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Re: Wave 5 Found @ Canadian Wal~Marts
« Reply #12 on: January 08, 2008, 04:59:09 PM »

Got a pic of the packaging?
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Re: Wave 5 Found @ Canadian Wal~Marts
« Reply #13 on: January 08, 2008, 05:11:24 PM »

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Got a pic of the packaging?

I just sat down for dinner but will post some pictures shortly.  Any specific requests?

Edit: A couple of pics (sorry for the crappy quality).



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Re: Wave 5 Found @ Canadian Wal~Marts
« Reply #14 on: January 08, 2008, 06:06:21 PM »

No picture, ouch. I can appreciate that it is cheaper to mass print a single card rather than character specific cards, but just an explosion looks really empty. And the sticker is pretty weak. But kudos to Hasbro Canada for giving the figures a test run up here. Hopefully this means more to come.
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Re: Wave 5 Found @ Canadian Wal~Marts
« Reply #15 on: January 08, 2008, 08:42:37 PM »

That's sort of funny. I wonder how many guys in the USA are going to want our crappy pictureless version. Good news is it's a great template for custom cards.  :shifty:
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Re: Wave 5 Found @ Canadian Wal~Marts
« Reply #16 on: January 08, 2008, 09:33:24 PM »

WTF.

That is horrible.

I'm glad I didn't find any. I may pick up one to use as a base for a custom package someday, but I am really not impressed.

I'll be getting mine from the states I guess. Getting screwed on the filecards is one thing, getting screwed with this bulk generic packaging is quite another. Unacceptable.

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Re: Wave 5 Found @ Canadian Wal~Marts
« Reply #17 on: January 09, 2008, 12:16:36 AM »

Remember when Ninja Turtles first came to Canada? All our cards had pictures of Raphael, rather than each character getting their own card. I think picking a generic character to put on all the cards would have been much better than the empty explosion.
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Re: Wave 5 Found @ Canadian Wal~Marts
« Reply #18 on: January 09, 2008, 02:04:59 AM »

I had a flashback of "Who's that Pokemon?" from when the kids use to watch that show.  It looks like the before and after picture of "Who's that GI Joe".
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Re: Wave 5 Found @ Canadian Wal~Marts
« Reply #19 on: January 09, 2008, 02:23:45 PM »

Christ, Ontario has wave 5 before most of WNY gets them.  Most of this region [as far as I've read store reports for] has yet to see wave 4 or 5.  A couple sightings a week or two before christmas and nothing NOT bought by scalpers for the flea market since.  And I'm so not exaggerating like I wish I was.

You guys might have generic, empty, half-ass packaging but at least y'all have access to them.  I'm half tempted to pay the $12 for each one of them from the "dirt mall" market just to finally have them.   >:(



And if you free them from the bubbles, its irrelevant anyway, they still army build spectacularly. 
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Re: Wave 5 Found @ Canadian Wal~Marts
« Reply #20 on: January 09, 2008, 04:25:31 PM »

I think I'm gonna cry  :'( ... I didn't think anything could be worse than folded paper filecards...Hasbro Canada, what have we done to deserve this?!?  :o

Ah well, better than nothing I suppose.... :lol:
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Re: Wave 5 Found @ Canadian Wal~Marts
« Reply #21 on: January 09, 2008, 07:35:19 PM »

Figures. As soon as I leave the country.

If anyone can hook me up with a set, I'd appreciate it.
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Re: Wave 5 Found @ Canadian Wal~Marts
« Reply #22 on: January 09, 2008, 10:22:12 PM »

Man, I am so jealous, none of the Wal-Mart's I go to have them, the reg or the super.  just as a note, the super walmarts have full service grocery stores. 
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Re: Wave 5 Found @ Canadian Wal~Marts
« Reply #23 on: January 10, 2008, 03:08:08 AM »

Man, that packaging is a joke.  I guess I will still continue to gets the waves from the USA and only loking for extra army builders up here. 

So far, I found nothing in the Toronto and Durham area Wal-marts.  Most of the toy areas haven't recovered from Xmas.
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