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Originally Posted by fosterlager

Yeah, that's a total scalper. I don't see any way how it could NOT be.

Bought for a {friend | relative | friend's kid | relative's kid} for {birthday | good grades | promotion | raise | special occasion}.
Thought to be something {he | she} would like, only to discover that [he | she] {didn't like it | wrong character/item | already had it}.
Therefore now returning it for a {refund | exchange}.

...but do I think any of this applies in this particular scenerio? To quote the Duke: "Not hardly."

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Originally Posted by DarthGzus33

I've seen them online with shorter hair than that (has this ever been officially, OFFICIALLY confirmed by Hasbro to be real?)

No, not from Hasbro directly. There was an Ebay auction from David Vonner for one, though. So apparently there were some in-package prototypes made, but it looks like that's as far it ever got.

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On the Hotwheels/MU topic, There are two guys that I run into every day that are primarily HW, but also dabble in MU, SW & GI Joe...One is a scalper for sure and the other dude is more of a collector like me and we have all got along over the years...the scalper dude even offered to help me with some MU figs that I was looking for and was willing to sell them to me at retail cost, so they are not all bad guys...At least I am the youngest of the three LOL, I'm sure the Target workers think we are wierdos LOL!!! F 'em!!! Still hunting for Nova, should have bought him from my LCS a while back when they had him for $17.99...

Like I said, not all HW collectors are bad. And man am I glad I found my Nova at retail. I didn't even realize he was that HTF (well any more than any of the others in his wave).

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Originally Posted by skywarrped

I've never seen the mysterious Darkhawk variant. Not sure if it really exists.

Doubtful. Most likely the "variant" we saw at SDCC two years ago was a custom paint job done for the diorama and not an actual future release.