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Title: TRU Sale on GI Joe this week
Post by: bandonov on September 15, 2011, 10:08:46 AM
TRU has GI joe, Star Wars and Marvel figs at buy 1 and get the second fig for $1 Sale! 

With TRUs getting all those Wave 5 figs it will be fantastic to Army Build now!  It comes out to $5.50 a fig!
Title: Re: TRU Sale on GI Joe this week
Post by: bandonov on September 15, 2011, 11:20:22 AM
What is funny about this sale tomorrow is that the Star Wars and Marvel figs are the Front Page ad and they mention GI Joe near the end and is very small too. 
Title: Re: TRU Sale on GI Joe this week
Post by: latinjoe22 on September 15, 2011, 07:04:26 PM
What is funny about this sale tomorrow is that the Star Wars and Marvel figs are the Front Page ad and they mention GI Joe near the end and is very small too.

it's because they think Joe collectors like to read their flyers starting from the end....just like a book that's written in japanese  :D
Title: Re: TRU Sale on GI Joe this week
Post by: garling23 on September 16, 2011, 12:16:58 PM
Here is what i found, GI Joe Heaven at the Whitby TRU, plus they had pegs loaded as well! 

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6205/6152798459_0ec5c489af_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/garling23/6152798459/)
IMG00133-20110916-1112 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/garling23/6152798459/) by garling23 (http://www.flickr.com/people/garling23/), on Flickr

...now we have all of these figures via JHL Collectables, and have had them for months!  but at this price I had to buy a few more, good for gifts and army building.  these are the assortments below:

Wave 1 Storm Shadow
Jungle Bats
Steel Brigade
Blow Torch
Cobra trooper
Cobra Commander
General Hawk
wave 4 snake eyes
wave 4 duke
beachhead
sky dive
alley viper
jungle viper
and i did see 2 lowlights,  i pick one up and left one on the pegs.

was hoping to find a wave 1 duke but did not see it.  ...i know these were a dime a dozen and i never did pick it up for my son.
Title: Re: TRU Sale on GI Joe this week
Post by: garling23 on September 16, 2011, 07:31:50 PM
oh and i forgot shock troopers where in the mix too!
Title: Re: TRU Sale on GI Joe this week
Post by: Pete The Greek on September 18, 2011, 05:36:56 PM
With TRUs getting all those Wave 5 figs it will be fantastic to Army Build now!  It comes out to $5.50 a fig

Curse you.  ;)  I went loco and bought some of the Cobra Troopers. 
Title: Re: TRU Sale on GI Joe this week
Post by: bandonov on September 18, 2011, 09:18:56 PM
With TRUs getting all those Wave 5 figs it will be fantastic to Army Build now!  It comes out to $5.50 a fig

Curse you.  ;)  I went loco and bought some of the Cobra Troopers.

You are Welcome!  :P
Title: Re: TRU Sale on GI Joe this week
Post by: Realboss on September 19, 2011, 03:53:04 PM
Goldenagetoys.com has their GIJoe figures and some Star Wars figures on sale for half price right now too.  (4.98 a figure)
Title: Re: TRU Sale on GI Joe this week
Post by: Oreobuilder on September 20, 2011, 07:54:29 PM
Great sale. Most TRUs I've seen have had quite a bit of stock. I went a little crazy :-) I guess I've been missing the days of RoC when joes were plentiful.

My tally so far:

Jungle BATs: 2 - I left at least 15+ on pegs
Blowtorch: 1 - Pegwarming something fierce
Hawk: 2 - Moving decently, but not hard to find. I might pick up a couple more to use as generic troopers
Steel Brigade: 7 - My favorite figure of this wave. I've left quite a few on the pegs.
Cobra Trooper: 14 - My second favorite of this wave.
Cobra Commander: 0 - Second biggest pegwarmer after BT.

I've also seen a few wave 4 Dukes, but no other figures.

Also picked up a Captain America (Supercombat) and a Red Skull. The same special applies on all Marvel figs.

OB
Title: Re: TRU Sale on GI Joe this week
Post by: morgardee on September 21, 2011, 08:26:51 AM
I haven't seen any vipers in my area. Someone in K-Dub is building a huge Viper army.
Title: Re: TRU Sale on GI Joe this week
Post by: Pete The Greek on September 21, 2011, 08:56:09 AM
I haven't seen any vipers in my area. Someone in K-Dub is building a huge Viper army.

You mean the regular "Viper" grunts?  If so, they were not part of the waves that TRU is selling. 
Title: Re: TRU Sale on GI Joe this week
Post by: morgardee on September 21, 2011, 08:24:02 PM
I haven't seen any vipers in my area. Someone in K-Dub is building a huge Viper army.

You mean the regular "Viper" grunts?  If so, they were not part of the waves that TRU is selling.

Huh. But I thought I saw Vipers in my TRU a while back. Maybe I was wrong. Not the first time, won't be the last.  ;)
Title: Re: TRU Sale on GI Joe this week
Post by: Pete The Greek on September 21, 2011, 08:50:19 PM
I haven't seen any vipers in my area. Someone in K-Dub is building a huge Viper army.

You mean the regular "Viper" grunts?  If so, they were not part of the waves that TRU is selling.

