[donmeca2020]

apparently the new spidey wave isn't available everywhere yet.... i still haven't seen any updates on BBTS.com and they tend to sometimes get things in slower then retail stores.

I need a Spider-man 2099
Mayday Parker
possibly spidey depending on how i feel about his look.

Does anybody know when the walmarts,targets,toys R us stores restock their shelves or get new shipments in? i might try hunting some down soon, just to see if they are around my way in Florida yet.

[Kirathis]

@donmeca2020

It probably varies per location as to when they start. I know both Wal-Marts around me start bringing boxes out between 11pm-12am. Meijer on the other hand is closer to 2am. They may not start stocking until later but you can usually open a box and take what you want. Just be courteous if you go that route and do not leave a mess. If you un-stack a pallet to get a box, stack it back up when you are done. Stuff like that. Jin Saotome has a good write-up on his site about going around during stocking hours. I would suggest anyone who wants to go that route give it a read.

If stores are not 24 hours, like Toys R Us and some Targets, their stock times could vary greatly. Some do stocking after they close, some before they open and some do some stocking during the day.

As for when they receive trucks, sometimes you can ask an employee and they will tell you. If you have the patience, you can also figure out what time they tend to bring out inventory and drop in throughout a week to see when the toy section has pallets.

[donmeca2020]

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Originally Posted by Kirathis

@donmeca2020

It probably varies per location as to when they start. I know both Wal-Marts around me start bringing boxes out between 11pm-12am. Meijer on the other hand is closer to 2am. They may not start stocking until later but you can usually open a box and take what you want. Just be courteous if you go that route and do not leave a mess. If you un-stack a pallet to get a box, stack it back up when you are done. Stuff like that. Jin Saotome has a good write-up on his site about going around during stocking hours. I would suggest anyone who wants to go that route give it a read.

If stores are not 24 hours, like Toys R Us and some Targets, their stock times could vary greatly. Some do stocking after they close, some before they open and some do some stocking during the day.

As for when they receive trucks, sometimes you can ask an employee and they will tell you. If you have the patience, you can also figure out what time they tend to bring out inventory and drop in throughout a week to see when the toy section has pallets.

yea i think i might start hunting around here in South Florida... i need to find more info as to when these places start to stock up. i have a few wal marts around my area, and only one toys r us close to my location.

This seems like it's going to be a a nice little hunt !!

[behindthemask]

I'll throw in my 2 cents with what I've seen thus far.
I am super happy with the Odin wave, and the 1st spidey wave will be bought in due time. The second spidey wave is hit and miss for me, I'm not familiar with some of the characters, and thus the desire to have them isn't so great. As a big Iron Man collector, I will need to acquire Mark 43, that new War Machine, Iron Man Now costume and Hulkbuster. I AM PISSED WE DIDN'T SEE RESCUE!!!!!!!, I will also need to get Bulldozer to finish off the Wrecking Crew. I want to get MS Carnage to go beside my MS Venom, I also want MS Cable to go with my MS Deadpools and regular Deadpool collection. I can tell Hasbro has been paying attention to the market by releasing the unmasked versions of Hawkeye,Cap and a Banner figure, gonna take away from Glassman custom's sales a bit. however I think his qc is better then Hasbro's .

[Black Arbor]

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Originally Posted by behindthemask

I'll throw in my 2 cents with what I've seen thus far.
I am super happy with the Odin wave, and the 1st spidey wave will be bought in due time. The second spidey wave is hit and miss for me, I'm not familiar with some of the characters, and thus the desire to have them isn't so great. As a big Iron Man collector, I will need to acquire Mark 43, that new War Machine, Iron Man Now costume and Hulkbuster. I AM PISSED WE DIDN'T SEE RESCUE!!!!!!!, I will also need to get Bulldozer to finish off the Wrecking Crew. I want to get MS Carnage to go beside my MS Venom, I also want MS Cable to go with my MS Deadpools and regular Deadpool collection. I can tell Hasbro has been paying attention to the market by releasing the unmasked versions of Hawkeye,Cap and a Banner figure, gonna take away from Glassman custom's sales a bit. however I think his qc is better then Hasbro's .

BTM, did you ever get that Odin torso I sent? I tried messaging you, but it said your inbox was full again. :P

[VashTS]

I get my advice on upcoming stuff from a lower level Hasbro employee things could be delayed by bad weather ect but east cost soon.

Just what I know from someone who knows more than me who has access to things I do not.

Anyhow, very excited for the next two waves of legends and spidey...I hate to admit it, but Hasbro knowcked it out of the park. Between legends and Icons....I am a happy...boy!

[papashango]

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Spidey legends are just starting hitting the west coast should be a couple more weeks Papashango

Thanks man. So that's how it goes with ML? West Coast gets them first then the rest of the US?

[redfox]

[jwyss234]

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Thanks man. So that's how it goes with ML? West Coast gets them first then the rest of the US?

That's how it usually is with all toys. Products manufactured in Asia ship to a port on the west coast and are then sent out to the rest of the country from there.

