[Dr Kain]

Pulse has charged me for all of my preorders (Nightcrawler, Mr Sinister, Storm, Dazzler, and Hulk/Wolverine), so hopefully they ship out soon.

[Captain Nash]

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Originally Posted by Bo Ttef

redfox put a SpiderWoman head on Peggy and made an awesome Lois Lane... Throw a Dagger head on there and it's not too terrible of a Val Cooper... you could go all out and paint the suit but I think even military colors works pretty well for her...

Cooper by lowanbing, on Flickr

You're making me want this pack! Good job!

[tierneygreen]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

Pulse has charged me for all of my preorders (Nightcrawler, Mr Sinister, Storm, Dazzler, and Hulk/Wolverine), so hopefully they ship out soon.

Same. Just got charged for Nightcrawler, Sinister, and Samurai. Hopefully my orders from Dorkside for Thor, IM, and Colossus aren’t too far behind.

[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by tierneygreen

Same. Just got charged for Nightcrawler, Sinister, and Samurai. Hopefully my orders from Dorkside for Thor, IM, and Colossus aren’t too far behind.

I'll get Ice Man, Silver Samurai, Iron Man, Thor, and the rest of the Wendigo wave when I can afford it. I've got a website to renew next week and they upped the renewal cost from $203 to $293.

[Bo Ttef]

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Originally Posted by Captain Nash

You're making me want this pack! Good job!

lol- W
Now just need that sales commission check from Hasbro!

[Dolemite]

At first I thought this was the work of a repacker, but...nope. And certainly not twice! Guess someone screwed up big-time at the factory, lol.

[Starlord67]

Picked up Thor today at Target. They were doing a toy aisle reset and the guy got it from the back for me. He also had the SPIDERMAN/Iron man two pack in back.

Happy Hunting Arkers!!

[firmpulse]

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Originally Posted by Dolemite

At first I thought this was the work of a repacker, but...nope. And certainly not twice! Guess someone screwed up big-time at the factory, lol.

That is really REALLY weird.

[Bo Ttef]

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Originally Posted by Dolemite

At first I thought this was the work of a repacker, but...nope. And certainly not twice! Guess someone screwed up big-time at the factory, lol.

OR... someone bought a bunch clearance Paladin and swapped the insides for Far from Home figures... thinking that is more likely than Hasbro suddenly packaging Paladin in Far From Home boxes.

[Boy Blunder]

Given that it's not too terribly difficult to do swaps with the newer box style, I'd wager it's a swap.

At least they knew what they were doing, since there's nearly no warping to the box itself.

[En Sabah Nerd]

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Originally Posted by Bo Ttef

OR... someone bought a bunch clearance Paladin and swapped the insides for Far from Home figures... thinking that is more likely than Hasbro suddenly packaging Paladin in Far From Home boxes.

I'm thinking that, especially given Paladin's age at this point. I found one for as cheap as $4 in June so I'm sure there are plenty that can be found. Although it is interesting that they are complete Paladins with no missing bits.

[tierneygreen]

Oh yeah, that's swapper shenanigans. I have no doubt. Sneaky motherlickers.

[hasbroherofan]

Yeah and it's not like he was a terribly popular figure to begin with.

[Tim]

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Originally Posted by tierneygreen

Oh yeah, that's swapper shenanigans. I have no doubt. Sneaky motherlickers.

Now that’s the truth, they’re some savages. There’s a kick in the dick waiting for each and everyone of those Swappers.
Should’ve taken a pic but one Target near me had the MU 3.75 Symbi Spidey And Kraven Swapped in the place of the Legends two pack. I don’t know how they had the Guts to even risk it.

[Harbinger]

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Originally Posted by Tim

Now that’s the truth, they’re some savages. There’s a kick in the dick waiting for each and everyone of those Swappers.
Should’ve taken a pic but one Target near me had the MU 3.75 Symbi Spidey And Kraven Swapped in the place of the Legends two pack. I don’t know how they had the Guts to even risk it.

Because most customer service people either don't care or don't care.

[Archangel]

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Originally Posted by Bo Ttef

OR... someone bought a bunch clearance Paladin and swapped the insides for Far from Home figures... thinking that is more likely than Hasbro suddenly packaging Paladin in Far From Home boxes.

I’d rather have the Palidins than two of those Spider-Man figures. Kind of odd...

People do the same with WWE Elite figures too.

[Archangel]

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Originally Posted by Harbinger

Because most customer service people either don't care or don't care.

I’ve never been to a Walmart where anyone seemed to care about doing their jobs.

[Nutimus Prime]

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Originally Posted by Bo Ttef

OR... someone bought a bunch clearance Paladin and swapped the insides for Far from Home figures... thinking that is more likely than Hasbro suddenly packaging Paladin in Far From Home boxes.

That is totally what happened.

I finally picked up the rest of the SP//dr wave I needed lol. Yep, really. That was one wave I just always pushed to the backlog and thought I missed it. Bought Doc Ock and Dagger waaaay back at release. Snagged Scarlet Spider several weeks ago. Found Elektra on clearance last week at Gamestop. The rest all randomly went back in stock on amazon so I grabbed them yesterday afternoon. They showed up today.

