JoeCanuck
Canadian Sightings & Provincial News => Ontario => Topic started by: Propergrounds on August 17, 2011, 06:00:41 PM
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Just got back from the comic book shoppe on Merivale rd. ( Ottawa )
had 2 skystrikers at $55 each.
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awwww...you had me going that they were actually available in stores now. Then it would only be a matter of time before they showed up in my area.
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for real. they were at the comic book shoppe...no lie!
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for real. they were at the comic book shoppe...no lie!
No, I think B meant more that because you saw them at a specialty store, that it doesn't necessarily mean that they have arrived in major retail stores.
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for real. they were at the comic book shoppe...no lie!
No, I think B meant more that because you saw them at a specialty store, that it doesn't necessarily mean that they have arrived in major retail stores.
that is correct.
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These are starting to hit Zellers.
Saw some in Burlington today.
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Found Sky Fighters at the Bowmanville Zellers (Just east of Oshawa) during the midnight crapness sale. grabbed one to put away for my son at christmas.
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7158/6403027139_52af9ac9fe_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/garling23/6403027139/)
Nov 25th 2011 Sky Fighter Back (http://www.flickr.com/photos/garling23/6403027139/) by garling23 (http://www.flickr.com/people/garling23/), on Flickr
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7141/6403028805_9ed9dd5bae_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/garling23/6403028805/)
Nov 25th 2011 Sky Fighter Front (http://www.flickr.com/photos/garling23/6403028805/) by garling23 (http://www.flickr.com/people/garling23/), on Flickr
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You're lucky! My local Zellers (Sheridan Centre/Mississauga) waited until after Black Friday to put them out!
(http://www.klrtech.com/skystriker_cdn0.JPG)
(http://www.klrtech.com/skystriker_cdn1.JPG)
At least they had plenty, I don't feel so guilty buying two ;D
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$45 .....not bad. Hope I can find these in my area as I want another. See if the wife will let me.
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Picked up the skystriker at the Niagara Falls Zellers (used the $10 facebook coupon) so total with tax was $40.84!!!!!
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Ha. My receipt also stated Sky Striker in it.
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Here's the way to do it (THIS WEEK ONLY)
It's buy 1 get one 50% off all action figures. So get the SkyFighter, and then pick something else you want up (at an equal or lesser value) and that item will be 50% off at checkout.
Then use this:
http://zellersfacebook.ca/admin/app/webroot/files/pdf/4eced7c21fcb4/week44_red_PDFCoupon.pdf
And get a $10 discount on your purchase.
Good deal to get an item at 50% off and then get an extra $10 off to boot.
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Here's the way to do it (THIS WEEK ONLY)
It's buy 1 get one 50% off all action figures. So get the SkyFighter, and then pick something else you want up (at an equal or lesser value) and that item will be 50% off at checkout.
Then use this:
http://zellersfacebook.ca/admin/app/webroot/files/pdf/4eced7c21fcb4/week44_red_PDFCoupon.pdf
And get a $10 discount on your purchase.
Good deal to get an item at 50% off and then get an extra $10 off to boot.
I was just going to say that!
None at Zellers Masonville in London.
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I'm happy with the deal I got from Hal. I ordered 2 Sky Strikers for $70, added them with an order of mid sized vehicles and got free shipping. Cost me $35 each, taxes and shipping included and I was able to support a friends personal small business. ;)
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Winners at Pharmacy and Eglinton had 4 on the shelf. $29.99 each, but I forgot to check which version it was (Skystriker or Skyfighter)
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Winners at Pharmacy and Eglinton had 4 on the shelf. $29.99 each, but I forgot to check which version it was (Skystriker or Skyfighter)
I knew it was only a matter of time. Thanks for the update. Timbit given. ;)
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Cool, thats good news. Im going to have to try and find one. Thanks for the headsup :)
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I also saw the Sky Strikers at Winners for $29.99.
I predict the VAMP 2 and that black jet thing (forget it's name right now) will show up soon. Maybe the Crimson Hiss as well.
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Damn, Winners has them too... I guess that will seal the fate of large vehicles for GI Joe. Funny how Star Wars gets everything and people are still buying whatever Hasbro slaps a Star Wars sticker on.
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Joe is not very popular with kids you know.. no cartoon on TV doesn't help.. Retaliation has to be good, very good! Watching the cartoon in the 80's was the main reason why I was interested in the figures.
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Damn, Winners has them too... I guess that will seal the fate of large vehicles for GI Joe. Funny how Star Wars gets everything and people are still buying whatever Hasbro slaps a Star Wars sticker on.
Star Wars just reaches across a larger demographic than GIJOE does, despite having many of the same literal themes. The cultural climate of the 80's is gone now, has evolved into very different sensibilities.
Joe is not very popular with kids you know.. no cartoon on TV doesn't help.. Retaliation has to be good, very good! Watching the cartoon in the 80's was the main reason why I was interested in the figures.
In my opinion, retaliation won't make any difference. In addition to public apathy about GIJOE, retailers are also skittish about the property. NOTHING in the past 20 years has altered that for the better, and given the box office for the first movie, there SHOULD have been some kind of sea-change in terms of sales on the product. Well, there clearly wasn't. Its not the 1980's anymore.....and there's nothing around to turn the tide in favour of GIJOE. Its a niche brand now, with a niche demographic.
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Damn, Winners has them too... I guess that will seal the fate of large vehicles for GI Joe. Funny how Star Wars gets everything and people are still buying whatever Hasbro slaps a Star Wars sticker on.
Star Wars just reaches across a larger demographic than GIJOE does, despite having many of the same literal themes. The cultural climate of the 80's is gone now, has evolved into very different sensibilities.
