JoeCanuck

So Pulse on their social media has apparently announced that the Thunder Machine MTO will go live tomorrow (Sept. 9th).

I know The Full Force heavily hinted at that during a recent stream so I am going to accept it as fact for now.

Less than 24 hours to find out for sure.

Haha.

Awesome Pete.   Maybe they'll give up soon.

Guess what, more crap accounts wanting to join from Russian troll factory.  Go suck Putin's little dick, you useless bitches.

Too funny!

Zellers is making a come back

As for Zap, from a Canadian independant store:

https://mapleandmangoes.ca/collections/g-i-joe/products/g-i-joe-classified-series-retro-cardback-rafael-zap-melendez

Just for fun, I did activate the registration a couple of days ago.  This time I put Adminstration Approval needed.  Guess what, more crap accounts wanting to join from Russian troll factory.  Go suck Putin's little dick, you useless bitches.   

So much for EB Games having the website ready to go yesterday.  It's under maintenance.  Same for Toys R Us. 

I wanted to check out EB online to see what stores have a retro Zap in stock.  I should have bought it when I had the chance. 

Forgot to mention I have seen reports of minor QC issues with the HAL.   

Mostly around Grand Slam, but also with the support struts.   

For Grand Slam it seems to be more about carelessness of the factory packing the figure.   I have seen him packed upside down in the box  and someone reported his Grand Slam was missing his helmet.   So it probably isn't a quality of the figure thing, just carelessness with packing the figure.

As for the struts, people have been complaining they don't support the HAL well unless in certain positions.   It looks like it is a design issue to allow the struts to move into different positions for firing and transport.   To make them move the way they needed to the connection point seems to be smoother so allow that smooth movement, but at the expense of a ratchet joint style strength in firing position.

Well their site is back up (EBGames).

It was still not working yesterday but just checked now and it is working.

However it is slow and after the front page any other page was slow to load.   To the point where I just left the site because it was slow.   At first glance it doesn't look like much has changed outside of some cosmetic looks on the site.   Guess I'll have to wait a few days to see if it gets better.

The one next my hometown, Whitby, closed on August 19.  Spirit Halloeen moved in.  Sigh.  At least my kids got to experience TRU a few times before it went tits up.  I still remember going there as a kid in 1986.  I got the HAVAC and my brother got the Thunder Machine that year.   

Thinking back, that TRU store was the last one tied to my childhood. The others that I can recall are Consumers Distributing, Zellers, K-Mart, Woolco, Sears, Eatons, The Bay, and Bi-Way.  All gone.