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Canadian Sightings & Provincial News => Ontario => Topic started by: Bandalero on May 26, 2008, 12:40:53 PM
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Wowawewa! Stopped off at Wal*Mart in Markville Mall, Markham, Ontario again at lunch (I gotta make this a habit) and low and behold the single peg dedicated for 25A figs was stocked full of WAVE 8!!!! in Canada!!!!
I'm keeping the American carded versions MOC (whenever my online retailer gets them in) so I only bought the Canadian versions I wanted to open up for my loose display (yeah I had to pick up another Viper):
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Canadians start your engines!
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My Walmart sucks! I've have yet to see one 25th figure at it and the peg has since been removed so I don't even know if I should be checking it. I'd like to get a Viper and Major Bludd but I'd still buy the American carded ones off of ebay.
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I'll also be getting the US ones but it was definitely cool seeing my local walmart with 2 pegs absolutely stuffed with Wave 8...I was almost tempted to get some!
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Saw the entire wave (3 sets) at the Walmart on Rymal Rd in Hamilton.
Picked up my last 25th figure, the only one I still needed, Roadblock.
I'm done. ;-)
Also tucked a complete set away should anyone want it, shoot me a PM.
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At Wal-Mart at Keele and Lawrence, found some of Wave 8 ? 2 Roadblocks, 2 Python troops, 1 TF Flint, 1 winter Snake-Eyes, 1 Baroness. Also 2 Vipers, but nothing else from Wave 7.
Picked up the Vipers and Flint (since I missed the first Flint) for myself. Thought about Baroness, but terrible paint job. Was tempted by Snake-Eyes ? he looks awesome in that parka - but I am trying to limit myself to one version per character. :)
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When is Zellers going to get their stock in? There are more of those around then there are Walmarts and Toys R Us.
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well there's definitely another Joe fan in my area, went back to Wal*Mart after work today to see if I could pick up an extra TF Flint and Viper and the peg is completely cleared!
Looked around the other toys to see if any where hidden, nothing. I left about 10 cards on that peg yesterday and it's all gone - wonder who's my neighbour.
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Update: There was also some wave 7 figures there.
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well there's definitely another Joe fan in my area, went back to Wal*Mart after work today to see if I could pick up an extra TF Flint and Viper and the peg is completely cleared!
Looked around the other toys to see if any where hidden, nothing. I left about 10 cards on that peg yesterday and it's all gone - wonder who's my neighbour.
It's not me if your wondering. :wink:
I managed to snag a complete '08 wave 3 set at my local Wal-Mart today. And good thing I found the '08 wave 2 set last week as they are gone in my area.
For any of those keeping them MOC and are collecting variants, the packaging for Cobra Viper released in the second and third Canadian waves is different. The GI JOE lettering at the top is in silver for wave 2 and white for wave 3. The crappy figure is the same.
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Update: There was also some wave 7 figures there.
Mike, I need the Hiss driver on a Canadian card if you see one.
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Update: There was also some wave 7 figures there.
Mike, I need the Hiss driver on a Canadian card if you see one.
I didn't see one, but I'll let you know if I do.
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Well, no Wave 8, but TRU Thornhill had some Wave 7 - 1 each of Viper, Duke, Wild Bill and Spirit, and 3 Snake Eyes. I grabbed Wild Bill and Spirit. They also had a couple Flashes and Shipwreck.
Happy I found both waves today, but a little disappointed, no Major Bludd to be seen!
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Well, no Wave 8, but TRU Thornhill had some Wave 7 - 1 each of Viper, Duke, Wild Bill and Spirit, and 3 Snake Eyes. I grabbed Wild Bill and Spirit. They also had a couple Flashes and Shipwreck.
Happy I found both waves today, but a little disappointed, no Major Bludd to be seen!
Was this the TRU on Langstaff Road? If so, I was there yesterday and I didn't see any wave 7 ('08 wave 2). All I saw was comic packs and older single packs.
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Went to my local wal mart tonight (Oshawa) and was excited to see wave 8 figures on the pegs. Then I pulled them all down and realized that mostly all of them had the cards all bent to shit. Man, was I MAD.