Joe is not very popular with kids you know.. no cartoon on TV doesn't help.. Retaliation has to be good, very good! Watching the cartoon in the 80's was the main reason why I was interested in the figures.
In my opinion, retaliation won't make any difference. In addition to public apathy about GIJOE, retailers are also skittish about the property. NOTHING in the past 20 years has altered that for the better, and given the box office for the first movie, there SHOULD have been some kind of sea-change in terms of sales on the product. Well, there clearly wasn't. Its not the 1980's anymore.....and there's nothing around to turn the tide in favour of GIJOE. Its a niche brand now, with a niche demographic.
Yep, sadly I have to agree with your statements arrow.
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Damn, Winners has them too... I guess that will seal the fate of large vehicles for GI Joe. Funny how Star Wars gets everything and people are still buying whatever Hasbro slaps a Star Wars sticker on.
Star Wars just reaches across a larger demographic than GIJOE does, despite having many of the same literal themes. The cultural climate of the 80's is gone now, has evolved into very different sensibilities.
Joe is not very popular with kids you know.. no cartoon on TV doesn't help.. Retaliation has to be good, very good! Watching the cartoon in the 80's was the main reason why I was interested in the figures.
In my opinion, retaliation won't make any difference. In addition to public apathy about GIJOE, retailers are also skittish about the property. NOTHING in the past 20 years has altered that for the better, and given the box office for the first movie, there SHOULD have been some kind of sea-change in terms of sales on the product. Well, there clearly wasn't. Its not the 1980's anymore.....and there's nothing around to turn the tide in favour of GIJOE. Its a niche brand now, with a niche demographic.
Yep, sadly I have to agree with your statements arrow.
There is one thing I think that would help, a cartoon done like it was in the 80's. Exact same style, same corny jokes, some voice actors (for those that are alive and willing to work). Give it a 8:30 am time slot on a network everyone has on Saturday morning and maybe then it would make a come back. The recent cartoons have tried to make G.I.Joe too serious and feel more like we, the adult collectors were the target audience.
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There is one thing I think that would help, a cartoon done like it was in the 80's. Exact same style, same corny jokes, some voice actors (for those that are alive and willing to work). Give it a 8:30 am time slot on a network everyone has on Saturday morning and maybe then it would make a come back. The recent cartoons have tried to make G.I.Joe too serious and feel more like we, the adult collectors were the target audience.
Sounds good on principle, but there is a problem:
There's already just such a cartoon--the original Sunbow stuff.
Its re-run in many time-slots over many different channels......and I understand its not all that well-rated.
The kid audience today can view it anytime they want, but that is the problem- they aren't watching it in the numbers the producers want.
New episodes cost 10+ times the cost of just re-running old episodes......there's no financial reason to do new material of the same stroke if it will not gain an audience any better than the old stuff it would parrot.
That is why they make new cartoons with very different themes--they want them to be their own animals, and to be very different from the originals.
The interest in re-hashing the original material just isn't there. Hasbro has taken similar stabs at this, with the same idea before. Valour vs Venom was very lighthearted in approach, and much of the repartee between characters in Sigma Six and Renegades was also similar.
The unfortunate thing about the Sunbow material is that its very dated now. It really does come across as trite, even hokey. The cartoon that everyone seemed to applaud was Resolute, but Hasbro balked at the mature theme it had because that is not what they see GIJOE as being aimed at. THAT is the crux of the property: its got a multiple identity disorder. There's the interpretation from the toys, then the cartoons, then the comics, then the movie(s)--and they are all somewhat different.
Because the audience is so fickle and the interest SO niche-level, they continue to play ALL of those interpretations to make sales........and hope they don't work to cross-purposes against each other. GIJOE sells enough/ has JUST enough interest to keep it going......but not enough interest to make it as profitable as Hasbro would like for one of its house brands. That's the eternal frustration in this. Hasbro expects more from it, the fans expect more from it, but the demographic base that MAKES it more isn't there, and frankly isn't all that interested in it.
The old argument remains; a light-saber is just waaaay more engaging than a SCAR rifle, and always will be.
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Back on topic, I found my Skystriker in the Ajax Winners! Lets hope we get the next wave of that black dragon and crimson hiss!
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I grabbed one at Winners this weekend too. Can't beat a $30 Sky Striker... except for the one my friend found at Square One for me for $20 ;)
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Found 3 Skystrikers at the Ajax Winners for $23 each! I haven't checked the Pickering location but its a good bet theyre are some left. Great to get these at such a low price.
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Found 3 Skystrikers at the Ajax Winners for $23 each! I haven't checked the Pickering location but its a good bet theyre are some left. Great to get these at such a low price.
Locally I've seen them marked down to $16.00 (K-W). I bought the last 3 when I saw that.
On a side note, I was born in Ajax. ;)
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Holy crap, $16! I hate Kitchener/Waterloo. :)
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Holy crap, $16! I hate Kitchener/Waterloo. :)
Might happen to all left over stock at all Winners. Cross your fingers.
Now when are they going to get some of those crimson Hiss tanks and Vamps at Winners? They are all from the same wave and Canada did NOT see a large run on those vehicles. You know they have to be sitting in a warehouse somewhere in Canada just waiting for a buyer.
It would be fun to paint a Crimson Hiss tank into a Canadian vehicle.
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Well they did have some of the POC Vamps, the RAGE and the SnowCat last summer and the Hiss Tanks (in that ugly brown). But Id like to see either the black or the red hiss tanks for sure.
How about that renegades black dragon, that would be awesome but probably a long shot at this point.