alphadeltaxray
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Post by alphadeltaxray on Apr 13, 2024 13:39:20 GMT -5
Finally… Damn, no wonder we can't find any 🤣 just kidding, nice score!
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Post by cableV on Apr 13, 2024 17:05:03 GMT -5
Damn, no wonder we can't find any 🤣 just kidding, nice score! I know you were just making a joke, but there is some truth to what you said. I bought 2 Andres because he is a 2 in 1 and I wanted to display both looks. By buying that 2nd Andre, that was one less Andre at my Walmart that could have been someones only Andre. It also points out how stupid it was to make Hogan the x2 in that wave.
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Post by wrestlingcollector80 on Apr 14, 2024 15:08:01 GMT -5
Still the same furthest WM capt Lou albano, Vader, Piper, the rock. Closest WM one Rick rude and 2 rock, and the 3rd WM a bunch of million dollar man’s. None of these WMs ever got Andre series.
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nomorexclusives
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Post by nomorexclusives on Apr 14, 2024 16:02:56 GMT -5
Damn, no wonder we can't find any 🤣 just kidding, nice score! I know you were just making a joke, but there is some truth to what you said. I bought 2 Andres because he is a 2 in 1 and I wanted to display both looks. By buying that 2nd Andre, that was one less Andre at my Walmart that could have been someones only Andre. It also points out how stupid it was to make Hogan the x2 in that wave. Really hope you get yours when walmart puts out the shippers in 2 weeks. Andre was always gonna be a figure scalpers were going to buy simply because the motu version was selling for 60 (andcstill is) Luckily most of them will stop picking up these figures since there isnt much to gain from them. They might continue with ali because of the crossover appeal for boxers but by series 10 i just can't imagine tatanka, bossman and mysterio selling for more than 30 after 2 months especially since only one other series has been announced for this year. We should only get 2 more series shown for sdcc as well (so 4 like last year) and series 8 has only hit stores this past 2 months, meaning only series 9, 10 and 11 are gonna come out this year (starting in july most likely like last year) so we still have lots of time to pick up andre.
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Post by Fighter Hayabusa on Apr 15, 2024 8:46:59 GMT -5
Damn, no wonder we can't find any 🤣 just kidding, nice score! I know you were just making a joke, but there is some truth to what you said. I bought 2 Andres because he is a 2 in 1 and I wanted to display both looks. By buying that 2nd Andre, that was one less Andre at my Walmart that could have been someone’s only Andre. It also points out how stupid it was to make Hogan the x2 in that wave. Essentially it’s a 3 in 1 which is why I grabbed all 3. 70s/early 80s with big hair, WM1, and heel with the singlet. Could potentially be a 4 in 1 cuz he did grow his hair back out towards the end of his career in his matches post WWF.
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Post by oldschoolfool on Apr 15, 2024 11:46:37 GMT -5
I think I will seek out Ali when he gets easier to get, so I can kitbash with my extra Mr. T and make a Clubber Lang. I have the Phoenix Toys Clubber but it'll be cool to have one in that form factor that can kind of replicate fighting poses.
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Post by thep1 on Apr 15, 2024 12:16:46 GMT -5
I know you were just making a joke, but there is some truth to what you said. I bought 2 Andres because he is a 2 in 1 and I wanted to display both looks. By buying that 2nd Andre, that was one less Andre at my Walmart that could have been someone’s only Andre. It also points out how stupid it was to make Hogan the x2 in that wave. Essentially it’s a 3 in 1 which is why I grabbed all 3. 70s/early 80s with big hair, WM1, and heel with the singlet. Could potentially be a 4 in 1 cuz he did grow his hair back out towards the end of his career in his matches post WWF. No need to justify your purchases! You do you, brother!
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Post by hiitsbrian on Apr 18, 2024 15:31:14 GMT -5
Does anyone else’s Papa Shango refuse to stand up? I can only get him to if I do I ridiculous foot point with one foot like he’s a girl taking a selfie at the gym. And he’s easily knocked over like that. Did anyone else have this issue with their Papa or is mine possibly defected?
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Post by alphadeltaxray on Apr 21, 2024 18:36:37 GMT -5
Found Bam Bam and Mr Perfect at Walmart in the clearance section for $10 each. Oddly enough they definitely just put those out because they weren't there 2 days ago. Probably had a case or 2 sitting in the back for a couple months. Still waiting for the Andre/Doing wave with zero luck so far.
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Post by zen411 on Apr 21, 2024 19:32:32 GMT -5
Found Bam Bam and Mr Perfect at Walmart in the clearance section for $10 each. Oddly enough they definitely just put those out because they weren't there 2 days ago. Probably had a case or 2 sitting in the back for a couple months. Still waiting for the Andre/Doing wave with zero luck so far. Did they just have one of each? Need mr perfect!
