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Re: Target Exclusive Utapau Shadow Trooper
« Reply #120 on: December 23, 2005, 12:28 AM »
a local target here in NC got some in, about a dozen it looks like. But thanks to a friend I got one already.
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Re: Target Exclusive Utapau Shadow Trooper
« Reply #121 on: December 23, 2005, 12:39 AM »
I've heard a LOT about either reshipments of these (maybe a 2nd wave of them was sent out at one point or another?) or just that stores were really stocked up with them.  I know that I had hit a store here and they'd had some and I got one there.  Then they didn't have any my next trip (at least that's what the computer told me).  Then a buddy said they had about a dozen on the pegs weeks later.  Very strange this figure was.

It's a good figure too so it's nice people didn't seem to have a horrid time finding it if they used the DPCI...  It's neat having it, but I just wish they'd had more at a cheaper price.  It's one I'd have loved to army build with.
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Re: Target Exclusive Utapau Shadow Trooper
« Reply #122 on: December 24, 2005, 04:05 PM »
Still haven't found one of these....I was at a Target on Black Friday and they had 10 pegs for it, but none there. It looks like a cool fig, are the going to reship?
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Re: Target Exclusive Utapau Shadow Trooper
« Reply #123 on: December 26, 2005, 03:22 AM »
I wouldn't count on it at this point...  The best thing to do was take the DPCI before they went on the pegs and try to get either a helpful (IE: Rare) employee at Target, or one who was confused but not argumentative, and get one for you from the stockroom when they came in...  I went around and got mine that way and it worked best.  I also got my TIE Fighter and Assault on Coruscant exclusives that way (just to be safe, as nobody knew how "rare" either would have been).  I got the first Clone the same way too, and I know other guys scored Evolutions sets that way...

My technique is to ask an employee in the back, if they deny you go to one in the middle, then one in the front if you're denied again, and lastly hit the customer service desk if all else has failed.  The CS Desk I've never been denied at.
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Re: Target Exclusive Utapau Shadow Trooper
« Reply #124 on: December 26, 2005, 12:30 PM »
Picked up 2 today on clearance for $9 each.

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Re: Target Exclusive Utapau Shadow Trooper
« Reply #125 on: December 26, 2005, 12:32 PM »
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Re: Target Exclusive Utapau Shadow Trooper
« Reply #126 on: December 28, 2005, 09:27 PM »
a local target here in NC got some in, about a dozen it looks like. But thanks to a friend I got one already.

What part of NC are you in? I'm in Raleigh.

Anyway, I was able to get 2 of these about a week before Thanksgiving, and they weren't even on the shelf. The guy didn't seem like he wanted to go into the back to get them. I never saw anymore after that, except at a flea market. I felt lucky to get 2 of them, as I never even saw the first clone.

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Re: Target Exclusive Utapau Shadow Trooper
« Reply #127 on: December 28, 2005, 11:14 PM »
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What part of NC are you in? I'm in Raleigh.

Anyway, I was able to get 2 of these about a week before Thanksgiving, and they weren't even on the shelf. The guy didn't seem like he wanted to go into the back to get them. I never saw anymore after that, except at a flea market. I felt lucky to get 2 of them, as I never even saw the first clone.
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Re: Target Exclusive Utapau Shadow Trooper
« Reply #128 on: December 28, 2005, 11:28 PM »
Oh. It's funny because I'm going there tomorrow with my family to look at colleges for my older brother.

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Re: Target Exclusive Utapau Shadow Trooper
« Reply #129 on: December 28, 2005, 11:43 PM »
i picked up a couple, against my better judgement, they just look so cool in person lol.
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Re: Target Exclusive Utapau Shadow Trooper
« Reply #130 on: January 8, 2006, 05:03 AM »
The utapau shadow trooper was the only target exclusive I could find. I bought 4 of them. ;D

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Re: Target Exclusive Utapau Shadow Trooper
« Reply #131 on: January 11, 2006, 01:57 AM »
I bought one when they first hit and last week I found 4 more on clearance for $6.48 each.

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Re: Target Exclusive Utapau Shadow Trooper
« Reply #132 on: February 6, 2006, 06:21 PM »
Incidentally, the Utapau Shadow Trooper is the current entry in the What's the Story? feature on StarWars.com Hyperspace.

Here is the submission form if you're a HS member. He will be open for submissions until February 17th, when the next character comes up.
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Re: Target Exclusive Utapau Shadow Trooper
« Reply #133 on: February 7, 2006, 12:50 AM »
What's the story?

The story is Hasbro's shameless and will shill any random paintjob clone to any company they can as overpriced exclusives because they love dicking the consumer around with this line.  :)

Wait that's not the story they want?
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Re: Target Exclusive Utapau Shadow Trooper
« Reply #134 on: February 7, 2006, 01:14 AM »
Exactly.
Well I like him, at first I didnt but this clone is growing on me.
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