as collector items. So if they are scarce, yes it sucks, but that is half the fun of the hobby for me. I think they are just toys. They can become collector's items in the future but upon release they are just toys. Jazwares should produce as many as they can to make as much money as they can.
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Post by akawildfire on Sept 2, 2020 19:32:34 GMT -5
Central VA just received the 2nd shipment of figures today. The 1st shipment was the shipper container and now the 2nd one is hanging on the pegs. Don’t know if Brandi is included this time or not because there was only 7 figures (5 different and 1 extra Cody and 1 extra omega) and 6 ufc figures (3 Conor’s and 1 dc,max,Jones).. Atleast round 2 is coming in now for the people who missed them the 1st time What part of Central Va are you in? Harrisonburg (Shenandoah valley)
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Post by slayerfan on Sept 2, 2020 20:37:08 GMT -5
What part of Central Va are you in? Harrisonburg (Shenandoah valley) Thanks alot! I am in the Lynchburg area.
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Post by shanedalton on Sept 3, 2020 14:45:59 GMT -5
Harrisonburg (Shenandoah valley) Thanks alot! I am in the Lynchburg area. NRV started getting some refreshers the other day, too. Christiansburg and Fairlawn numbers went up in the last few days.
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Post by Blackbird 13 on Sept 3, 2020 17:28:34 GMT -5
I also held out, wanting to support buying these at Walmart, so the retailer would continue stocking them.
That was a mistake.
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