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Post by nomorexclusives on Apr 22, 2024 7:04:49 GMT -5
Found Bam Bam and Mr Perfect at Walmart in the clearance section for $10 each. Oddly enough they definitely just put those out because they weren't there 2 days ago. Probably had a case or 2 sitting in the back for a couple months. Still waiting for the Andre/Doing wave with zero luck so far. Seriously? Probably the result of regional coming in to clean up the unorganized mess back there. The overstock stories are getting traction and it further highlights the backstock at central. What a shame this line has gotten such bad distribution due to this exclusive retailers inept hiring practices. Walmart lacks competency. Without their low pay salaries their stock would not still be in the green. It will and is hurting them though. I just recently sold my walmart stock i held for over 25 years. I cant trust a company that thinks short term. You can not run a successful business model hiring immigrants and by following a diversity quota. You have to hire the most qualified. Sadly for them no one wants to work for a retailer with the lowest wages in the industry. Walmart has made their stance known. Target will overtake them one day. They are playing a slow and steady long term game. Ok well i know that was a lucky strike but if this was actually old stock sent from central than it is gonna hurt most of us here who had to go elsewhere to pick up our missing pieces. I know i paid an arm and a leg for bam and perfect and got vader and lou for at least 30. Might be a small chunk of change but down the line those are big losses if multiplied across several series. This hurts everyone involved if series 4-7 go to clearance. I am happy for those that still need previous series but these better not show up at ollies in quantity. If they do than we really have to ask the question why mattel continues to do business with this line killing retailer. I cant even imagine being the executive who opens up this spreadsheet page to see minimum gains all simply because they were not put out on pegs. I am starting to wonder if the shared upc codes arent also the cause for this. These employees dont know the differences between series 1-8 (minus hogan nwo/flair/undertaker/warrior). They all get counted together as in-store quantity meaning they cant differentiate a new release from last yearss pegwarmers, and there is obviously no notes for them to stock specific series/hot figures. Like anything but s1-3.... Funniest thing is: they clearance out 2 of the 3 (mr.t being the 3rd) hardest to find figures yet they still keep the rock and honky tonk man at regular price. Total unawareness of product. Lack of oversight and lack of employees who care enough to work hard to get a minimum raise if they get promoted. Walmart is their own worst enemy.
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Post by Flair Forever on Apr 22, 2024 15:48:49 GMT -5
Found Bam Bam and Mr Perfect at Walmart in the clearance section for $10 each. Oddly enough they definitely just put those out because they weren't there 2 days ago. Probably had a case or 2 sitting in the back for a couple months. Still waiting for the Andre/Doing wave with zero luck so far. Seriously? Probably the result of regional coming in to clean up the unorganized mess back there. The overstock stories are getting traction and it further highlights the backstock at central. What a shame this line has gotten such bad distribution due to this exclusive retailers inept hiring practices. Walmart lacks competency. Without their low pay salaries their stock would not still be in the green. It will and is hurting them though. I just recently sold my walmart stock i held for over 25 years. I cant trust a company that thinks short term. You can not run a successful business model hiring immigrants and by following a diversity quota. You have to hire the most qualified. Sadly for them no one wants to work for a retailer with the lowest wages in the industry. Walmart has made their stance known. Target will overtake them one day. They are playing a slow and steady long term game. Ok well i know that was a lucky strike but if this was actually old stock sent from central than it is gonna hurt most of us here who had to go elsewhere to pick up our missing pieces. I know i paid an arm and a leg for bam and perfect and got vader and lou for at least 30. Might be a small chunk of change but down the line those are big losses if multiplied across several series. This hurts everyone involved if series 4-7 go to clearance. I am happy for those that still need previous series but these better not show up at ollies in quantity. If they do than we really have to ask the question why mattel continues to do business with this line killing retailer. I cant even imagine being the executive who opens up this spreadsheet page to see minimum gains all simply because they were not put out on pegs. I am starting to wonder if the shared upc codes arent also the cause for this. These employees dont know the differences between series 1-8 (minus hogan nwo/flair/undertaker/warrior). They all get counted together as in-store quantity meaning they cant differentiate a new release from last yearss pegwarmers, and there is obviously no notes for them to stock specific series/hot figures. Like anything but s1-3.... Funniest thing is: they clearance out 2 of the 3 (mr.t being the 3rd) hardest to find figures yet they still keep the rock and honky tonk man at regular price. Total unawareness of product. Lack of oversight and lack of employees who care enough to work hard to get a minimum raise if they get promoted. Walmart is their own worst enemy. Well said, sir.... You are forgetting...... all the unfulfilled/cancelled online "preorders." Money in the bank that they literally GAVE BACK to the customer. Many probably along with $10 gift cards to hopefully silence the complaints. So they literally PAID OUT people for unavailable products they wanted to buy and Walmart couldn't provide due to their incompetence. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.
