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Collectibles => Past Hasbro 3.75" Lines => Revenge of the Sith => Topic started by: CHEWIE on June 2, 2005, 10:36 AM
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Let's speak about 1-32 for now, the initial waves that most places seemed to get in for the April 2 release.
What figures are drying up in your area? What's the hardest ones to find?
In my experience, the following figures are very damn hard to find now -
1 - #23 Red Guard (was always hard to find though)
2 - #23 Blue Guard
3 - #18 C3PO
4 - #11 Darth Vader
5 - #17 Battle Droid
6 - #6 Clone Trooper
7 - #9 Grievous
8 - #28 Anakin
9 - #13 Dooku
10 - #12 Palpatine
:P
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To me, its noticeably been:
#9 Grievous
#11 Darth Vader
#23 Blue Guard
#23 Red Guard - never seen it
I see #6 clones here and there which surprises me. Same with the others.
I suppose I don't really notice other characters for some reason, like Anakins or Obi-Wans.
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1 - #23 Red Guard (was always hard to find though)
2 - #23 Blue Guard
3 - #18 C3PO
4 - #11 Darth Vader
5 - #17 Battle Droid
6 - #6 Clone Trooper
7 - #9 Grievous
8 - #28 Anakin
9 - #13 Dooku
10 - #12 Palpatine
:P
I would say this list goes for my area as well, but I have to say that the #6 clone pops up the most often out of all of those (belive it or not.)
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In my area, the red/blue guard and Vader are hard to find. pretty much everyone else is available in various quantities.
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1) The guards, both red and blue
2) #6 clone
3) battle droid
4) Darth Vader
5) Padme (wow, I miss her b/c of this)
6) C3PO
I see all the rest frequently.
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Yeah, it's pretty much the same here:
Vader
Grievous #9
Clone #6
Red/Blue Guards
Dooku
C-3PO
Anakin #2
Battle Droid
Both Yodas seem to have dried up too
And to a lesser degree:
Tarfful
Padme
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#6 and #41 Clone
Blue Guards
AT-TE (I have only seen him twice ???)
Clone Commanders and Pilots were warming the pegs here but over the last few days all have vanished.
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1. Red Royal Guard: I've only ever seen him twice and both of those were back around the first week of April. Any other time I've seen a case with an RG in it, it's been the Blue version.
2. Clone Trooper: No explanation necessary. As I said in another thread, if it's a plain white Clone and it doesn't have a jetpack, it flies off the shelves.
3. Vader: the basic one is nonexistent at this point, the Deluxe Anakin with Armor has all but dried up, and the Operating Table Vader disappears almost as quickly as the SA Clones seem to.
4. Blue Royal Guard: they show up more frequently than the red RG, but not quite as much as many of the other figures.
5. Padme: I'm quite shocked at how these disappeared overnight once the movie opened. If any single figure benefitted from the film as far as sales went, Padme was it.
Others that are fairly hard to find (from least difficult to most difficult, relatively speaking) mainly come from 37 on up. Aayla Secura, who sold fairly briskly at first, has started to stick around for a bit, but the number of Threepios has started to dwindle along the lines of Padme recently. I don't think stores will be able to give away Bail Organa, which bothers me since it is a truly great figure that isn't getting the attention it deserves.
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For me it's:
1) AT-TE Gunner
2) Red Royal Guard
3) Darth Vader
4) General Grievous (#9)
5) Blue Senate Guard
All of the others I can find, even it takes some heavy-duty searching.
I guess I could include the original version of Anakin (#2) in this list too - all I see now are the version that comes with Dooku's lightsaber instead of the Vader one.
Also for some of the other figures it just depends on how picky you want to be about packaging. The TRU near where I work has a lot of #1 - #32 (minus the figures I mention above that fall in this range) that all look like they've been through a war! Since the TRU display came down and they were using the "destroy our product in bins" approach, most of the stuff on the pegs now isn't worth squat (IMHO).
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I would say the red guard is by far the hardest to find figure. I only came across him once, in comparison I have seen 4 blue guards. Of course I bought all of them. :P
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Definitely haven't seen much of these:
#9 Grievous
#11 Darth Vader
#12 Palpatine
#23 Red Guard
#23 Blue Guard
#38 AT-TE Tank Gunner
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The two toughest to find figures for me have been:
Red Royal Guard (never saw him at retail)
AT-TE Gunner (only saw twice at retail)
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Weekend/week of the premiere I'd say the mains had become a lot harder to find... I went out briefly last night and there was replenishment.
