JoeCanuck
Canadian Sightings & Provincial News => Ontario => Topic started by: freakx2001 on October 19, 2008, 07:47:34 PM
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Hey,
just curious, has anyone seen any American carded joes around lately? I know when joes first started to hit the market here in Canada, people mentioned spotting them, just wondering if that is still happening?
Thanks
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It's not impossible. Generally we get the american carded figures in 2 scenarios
1) Delay of Canadian cards, so they import US product to meet demand
2) Canadian cards sell out, so they import US product to meet demand.
Basically, as long as you are seeing Canadian cards on the shelves, we won't see US ones. If we have a sellout scenario, then we may.
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You can usually find them in Comic specialty stores. In Ottawa, I've seen some in The Comic Book Shoppe and Silver Snail. Fantasy Realm in Cornwall has a HUGE selection, too. Never seen them in department stores, personally. My theory is that our area is so bilingual, the big stores will only take bilingual packaging.
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I've seen some at Walmart and Toys R Us. Not many, but a couple so they do get out there.
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I've seen Waves 6 & 7 on US Cards at my local Walmart.
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I've seen a few around, picked up a Snake-Eyes recently, saw a Wild Bill but wasn't interested in getting the american carded one. It's been a mix on the pegs.
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will i was as lucky as you guys, I never see them... and they are the only ones I buy...
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who are you looking for? I'll keep my eyes open for them
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who are you looking for? I'll keep my eyes open for them
thanks! Right now, my wants list looks like this (I know some are not out yet..)
Snow Serpent
Mutt
Croc Master
TF Duke
Cobra Eel
Sgt Airborne
TripWire
Revision Wave
FireFly
Snake Eyes
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Haha, awesome - that's pretty much my list, too, so I'll pick up an extra for you if I see any
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Wal-Mart is usally the first place where I have spotted them. My local comic shop has imported them in as well.
Here is what I don't get. If TRU can release their exclusives in Canada without the lame international packaging, why don't the single carded figure get the same treatment? I hate the international packaging.
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Wal-Mart is usally the first place where I have spotted them.
Same thing in my neck of the woods. Wal~Mart is always the first to put out the new waves, and then TRU usually has them a few weeks later. Zellers is doing a very poor job of keeping G.I. Joe stocked, you never know what they're going to have or when they'll get it.
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Zellers is doing a very poor job of keeping G.I. Joe stocked, you never know what they're going to have or when they'll get it.
Agreed. Zellers in my area has dropped the ball. Last week, I spotted wave 4 (or 25th wave 8 ) at the closest Zellers by me. It's time to move onto the next waves and not keep going back to the older waves, in which the collector market has gotten their fill of.
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The zellers closest to me had 1 figure and no vehicles.
The one figure was Sgt. flash on the generic no artwork cards.
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Wal-Mart is usally the first place where I have spotted them. My local comic shop has imported them in as well.
Here is what I don't get. If TRU can release their exclusives in Canada without the lame international packaging, why don't the single carded figure get the same treatment? I hate the international packaging.
Don't think they can release them in Quebec. Or, maybe Quebec chains refuse to sell non-international packaging. I live next door to Quebec and even in this part of Ontario, the big chains won't carry non-bilingual singles. Makes me think local managers have a say.
Either way, my money's on Quebec holding up wide-spread non-bilingual releases.