[donmeca2020]

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Originally Posted by behindthemask

I'll throw in my 2 cents with what I've seen thus far.
I am super happy with the Odin wave, and the 1st spidey wave will be bought in due time. The second spidey wave is hit and miss for me, I'm not familiar with some of the characters, and thus the desire to have them isn't so great. As a big Iron Man collector, I will need to acquire Mark 43, that new War Machine, Iron Man Now costume and Hulkbuster. I AM PISSED WE DIDN'T SEE RESCUE!!!!!!!, I will also need to get Bulldozer to finish off the Wrecking Crew. I want to get MS Carnage to go beside my MS Venom, I also want MS Cable to go with my MS Deadpools and regular Deadpool collection. I can tell Hasbro has been paying attention to the market by releasing the unmasked versions of Hawkeye,Cap and a Banner figure, gonna take away from Glassman custom's sales a bit. however I think his qc is better then Hasbro's .

I'm also a MS collector too, i had the Carnage preordered the minute it came up on BBTS. However IMO MS has been somewhat of a letdown with their constant movie versions of figures as of the last year and to present day.... i know i know people supposedly gobble up movie versions of figures but i myself prefer the comic characters. the only thing i have found out from asking others on this thread is how do the legends look standing next to the marvel selects? they apparently are a tad smaller then selects.

I might consider jumping on the MS Ant-man and if i do that'll be the only movie version figure that is on my shelf.....

after just literally looking on Ebay, the new spidey wave is already available, and not just the loose ones but also the sealed in their package ones... WTF

[Exodus]

Yup I'm more excited to see the latest ML come out then the MI which is sad, cause I prefer the MI's sigh.

[decepticon_mark]

One more down. 5 to go to finish this wave.

[jwyss234]

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One more down. 5 to go to finish this wave.

Where'd you find him?

[decepticon_mark]

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Originally Posted by jwyss234

Where'd you find him?

Ebayed him. Sorry if I got you all excited.

[TheBigMachine]

Just saw the Amazon Exclusive 4-Pack...

[donmeca2020]

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Just saw the Amazon Exclusive 4-Pack...

i vaguely remember that old X-men cartoon from wayyyyy back in the day. if i recall correctly wolverine was wearing his brown and yellow costume in it..

[ultraman zoffy]

This just in: new Spidey figure can indeed stand on one hand... =) Some down time in my office today, so I thought I'd find out if he could.

[Kirathis]

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Originally Posted by ultraman zoffy

this just in: New spidey figure can indeed stand on one hand... =) some down time in my office today, so i thought i'd find out if he could.

awesome!

[Starlord67]

Too cool... Can't wait for the new Spidey wave

[Spyne98]

^Very cool! I can't wait to find these!

[marvelmando]

With no hand magnets?

[ultraman zoffy]

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Originally Posted by marvelmando

With no hand magnets?

No magnets sir... just some ninja balancing skills while waiting for an email reply to come in. lol

[behindthemask]

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Originally Posted by Black Arbor

BTM, did you ever get that Odin torso I sent? I tried messaging you, but it said your inbox was full again. :P

I figured you probably did try and pm me. Haven't recieved it yet, but my province has been under a state of emergancy after getting 80cms of snow to add to the 125cms we already had. Gov stuff has been closed for days, post office should open tomorrow and will update you when it arrives, thanks again!!!! Now I just need me some legs to add to the baf.

[Jmacq1]

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you also have to account for the fact that you can usualy move greater quantities of 3.75" figures. so a consumer who would hesitate to spend 40$ on two unique figures might prefer to get two for 20-24$ and even by jmacq's math that's a 50% better profit for the manufacturer. also, the price of plastic has very little to do with production cost. the PVC composites toys are made of cost less than a dollar a pound. so your average figure of any scale is only a couple cents worth of plastic. the paint costs more. but your big expense is in tooling her there are two issues that make 6" figures more cost prohibitive to produce, size, as a large mold costs a lot more to produce (more metal, and more actual tooling) and, well... size again as you can fit fewer molds into an injection machine per shoot, so you get fewer parts per press, which means more man hours to produce the same number of 6" units as opposed to 3.75", or now 2". you could also factor in things like amount of paint, and detail required to produce something that looks good in 6" scale (the bigger you go the more detail you need), plus there is no way around it, you need more packaging for bigger figures. I just can't see how Hasbro makes the 6" scale more economically viable than 3.75.

If you'd like some further reinforcement for my speculation, see the Four Horseman's reasoning behind making their Mythic Legions in 6" scale rather than 4" scale as originally advertised. They flat out said (in the scale announcement) that the price difference between making them 6" versus making them 4" was not very big due to the complexity of the figures, and so decided to go with the 6" size instead.

All I'm saying is that this business is still run by money. If the 6" figures weren't more economically viable, then Marvel Legends would still be withering on the vine rather than thriving and 3.75" figures would still be ruling the roost instead of getting downgraded or minimized.

Yeah, Dev teams can have their preferences, but all the preferences in the world can't make the bean counters agree with them, and the bean counters are the ones with the real power in any corporation. If Dev Teams genuinely pulled the strings, the toy market would look VERY different, since most Dev Teams are genuinely made up of people who are as much fans of the toys as we are.

[donmeca2020]

well apparently here in south florida the new spidey wave is available. this was at my LCS just a few mins ago. i would have bought a few but they were charging abit more then regular store prices. spidey 2099 for $29.99, mayday parker for $24.99....