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Post by maske2g on Jul 23, 2017 18:35:13 GMT -5
It would be cool to see how many figures for each Superstar Good luck with that :D You will get bored at AJ Lee!!!! I reckon I could give a decent guess at most.
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Post by maske2g on Jul 23, 2017 18:31:54 GMT -5
After years of banishment for the mere mention, we can now say JEFF HARDY!!! And on that note, I have updated the checklist. He was previously known as Unnamed superstar! We are now up to 285 individuals with figures.15 new names at SDCC.
List of superstars made by Mattel
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Post by maske2g on Jul 23, 2017 16:07:44 GMT -5
I've got reigns and Owens Retros inbound.
Im selling them in pairs.
44 shipped the pair
Or 40 if you arent worried about the card condition as there are a few with creased card.
Im not getting these at retail cost and its taken considerable effort to get them.
I figures this is figure finding as you arent gonna find them anywhere else !
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Post by maske2g on Jul 22, 2017 18:32:10 GMT -5
Any series numbers for those bud? So I can update the checklist page.
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Post by maske2g on Jul 22, 2017 17:56:21 GMT -5
My thoughts will go in the thread caled official SDCC
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Post by maske2g on Jul 22, 2017 17:46:24 GMT -5
The Hardys have been back for less than 3 months and there are dozens of complaints about them not being shown.
Now now now me me me me
Ffs
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Post by maske2g on Jul 22, 2017 8:46:36 GMT -5
I was visiting @speaktomewarriors when I saw this news. Bagged 3 in Lakeside, and watched as they very quickly went out of stock all of south Essex and North East London. 4 hours laters and Ive bought about 30 figures in smyths, tru, argos, and 2 B&M, all sale stuff. Smyths in Thurrock had 40 tugboats on sale for 3 quid. The WWE section is half the size it was. And the numbers of Elite 51 are pretty small. Berzerker aside. Which is already reduced to 14.99. Remember when i told you all to support smyths? ?? Told you so....
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Post by maske2g on Jul 21, 2017 18:52:57 GMT -5
Here's a couple fix ups I've been working on. Still could use a little touching up, but I'm fine with them The Andre is a basic I got in a fodder lot. Just a little shading. The Hollywood Blonds, are probably one of my top 3 favorite tag teams of all time and I wanted to have them in my collection. Both re-paints and sculpted hair on Austin Hope You like them Dude, this great work really highlights what I was saying about the figuart being nothing more than a better paint job. You have made what everyone thought was a bad Austin scope look 10 times better than the SHF figure. Bravo. Cant wait to try this I found a similar video tutorial showing the pastel methods.
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Post by maske2g on Jul 21, 2017 15:20:55 GMT -5
Eeeerrr , wrong store aorry!! Smyths!!
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Post by maske2g on Jul 21, 2017 12:03:04 GMT -5
Dm Macho was 28 2 days ago. Hmmm - it definitely said £23.99... there was a whole row of them. Still 28 online. Sneaky
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Post by maske2g on Jul 21, 2017 11:39:34 GMT -5
I hope a lot of people are biting their tongue and are shutting tfu roght now.
Virgil!!!!
Surely a silver Ted as well!!!
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Post by maske2g on Jul 21, 2017 7:11:23 GMT -5
What you American guys do everytime there is a thread like this, is make you local shops the benchmark for the entire global sales of a toy line. You live in a country with 5-6000 Walmarts, thousands of targets. Their demographics are completely different in almost every city, because you have 300m people. Their tastes change. Their disposable incomes differ from area to area. And even that can change drastically at any given time. (See Detroit). I don't know where you guys are from, but if from outsite the big cities of the US, I could bet that the economic recoveries were probably weaker and slower in your areas. You have to adapt all the time to keep your collection going. If you are a completist, you are never, ever going to walk into store again, in this age of internet shopping and see shelves stocked to the brim with all the figures you need. No matter what the line is. Even the horseshyte new transformers. You harp about the glory days of jakks, well if stores were knee deep in figures, that means they WERE NOT SELLING!! We saw the CS line deteriorate rapidly during the recession, and then there was no more jakks WWE.... (Tragically I know that had now been reversed) Respectfully, that is BS. It's done due to the numbers of product that sells. It was like that way back in the Attitude Era, a wall full of WWF and WCW figures which were selling like hot cakes because those same figures weren't there a few months later. Same for Jakks during the Ruthless Aggression era. I can't see why that is being misconstrued as "they were not selling!!". And yes the recession may have officially ended in 2009, but the effects were felt for a couple of years after that. Hence why the credit crunch continued even into 2012. Just because the category of recession finished, doesn't mean everything magically went back the way it was before. Companies were suffering big time years after. [ Times they are a changing. Internet shopping wasn't as big then, pretty mich all their stock would have been on shelves. YoY internet sales for these companies will continue increasing while retail suffers You may or may not find this interesting. Being the smallish island that England is, and with the consistency of Smyths toys, as well as the fact that they show stock levels for all 80+ stores, we can confidently predict the figures that wont sell. The uk collectors are trading the stock levels. Our shelves are stacked and people are just waiting for the clearance. I would say 60-70% of elites have ended up reduced in the last 18 months. Agreed some have not fully recovered. And others like energy, utilities, healthcare, tech, and consumer staples have blown the roof off. Just as with an economic cycle. Automative also flew because of cheap loans.
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Post by maske2g on Jul 21, 2017 3:10:13 GMT -5
TRU (Stoke-On-Trent) had the DM Macho Man for £23.99... which is a bit weird considering the last DM (Nakamura) was/is £24.99. Dm Macho was 28 2 days ago.
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Post by maske2g on Jul 20, 2017 16:29:36 GMT -5
My favorite thus far has been Scotty 2 Hotty. It took me back instantly to 2001 and his Ringside Chaos Series TTL figure. Such a fun period for Jakks figure fans, and fans of the Attitude Era. Needless to say, hearing the news of Chester Bennington's death brought me back down to earth. Collecting is a great escape from real life and you should never take any of this too seriously. There's some stuff I'm not too happy with, but the silver lining is that there is always tomorrow. I have faith in Mattel over the long haul. I think Bill has said previously that the Jakks Too cool are some of his favorite ever figures
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Post by maske2g on Jul 20, 2017 15:32:15 GMT -5
I guess I don't understand the market of these. I have a 5 year old daughter who loves Barbies but not interested in WWE. I have an 11,9,7 year old nieces who hates wrestling. I understand there is a market for them, but it has to be a very tiny market. I know a couple of perverted wrestling fans.
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Post by maske2g on Jul 20, 2017 14:51:20 GMT -5
Can everyone please stop mentioning Grey scale please? For a minute, I thought I missed the Singh Brothers has dressed like they have the Game of Thrones version of Aids.
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Post by maske2g on Jul 20, 2017 14:49:58 GMT -5
Scotty 2 Hotty but no Grandmaster Sexay? Scotty works for WWE. Sexy is an addict / former addict. I believe.
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Post by maske2g on Jul 20, 2017 13:59:16 GMT -5
HAHAHAH. And now it's been reposted on insta 274 times.
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Post by maske2g on Jul 20, 2017 13:58:34 GMT -5
I haven't been this excited since I bought a Dyson.
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Post by maske2g on Jul 20, 2017 13:57:18 GMT -5
So can we safely say the build a figure line is dead? The Queen is dead, long live the queen.
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