I was able to grab TF Flint, Baroness, Roadblock, Major Bludd and the wave 7 Snake Eyes I was missing from the wave 7 figures I grabbed last week (the only wave 7 figure they had.) I had to leave behind the Cobra Commander because both cards were bent to hell and there was no Snake Eyes or Python Patrol Officer.
The cards that were damaged looked like they had been done on purpose and if thats the case, thats pretty sad that someone would do that just so another collector can't pick up figures. If anyone is still interested, heres the figures they had after I left.. they had 2CC, 1 Baroness, 1 Major Blood, 1 TF Flint, 1 Roadblock.
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Was this the TRU on Langstaff Road? If so, I was there yesterday and I didn't see any wave 7 ('08 wave 2). All I saw was comic packs and older single packs.
No, on Steeles, between Bathurst and Yonge...
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Went to my local wal mart tonight (Oshawa) and was excited to see wave 8 figures on the pegs. Then I pulled them all down and realized that mostly all of them had the cards all bent to shit. Man, was I MAD.
I was able to grab TF Flint, Baroness, Roadblock, Major Bludd and the wave 7 Snake Eyes I was missing from the wave 7 figures I grabbed last week (the only wave 7 figure they had.) I had to leave behind the Cobra Commander because both cards were bent to hell and there was no Snake Eyes or Python Patrol Officer.
The cards that were damaged looked like they had been done on purpose and if thats the case, thats pretty sad that someone would do that just so another collector can't pick up figures. If anyone is still interested, heres the figures they had after I left.. they had 2CC, 1 Baroness, 1 Major Blood, 1 TF Flint, 1 Roadblock.
Which Wal-Mart? The south end Wal-Mart had the cards in good shape. The Wal-Mart on the north end had some beaten up cards. I didn't check the Whitby Wal-Mart though.
Anyways, I have you covered on the PP Officer. I snagged an extra one incase you needed one. And LMK about the other CGs I have have for you.
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Update: There was also some wave 7 figures there.
Mike, I need the Hiss driver on a Canadian card if you see one.
If you can't find one, I have you covered.
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Update: There was also some wave 7 figures there.
Mike, I need the Hiss driver on a Canadian card if you see one.
If you can't find one, I have you covered.
I can always count on you Pete. Give me another week to see if my area gets any, otherwise yes please. Hook me up.
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I found a couple cases worth of wave 8 at Walmart (Eglinton & Pharmacy) a couple days ago.
The cards were about 80/20% in regards to the condition of the cards. 80% were in fine condition and 20% had creases or bends. It could be just some bad packing by the factory, or carelessness by the staff.
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From the ones I found, they were all mint - except one Roadblock. I took that one since I was opening him anyway.
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I'd be happy to find one Joe with Canadian packaging from Wave 7 or 8. The closest I've come was Wal-Mart Argyle where I guess I just missed them.
Paul
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Pete, the wal mart was the north end one (open 24 hours)
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Sweet. I need me a pair of TF Flints.
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Went to my local wal mart tonight (Oshawa) and was excited to see wave 8 figures on the pegs. Then I pulled them all down and realized that mostly all of them had the cards all bent to shit. Man, was I MAD.
I was able to grab TF Flint, Baroness, Roadblock, Major Bludd and the wave 7 Snake Eyes I was missing from the wave 7 figures I grabbed last week (the only wave 7 figure they had.) I had to leave behind the Cobra Commander because both cards were bent to hell and there was no Snake Eyes or Python Patrol Officer.
The cards that were damaged looked like they had been done on purpose and if thats the case, thats pretty sad that someone would do that just so another collector can't pick up figures. If anyone is still interested, heres the figures they had after I left.. they had 2CC, 1 Baroness, 1 Major Blood, 1 TF Flint, 1 Roadblock.
Which Wal-Mart? The south end Wal-Mart had the cards in good shape. The Wal-Mart on the north end had some beaten up cards. I didn't check the Whitby Wal-Mart though.
Anyways, I have you covered on the PP Officer. I snagged an extra one incase you needed one. And LMK about the other CGs I have have for you.