In my area, this is a general look at what's tough to find:
-Jedi... Collection 2 and Collection 1. Obi-Wan, Yoda, Mace, Agen Kolar, Kit Fisto, Sae Sae Tinn, Plo Koon... The only easier figures to find were Anakin, Shaak Ti, and Luminara. The others have dried up some. Why Anakin's around more than others is a mystery.
-Royal Guards (Red or Blue, though Blue's seemingly been easier to find, with good reason). I'd like at least 6 more red's, and honestly I'd probably NOT stop buying the RG's for some time (red or blue). Senators need guards, Palpy's need guards, and customs galore... I want more of that figure.
-Clones... Clone Commanders and Pilots are more abundant, but Basic White Clones (TE Gunner, #41, #6) are gone about as fast as they're put out.
-Battledroids dried up, and I'm not really surprised. Even the SBD's which were wildly abundant have dried up...
-Surprises? Padme, 3PO, and Mon Mothma.... These all sorta disappeared. I see one or two here and there, but not much compared to what was out. Oh, and Chewbacca. Not that he's a huge surprise, but just that there were SO many of him and now he's pretty well sold through.
What's hanging around though?
-Recently heavy shipped figures like the Destroyer Droid, Neimodian Gunner, and Wookie #2...
-Tarful
-Deluxe... ALmost all, save for the most recent releases.
-Clone Pilots & Commanders (Commanders are mounting up but still sorta selling it seems).
-Bail Organa
-Grievous Exploding
-Mas Ameda
I'm sure I'm missing some things too... WM's were pretty well hit and cleared after the film's release, at least in my area. I was impressed. I think it's amazing what a GOOD film can do for a toy line rather than 2 lackluster films that weren't "cool" to enjoy.
And also a much superior toy line compared to the last 2 films. These figures are outstanding not only compared to Episode I's launch and II's as well, but just in a general comparison to the toy aisles at stores... Hasbro put out a better product that rivals other lines for once. It 's working for them. It worked pretty good for OTC as well, so it's nice to see the line actually "compete" better than it has in past years.
I'm sure we'll get to a point of over-production on a lot of stuff... I think the army builders will move slowly, but the Neimodian and DD have the toughest job of selling I think. I'll buy Neimodians, but I know not EVERYONE will want an army of him. Wookiees I think have some backing by the kiddies... I'm gonna cover my bases and get some of the "odd" stuff that didn't really make the film that I hadn't picked up yet... The movie was really inspiring to WANT to buy things I hadn't picked up yet, and that's a pretty great thing. I know Episode II didn't give that kind of feeling after seeing it, except I wanted a GOOD SA Clone (that ultimately I couldn't get many of anyway, even still ::) ).
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The two toughest to find figures for me have been:
Red Royal Guard (never saw him at retail)
AT-TE Gunner (only saw twice at retail)
Same here!
Red Royal Guard - Never saw him either;
AT-TE: I only saw once, and I bought him.
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Although most of the time when I check the Star Wars pegs, I just scan for the figures I'm looking for and kind of gloss over everything else...today I took a trip to Target to look for the Tarkin wave (as well as the new cup sets, although I didn't expect to see them yet)...and took notice of what figures were/weren't there. Surprisingly (at least to me), there was not a single basic carded Obi-Wan or Anakin on the pegs. Ones that you would think, with history supporting it, would be the pegwarmers. I don't know for sure about Wal-Mart, but I think it is somewhat similar there. In fact, this Target...while stocked pretty well, didn't have any of the following figures:
Obi-Wan(s)
Anakin(s)
Darth Vader
General Grievous
Chewbacca
Padme
C-3PO
R2-D2
Yoda
Those were the ones I would peg for sitting, and maybe it is just in my neighborhood, but it was funny to see those all sold out now. Many of them can be found elsewhere I'm sure, but they are becoming more scarce everywhere here in town. Target in particular is now the land of Tarffuls, Ki Adis, Bail, Polis, and Super Battle Droids :).
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A lot of the #1-12 figures have vanished from these parts, though I still see some of them floating around. As a matter of fact, most of the April 2 figs have disappeared, I guess stores haven't been restocking them.
