TRU Sightings!
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I've got all of the "wave 1" stuff on preorder somewhere, so I'm not too worried about finding them in the wild. The only ones I'm likely to get multiples of are the Lady Jaye pack, and it's not out yet.
No sign of anything new... nothing but three Ret Roadblocks at the TRU in Monrovia on Huntington Drive
Swung by my local TRU on the way home. Surprisingly saw 3 sets of each of the 2-packs. I picked up 2 of the HEAT-Viper sets so I can at least pick and choose the best paint apps when mine arrive from BBTS. Boy, do the paint apps suck on these.
I believe it's going to be pretty constant bad paint apps. The HEAT Vipers I saw looked as bad as those people were reviewing. The purple isn't filling in the voids, lines are crooked, paint bleed, etc.
Yeah, I wasn't impressed. Granted, they've got a lot of pits, but the paint apps are dreadful other than not completely filling in the recesses. Slop galore. I'm going to have to basically repaint all the gray and purple on the 3 I keep.
Take this with a grain of salt, but supposedly the exclusive will be back at some point:
Some dude at HT said:
Stopped by TRU again today. My daughter is apparently good luck. They had the Battle Below Zero sets, and both 3-packs. As I was uninterested in pretty much all of the figures in the 3 packs, I picked up the Battle Below Zero for nostalgia's sake.
The Beachhead/Trooper/Viper 3 pack should make for decent custom fodder if nothing else. I have an idea on what to do to make the Viper more useful.
And.. I have to go back to TRU because somehow I missed the fact the Ice Viper was missing in the window, as well as the front and back canopies on the WOLF are missing, and its stickers. So either this was shit forgotten back in China, or someone was really good at retaping this box.
I spotted the Animal Planet toys the other day were marked down in some kind of clearance sale (not the standard TRU colored price tag one.) I'd not paid much attention to them in the past but if you're looking for civilians or civilian vehicles (or creatures) they might be worth a look.
MP Prowl $69.99 + tax
I got mine from Japan which was $61.05 which includes the shipping!
My brother used his 20% off coupon for his, so it was slightly lower.
Stupid TRU! Stupid Hasbro for not starting with Sideswipe! I still need those 2 Lambos.
I got mine from Japan which was $61.05 which includes the shipping!
My brother used his 20% off coupon for his, so it was slightly lower.
Stupid TRU! Stupid Hasbro for not starting with Sideswipe! I still need those 2 Lambos.
Apparently lots of pre-ordered 50th stuff is being cancelled by TRU.com because they "were unable to fulfill your order for the item listed below within the expected time and have attempted to cancel it in accordance with FTC regulations".
Enh, one of the same people who got that email then got a shipping notification. I'm thinking it's an error, particularly since the product is showing up all over at retail.
Found the 2 packs, 3 packs and DatD at my local. No interest in either of the 2 packs. Bought the Viper's Pit 3 pack but couldn't pull the trigger on the other one. Passed on DatD for now but I'll pick it up at some point.
Picked up 2x WOLFs today, and a 3-pack of the Viper/BH/Trooper. I considered picking up the Destro set too, because mine from BBTS has the gold chain all painted off the sculpt, but the rest of the paint apps were worse than the one I have, so I didn't bother. I'll probably just wind up repainting my Destro's chest and his bling at some point.
Sorry, I'm totally not up to speed on the latest Joe installments. Does anybody know of a complete list of what all we should be watching for in the 50th?
All I want is one or 2 LJs, and maybe one or 2 BATs. I'm a sucker for a BAT, although I only like the environment ones. I guess the arctic BAT will work well enough with the WOLF?
My TRU has no 50th stuff whatsoever, but I did see the Grim Reaper wave of Marvel Infinite and the Toryn Farr waves of Star Wars Black figures.