I noticed this too...I was going to get Flint and the Officer to keep MOC because the Canadian card art almost seems that it belongs to them. But both were bent near the top...and yeah it did seem intentional, although who can say for sure?
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Hello,
Still none here in the National capital Region. Only left overs from the no card art figure wave. : (, At this rate Toys R Us might have some before zellers.
Snake8Storm
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There are people called "benders" who go around bending cards so scalpers cant get them but then there is also scalpers who, if they can't get all the figures on a peg, will bend the cards so other scalpers or collectors cant get them. I think both practices are sad and pathetic.
The only reason I think it was intetional was because every other place I've gone thats had wave 7/8 figures, the cards were in good shape and it was only the one wal mart that had the bad cards.
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There are people called "benders" who go around bending cards so scalpers cant get them but then there is also scalpers who, if they can't get all the figures on a peg, will bend the cards so other scalpers or collectors cant get them. I think both practices are sad and pathetic.
The only reason I think it was intetional was because every other place I've gone thats had wave 7/8 figures, the cards were in good shape and it was only the one wal mart that had the bad cards.
I really think it might just be the way they came. I can't say for sure in your case, but the ones I saw were not on a peg on a shelf, but on these plastic "hanging" type strips. They basically sat right on top of each other and had to bend a bit to fit on the little hook.
I think the intentional bending by scalpers, or whoever, is more of an urband legend than a reality. I would be more prone to believe in people hiding figures rather than bending cards. Mostly because I have seen posts on other websites by people who do that with rare items and then get off on making people PM them to get the location.
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I have not heard of the bending however I am glad the practice of swapping army builder figures out for other crappy figures and then returning them to the store for a refund has dissappeared.
Bending = crap for collectors.
swapping = stealing.
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Even though earlier I spoke to the Toy Manager at North London Wal-Mart and he said that they wouldn't likely see any more Joes until July, when I went in today they had 2 PP Officers on the pegs.
I had already ordered Wave 8 on-line anyway.
Paul
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The WalMart in Chatham had one each of Tiger Force Flint, Baroness, Roadblock, Major Bludd, Cobra Viper, Cobra Commander, Artic Snake Eyes and Python Officer. Grabbed them all.
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I was at a wal mart today and grabbed a few more figures which included 2 vipers. So I get home and pull out my figures to check them out when I noticed something...one of my vipers has the white lettering and packaging and not the silver like my other 4 vipers have. Anyone else finds these "white" vipers?
*I'm not saying its a varient just noticed it came in a different packag then my others.
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They shipped with Wave 4 2008.
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I still haven't seen any of these yet or any of the Cobra's from wave 7.
I'm hoping Karma likes me next week and I can find some on my birthday dagnamit!
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Wow, Opened my first viper last night. They're problematic.
The goggles won't stay on when you move the figure, and the hand can only hold the rifle due to an odd limp wrist. Hopefully they'll get a fix down the line.
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I picked up the Copperhead/Shipwreck comic pack from the local comic shop(down town St. Catharines) today and I think to date it's my favorate two pack--love the Copperhead figure and Shippy looks cool in the white buttondown.
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How's the Shippy vs Copperhead comic?
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I'm starting to wonder if the cases were missing Baroness and HISS Driver or whether someone has hoarded them from all Ottawa area Wal-Marts.
As an aside, are these even showing up at TRU? Zellers?
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I'm starting to wonder if the cases were missing Baroness and HISS Driver or whether someone has hoarded them from all Ottawa area Wal-Marts.
As an aside, are these even showing up at TRU? Zellers?
Someone must of beat you to them as the set I picked up for Ed has the Baroness.
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I liked the Copperhead/shipwreck comic it even featured the piranha attack boat. The comic was a little light hearted at times but entertaining none the less.
I saw two wave 7 snake eyes at my local TRU last week that was all.
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i'm still looking for more wave 7/8 figures
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Raptor, for the Viper's goggles a drop of crazy-glue on the back of his helmet will keep the bugger from popping off. We didn't need the goggles in '86 and we dont really need it in '08.
As for the hands, yeah it sucks - Vipers do one cool gun pointing pose and that's about it :(
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I picked up the Copperhead/Shipwreck comic pack from the local comic shop(down town St. Catharines) today and I think to date it's my favorate two pack--love the Copperhead figure and Shippy looks cool in the white buttondown.