These are mainly the hardest figs to find:
Clone Commanders (Still have yet to see them at retail, got mine online)
AT-TE Gunners (See above, but minus the online part)
Royal Guards (Both I have yet to see anywhere)
#41 Clones (Though I hear reports of them being spotted frequently here)
Also, different stores have odd sales. One Wal-Mart will be full of Jedi, while another will be filled with Grievous and Droids.
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Made a few runs yesterday. Three stores had no Vaders, Anakins or C-3PO's on top of the army builders. As a matter of fact, I have not seen any army builders, minus that Super BD in weeks ??? So, it looks like several core characters are sellouts in my area. Biggest pegwarners: Palpatine, Mon Mothma and Bail Organa.
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As far as other figures that are tough to find, aside from the surprising core characters that are disappearing, it is much the same as other areas. The Tarkin wave (#45-47) hasn't shown up here yet, as far as I know, so this is from #1-44.
Royal Guard - Red (never seen one on the pegs at any of the "Big 3" retailers)
Royal Guard - Blue (seen once since opening day, but not anymore)
Clone #41 - Haven't seen at retail yet, got a couple online.
Clone #6 - All disappeared now, could find them now and then earlier though.
Tank Gunner - Saw them a couple times at Target, but they aren't anywhere now.
Clone Commander - Started to show up in larger quantities at Wal-Mart, but they've all disappeared as well.
Darth Vader - Haven't seen this figure anywhere for awhile either.
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This morning the two Targets I hit had obviously gotten a new mix of Collection 2 figures - there were PLENTY of Red Royal Guards and AT-TE Tank Gunners to be had at both stores. I would have to say it was the most of either figure (6+) that I had ever seen at one time.
Unfortunately no #45 - #47, the Wave 2 cups w/figures or Wave 3 Deluxe figures to be had...
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In my neighbourhood, I've never seen the #38 AT-TE Gunner or the #23 Blue Guard. Other than that, anything up to #40 has been reasonably easy to find, although I only saw 1 each of #'s 37, 39 and 40.
We still haven't even received the 2nd wave of Deluxe or the large vehicles either. Oi.
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It's funny that even the Commanders, which had hit en masse and sat a LITTLE longer than most other stuff they shipped with in the last week or two, they're all gone now...
It's funny how fast that stuff goes. That COmmander sat longer than the grunts, but even the reshipment of him is gone from my area now. I shoulda picked 2 or 3 more up I think just so I didn't have to think about it.
I've only seen like 1 each of some of those ones you did too Jesse... Like, I've NEVER seen Vader's Med Droid. Never. Weird, I know, but it's one I still don't have simply because it doesn't seem to linger.
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Like, I've NEVER seen Vader's Med Droid. Never. Weird, I know, but it's one I still don't have simply because it doesn't seem to linger.
You should come out here. That's all I see besides Wookiee Warriors and Nemodians.
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I just spent a few minutes digging through vader's droid, wookies, nemodians, and a bunch of jedi to find a lonesome at-te gunner.
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To reiterate a little, Target had a ****load of Commanders and I pondered too long in regards to picking up some extras...now they are long gone.
Nemodians are sitting, as well as the secondary Jedi characters.
The baddies sell well in my area - Dooku, Vader, Emperor (sans the purple garb), and of course - CLONES!!
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Not much different in St. Louis. I have seen 2 Vaders, 5 or so SA clones... only 1 vader on the table ever. I haven't seen the vanilla wookie warrior except once.
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These are around here but kinda hard to find .
I will put a 1 next to it if its never been seen. A 2 next to it if i have seen alteast 15 of them. and a 3 if i see them all the time. (washington state - spokane)
1 - #23 Red Guard (was always hard to find though) =1
2 - #23 Blue Guard ( never see =1
3 - #18 C3PO =3
4 - #11 Darth Vader =1
5 - #17 Battle Droid =2
6 - #6 Clone Trooper =3
7 - #9 Grievous =3
8 - #28 Anakin =3
9 - #13 Dooku =3
10 - #12 Palpatine =3 ( in all versions out as of today)
I also have seen only about 5 Padmes And I am a hunter of all these toys I shop atleast 2 -3 times a week at almost all the big stores and med sized stores in this area .
Is Ask akk hard to find for you guys ? I have only seen 1 of him .
Clone commanders are also pretty hard to fine i would rank them as a 2
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For my neck of the woods, #38 AT-TE Gunner and the #23 Blue Royal Guard. I picked up 2 of the AT-TE Gunners on April 2nd and I have not seen another since then. The Blue Royal Guard has not made it's was up to Canada unless you find him in a comic/figure shop. Seems to be the Red ARC syndrome all over again.
