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Post by hbchris on Oct 2, 2010 14:29:21 GMT -5
No i don't believe so. People think he will be released with HBK and the other basic that wasn't shown yet. Can't remember who. Sorry, I must have missed the news about a WrestleMania 26 HBK. Are there pics anywhere?
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Post by hbchris on Oct 2, 2010 14:26:02 GMT -5
A couple months ago, I posted a short rant about people in my area who are buying, repacking, and returning Mattel figures in my area. Now it's getting worse.
In the last week, I've found: Elite 5 Dolph Ziggler repacked with Basic 4 Dolph Ziggler (at Target) Elite 5 Vladimir Kozlov with his robe stolen (at Wal-Mart) Entrance Greats Roddy Piper replaced with Jakks Roddy Piper (at Target) Entrance Greats Ted DiBiase replaced with Jakks Deluxe Classic Ted DiBiase (at K-Mart) Legends 2 Jake the Snake replaced with Jakks Deluxe Classic Jake the Snake (at K-Mart) Legends 2 Iron Shiek replaced with Jakks Deluxe Classic Iron Shiek (at K-Mart) Legends 2 Rick Rude replaced with Jakks Classic Rick Rude (at Toys R Us) Best of 2010 Rey Mysterio replaced with Elite 5 Rey Mysterio (at K-Mart) Best of 2010 Undertaker replaced with Toy Biz DDP! (at K-Mart)
Before it was just boxed figures (Elites and Entrance Greats) getting repacked, but now the thief has moved onto carded figures (Legends) that he glues shut fairly convincingly. He even meticulously cut holes in the inner plastic liner so Rick Rude would fit into the package!
Sorry there are no pics; I tried to take them but I had some malfunction with my phone camera and they didn't save.
Anyway, I guess I had too much coffee or something, but while I would just let this problem slide in the past, a few days ago I decided to complain about it to all the managers and show them the bad product so at least they'd be aware of the problem. The folks at Toys R Us were pretty understanding, since toys are their whole business. The guy at Target listened to me, but I think he thought I was crazy. One of the K-Mart managers didn't believe me and said that the pictures on the package are always different from what's shown on the box, but when I showed her that DiBiase's music-playing base (the one next to the hole in the plastic that says "Try Me!) was gone, she finally conceded something had been stolen and promised to check all the wrestling figures to make sure there weren't more that had been repacked.
I went back today, and the Elite 5 Dolph Ziggler was back on the shelf at Target, and Ted DiBiase was back at K-Mart, and that pissed me off pretty bad. Obviously this is a hard problem to solve, and in the scheme of things it's not that much money being lost, but that's just not right. It's one thing to take this bogus product back when you're not aware, but to knowingly put it back on the shelf and try to sell it to people as real product makes the stores just as bad as the people who stole the stuff, if you ask me. (I emailed the companies' customer service to complain, for all the good it'll do.)
So...sorry about the rant, but this really bugs me. It makes it hard to enjoy collecting this stuff when some jerk is stealing all the figures.
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Post by hbchris on Sept 25, 2010 14:06:46 GMT -5
After looking for months, I finally found Elite 4 John Morrison. In fact, I found two of them - the red coat and the dark-red coat versions. Now I can't decide which one to keep. Any opinions as to which version is better? Thanks.
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Post by hbchris on Aug 28, 2010 15:04:51 GMT -5
I don't know if this is old news or not (sorry if it is), but the Mattel Rey Mysterio 6-pack is out. I just found a bunch of them at the TRUs in San Mateo and Redwood City, CA.
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Post by hbchris on Aug 21, 2010 21:32:46 GMT -5
I picked up both Shawns since I'm an HBK mark, er, completist, but I don't know anyone who collects 'em all.
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Post by hbchris on Aug 21, 2010 10:06:12 GMT -5
Superstar Match-Ups HBK (still!) I'm with you on the Elite 4 Morrison. I've seen one, but the coat and glasses were stolen, so it doesn't count.
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Post by hbchris on Aug 17, 2010 23:41:59 GMT -5
This has been driving me crazy with Elite 4s recently. I've been trying to hunt down Morrison and have only found two, one that was a switched for an Edge and one with stolen coat and glasses. I think my brother finally found one for me today, but I need to have him send me a pic so I know it hasn't been swapped, too. It's pretty pathetic that that's the reality of collecting wrestling figures out here. I saw this at target today. at first i thought they just took out the coat & glasses but then i realized that this is the morrison that came with the miz
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Post by hbchris on Aug 13, 2010 1:51:58 GMT -5
I didn't even know that Superstar Matchups HBK existed until I saw it on the "official checklist" thread, at which point I looked around and promptly ordered one from TRU. I've never seen one in stores, though, and apparently it's been out for months. Has anyone seen one of these in the wild?