Off topic but Prime was always fast when I lived in Washington but that was obviously because of my location. It was almost always overnight or 1 day for me at no extra charge simply because I lived so close to Seattle. It hasn't been great down here. Prime would routinely actually be 5 days. They have definitely stepped up distribution down here with UPS instead of FedEx.

[Trivial Psychic]

^^That's definitely some swapper nonsense. This is why Hasbro needs to move away from "collector friendly" packaging, and move back towards clamshells or blister cards similar to what they are doing with the retro series.

Same for Black Series as well. I've seen couple of Obi Wan swaps already where the Episode 1 figure was replaced by the Episode 3 figure.

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Originally Posted by Marine73

That is so awesome!! May I ask who you commissioned? I’m looking to have some work done as well.

Look up an Ebay seller by the name of camarodude1967. I've bought several pieces from him in the past and his work has always been on point.

You can also find him on Facebook @ Beyond Thunderdome Painted Heads

[Tim]

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Originally Posted by Archangel

I’ve never been to a Walmart where anyone seemed to care about doing their jobs.

Ya sound like me haha. But I’m Glad to see I’m not alone. I can’t tell if Walmart either hires the laziest people. Or working at Walmart just makes people give up. It’s probably a bit of both..


Anyway. Has anyone else who has the 80th Thor have super loose joints problems? Mine suffers from it terribly. Specially from knees and arms.

[Archangel]

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Originally Posted by Tim

Ya sound like me haha. But I’m Glad to see I’m not alone. I can’t tell if Walmart either hires the laziest people. Or working at Walmart just makes people give up. It’s probably a bit of both.

The amount of resumes I see with 3 months to 1 year at Walmart is astounding. I think they just hire anyone they can get, and turn over their staff constantly.

[Boy Blunder]

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Originally Posted by Tim

Ya sound like me haha. But I’m Glad to see I’m not alone. I can’t tell if Walmart either hires the laziest people. Or working at Walmart just makes people give up. It’s probably a bit of both..

As someone with friends and family who have worked at Walmart, it's this. They all-but struggled to maintain a positive work attitude.

[Veronica Mars]

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Originally Posted by Tim

Ya sound like me haha. But I’m Glad to see I’m not alone. I can’t tell if Walmart either hires the laziest people. Or working at Walmart just makes people give up. It’s probably a bit of both..


Anyway. Has anyone else who has the 80th Thor have super loose joints problems? Mine suffers from it terribly. Specially from knees and arms.

Having worked in retail for several years, I can speak from experience and say it's absolutely not a "bit of both". While there is the occasional "lazy" hire, the majority of employees are completely worn out and worn down from being expected to do the job of 3 people for barely more than minimum wage, coupled with the fact that there is not one retail employee that can earn a living wage working one job.

[TheBlueMarvel]

Anyone familiar with retail knows that 'shrink' happens everywhere and the usual suspects fall somewhere on the thieving spectrum; brazen shoplifter, return bandit, swap asshole, etc. What's interesting about the running dialogue on this particular thread, is how little time it takes to move from blaming thieves to blaming employees. Equally interesting is that this blame-phenomenon seems exclusive to Walmart and Target, despite the fairly common knowledge that thieves steal anywhere and everywhere they can. Regardless of what some believe the employees of these two outlets should do to eliminate theft, the fact remains that both stores carry a large and varied assortment of very steal'able shit. When you carry so many smaller items, it becomes very difficult to prevent this sort of thing.

[Tim]

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Originally Posted by Boy Blunder

As someone with friends and family who have worked at Walmart, it's this. They all-but struggled to maintain a positive work attitude.

Yea I figured that as much. I wanted to give the employees the benefit of doubt.

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Originally Posted by Veronica Mars

Having worked in retail for several years, I can speak from experience and say it's absolutely not a "bit of both". While there is the occasional "lazy" hire, the majority of employees are completely worn out and worn down from being expected to do the job of 3 people for barely more than minimum wage, coupled with the fact that there is not one retail employee that can earn a living wage working one job.

Yea I probably talked a bit outta my ass(i know I do it often so it’s come to be expected) because I’ve never worked retail so I haven’t a clue about that. The Sentence “the fact that there is no one retail employee that can earn a living wage working one job” is the truest sentence I’ve ever read. I’ve never really had a problem with retail in general just Walmart. The only part that truly bothers me is when going to ask an employee any type of question before halfway thru it I get a exaggerated Sigh and “what do you want” 95% of the time. And when being shown Swapped figures at the service desk I’ve gotten “well what do you want us to do” only to come back the next day and have them on the same Pegs.
Target Employees are top notch in my experiences. Which further proves what boy blunder said. I think it’s mainly corporate Walmart that’s truly the problem that trickles down and effects lower employees. Possibly due to what you’ve said the “Pay” and the “worn down from being expected to do the job of 3”

^^^Sorry for the long ass paragraph haha.

Anyway back onto figs, before Half the chat gets wiped again.
Has any actually found Alex Ross Caps at Walmart or anywhere yet?