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Over the past two days: Imperial Jumptrooper, Purge Stormtrooper, First Order Elite Snowtrooper, Padme Amidala, C-3PO & Babu Frik

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Galaxy of Adventures / Re: Walmart 3.75" Skywalker Saga 2-Packs
« on: November 20, 2019, 05:09 PM »
Picked up by ST 2-packs this morning as well.

Glad to have these done with.

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I was finally able to secure one of these guys today, but it was not easy. GameStop guy had to call and check with his manager, then they couldn’t find a listing or price for the single figure, and they even tried calling the guy who had the original preorder for it but guess he didn’t pick up so I got it, eventually. Very relieved.

Would like to get another one at some point if they show up in greater numbers, to flank the 2nd Sister.

I lucked out with this last night - I had gone to the local mall to hit up the ThinkGeek store as the GameStop website indicated that the store in question had the Imperial Jumptrooper instock. So after grabbing that, I went over to the GameStop and when I got to the counter, I asked if they had any PS4 bundles for Fallen Order in stock, thinking "oh well, I'll grab the bundle with figure and call it a day" - and the lady at the counter goes, "we got this Xbox One bundle return earlier today" - so I said "can I buy just the figure?" - she looked over at her manager and he shrugged his shoulders like "sure, why not?" and they let me get it for $24.99.  ;D


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Got mine last Friday - I had ordered seven of them (six to open, one to keep MOC) - thankfully they put them in a nice sized box, so they all arrived in great shape.

I also am thinking they modified the hands on this release compared to the single carded figure, with the exception of the garden-blower, I've had no problem getting the Armory Pack figures to hold the various weapons included in the pack.

Considering that they included all of these same weapons with the SDCC 6" version of the figure, kudos to Hasbro for scaling those weapons down and getting them into the hands of 3.75" collectors as well.

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I have been excited about this set since it was announced. I did not get 2nd openers of either figure when they were released in the Black Series and I had always wanted to be able to pair them up with Yoda riding on Luke's back.

While I agree with what everyone has said regarding Luke's arms, if you do set him up with the pack on his pack and Yoda in the pack, and then have Luke's arms posed so that they are folded back and his hands looking like they are clasping the shoulder straps of the backpack, as a figure display, it does look quite good, so I'm sure that's what Hasbro was going for with this figure.

The one way this three pack could have been better is if they had packaged it up like the Skiff Guards and individually carded each figure on a TVC cardback.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Do You Have Pets?
« on: November 18, 2019, 09:09 PM »
Apologies in advance for resurrecting this thread.

Michele and I had to say goodbye to our oldest male kitty, Trip,  this past Sunday. The first cat we got together after five years of both marriage and me nagging for us to get a cat.


We got him from the local shelter as sick little kitten, not more than 4 or 5 weeks old and for the past 15 years, it was due to how amazing of a cat he was, that we opened up our home to many other cats.

When we found him Sunday morning he was unable to use his back legs, we wrapped him in a blanket and took him to the vet, knowing the situation was not good, right before leaving, I took him by where our other cats were laying and told each of them that he may be going "bye bye" for the last time. Many of them nuzzled at, and licked his head as if to give him an affectionate kiss goodbye.

We were told by the vet he either had a blood clot or had fallen and broken something in his back. He wasn't a very vocal kitty, but from his meows, it was clear he was in quite a bit of pain. We contemplated having them give him something for the pain and a steroid to reduce inflammation to see if that would help, but we agreed it was better to end his pain than to put him through any further suffering, simply because we were not 100% ready to say goodbye.

 :'(

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My findings were the same, checked a couple stores locally, they had none, computer system showed as having nothing in stock in any local stores and that there were none on the way.

I was under the impression from speaking to anogther GameStop employee that this *WAS* going to be sold individually similar to the Carbonized Second Sister inquisitor figure.

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Grabbed the Spirit Yoda and Jedi Luke Skywalker from a Walmart this morning. Yesterday, I made the decision to finally start to be a 6" collector and work to fill in the Black Series Phase III gaps I have, there will be some painful items, but I have been collecting the TFA, TLJ, Rebels and Solo 6" items this whole time, so it really comes down to OT, PT & Rogue One 6" items that I don't have - so I picked up Jyn Erso, Cassian Andor & Director Krennic at Five Below.

Been tempted to pull the trigger on an Amazon order today for a few items, that while not explicitly Rogue One, they all appear in Rogue One - Darth Vader, Tarkin, Princess Leia, Royal Guard, K2SO, Death Star Trooper & the Rogue One 3-pack...

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Galaxy of Adventures / Re: Walmart 3.75" Skywalker Saga 2-Packs
« on: November 10, 2019, 07:25 PM »
Snagged the PT sets today when I was out looking for the Jedi Luke and Spirit Yoda 6" figures.

Went online and ordered 2x each of the ST sets just to not have to go crazy for those in a month. Wouldn't mind scoring a couple extra of the droid set for the Build-a-Droid R2 in all gold, just to add to my B.A.D. collection.

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I could be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure I read a report that these waves would be offered online only, so there is no possibility of them clogging brick-and-mortar retail. I'm okay with that quite honestly. I'll order a case of each wave from an online retailer, just like I did with the previous wave and the wave that included Boba Fett just to have the variants in my TVC collection, so yeah, I guess some might view me as a bit of a "sucker" in that regard. But my hope is that the photo-real detail will be applied to all of the "human" character faces and I have my fingers crossed that the C-3PO will be on a Star Wars cardback as an added bonus.

