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Originally Posted by BlackRazor

That sounds like a unique situation up there, was @ a toy fair today talking to a # of sellers & they told me how tough it was for them to find those new cobra army builders too so it wasn't just me.

I did find a 6 inch Boba there for $25 instead of the usual $35 - that's 1 more figure I still haven't seen @ retail yet either!

And if they're selling out both on-line & what I & other professional toy dealers/sellers are finding (or in this case, not finding @ retail), seems like supply isn't meeting demand.

Haha, $25 is the retail price for Bob up here. Saw three at the LCS the other day and they wanted $40 for him.


Certainly they aren't easy for everyone to find but we both know a good portion of the demand is created by scalpers... err resellers grabbing all they find. So many figures would be easy for collectors to find if hundreds of them didn't end up on eBay and such.

With these figures we have yet another case of late waves not shipping much because stores have lost faith due to bad sales. I don't blame them clearing out a product from a movie that has been taking up space for over a year. We eventually see tons of these rare figures showing up at discount stores and the like.

Its also simple math that thousands of stores across the country will carry figures from a certain line and many of those won't have any collectors that live near by. In rural areas especially you won't find many and a lot have probably just resorted to buying whole waves online. Children and their parents are still the #1 buyer of retail figures for most stores. I know in SoCal (and other large metros) you would get people lining up at TRU before it opened but outside of the Christmas season that isn't a reality for most.