30AC Wave 1 - Revenge of the Sith

[MetalJedi]

There are reports of this wave being found at Kmart in Texas and Florida.

[Artoo]

Lucky me, but I'm not sure if I'll take chances to find nothingon Tuesday when I get Borat. 

[Diddly]

Someone locally found a TAC Obi-Wan at Sears Grand. Hopefully it won't be long before these hit the Big 3 stores.

[Darth_Anton]

What do figures cost at Sears?

[Jesse James]

$6.99, same as most other stores (or close to it).

KM/Sears aren't all that beyond any other store these days...  Just another viable retail option.

[CHEWIE]

So far I'm doing really good on finding TAC figures thanks to Kmart.  I've aspent a ton of time and gas money going in circles around the STL area since Saturday, just been excited about all the new army builders.

Here's what I've scored so far, and well worth it I think -

On Sunday, I bought the following at one area Kmart -

Galactic Marine x 2
Airborne Trooper x 2
Super Battle Droid x 1
McQuarrie Trooper x 1
Mustafar Miner x 1
R2D2 x 1

Then on Monday, at another Kmart I bought the following -

Mace Windu x 1
Super Battle Droid x 1

Then today, at yet another Kmart I bought the following -

Galactic Marine x 2
Airborne Trooper x 2
Super Battle Droid x 2

So, including a Mace Windu that I bought last month on ebay, here's my TAC figures so far (all loose, these are really cool figures!)

Galactic Marine x 4
Airborne Trooper x 4
Super Battle Droid x 4
Mace Windu x 2
McQuarrie Trooper x 1
Mustafar Miner x 1
R2D2 x 1
Obi Wan x 0

Now, I need to stop buying these and stop looking for them for a while. Money's already tight as it is, but these are so hard to pass on. Out of all the figures, I've only seen one McQuarrie Trooper and one Mustafar Miner.  Each store that has had some of the new figures on the pegs has had several extra Obi Wan and R2D2 figures, but some stores still don't appear to have gotten them in at all.  In my area there are 6 Kmarts that I know of, which makes for one hell of a round trip!

 

[Dressel Rebel]

Well, that's quite a nice score this early.  The gas bill must have sucked, but a nice score nonetheless.

This is a real changeup from the way figures were released through most of the past few years.  When people in California first find them in Wally or Target, they usually turn up here in NY anywhere from a couple days to 2 weeks later.

Having figures first reported found in the states at KMarts in St. Louis is different.  If I had any Kmarts here, I'd probably be out looking for the figures right now.  But I'm sure I won't score my first batch until late March at Wally or Target.

[Nick]

Well, that's quite a nice score this early.  The gas bill must have sucked, but a nice score nonetheless.

Always makes me laugh seeing people from US moaning about gas prices.  Prices in the Uk are around $7-8 a gallon at the moment and going up.

Anyway, back on topic, nice to see the figuers turning up statside, I wonder why the UK is ahead of the US this year.  Wave 2 is due through my dooe anyday now.

[Dressel Rebel]

Always makes me laugh seeing people from US moaning about gas prices.  Prices in the Uk are around $7-8 a gallon at the moment and going up. 

Well, don't use me as your poster boy.  I didn't mention the price of a gallon of gas.  I was commenting on his numerous round trips to 6 area KMart stores. 

It doesn't matter what the price of gas is per gallon.  It's a lot of money.

(And for the record I'm not criticizing CHEWIE, I do the same thing.)

[CHEWIE]

All my point was that I can see someone saying "you're hoarding the new figures" - well I am spending the time and money driving around looking for them.  All part of the hunt.  The harder you work the more successful you'll be in finding what you want.

I know you weren't dissing me Dressel.   

 

[Artoo]

Ok, I'm definately going to KMart or somewhere this weekend.

[Smartypants1635]

Ditto

[CHEWIE]

Good luck guys!   

 

[Dressel Rebel]

I did check Sears today, they don't have a toy department.  Only at Christmas.  No Kmarts.  So, I wait.

[Darth_Anton]

Newforce Comics just posted an interesting tidbit regarding this wave:

"SW wave 1 shipping
March 7, 2007 | 9:45 AM | newforce1

We have received about 80% of our order on wave 1, and Hasbro has given us the green light to ship (this wave was originally scheduled to have a 3/24 shelf date). So, we will ship all preorders at least 1 case, and allocate multi case orders at this point."