Originally Posted by Kirathis (Post 588409)

@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.

Originally Posted by behindthemask (Post 588414)

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 ;).

Originally Posted by decepticon_mark (Post 588393)

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

Originally Posted by papashango (Post 588424)

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

Originally Posted by behindthemask (Post 588414)

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 ;).

Originally Posted by decepticon_mark (Post 588536)

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

Originally Posted by jwyss234 (Post 588539)

Where'd you find him?

Originally Posted by TheBigMachine (Post 588545)

Just saw the Amazon Exclusive 4-Pack...

Originally Posted by ultraman zoffy (Post 588559)

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.
http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15...14940995a3.jpg

Originally Posted by marvelmando (Post 588580)

With no hand magnets?

Originally Posted by Black Arbor (Post 588418)

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

Originally Posted by kylactus (Post 588375)

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.