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Title: Odd Wal-Mart finds
Post by: CloneF13Y35 on April 12, 2003, 11:54 PM: Last night I found Leia in Boushh disguise on green card and lando calrissian on orange card. They're both kinda beat up but the figs are okay. Never had them before so I might keep them BUT if anyone wants to trade for them or needs a second (or third) they're up for sale if you want them. ;)
Title: Re: Found 2 old potf figs at walmart
Post by: dustrho on May 8, 2003, 01:37 PM: Awesome find! Brings you back in time, doesn't it (seeing those POTF2 figs on pegs)?
Title: Re: Found 2 old potf figs at walmart
Post by: Hung Solow on June 2, 2003, 11:34 AM: I found a GC Yak Face at HEB once. I din't buy him because he had a poor card. Ironically enough, I never owned one.
Title: Re: Found 2 old potf figs at walmart
Post by: Sith Lord Cosmo on June 2, 2003, 05:01 PM: About a year ago I found a POTF2 Emeror on the pegs at K-Mart. About that same time my TRU was remodeling so they found some old POTF2 figures somewhere and had them on the pegs. I think it was all Ewok Celebration Leia
Title: Re: Found 2 old potf figs at walmart
Post by: Morgbug on June 4, 2003, 11:49 PM: Quote from: dustrho on May 8, 2003, 01:37 PM
Awesome find! Brings you back in time, doesn't it (seeing those POTF2 figs on pegs)?

Heh. No.

One store around me still has medic droids on green cards at full retail. Strictly openers they've been moved around the store so often. Found some Episode I Padme Naberrie today and there's an omnipresent supply of Shmi around as well.
Title: Re: Found 2 old potf figs at walmart
Post by: JoshEEE on June 6, 2003, 01:43 PM: Some Rite Aid drugstores around here still had green cards and EU carded figures on the pegs when EP1 figures were nearing the end of their run. I always found that funny.

I heard someone on Rebelscum say he took his figures BACK to Wal Mart (years later) and they still scanned into the system, where he was able to return them. I'm wondering...you think maybe this was the case?
Title: Re: Found 2 old potf figs at walmart
Post by: Hung Solow on June 6, 2003, 05:58 PM: Worked for me, and NO, they didn't become peg warmers. They were gone within a week.
Title: Odd Wal-Mart finds
Post by: Karma on July 18, 2003, 09:29 AM: The Wal-Mart near me is undergoing remodelling. I guess they are also cleaning out their storage area, because over the last week some POTF2 figures have popped up on the shelf (nothing rare or HTF). However, I went in last night and cruised by the toys, and found a purple carded Dash Rendar! It had a sticker on the bubble for $4.79, but it rang up for $2.49. Score!
-Karma
Title: Re: Odd Wal-Mart find
Post by: dustrho on July 18, 2003, 11:49 AM: Not a bad score there Karma! Any odd find like that is a good one.
Title: Re: Odd Wal-Mart find
Post by: DSJ™ on July 18, 2003, 12:55 PM: Sweet deal. I wonder how many other stores have stuff in storage that have sat there for years.
Well done. 8)
Title: Re: Odd Wal-Mart find
Post by: Reconsgt on July 18, 2003, 03:48 PM: Thats pretty cool Karma. I missed most of those so for me to find any in the stores would be cool. I agree it makes you wonder what else it stored away in some of those other warehouses.
Title: I just found a POTF2 Dewback @ WalMart
Post by: Angry Ewok on August 3, 2003, 10:13 PM: I walk down the aile, past the same old SAGA crap, and then at the bottom of the shelf is a MINT Dewback and Sandtrooper from POTF2 days... Of course I bought it... Very awesome snag, I think I'll leave it in the box since it's in such great shape. :-*
Title: Re: I just found a POTF2 Dewback @ WalMart
Post by: roguestormtrooper on August 3, 2003, 11:05 PM: You do mean the 3 3/4" version, right? If so, nice find! ;D
Title: Re: I just found a POTF2 Dewback @ WalMart
Post by: Angry Ewok on August 3, 2003, 11:08 PM: Yep... the 3 3/4 version alright... Stamped 1997 on the box... :-*
Title: Re: I just found a POTF2 Dewback @ WalMart
Post by: Vator on August 3, 2003, 11:51 PM: cool
Title: Re: I just found a POTF2 Dewback @ WalMart
Post by: dustrho on August 3, 2003, 11:57 PM: Nice find Brad! Was it the regular price, or did they have it discounted?
Title: Re: I just found a POTF2 Dewback @ WalMart
Post by: DSJ™ on August 4, 2003, 12:05 AM: Great find Brad! 8)
Not something you would see everyday looking for Star Wars stuff! I would expect to find that in a specialty store.
Title: Re: I just found a POTF2 Dewback @ WalMart
Post by: Dimetrodon on August 4, 2003, 01:45 AM: a few months ago odd job had the ronto and jabba...
Hasbros definitely got a cleaning problem.
lol
Title: Re: I just found a POTF2 Dewback @ WalMart
Post by: JoshEEE on August 4, 2003, 05:49 PM: I've heard a rumor that you can still return toys to Wal Mart (if they ever sold it).