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If you haven’t gotten the AT-ST yet, the online ordering and store pickup option seems to be the way to get it :)

This is very much a "your mileage may very" situation unfortunately.

I ordered two of these back on October 7th, they charged me then, so I had paid for these almost a full month ago.

When I got to my local Best Buy where I had set up the site-to-store pick-up, at first they had a hard time finding my order, then the girl opened up the closet area behind the pickup register and I see that there are two AT-STs just sitting there, no longer in the outer shipping box and affixed to the packaging on each is a red/white tracking label sticker.

She then proceeds to try to carry both of them over to the counter/register at the same time and proceeds to drop one. I make like an "oh no" expression on my face and she says "don't worry, the item inside is well protected". I had to inform her that the condition of the packaging was important to me, and that I needed her to look if they had more in stock, as I did not want to take the one that now had a caved in bottom corner.

She said they had four more in stock.

When I got a good look at the other one, I started to peel the sticker off - and I told her, if this sticker ruins the packaging, I'm not going to want this one either. Thankfully the sticker came off and the condition of the box is maybe an 8 out of 10. I doubt these come in more than 2 per case, I have ZERO idea why they, when my order was for two, these EVER got removed from the outer shipping carton.

Anyway, I leave them both up by the pick-up register and I go to the "toy section" ::) and see what I can find on the shelves. One is also about an 8 in condition and the other one looks like it was unpacked by wolves.

So I get back up there, bringing the sorta okay one with me and I said, can you please check for the other two in the back, these are pretty dinged up - and I wasn't just being a jerk, this was the day of release and both boxes looked like they had been on the shelves for about a month. If someone told me that they had these on TFF and they've just been getting bounced around the stock room for the past month, I would believe it.

She goes to the back looking for them and after about 15 minutes comes back out and says "I'm sorry, we got a site-to-store order today and they're already prepared for that person to come pick them up" - I was less than pleased and reminded why I hate Best Buy.

I took the two and grabbed an IG-11 and went to the register to pay for the IG-11, turns out the guy working the register had a name-tag on that indicated he was a manager, and he asked me "did I find everything okay?" - I basically started with "no, I did not" and calmly told him all of the things that I was not happy with.

I'm only aware of two other Best Buys between my home and work, so if I can, I'll check them to see if I can find one that's in better shape, but I'm not counting on it.

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Got this today from my drug droid dealer who hooks me up with all the Droid Factory stuff as it comes out in DisneyWorld.

The deco for this is pretty neat. I like the the outer-shell of the body is translucent red, that's a neat touch.

One thing that seems like a missed opportunity is that the Droid Factory BB units have a "silly hat" hole just like the Astromechs do. It would have been clever to have this one come with an accessory that plugged into that hole that made him almost like an xmas tree ornament.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2019 TVC Wave 7 (aka New TVC Wave 10)
« on: October 4, 2019, 09:58 PM »
The updated head on the Leia is fantastic.

She is going to be hard to get seeing as she's only 1-per case. Fingers crossed she hits Hasbro Pulse and I can supplement a case order I make with EE.

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Galaxy of Adventures / Re: Triple Force Friday - October 4th
« on: October 4, 2019, 09:57 PM »
Agreed - last night and this morning was a real chore, and if I could just learn to "roll the dice" on getting the mint-on-card/mint-in-box items, I should really just order online.

I don't know why I did it, but I bought into the Graphite Editions for the Black Series - so I have all those (except for Amazon, that one is on it's way).

I also got a complete set of First Day Issue figures - again, not sure why, just did.

The only thing I didn't get enough of, was TVC figures - and I ordered them from Hasbro Pulse last night after my 2nd WalMart visit ended up being a total dud. I also ordered a set of X-Wings from them, and then another set of X-Wings from EE (using JD's affiliate links) - the EE ones will be my MIB ones.

I did get a set of those silly gold figures - again, other than "completeness" not sure why. And in a couple months, I'm sure I'll be seeing news that Hasbro is ending the 3.75" scale completely due to lack of sales or interest or whatever, and quite honestly, they have no one to blame but themselves. The Galaxy of Adventure figures are D.O.A. from what I've seen, plenty of them to go around, so either no one wants them or they've over-shipped them, doesn't really matter, retailers are going to be left holding the bag on them in a major way.

I missed Force Friday (or whatever they called it) for the Solo movie and when I finally got to a store, the ONLY 3.75" figures to be had were the Force Link 1.0 figures repacked in Force Link 2.0 packaging. So clearly, as "bad" as the 3.75" 5POA line was perceived as being, it at least moved. The problem was that, as is the case with all of the Hasbro assortments, the case ratios STINK. They should have stuck with having two TVC waves hit today with Wave 1 being: Rey, Sith Jet Trooper, Poe & Zorii Bliss (2x of each in the case) and Wave 2 being: Yavin Leia, X-Wing Luke, Knight of Ren, and once again Sith Jet Trooper (also 2x of each in the case) - and those would have all still done well.

Also, where the heck was the Yavin Luke WalMart exclusive? One WalMart I went into had a metric ton of Skiff Guard Lando figures!  ::)

Assortments, distribution and product focus are the problems that plague Hasbro Star Wars - not collector demand. From what I experienced today, if you were the 2nd person to hit any store today, you were pretty much shut out of TVC and/or the First Day Issue Black Series figures. In sharp contrast, I bet I could go into any store right now and grab a complete set of those 5" abortions called "Galaxy of Adventure".

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Is this available starting next Friday or at a later date?

I'm curious about this as well. I thought that it was, but I've also heard that it may not be hitting until November.

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