Seeing as though there were a lot of Target closings and there were Targets here in MI that never got the exclusives at all, can you imagine how low the manufacturing run were on these? I bet whatever it was, it was the minimum. And I bet that’s why there’s been no restock because it’s not...
They don’t actually want you buying them. They want you coming in and picking a couple things on the way to the toy/collectible sections in the back of their store.
6 each store is low. They just want the publicity that they’re company has the exclusive. They don’t want to physically have it.
It’s looking like in a lot of places, the figures never hit the shelves. They couldn’t sell them because they were system locked until Jan 1st. so everyone is assuming employees are jumping in and scalping them. When you’ve got troopers going 500% markup on eBay, an employee can pocket $500...
I’ve moved on from 4” scale Joes. I still make 4” stuff, but I realized the thing we all enjoyed about 4”, the vehicles, just isn’t going to get made anymore. Hasbro is just going to reissue the same vehicles we all have with different color decos if they release them at all.
My cowboy stuff...
1/16” double face corsage ribbon. The bits were all wire. The MP7 is a kit I found on HLJ. I don’t have the special edition SE, so I’m stuck in the Uzi department. The only SMG I have modeled is a P90 and that doesn’t quite seem right for him
The biggest issue with the Target exclusives is each figure is a case by itself. So first one there can take 6 troopers and have them on eBay before 9am
the scale variance is why I’m hesitant to scale my 3D goods to 1:12. So far,my heads looked good on articulated icons but looked tiny AF on my Netflix Punisher. That’s less of an issue with 4” even though MTF is bulkier than just about everyone
I say all of that knowing I never put that much thought into the toys of my childhood and my extreme criticisms of design choices is a balance of the internal fight of holding onto my childhood and wanting things to appeal to the adult in me. A battle which will never be won.
It’s strange that they leaked the “Arctic Stormshadow” with a Joe box before even showing the standard Storm Shadow.
After the initial wave, I’ve lost interest. I think design wise, while I don’t want realistic milsim GIJoe, I don’t like arbitrary design Joes either. It looks like they...
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