As for Red Royal Guards, they were a dime a dozen up here then they vanished and are now showing up again.
I still have not seen the deluxe Vader Frankenstein table tho. :-\
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As of this weekend, the harder to find (in the Southern New Jersey area) figures are:
- #23 Royal Guard (I saw a bunch of each color throughout April, but haven't seen one in a few weeks)
- #11 Darth Vader (I see one every now and then, but he's turned out to be fairly difficult to find lately)
- #38 AT-TE Gunner (I've seen a bunch of him, but he never lasts more than a day at retail)
Other than those ^ guys, I've seen bunches of all of the other figures. The clones (#6, #41) sell well but I always see them at retail, the clone commander was warming pegs for a couple of weeks but is now becoming harder to find.
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Since Target is getting ready to repeg the stores at the end of june and Walmart is doing the same at the end of july, they are all starting getting harder to find. I find it hard to believe they are repegging the stores this early for christmas, but I was told that by many different store managers and 4 or 5 stores.
I don't think I have seen a #11 in a store for 4 or 5 weeks though.
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They tend to do toy resets periodically. I'd look for another one before X-Mas actually... Most stores do resets by season. Spring, Summer, Fall/Christmas... I think you'll see at least one more before X-Mas rolls around.
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This is basically my last day living in Illinois. Up to now in my area it's been almost impossible (for me) to find a Red Royal Guard and AT-TE Gunner and the Deluxe Vader with Operation Table. I only saw the Gunship once.
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Yes, first it was the ARC-17-, now it's the Gunship.
I said it four months ago and I'll say it again - there are no Vaders to be had for the kiddies. Big mistake on Hasbro's part.
No movie clones and no Vaders on the pegs!
Inexcusable.
Remind me again who the marketing campaign revolves around??
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The last couple times I have checked the pegs (for the Tarkin wave), I have noticed something mentioned earlier in this thread....figures that you would have thought would be pegwarmers (or were early on) have all but disappeared at this point, at least here. I don't think I saw a single figure of any of the following, for the most part anyways:
Anakin
Obi-Wan
Darth Vader
Chewbacca
C-3PO
R2-D2
Padme
Gen. Grievous
Those, along with the usual "sell outs" (Royal Guards, Clones, etc.) have really been tough finds. I think you could build armies of Bail Organa, SBDs, and some of the background Jedis though (particularly Ki Adi, SaeSee, and Luminara).
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the red clone, and the clone 3 pack. 41 is plentiful and I have two and now want ten more by my birthday.
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It's funny but around here the only Clone that sat besides the Pilot was the Commander. And he sat for all of a couple weeks before he was gone once again.
Right now, stores are fairly dry in my area... TRU took their large display down and where the remainder stuff went I don't know (sold? In the back?)...
#6 is gone... #41 I've seen once, never saw it again... Clone Pilots are even starting to dwindle as general stock is depleting, though they're still easily found (just noticeably less of them).
I haven't seen the Senators wave yet, and really only heard one mention of it from local guys. Kinda bummed there.
I STILL can't find a Vader Medical Droid. That's just funny.
Beyond that, Anakin's and Obi-Wan's are almost extinct... Collection 2 Jedi are sparse, and the selection varies by store. One store you won't find a Ki-Adi, but they'll have the girls... Another store you won't find an Aylya, or Luminara, but they have Agen Kolar and Ki Adi... The only constants I'm noticing are Shaak Ti, Plo Koon, and Saesee Tinn. All the others are hit and miss, with Kit Fisto, Agen Kolar, Ki-Adi, and Aylya being the hottest of the Collection 2 Jedi.
Count Dooku's are rarely seen... Same with 3PO...
Chancellor Palpatine, Mas Ameda, R2's, Mon Mothma, SBD's, and surprisingly to me Chewbacca and Tarful, are all easy to find... As are the Wookiee Warrior #2 and Neimodian Gunner.
I'm just sorta surprised by a lot of the diversity in what sells and what does not except for the Clones. That I wholely expected... The popularity of the film is what fueled the popularity of the line, coupled with an actually impressively made toy line that didn't feel "cheap" (from the packaging to the figures). This has been a fun line to watch, at least in its earliest forms.
