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Community => Other Toy Lines => Well of the Souls => Topic started by: CHEWIE on April 7, 2008, 11:46 AM
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Ok, I know this is just pure speculation... but I'd think that a few of us are going to be lucky and find a few Indy toys before the street date (5/1, right?).
By my past experience, Wal-Mart, TRU and Target are all pretty tight on street dates for launches of a new line like this. I've heard of a few hiccups, but I doubt I'll be able to score anything at those locations.
In about a week or two though, I'm going to start checking K-Mart... they're the one retailer that I remember put out all their ROTS toys about 10 days early and sold them for a day, only to put them back in the stockroom when word got out that they were selling them too early. I'm thinking a few K-Marts might have a similar slip on these too (they did for AOTC and EPI too in my area, but not to the point of them setting the entire section up like they did for ROTS).
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On my trips to Wallmart this weekend I Saw M & M Indy related candy stocked on a end cap. So Promotional stuff is already hitting and being sold.
Keep your eyes open
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For some reason, I think thse are going to trickle out. Has Hasbro every had a hard on street date without a Midnight Madness? I really just want to go to the stores on May 1 and load up. I don't want them in pieces. And, truthfully, I don't have the time to go hunting these days.
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In one of the Q&A answers Hasbro said there's a pretty hard street date but no midnight madness type thing going on. And no store exclusives.
I'm betting that stores will have one big debut all at once for these. Hasbro seems to be really pushing the line IMO.
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Yeah I'm expecting a pretty well stocked Indy section in the toy aisle on the street date, possibly set up the night before at WM and all, so not midnight Madness, but close... I plan to roll out that night anyway and see what my nearby WM has available anyway.
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I saw on the AFI forums (http://www.actionfigureinsider.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10609) that someone apparently got some of the Indy figures from someone overseas (with pics).
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GAH! Seeing those in someone's collection is awesome.
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The Indy figures broke at one my Targets yesterday. I received three separate calls with the news. Although I didn't drop what I was doing and go, they put out the whole display.
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The Indy figures broke at one my Targets yesterday. I received three separate calls with the news. Although I didn't drop what I was doing and go, they put out the whole display.
Did you get an idea of how much shelf space was dedicated/how many pegs for basic figures?
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I happened to stop by there just now on a way to a job. There was one German Soldier left. There were 2 peg columns for basic figures ($7.57, ouch.), one column for deluxe ($10,) one for GH (pegs were still full,) and shelf space for vehicles. They were right next to the SW section.
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Thanks Anton...
wow, that's not much shelf space at all... :-\
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I'm wondering if figures will be less at TRU or Wal-Mart... I was really kinda looking forward to using the coupons to get a real deal too. Oh well... Bummer.
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I'm going to look at TRU on Thurs, my Targets are kind of small and thing sell fast. Are there any generic TRU coupns right now?
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I'm wondering if figures will be less at TRU
TRU? Less? Must be different where you live, I fully expect prices to be higher.
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Around me TRU's usually the same price as WM/Target. My Target's had a $6.64 "price cut" tag up on their SW figures, but usually they're $6.99 and only WM ever is cheaper, and only by a matter of cents ($6.88 or whatever it is). TRU's good in that regard here.
I guess they're more like KB up in the northernlands with you guys, Brent. KB's always $1 or $2 more on just about everything with Star Wars. I think TRU's $20 pricepoint vehicles are $25 though, which is more than anywhere else for the most part except KM and KB.
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Picked up both vehicles, and two of the German 2-pks, Marian w/ Cairo henchman (neither can barely stand) and Indy w/ Ark at Target tonight.
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I found a few tonight at K-Mart, but at 9.99 a piece I only picked up Sallah and Bellloq. There were no Indys...oddly, the Ticket to Adventure pack in sheet was missing on both figures. I got the little stickers, but nothing to stick them on.
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Whoa, $10 each at KM? That's even more than I thought they were gonna be. Yeesh... No wonder that store's such a hole.
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I found a few tonight at K-Mart, but at 9.99 a piece I only picked up Sallah and Bellloq.
Oooh, Canadian pricing. I didn't know K-mart was Canadian.
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Did anyone stumble on a setup today? Seeing that it is only 1 day early and all...
The TRU near where I work has a the marquee area taken up with Speed Racer junk - so I guess Indy doesn't rate high-enough to be a featured movie tie-in line in TRU. I was there as recently as 5PM this afternoon and it didn't even look like they were starting to make space for the Indy stuff.
Is it really supposed to be on the shelves tomorrow?
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Well on the way home I stopped by a Target and scored the entire RotLA wave.
I also scored what appears to be the three Wave 1 deluxe figures: Indy/Ark, German soldiers 2-pack and Marion/Cairo Thug.
Only grabbed one of each - I have decided that for this line I'm getting openers only.
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I just made a late early find, but early nonetheless! After a few phone calls I managed to find A target that secured a couple cases for me. I'm poor...so after digging through them examining headsculpts closely(they seem to all either be excellent or really crappy)...I ended up only buying a few:
Cairo Indy (RotLA)
German Soldier
Belloq
Cairo Swordsman
Indy w/Rocket Launcher (KotCS)
Dovchenko
Irina Spalko
I was looking forward to Monkey Man and Sallah but neither were anywhere to be found. Cemetary Warrior, Mutt w/Snake, and Marion were also missing but the cases were opened in front of me so I guess they'll just be tougher to find.
I've only opened a few (it's getting late), but so far the one that is really sticking in my mind as a superb figure is Dovchenko.
Good luck guys!
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That's funny - when I stumbled on the figures at Target all they had were RotLA figures, not a single KotCS figure at all.
So I guess there is hope that I might stumble on the KotCS wave tomorrow.
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I picked up a ROTLA Indy yesterday, with coat. That's the only figure I'm picking up.