I stand corrected. The Firefly/Stormshadow is my favorite to date. Cool figures(lots of goodies for each figure) and a great comic--Larry Hama even delves into Firefly's past when a secret is revealed.
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Raptor, for the Viper's goggles a drop of crazy-glue on the back of his helmet will keep the bugger from popping off. We didn't need the goggles in '86 and we dont really need it in '08.
As for the hands, yeah it sucks - Vipers do one cool gun pointing pose and that's about it :(
The Viper's head looks like a bucket if you take the goggles off. And considering I am paying 9 bucks for this figure, I shouldn't have to glue them on or worry about how the figure will stand up properly on the stand or hold a gun. Hence, the Viper is at the top of the list of epic phail.
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I saw some of these at the Ottawa walmart near me. The other one close by had nothing. The one by me had a mix of wave 7 and 8. Unfortunitly I was only able to snag up a viper, major bludd and the parka snakeeyes. Now they only have one extra major bludd and a viper. Only saw one baroness and no v 3 snakeeyes or duke, spirit or hiss drivers. : (
hope they get more or that they restock often. Also my bro saw one figure from the canadian waves that had silver border on it all the rest here have a white border and no longer shinny foil front. Is this the same everywhere in Ontario?
SnakeStorm
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hope they get more or that they restock often. Also my bro saw one figure from the canadian waves that had silver border on it all the rest here have a white border and no longer shinny foil front. Is this the same everywhere in Ontario?
SnakeStorm
Yes, it's same. The lastest wave (2008 - wave 3 or 25th line wave 6 ) all had the white lettering, including the filler Viper pack for this wave.
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Has anyone seen the newest 3 comic packs here in Canada? The wave that has Copperhead/Shipwreck, Firefly/Storm Shadow, and Duke/Red Star in it.
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Not yet. Getting mine from Condor.
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Wally Mart in Cornwall, Ontario re-stocked with a new slew of figures.
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What wave?
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Wally Mart in Cornwall, Ontario re-stocked with a new slew of figures.
And how many is a slew?
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The Tiger Force Flint, Baroness, Arctic Snake Eyes wave... not sure what one that is... 8, I think. And a slew being that they filled up a peg and a half, so there's two or three of each out with a few more on the top shelf.
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Thanks. It would be great to see shelves being restocked regularly, rather than one shipment of a couple cases per wave.
Fairview Wal~Mart in Kitchener still has the following:
Duke with Jetpack & Flag (x1)
Snake Eyes with Butterfly Knife (x4)
Spirit Iron-Knife (x2)
Wild Bill (x2)
They've been there for a few days now...surprised they've lasted that long.
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I take it from this that HISS Driver is not in the Canadian assortment, notwithstanding what appears on the card back...
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I take it from this that HISS Driver is not in the Canadian assortment, notwithstanding what appears on the card back...
He's in the wave 3 2008 case.
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I was lucky enough to find the HISS Driver in the States with the JUMP Duke... are they part of the same wave in the Canadian release, or do they miss-match them, here?
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Also, sorry for the double-post but I thought this was interesting: Toysrus.ca almost completely sold out of their stocked 25th anniversary GI Joes since I placed my order on Saturday. Monday morning, they were "Temporarily Unavailable Online" and today, removed from the site completely. There's only the odd one up there, now. That could be a good sign...
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Also, sorry for the double-post but I thought this was interesting: Toysrus.ca almost completely sold out of their stocked 25th anniversary GI Joes since I placed my order on Saturday. Monday morning, they were "Temporarily Unavailable Online" and today, removed from the site completely. There's only the odd one up there, now. That could be a good sign...
I wouldn't read too much into it. They only had 2 cases of wave 5 available so it doesn't take much to sell through. But hey, something is better than nothing right?! :) I think the Wave 3 comics are still available though.
As for Duke and HISS driver, they are both part of Wave 3 2008 (Wave 7).
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Things are really looking good for us Canadian consumers.