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Post by nomorexclusives on Apr 22, 2024 15:54:54 GMT -5
Well said, sir.... You are forgetting...... all the unfulfilled/cancelled online "preorders." Money in the bank that they literally GAVE BACK to the customer. Many probably along with $10 gift cards to hopefully silence the complaints. So they literally PAID OUT people for unavailable products they wanted to buy and Walmart couldn't provide due to their incompetence Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Yeah and i was surprised they even had any british bulldogs to sell online. They were sold out quicky. Anyone here get one? I expect series 9 to come out next week. I just realized the 28th streetdate for the new shippers falls on a sunday. Anyone notice their local walmarts resetting yet? Seems quiet in walmarts i have been to recently. Looks like they are behind schedule again like last quarter.
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Post by Flair Forever on Apr 22, 2024 16:33:03 GMT -5
Well said, sir.... You are forgetting...... all the unfulfilled/cancelled online "preorders." Money in the bank that they literally GAVE BACK to the customer. Many probably along with $10 gift cards to hopefully silence the complaints. So they literally PAID OUT people for unavailable products they wanted to buy and Walmart couldn't provide due to their incompetence Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Yeah and i was surprised they even had any british bulldogs to sell online. They were sold out quicky. Anyone here get one? I expect series 9 to come out next week. I just realized the 28th streetdate for the new shippers falls on a sunday. Anyone notice their local walmarts resetting yet? Seems quiet in walmarts i have been to recently. Looks like they are behind schedule again like last quarter. I have yet to understand how a "Pre-Order" could EVER sell out. The very idea of a pre-order is to find out how many you need from the manufacturer and order/allot accordingly; It allows the seller to gauge how many they'll need and (usually) the buyer gets them a little bit before the general public; It's SUPPOSED to be a "win-win" for both. WALMART: "Hey Mattel, we pre-sold 6000 British Bulldogs. Better send us 6500 so we have them on the site for a little while after they are here." If they are selling out within minutes/hours/days, they are NOT pre-orders. They are just products that may or may not be available online. I have no idea what Walmart is doing with online/pre-orders that go up months before the product is even out and sell out almost immediately. Then later get cancelled anyway because they never end up getting the advertised product.
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Post by thep1 on Apr 22, 2024 19:05:39 GMT -5
Well said, sir.... You are forgetting...... all the unfulfilled/cancelled online "preorders." Money in the bank that they literally GAVE BACK to the customer. Many probably along with $10 gift cards to hopefully silence the complaints. So they literally PAID OUT people for unavailable products they wanted to buy and Walmart couldn't provide due to their incompetence Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Yeah and i was surprised they even had any british bulldogs to sell online. They were sold out quicky. Anyone here get one? I expect series 9 to come out next week. I just realized the 28th streetdate for the new shippers falls on a sunday. Anyone notice their local walmarts resetting yet? Seems quiet in walmarts i have been to recently. Looks like they are behind schedule again like last quarter. When I was at my local/closest WM on Saturday, they were clearing off all of the shelves on the toy aisles. I went back Saturday night and they had the planogram lay-out paper and the date at the bottom was "week of 4/29". None of the other 3 that I visited this weekend had the paper out though...
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Post by LostHawk05 on Apr 22, 2024 19:46:58 GMT -5
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Post by Roy Alrumblay on Apr 23, 2024 4:12:27 GMT -5
Why does the same seller on eBay have tons of Series 9?
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Post by nomorexclusives on Apr 23, 2024 5:30:44 GMT -5
Why does the same seller on eBay have tons of Series 9? Probably just another ebay exclusive vendor for the "exclusive" walmart superstars. Don't bother trying to figure it out. Most of us have seen it for at least a year now when cousin paul started selling his months before a single walmart put theirs on the shelves. I just laugh now. Noone seems to know if those figures are coming from mattel or from walmart... the truth will come out one day Edit: what i don't understand is, where are those people buying those newer figures. So many true fans of the line willing to shell out big bucks for these and they stilll havent found this forum?
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Post by nomorexclusives on Apr 23, 2024 5:32:21 GMT -5
Was finally able to find a Andre and Doink. So I’m pretty much caught up through series 8 other than blue pants Hogan. My display is getting a bit over packed. Definitely need to rearrange a bit and may be time to retire some of my customs or expand to another Detolf shelf. Looks great man. Yeah you're gonna need to buy another one of those display cases for the next 20 series Im still working on my display. I still need bulldog and kane but im in no rush especially after all the clearances lately. Ill pick them up for 5 bucks down the road. I am no longer going to open any of the figures i buy at retail. People have been selling them loose in lots for 10 bucks a piece. Ill wait for those lots. Unless we get no new sdcc reveals, for the time being im waiting for the best deals and having fun customizing. Got some to show soon.
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Post by Chewdeezy on Apr 23, 2024 10:07:55 GMT -5
I still haven't seen Andre yet, I'm screwed lol.
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