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Post by hbchris on Aug 12, 2010 21:14:53 GMT -5
bummer about the JoMo, it's a great fig. if i'd have known he was gonna be this hard to track down, i wouldn't have returned my extra one walmart stupidly gave me. Yeah, I totally regret not ordering one off Toys R Us when they had them last week. I thought the 2-pack version was pretty bad, so I'd been waiting to see this one in person before deciding if I should get it or not. Unfortunately for me that hasn't worked out so well yet!
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Post by hbchris on Aug 12, 2010 21:12:13 GMT -5
Tell the stores that people are returning false products. Yeah, I complained about the Jerichos and got them off the shelves, but then the next day the Goldberg/Kane showed up! I think I need to talk to a manager so they realize it's an issue they should pay attention to if they don't wanna be losing money.
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Post by hbchris on Aug 12, 2010 20:52:11 GMT -5
Man, I am getting seriously angry during my store visits to track down Elite 4. Almost every store I've gone to has had at least a few of the figures stolen and something else repacked in its place.
I've seen 2 Jerichos replaced with Ruthless Aggression 40 Jerichos.
I've seen Kane replaced by some custom-made hodgepodge that was mostly a Toy Biz WCW Bill Goldberg. Another Kane simply had his accessories stolen.
I still haven't found an intact John Morisson. The first one I found had the coat stolen, and the second one was a repacked Edge.
I've had a couple more encounters like this, but I've forgotten the specifics.
I've managed to find the rest of the figures except for JoMo, but man, this is ticking me off and making it really hard for honest people to buy these things. I wanna get these things off the shelves and smack customer service around until they pay attention to what they're taking back! Does Mattel need packaging that's not so easy to open and reseal? Yeah, I think so.
Is this happening to everybody or is it just around me?
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Post by hbchris on Feb 16, 2010 4:10:23 GMT -5
I just cancelled my preorder for the upcoming TNA Legends. Maybe I'll reconsider and pick up a few at retail, but yep, I'm pretty disappointed in Jakks.
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Post by hbchris on Dec 17, 2009 3:25:02 GMT -5
Yeah, that was pretty bad by Jakks. That explains why every Jarrett figure like that came with either a white or black tank top shirt on too, due to it was just Owen's singlet. But has anyone ever seen the original Jeff Jarrett in BCA series 6?? It was pretty gawdy. I actually really liked that BCA6 Jarrett figure. It was gaudy, but so was he! I think it's the only figure ever released of Jarrett with that look and gimmick. I'd love it if there's a Jarrett like that in the TNA legends line.
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Post by hbchris on Nov 24, 2009 8:00:28 GMT -5
It's official: they suck.
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Post by hbchris on Oct 30, 2009 20:46:48 GMT -5
Question for anyone who's bought, opened, and examined PPV21 Shawn Michaels. Is it a new deco, or is it a straight-up re-release? It looks a lot like the Shawn figure from the WrestleMania 24 2-pack that came with Randy Orton, but since I haven't seen the figure yet, I can't tell if there are any differences. If anyone can let me know for sure that'd be great. Thanks!
Edit: I just noticed the proto pic is the same for both figures.
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Post by hbchris on Oct 16, 2009 0:24:36 GMT -5
Batista with out tattoo's ?? That may come in handy for me.... He probably has the tattoos, but I won't swear to it. I just didn't pay attention to that part of the figure.
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Post by hbchris on Oct 15, 2009 23:45:32 GMT -5
I know someone else brought this up in another thread, but I just got back from TRU where they had most of Best of Ruthless Aggression 2009. Needless to say, Jakks has a funny interpretation of what "Best" means. Orton has plain black trunks and a plain black t-shirt. Cena has a plain orange t-shirt. Hornswoggle has no hat. Triple H has no logos on his trunks and has no shirt (although it's essentially his Adrenaline 39 figure, which is kinda cool) Batista, I think, was unchanged, but I didn't pay attention to his tattoos. Rey was already sold out. A reminder of what they were supposed to look like: www.wrestlingfigs.com/inner2.php?id=13164&page_id=1
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Post by hbchris on Oct 14, 2009 22:47:20 GMT -5
That Mark Henry is hilarious!
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Post by hbchris on Oct 9, 2009 11:26:16 GMT -5
I can't explain why anyone is enraged about the TNA figure announcement, but I can tell you that I prefer RAs because DAs look out of proportion to me. DAs have longer, more-articulated legs, but the arms and torsos didn't grow in proportion, so the figures look kinda lanky if they're just standing there for display. It's like they only went halfway.
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Post by hbchris on Oct 9, 2009 11:15:43 GMT -5
Nope, Undertaker has no logos on his tights, but strangely, they bothered to include the tattoo on the back/sides of his neck. I think the Edge/Big Show set looked like the back-of-package pics, but I don't remember all the details. Show was definitely in that same old inaccurate singlet we've been getting for years, and Edge was...very red. At least he had his logos on the sides of his tights though. I can't remember if he had the details on his boots, though. wow, just wow. does the Undertaker have any logos on his tights?..what did the Edge/Big Show set look like? do they differ from the protos on the back of the box?
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