1 hour ago, Atlantis said:Recent youtube reports that Hasbro may be discontinuing its GI JOE exclusive with Target. Its not totally confirmed yet, and we dont know exactly what that will mean if it is confirmed, but my hope is Hasbro will immediately distribute it to all outlets, BBTS, Amazon, local dept stores that usually carry these action figures, etc. If they were to do this not only would we all have a better shot to get the figures we want, its gonna be a big blow to the scalpers. All the figures they bought up, planning to re-sell at 2-3x the actual fair price, they'd then just be stuck with. I'd love to see them get clobbered for a change.
Like I've been saying: this is Hasbro's product, their brand, and they need to step up to fix the problems here. Hopefully.....theyre listening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv1ugiedEhI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txCHRDpWKSw
Havent you posted this multiple times? This doesnt mean anything which I thought I explained in one of the other threads you posted this in. No Hasbro isn't discontinuing doing Target exclusives. Yes the 1 Target wave is likely done. It was a limited wave and they have shipped whatever amount Target ordered for them out. So whatever is still in the distribution pipeline for these is it. Will the figures from that wave be reissued in some way at some point? Probably. We already know another Cobra Trooper is coming in wave 3 or 4. Back when the wave first came out the Target employees told me the wave was a one and done, so frankly that they are still showing up at all in stores is amazing to me, but this doesnt mean the took the wave away from Target and will start offering it everywhere.
Recent youtube reports that Hasbro may be discontinuing its GI JOE exclusive with Target. Its not totally confirmed yet, and we dont know exactly what that will mean if it is confirmed, but my hope is Hasbro will immediately distribute it to all outlets, BBTS, Amazon, local dept stores that usually carry these action figures, etc. If they were to do this not only would we all have a better shot to get the figures we want, its gonna be a big blow to the scalpers. All the figures they bought up, planning to re-sell at 2-3x the actual fair price, they'd then just be stuck with. I'd love to see them get clobbered for a change.
Like I've been saying: this is Hasbro's product, their brand, and they need to step up to fix the problems here. Hopefully.....theyre listening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv1ugiedEhI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txCHRDpWKSw
On 8/30/2020 at 11:56 PM, Gilgamesh79 said:As long as I get Zartan I'll be happy.
Me too. I hope he's going to be as awesome as I think he is!!! I might have to pre-order him so I don't have to hunt him down, even though that takes some of the fun out of it. haha
2 hours ago, JayC said:I got a notice today from BBTS that my Pimp Daddy Destro has come in, now I am just waiting on wave 2 to arrive.
Oh whoa Pimp Daddy D, is already shipping? ha I'm still trying to get myself the original one
but hey looks like it's just that we all got to be patient and play the long game with these figures
I saw people already with the Arctic Storm Shadow... I think inless they handle this line like Power Rangers, by the beginning of next year we will have our Joes it will just take time to saturate, but hey we are greedy impatient collectors, and it doesn't help these reviewes and scalpers are showing off the things we don't have yet
The Cobra Trooper reissue is good news. I'm a little bit curious about the movie designs.
On 9/1/2020 at 2:28 AM, Lord_Scareglow said:Yeah man, I almost can't even with this line, wave 3 and 4 , and I can barely get a wave 1, nobody can get a wave whatever Cobra Island is.., Hasbro get your act together or we are all going to back out from this collection
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I just saw that I got Cobra Commander and Red NInja shipping notice ! the drought minorly subsides!
now can I just get that Destro?
I got a notice today from BBTS that my Pimp Daddy Destro has come in, now I am just waiting on wave 2 to arrive.
On 8/31/2020 at 6:29 AM, jlavaia said:why? on their end theyre extremely happy. its not hasbro's fault that the stores that sell their products are incompetent. this line is a hit, they were worried it wouldnt be. its gi joe in a brand new scale, everytime theyve tried to make joe figs that werent 3 3/4" or 12" it has failed miserably. target and walmart screwed up, not hasbro.
Hasbro is selling their product thru these different outlets as exclusives; they underproduce so that only a few actually ever get out and all it does is feed the scalpers. Their public advertising info and campaign dates don't match what the outlets say, they have a release date but the figures aren't even in the stores. You cant get them online, you cant get them in the franchise store they're supposedly exclusive to. This is how they handled Red Hulk for Marvel. Baroness apparently couldn't be found because she was never released at the time she was supposed to be, and now some outlets are getting her, at just 3 a case. Thats insane. And lest we forget, we all still have to deal with covid- we should be avoiding crowds, not running into them by chasing all over town for a product that isn't even there. These aren't Target's toyline, they're Hasbro and hasbro has some responsibility here. If as you say they're happy on their end knowing the collectors here are unable to get the product, then they don't deserve our business.
There's another pandemic in this country. Its called I Got Mine &The Rest of You Can Eff Yourselves. Its a poor attitude, and ultimately a poor business model.
I hope we get more and different Cobra Troopers. As far as Joes, I would like Stalker, Recondo, Dusty and Snow Job w' Polar Battle Bear.
22 hours ago, Atlantis said:I think its pretty safe to say that if Hasbeen can't/won't get this incompetent roll out of the current series resolved, it wont matter whats planned for the later lineup.
Yeah man, I almost can't even with this line, wave 3 and 4 , and I can barely get a wave 1, nobody can get a wave whatever Cobra Island is.., Hasbro get your act together or we are all going to back out from this collection
Edit*
I just saw that I got Cobra Commander and Red NInja shipping notice ! the drought minorly subsides!
now can I just get that Destro?
2 hours ago, mako said:Target exclusive wave? What's that look like? The only sign I've ever seen of ANY Joe Classifieds at Target was a notice hung on the pegs about the 14th. street date. Mind you, they never put out any Joes at this or ANY other Target in my area. Just the notice.
This is very funny that you said that because the opposite of this happened to me with this Joe's but with the TMNT was my same experience as you as with the GI JOE Classified line... It looks like now you feel the same pain we been feeling by not getting turtles at our Target stores...