I'm curious to see how the line's carried forward now. If they think they've hooked enough lifers to keep the current "trend" the norm, or if Hasbro's going to readily go back to a collector focus... Should be interesting to watch.
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The thing that I'm finding really entertaining is that the popular figures before the film was released are now, by and large, the pegwarmers, and vice versa. Sure, there are exceptions to this (the continuing nonexistence of Darth Vader, the Red Royal Guard, and the basic Clones), but even figures I would have thought would remain popular like the Clone Commander have started to warm the pegs.
Before the movie I saw oceans of Threepios, R2s, Padmes, Grievii, and Maces. Figures from 29-40 were nonexistent.
I went into a WM the other day and those figures I mentioned above were nonexistent, but they had plenty of figures 29-40 (with the exception of the AT-TE Gunner). A mom was there with her two kids and one wanted Threepio and the other wanted R2. The mother told me that they had to dig for ten minutes to find the lone Threepio at the back of a peg, and I went to the other "hidden" area (where WM shoved a bunch of figures they didn't feel like stocking) to see if I could find an R2 for the kid and I didn't see a single one. The kid ended up getting the GH Dooku/Anakin two pack, but the lack of an R2 was kind of interesting I thought. And the simple fact that a pregnant action figure is one of the more popular figures is something I find really funny. :)
The only thing I regret about the 35 Palpatine being so widely available (read: warming pegs) is that they will now probably never do an accurate version holding his own saber instead of Vader's. :'(
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After checking the Targets and Wal-Marts in town this weekend, it was a lot of the same product from store to store. Surprisingly, the majority of stores haven't cut down their ROTS section yet, as I've heard happening elsewhere. Our closest Target actually expanded the basic figure section, getting rid of some of the miscellaneous stuff and just filling the whole section with basic figures. Nothing past #44 anywhere in town though. Honestly that #41-44 wave is just clogging up the pegs all over the place now. Not the Clonetroopers, of course, although I did see at least 6-8 of them this weekend as well. I'd say the biggest pegwarmers in town here are the following:
Neimodian Warrior
Clone Pilot
Super Battle Droid
Misc. "Background" Jedi
Bail Organa
Polis Massan
Mas Amedda
Tarfful
There are a few others I'm sure I'm forgetting, but honestly the biggest pegwarmers here now are from the later waves. Although one Target has apparently put out some older cases, and did have some Obi-Wans, Anakins, Yodas, and Chewies on the pegs, that is the only place I've seen them in town...and the first time in a long time around here surprisingly. Once the movie was actually in theatres, those types of figures dried up. I'd say that they are among the toughest to find, along with:
#45 on up - Haven't shown up yet as far as I know
#6 Clone - Didn't see a single one in town, but saw 6-8 #41 Clones...weird.
#41 Clone - Although I saw some this weekend, and last week, they do still seem to sell...and I don't see them all that often.
Red Royal Guard - Still haven't seen one at retail, aside from one at Shopko for $9.
Blue Royal Guard - Saw them opening day, and not really since.
Darth Vader - Every so often, but rarely on the pegs anymore.
General Grievous - Basic or Deluxe, both seem to be selling. I've seen him here and there, but again, not often.
Obi-Wan Kenobi - Before Target put out (or received) and older case, I don't think there was a single one at TRU, Target, or Wal-Mart...specifically the first version.
Anakin Skywalker - Same as Obi-Wan, really wasn't any in town until Target put some new figures out. He was everywhere prior to the movie, but really dried up once it came out.
Chewbacca - Used to see him everywhere, but again, has dried up considerably. Target had a couple this weekend, but otherwise no one else had a single one.
Yoda - I've seen the "spinning" version a couple times, but the first version is all but gone. Same situation as Obi/Ani/Chewie otherwise.
Padme/3PO/R2 - All three of these are tough finds here, and I don't know that I saw any Padmes or 3POs now that I think of it.
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I've seen all figures minus some of the paint variants e.g., Shocktrooper (pisses me off), new head stripe Commander Bly, "white face" Meena, and until recently (until Black Friday morning at WM) the "Final 5". Oh, and just last night I found the "metalic visor" Gree...but no new Bly... :-[
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I haven't seen Tarkin or Ask Aak. The corrected versions of Bly and Gree haven't shown up here either. I'm also having quite a bit of trouble finding the Twins. I was told this morning by a Walmart employee that there is a scalper that is up at the store around 1-2:00 am waiting for them to bring out boxes of figures.