Huh. But I thought I saw Vipers in my TRU a while back. Maybe I was wrong. Not the first time, won't be the last.  ;)

Those were the 25th ones.  The POC versions, which are miles better, have not been released in Canada at retail so far.   
Title: Re: TRU Sale on GI Joe this week
Post by: Gerjurdking on September 22, 2011, 05:51:17 PM
Great sale. Most TRUs I've seen have had quite a bit of stock. I went a little crazy :-) I guess I've been missing the days of RoC when joes were plentiful.

My tally so far:

Jungle BATs: 2 - I left at least 15+ on pegs
Blowtorch: 1 - Pegwarming something fierce
Hawk: 2 - Moving decently, but not hard to find. I might pick up a couple more to use as generic troopers
Steel Brigade: 7 - My favorite figure of this wave. I've left quite a few on the pegs.
Cobra Trooper: 14 - My second favorite of this wave.
Cobra Commander: 0 - Second biggest pegwarmer after BT.

I've also seen a few wave 4 Dukes, but no other figures.

Also picked up a Captain America (Supercombat) and a Red Skull. The same special applies on all Marvel figs.

OB

Went to three stores. Couldn't find one.
Title: Re: TRU Sale on GI Joe this week
Post by: bandonov on September 22, 2011, 07:06:57 PM
Since Pete did not go to Markville so it was open season for me, LOL!

But I was good for my first purchase:

3 Blue Shirts
3 BATs

I would have bought all 20 BATs but I did not want to look gready. 
Title: Re: TRU Sale on GI Joe this week
Post by: Pete The Greek on September 22, 2011, 08:35:05 PM
Since Pete did not go to Markville so it was open season for me, LOL!

But I was good for my first purchase:

3 Blue Shirts
3 BATs

I would have bought all 20 BATs but I did not want to look gready.

Then I must of had pre-season as I left those three blue shirts there on Saturday.  I had already bought 10 of them that day.  I am stunned the three figures I left behind lasted that long.

As for the Bats.  Those are pure meh to me.
Title: Re: TRU Sale on GI Joe this week
Post by: bandonov on September 22, 2011, 09:28:47 PM
Then I must of had pre-season as I left those three blue shirts there on Saturday.  I had already bought 10 of them that day.  I am stunned the three figures I left behind lasted that long.

As for the Bats.  Those are pure meh to me.

That is great, the BATs are mine, the rest we will share LOL!

Sorry Neo, you need to get to Markville before us!
Title: Re: TRU Sale on GI Joe this week
Post by: NeoDragonKnight on September 23, 2011, 08:59:34 AM
I was there last Friday or Saturday, I got all I wanted, 5 Blue Shirts and one AV :P  Im good :)
Title: Re: TRU Sale on GI Joe this week
Post by: morgardee on September 23, 2011, 09:27:38 AM
I got what I wanted. 3 Steel Brigade and 1 blue shirt.

I want to do some head swapping with some of the Slayer Design Studio heads on the Steel Brigade figure and make them not so generic looking. Maybe do some paint wipes and even paint one of the helmets gold and do a rit dye job.

No rush on any of that stuff, just something to goof off with over the coming winter while sitting infront of the fire place.  :)
Title: Re: TRU Sale on GI Joe this week
Post by: crazylegs on September 23, 2011, 10:24:04 AM
nothing here in central newfoundland like that....that cobra commander figure looks awesome! Super happy for you guys and this sweet resource! :D
Title: Re: TRU Sale on GI Joe this week
Post by: garling23 on September 25, 2011, 02:49:32 AM
still tons left in whitby ontario.  was there today and lost count of blue shirts, steel brigades and bats, etc.  there is 2 shock troopers left and one snake eyes from wave 4.  ...still have the big bin in the centre isle, and its almost still full.  must not be 2 many collectors around these parts who want these right now!  so far my son's army's have gained some recruits.  he now has 3 steels, 3 blue shirts, and three jungle bats.  i dont usually let him get more than one figure, but at that price can't go wrong!
Title: Re: TRU Sale on GI Joe this week
Post by: morgardee on September 25, 2011, 07:52:12 PM
The sale is still on? On that that was one week. I guess it makes sense since they probably don't want to remove all that product from the bins and there isn't shelf space for them right now.
Title: Re: TRU Sale on GI Joe this week
Post by: bandonov on September 25, 2011, 09:02:14 PM
The sale was on for 2 weeks, it ends this Thursday!   Get them while you can!
Title: Re: TRU Sale on GI Joe this week
Post by: NeoDragonKnight on September 25, 2011, 09:22:21 PM
I want to but my wallet says no more!
Title: Re: TRU Sale on GI Joe this week
Post by: TheCheznit8 on September 25, 2011, 10:02:53 PM
Hey guys, still a ton of figs at the Pickering/Ajax Toys R Us, I grabbed at least one of each figure there and some doubles.  Plenty of army builders, but They're running low on rarer ones like LowLight (I got lucky and got two).
Title: Re: TRU Sale on GI Joe this week
Post by: bandonov on September 26, 2011, 12:20:26 PM
Someone bought most of the BATs from Markville TRU.  Thank You!  I would have bought them all if you did not help me, LOL!  I did buy the remaining 5 and to be nice I bought all the Storm Shadows from wave 1. 

They still have a ton of Blowtorch, CC, Hawk and Steel Brigades.  There is a few Beachheads, Duke wave 3 and a couple Skydives!