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Post by hbchris on May 16, 2013 15:52:09 GMT -5
Worst part for me is that I'm on the West coast, not able to see the show live, so the app is completely useless to me as far as I can tell, but I'm still subjected to the freaking constant barrage of app promotion. And, yeah, definitely weird that they want us to stop watching what's on Raw to watch stuff on the app.
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Post by hbchris on May 9, 2013 20:00:56 GMT -5
Voted for Razor, all the way. (Not that I don't want Flair and Goldberg...but Tyson can suck it.)
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Post by hbchris on May 4, 2013 22:36:24 GMT -5
For this reason Triple H is one of the few figures I still display a Jakks instead of a Mattel. I picked one up a while back (from series 10), put it on my shelf, then decided it looked too weird and switched back to a Jakks.
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Post by hbchris on May 4, 2013 5:25:41 GMT -5
Pleased that I preordered AJ. Woulda been better with a design on the shirt, but still a nice figure, IMO. Can't wait for it to arrive!
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Post by hbchris on May 1, 2013 20:54:56 GMT -5
For a while I always brought this stuff up to customer service, but with the exception of one TRU manager, no one has cared, and the stuff ends up back on the shelf the next day, so I've sort of given up. Recently I was at a TRU Express and had stumbled across some repacks, and I wasn't gonna say anything, but right then the manager asked me if she could help me with anything, so I told her what was up, and she pretended to take the items off the shelf. (I forget what it was, but I think it was also a CM Punk...maybe an Elite 16...that had been swapped.) I went back a few days later, and the figure was back on the shelf, and the same manager approached me and again asked if she could help me with anything. So I told her nope, but pointed out I was the same guy from a few days before and asked why the bogus product was still out on the shelf. She made up some excuse about how it would be marked down if anyone tried to buy it (but of course the price tag was still full price).
So I've kinda given up on that, although depending on my mood, I might tear off the UPC code so they can't sell it or will acknowledge that it's damaged. I kind of want to get a stamp that says "Swapped Product" that I can just apply to every repack I see, or something...
Not that it's the retailer's fault, but by knowingly selling used, repacked product, they're nearly as bad as the original repacker.
This whole topic just gets me irked, since in my area, there is, as a general rule, more repacked Elite product on the shelves than real Elites. The repacker always snatches stuff up immediately after it comes in, thus ensuring that I pretty much have to order all my Elites online or hope to find them when I'm out of town.
I can't wait to see what sort of Ryback repacks start showing up in the coming months. /sarcasm/
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Post by hbchris on Apr 12, 2013 5:03:39 GMT -5
I have to agree. And I say that as someone who lives in California, and has been to loads of events in LA. It amazes me that LA is the semi-permanent home of Summerslam when you consider how much the crowds tend to suck.... Los Angeles hos notoriously awful crowds. That's the first place I thought of, good old too cool for school LA.
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Post by hbchris on Mar 21, 2013 21:00:23 GMT -5
Cool. Thanks for clarifying, all. Glad I didn't go senile and miss his Mattel debut.
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Post by hbchris on Mar 21, 2013 19:38:21 GMT -5
Quick question. Mattel has been slapping those "first time in the line" bursts on a lot of figures recently (including Ryback, who we all know was previously released as Skip Sheffield). But I just picked up the Brodus/Curt Hawkins 2-pack today, and there's no "first time in the line" burst. This is the first Mattel Hawkins, correct? Or am I forgetting something??
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Post by hbchris on Mar 21, 2013 19:30:06 GMT -5
Say, speaking of WWEShop figures... Anyone know what the deal was when they were supposedly selling Mr. McMahon figures a few months back? I remember there was some debate about whether it was an old Jakks figure or the TRU exclusive or what. Did anybody actually get anything or were all the orders just cancelled?
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Post by hbchris on Mar 6, 2013 23:01:31 GMT -5
By the way, the legs on the DA figures were long, lanky, and very wobbly. This. The disproportioned DA legs were terrible, and I don't know why they don't bother more people. Except for the price and distribution, Elites are as good as it gets. With Jakks I collected almost exclusively RAs, but with Mattel I collect almost exclusively Elites.
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Post by hbchris on Mar 5, 2013 22:36:08 GMT -5
Targets in select areas charge more basic figures in my target are 13.19 Yikes. Only 20¢ more, but I guess I should consider myself lucky!
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Post by hbchris on Mar 5, 2013 22:17:06 GMT -5
any chance you could grab the sku number is you see them again? Sure! The DCPI is 087-06-1102. (Sorry, I couldn't check until I got off work.) And, man, I wish the Targets near me had 'em for "only" $10.99....
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Post by hbchris on Mar 5, 2013 16:22:18 GMT -5
I stumbled across Basic 27 at Target this morning. Ryback and Cesaro had already been snatched up, but they are out there! (I almost grabbed Skeletor Kofi, but not for $12.99....)
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Post by hbchris on Feb 15, 2013 15:25:29 GMT -5
Call me crazy, but I'm pretty sure the Steiner Brothers and the New Age Outlaws ARE NOT DEAD. Well yeah, purely for his wrestling prowess and history. Thats like saying because OJ Simpson killed his ex-wife that hes no longer a Hall of Famer. It is what it is. If the Beniot tragedy never happened, Beniot would be a HOF no-brainer Everybody knows that, just not everybody is over sentamental about it. 1.) Savage 2.) British Bulldog 3.) Chris Benoit 4.) Stiener Brothers 5.) New Age Outlaws
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Post by hbchris on Feb 14, 2013 16:56:12 GMT -5
YES! YES! YES!
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Post by hbchris on Feb 14, 2013 0:46:07 GMT -5
I'm sure they will be back. Eventually we'll be flooded with the things, just like previous TRU exclusive sets. (Maybe in the meantime they can balance out the assortment so it's 2 of each, not 3 Cenas and 1 Christian....)
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Post by hbchris on Feb 11, 2013 23:27:20 GMT -5
Don't forget Ryback & Skip Sheffield!
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Post by hbchris on Feb 10, 2013 17:19:58 GMT -5
Well, the price change makes sense if it's actually AJ. AJ's 3rd figure = not as in demand as the first Kaitlyn. But I wish they'd address it on the forum and explain what's going on. OK, I'm now assuming Kaitlyn's in a different series. Glad to have another AJ, though! Why did Kaitlyn change to AJ and the price change?
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Post by hbchris on Feb 10, 2013 17:10:08 GMT -5
Wait, why did Series 30 Kaitlyn just turn into AJ on Ringside's order page? What's going on?
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Post by hbchris on Feb 4, 2013 15:18:44 GMT -5
Kane is actually a big gamer! I had the chance to interview him once and I asked him if he ever got so mad playing a game that he broke it. He admitted that, yes, he once lost a game and hurled a copy of some football game across the room, destroying the disc. Either Madden or NCAA; it was years ago so I don't remember exactly.
Sheamus isn't much of a gamer, I don't believe. He played the Amiga back in the day (especially soccer games), but he's not big into current stuff.
And like everyone's saying: Kofi, Cody, Hornswoggle, AJ...
I've always assumed Matt Striker is because he always made subtle gaming references in commentary, but I don't know for sure.
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