Hopefully I'll find these figures before the line discontinues.
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A scalper is doing that? Wow! Looser! Seems to me that these won't be THAT hard to find by Christmas...I hope... I think there has been WalMart exclusives that were hard to find but I don't remember what the were... ???
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I think there has been WalMart exclusives that were hard to find but I don't remember what the were... ???
The Trash Compactor sets. I saw them once and was glad I picked up a set.
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Damn straight. That is the only exclusive I do not have. I saw them once over xmas when I was driving through Tampa. I told myself that they would sit and they did not. I cannot even remember what they look like now. :'(
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There's a lot of ROTS that's not common on the pegs, and there's quite a bit that never was. Some of it was here in abundance at one point but the line just sold so well it moved fast.
A lot of the 4/2 release items sat for the longest time... Things like Chewbacca, Tarfful, Col. 2 Jedi, Col. 1 characters like Obi/Ani/Yoda... Then the film came and those are all but gone. I saw a brief resurgence of Chewie but he's gone now too (I'm holding one for a guy I know wants it for his son).
Figures like Mustafar Duel Ani/Obi have sold well and I haven't seen either now for a while. the other Ani and Obi sold somewhat ok, though Obi (the kicking one) is fairly common here now. Anakin still moves.
Pittsburgh is, as far as I know now, literally out of Lava Anakins. A buddy got me the last one at his Target, thankfully, because I waited on those but then all of a sudden Anakin sold out... Obi's are usually 2 or 3 at a store and that's it. I never would have thought those would have moved.
Clone Commanders come and go... All 3 paintjobs sell out, and I can't say they've sat at all. I'm surprised considering how often I'd seen them at stores over the last 2 months or so, but then these same stores I'd visit a week later, or even just a couple days, and what I saw wasn't there any longer.
Clones (#6) are non-existant... I never saw a Shocktrooper on pegs, not once, and that pisses me off. I'd have built a hefty army but instead I'm settling for a squad. Black Pilots barely surfaced here as well however I did find one here, or one there... Never more than one though at any point.
SA Clones are also drying up around here as I figured they would. Heavy shipping over the last few months filled the pegs but now I see at most 6, usually less though, at any given store. AT-RT Drivers and Clone Pilots are the same, and are becoming more scarce.
Any of the final 12 are scarce, though I'd say Wookiee Commando and Gree are semi-easier to find. I see them regularly, but not in abundance. Just a random couple hanging around here and there. All the others though are pretty much a pain to find anywhere, and of course the Wookiee Gunner, 501st, and Holo figures are the biggest pains to find out of any of them.
Short of TRU I don't see the Collection 2 Jedi much at all... Agen Kolar, Ki-Adi Mundi, and Plo Koon have become 3 fairly hot figures actually. Tack onto that C-3PO, Count Dooku, and Padme as well which I haven't seen any of those save for a 3PO that surfaced at KM during Black Friday.
In Pittsburgh the Polis Massaan and Med Droid were never all that common either.
The pegwarmers here are the usual suspects once again it seems, with Palpatines, Bail's, Neimoidians and the like being easy to find...
ROTS has been such a weird line though where one week something's impossible to find, next week it's not, then a week after that it's impossible to find again. There's some stuff that's definitely been a pain for the majority around the country though, like the Shocktroopers, "final 5", and such... The rest seems to be very regional as to what was hard to find and what wasn't.
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In short, I've never seen the final 5. I'd like a 501st eventually, but I'm not sweating any of them.
With most everything else, I've been surprised to find them several times over. We're getting a decent rebound of Tarkins, both in the TRU value-packs and in the Twins case at Wal-mart. Grees and Blys keep coming around too. Of course the red shocktroopers seem like a one shot now, so I'm glad I found one.
What I can't believe is how many #41 Clones I can get. I mean, if I wanted more, I could go out and buy literally 2 dozen today. Not that I see them "all the time" at every store, but the Target closest to me has had them on the pegs for many, many weeks now. I'm not gonna say "pegwarmer", because they'll be gone with the first clearance, but they aren't what I would call in short supply.
I went to one Wal-mart on Tuesday, this one's kind of in the boonies in between cities, and there were at least 12 there. Many Bly's, many Grees too. I guess there is a great assortment at this place - tons of figures - 3PO, Meena, also #6 clones. I do still see #6 regularly. Again, not at every store, but I know of at least 3 nearby that have them now.