Near the end of May/beginning of June I had two straight weeks of seeing wave 7 and wave 8 on a Wal*Mart peg. Went back twice the next week and both times the pegs were empty so I figured the store only ordered one box of each wave and when they were sold out - they were sold out.
I didn't want to return until the end of June when wave 9 is supposed to be out, but the wife and I dropped by tonight so I had to take a look-see at the toy aisle. I wasn't expecting wave 9 of course but I was pleasantly surprised to see wave 7's Wild Bill, Duke, and Spirit. Which either means someone returned them or they restocked their peg with some more 25th anniversary figs.
Seeing all this new product after YEARS of drought here, I'm friggin ecstatic! Distribution with wave 9 should be just fine *crosses fingers*
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Aw man I wish the Walmart here would restock Wave 7 I didn't even see that wave here yet someone cleaned it out and they havn't restocked it yet at the walmart near me. The other walmart in the area doesn't look like they ever had any figures no pegs. Any chance soneone might be able to snag up some of the wave 7 for me the ones that still have the silver border? Seems like it might be the only way to get them as Ottawa seems to be a lot further down the supply chain. : (
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Aw man I wish the Walmart here would restock Wave 7 I didn't even see that wave here yet someone cleaned it out and they havn't restocked it yet at the walmart near me. The other walmart in the area doesn't look like they ever had any figures no pegs. Any chance soneone might be able to snag up some of the wave 7 for me the ones that still have the silver border? Seems like it might be the only way to get them as Ottawa seems to be a lot further down the supply chain. : (
I hear ya. My two supply points are Cornwall and Ottawa... both seem to have Wave 8. I Once got a butterfly knife Snake Eyes there, but I think that was a lucky break. If you find any Wave 7s, let me know! In the meantime, I'm army-building my Vipers and Python Troops while I can
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Also, sorry for the double-post but I thought this was interesting: Toysrus.ca almost completely sold out of their stocked 25th anniversary GI Joes since I placed my order on Saturday. Monday morning, they were "Temporarily Unavailable Online" and today, removed from the site completely. There's only the odd one up there, now. That could be a good sign...
I checked TRU.ca today and it showed absolutely nothing 25A!
As for Duke and HISS driver, they are both part of Wave 3 2008 (Wave 7).
So has anyone actually seen a Canadian packaged HISS driver? I haven't even seen one, nor a Spirit
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I have 2 Hiss drivers and a spirit so yes they are out there man :)
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I was at TRU St. Catharines today and again they only had two wave 7 Snake Eyes. Nothing in Zellers.
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I have 2 Hiss drivers and a spirit so yes they are out there man :)
Oh. Well then I guess they got hoovered up in Ottawa.
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I have 2 Hiss drivers and a spirit so yes they are out there man :)
Oh. Well then I guess they got hoovered up in Ottawa.
They're getting "hoovered" in KW area too. He's definitely the hardest of the wave 3 2008 figures to find.
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I have seen both of the waves at Walmrart and TRU. I live by the US border, so I have gotten most of the figures over there as I prefer the US cards. Still very cool to see new Joes on the store shelves though for sure!
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Does anyone know of a comic/toy shop that would do order of the new figures?
I would love to be able to just go in and pick up a case of each wave rather than to hunt down each of these waves.
I know Hasbro in the past had a crazy quota for ordering from them, but maybe now that they have the Marvel Legends and the Joe line is doing better in Canada the quota number has dropped.
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Try www.eternitycomicsandcollectibles.com (http://www.eternitycomicsandcollectibles.com ) for cases US cards.
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I have 2 Hiss drivers and a spirit so yes they are out there man :)
Oh. Well then I guess they got hoovered up in Ottawa.
They're getting "hoovered" in KW area too. He's definitely the hardest of the wave 3 2008 figures to find.
No doubt. I saw those 5 or so cases you told me about on Friday night, right after work and there was not one Hiss driver. I know we all like to army build but this is only going to hurt us collectors in the end if we buy all the Cobra troopers and leave the children with no one for their Joes to fight. That the sort of thing that can kill a toy line. There are more children then there are collectors.
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Zells @ Conestoga Mall in Waterloo had a full case of Wave 4 2008 (Canadian cards) as of a couple hours ago.