I believe someone from RS did that a long time ago, and it caused an influx of POTJ figures in his area during the Saga timeframe.

Maybe a fellow collector liquidated? Or maybe they were just cleaning out the back room. :)
Title: Re: I just found a POTF2 Dewback @ WalMart
Post by: MisterPL on August 4, 2003, 10:31 PM: ::) ...or maybe a collector was moving, decided he'd rather have the in-store credit, and returned it by taping a Saga TIE Bomber UPC to the back.
Title: Re: I just found a POTF2 Dewback @ WalMart
Post by: Darth Broem on August 5, 2003, 12:22 PM: Wow it even showed up in the computer when you took it up? Pretty cool.
Title: Re: Odd Wal-Mart find
Post by: jedihush on January 9, 2004, 06:45 PM: I actually found a luke skywalker in X wing gear at a walmart.The crazy thing was he was holding his helmet! As I examined the package I realized someone had carefully cut open that package removed the figure and swapped heads with a different Luke.The person then cut the helmet off of the head and put it in the figures arms,put everything back in the package and place it back on the shelfs! I swear this is true.Someone must be pretty bored.Needless to say I bought the figure.It was here in Las Vegas.
Title: Re: Odd Wal-Mart find
Post by: OlBenKenobi on March 7, 2004, 12:53 PM: Nice Find!
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Post by: Encrypt3dByt3s on July 6, 2004, 01:18 PM: Congrats!
Title: Re: Odd Wal-Mart find
Post by: Redhawk on January 8, 2005, 01:56 AM: Any other wierd walmart finds ? I never seem to find anything at walmart that i need >:(
Title: Re: Odd Wal-Mart find
Post by: cCc2021 on February 22, 2005, 10:52 AM: Nice find! Yeah, every now and then I'll find an older figure pop up at Walmart or TRU. The ultimate find will be when someone finds an orginal POTF figure! :P

cCc
Title: Re: Odd Wal-Mart finds
Post by: Jagdohh_Fett on April 14, 2005, 02:48 AM: The last time I saw a POTF2 figure at a retail store was the CommTech Greedo and Han Solo that I saw at WM sometime around Christmas of 2003. Now that I think about it, I probably should have bought em :(.
Title: Re: Odd Wal-Mart finds
Post by: Spectre on December 31, 2005, 12:12 AM: The only Walmarts here n my neck of the woods were built in 2003 and 2005 so they don't have any old POTF2 stuff in their stockrooms, but there is a Rite Aid in Ridgefield Park that still has 4 POTF2 Ugnauts 2pks and 3 8-D8s hanging on the pegs priced at $8.99 each (if they were a buck or 2 I'd snag them myself :( ).