Would anyone have thought we'd see this many quality clones available for such a long period of time? Compare this with Saga. You'd get a clone pilot once in a while, and usually the red clones were gone too, and the quality doesn't even compare.
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In my area with Saga we had TONS of Clones available in both Pilot and Red form... Just tons, and when they went away they resurfaced at KB for clearance prices. At that point the pilots actually moved better than the red troopers which was funny.
Personally, one I'm seeing less and less is the AT-RT Driver now. I see #41 more than that even... I haven't seen a #6 Clone since the SHocktroopers started to ship and show up places... I'm really surprised, but I just haven't seen any for months. The SA Clone I'm happy I can buy if I want him but I know if I need some I gotta **** or get off the pot because I doubt they're gonna be here forever...
Neimoidians I'm hoping to build a very nice army with though come Target Clearance time. ;D
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Wouldn't you know it, as soon as I say I don't care about not finding the final five, there they are. I found them tonight, so I bought 3. So much for I don't need them.
Yeah, actually I guess the red Saga clone was readily available, especially during the KB clearances. I guess I'm just struck by the improved quality this time around. #41 seems so good that the Build Your Army 3 packs really have been hanging around the pegs for ages. To me the overall supply of clones, or army builders, is a step up from all previous lines, though certainly not perfect to meet demand. The best case scenario would include more ranks and characters.
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I think they did pretty good too, but kind of late... During the film's release and building up to it Clones were non-existant on the pegs... They didn't exactly mix the paint variant Clones in heavily either though the Green Cmdr. is showing regularly around here anyway now. The Black Pilot and Red Shocktrooper were REALLY hard to find though, and both are pretty cool figures worth having a nice army of, especially the #6 Red... :(
Hasbro, around September, finally started getting heavy rotation on the SA sculpt in my area, and it still sold out till about October around here, and now I see them here and there in groupings no more than 6 or so... I'd say they really REALLY earned a major return in profit on that one. :)
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I agree. The last 5 are not hard to find now. Twins have not been hard to find nor were the Shadow Troopers. Other than that the only thing I cannot find is the Bly Variant to see if it is really worth picking up.
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i'd say the shocktrooper, looks like he's gone :-\
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The last 5 have yet to show here in Iowa. I'm not too worried, since Tarkin just showed up, but I have a feeling TSC stuff is going to start popping up any day now, so... oh, well. I've been pretty lucky this year. Previous years I ended up going on line for something, but this year, I've found everything I wanted. And I just jinxed myself.
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The only figures I have never seen at retail are:
Tarkin (got him off of Hasblo's webstie)
Passel Argente (got him same way I got Tarkin)
#68 Wookie Gunner -- the only figure I'm missing.
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Easy- shock trooper found 26 total-traded/sold them for retail to folks who needed it
- black pilot found 8 in stores
-501 trooper found 8 so far
-green comm found about 30/bought 6
hard- Have to say senators/tarkin wave saw them only after they were refreshers in later waves-though I hear there's tons at DL ( but they cost alot more) I wonder if that's why all the cases sold out so quick...DL bought them?
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I have to agree.
Shocktroopers - 1
Black Pilots 0
501 troopers 0
Green commander 2
That is it.
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Never seen a black pilot. 2 shocktroopers, a few green commanders, and zero 501st.
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I have never seen Passel Argente, Cat Miin, or the white bodyguard. It seems all the collection 1 cases we got here in Colorado were missing these three figures.
Tarkin and Ask Aak. I have seen tarkin a couple times and Ask Aak once, and that was last week.
The jedi holograms from the final five - I have seen these only a couple times. Same with 501st I guess, though I have three of these.
I left alot of shocktroopers on the pegs. I think I got 5 and that was plenty.
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I never saw the Black Pilot here either, but I didn't necessarily need/want one anyways. The Final 5 have been scarce too, I saw a few of them one time, on Black Friday, and picked up R4 and a Tac. Ops trooper. They didn't have the Wookiee Gunner or the Holo Plo Koon there though, must have missed those or something. The only other one I wanted was the wookiee gunner (and maybe another tac ops), but if I don't find one at retail, I'll live. Things have really dried up here basic figure-wise. Target has narrowed its basic figure area to two rows of pegs, full of the usual suspects and a lone Vader and Clone. Wal-Mart has nothing but Neimodians (1st ver), Mas, and Polis. Literally, nothing else...and lots and lots of those three. I'm hoping that they can clear those out and make room for TSC. At both stores, it seems like the "other lines" from SW take up a lot more aisle space that the supposedly "bread and butter" basic figure line :).
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I left alot of shocktroopers on the pegs. I think I got 5 and that was plenty.
LUCKY.... I never found a shocktrooper but found all others at least once. Lately the only figures that are not absent are Palpatine, Mon Mothma, Nemoidian Guard and a few more standard pegwarmers. The holiday shopping season is good for clearing out figures around Northern VA.
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i think another rare figure is the White Bodyguard. only seen it once.
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I only saw him once, too. And Obi Pilot and the AT RT Driver have disappeared overnight. Just a couple days ago there were so many I was thinking 'clearance', but alas... and none in town anywhere else. Sigh.
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Same thing here, for awhile I saw tons and tons of the AT-RT Driver, Pilot Obi-Wan, as well as Vader and #41 Clones. Those are long gone now. Wal-Mart here is sitting on TONS of the usual pegwarmers (mainly Neimodian Warriors, Polis, Mas), and after stopping at Target yesterday, they were down to 10 basic figures. Out of those, seven were Polis Massans, with 2 Mas and 1 Neimodian. Kind of glad to see them narrowed down so there isn't a big glut to dig through when the Saga Collection starts hitting...but who knows, we might see some more shipments yet too. It would stink if you were a kid asking for Star Wars figures for Christmas if all you could get is Polis, Mas, and Neimodian...the three amigos of pegwarming :).
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I can't find the Twins. The final 5 were never out that I could see... I gave up on the last few RoTS figures. I bought R4 online and that did it for me.
I do want the Twins if I can find them for under $24 on ebay with s/h. Especially since they are $5 in the store.
After that, I really don't need to much and I have seen pretty much everything else. I am done at this point. I scored my CW Anakin DVD set. I am happy :D
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I have not seen the twins either but in all fairness I have not gone to Walmart in about a month.
A walmart exclusive means that you can buy them now at around $5, in six months for $3 and 1 year later for $1.50. So I would not be too concerned about it. I bought the 12" WM exclusive maul a year and a half after its release for $11.
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I can not find the final five. I have only seen them once (at different times) I'm also having a hard time with the new Bly (brown stripe) and the new Dooku w/ red saber.
I've been out weekend and it's pretty bad here. I don't know if I am just missing the stocks, but there is almost nothing out right now.
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So what's everyone's theory on stuff "disappearing"?
While I do think sales are HUGE for ROTS this year, and I do think that X-Mas cleared up some pegwarmers (Vader still sits though around here), I think that there's a distinct possibility that the Neimoidian issue was cleared up by Hasbro rather than John Q. Consumer.
A little rumor had floated that Hasbro was potentially taking some of the Neimoidians back from Target and elsewhere... I'm thinking this may have been the case personally. I can't see that many kids wanting Neimoidians and I don't see parents buying just anything out of desperation. I know I haven't bought for the kids with that frame of mind. They're actually getting $5 each out of their budgeted X-Mas $ from me because I can't fill their figure orders so I'd rather they just got $ and spent it as they wanted to.
Anyway, I'm thinking pegwarmers perhaps saw some buy-back action... That or some kids are having a very Froggy Christmas this year.
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I can't see that many kids wanting Neimoidians and I don't see parents buying just anything out of desperation.
You didn't grow up with my parents. :P
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Honestly, everything has dried up here all of a sudden. Seems like after December 1, nothing has been shipping. Just a few pegwarmers like Bail, Mon Mothma, and Nemoidian Warriors are left at most places.
:P
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Yeah. I agree with you. My collecting and fodder hunting reached a high on Black Friday and the week after, and then- nothing. I'm dissappointed. Now I will find are BBI and XD figures.
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I ran into a Hasbro rep awhile ago who told me that Target and Hasbro HQ knew the Nemodian issue and that in time, they would be taken back by Hasbro, and given their own SKU so that could happen and so it would not impact the ordering of new figures. I think I have seen part of that here.
I wanted to find a Bly variant but I haven't had time to hunt and when I have, there is nothing to find. The line is coming to an end.
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In answer to the main question, I think I can safelt say at this point, all of them. ;)
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well i havent seen ANY basic figs on the pegs in a couple weeks. but i never even saw the final 5 or the Luke/Obi twin set :(