zen411
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Post by zen411 on May 17, 2024 19:11:16 GMT -5
I've been a fan of Hogan since childhood and he won the first wwf title when I was a toddler. I've been a faithful hulkamaniac for 40 years. And I have zero interest in anything older than the wwf title win. I can't fathom how mattel thought this would be something anyone would be clamoring for.
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Post by Fighter Hayabusa on May 17, 2024 19:51:58 GMT -5
I've been a fan of Hogan since childhood and he won the first wwf title when I was a toddler. I've been a faithful hulkamaniac for 40 years. And I have zero interest in anything older than the wwf title win. I can't fathom how mattel thought this would be something anyone would be clamoring for. Its not a bad idea but not immediately after releasing Hogan along with a chase in back to back series. And don’t double pack such an obscure look, especially when you have a 3 in 1 plus Andre in the same series and when the MOTU Andre was so hard to get.
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Post by TheEvilDoink1987 on May 17, 2024 21:26:15 GMT -5
Scooped up a Doink on Mercari.
Done trying to hunt these things down at Walmart. Most of the stores around me don't even stock this series. I'll gladly eat the $12 disparity and chalk it up as a worthy convenience fee.
Incredible figure!!! Can't wait for Tatanka.
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Post by thep1 on May 17, 2024 21:59:05 GMT -5
Scooped up a Doink on Mercari. Done trying to hunt these things down at Walmart. Most of the stores around me don't even stock this series. I'll gladly eat the $12 disparity and chalk it up as a worthy convenience fee. Incredible figure!!! Can't wait for Tatanka. For obvious reasons, you should have received a discount.
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Post by nomorexclusives on May 18, 2024 7:05:08 GMT -5
3rd wave of hogans/flairs hitting select ollies. Maybe 100k+ hogans/flairs now as ollies is still receiving these.
Not sure who made the decision to make so many but even if walmart agreed to buy that amount to get the license, mattel should have never overproduced the first series like that. If anything you would have wanted that to be the most sought after for years to come like any 1st series collection. Now everyone wants the 10th series figures out of fear that the line will be discontinued soon.
The other obvious reason is that as we see walmart is reluctantly putting these out in fear of pegwarmers. But what i still don't understand is. Why is nothing from series 4-10 available online. They are completely alienating buyers who either don't have a walmart near them, don't have transportation, don't have time (work), or 4 simply no longer want to enter a retail store (multiple reaons, the biggest being that there is only one peg left full of hogans).
Lastly not like walmart has a choice in selling these to ollies but when macho man and the rock show up alongside some others like uw,undertaker,mdm,wyatt,htm,red pants hogan, and when a wall of these forms like the marvel wall, at that point the series is dead in many consumers eyes.
Therefore, I sincerely hope that the majority of those figures sell for cheap on walmarts online shop instead of ollies as the image of hundreds of them sitting in the graveyard of action figures (ollies) won't look good in the history books of this line. Those kinds of clearance prices as seen in the past at kaybees were usually relegated to discontinued lines, not popular longstanding lines.
The only way out of this mess is to get this line out of walmart and on creations and make them limited to 5k figures each to get the line moving again. Edit: or better yet have them up for preorder for 3 weeks to gauge interest the way all these other companies do with a follow up for those dho miss the preorders (if demand is there). Tgis way mattel gets 100% of the profit and guarantees they sell out)
Some people have suggested they be renamed so mattel can get out of the contract for these "superstars" with walmart. They could probably use for a different art design too in the process. Keep the same sized card however. Either way this isn't working as things stand and for whatever reason mums the word when it comes to these in the q&a section and at the last wrestlemania. So we are either going to get bad news at sdcc or mattel is trying to change somethings up that may not be visible to us until next year since it takes a year to make those changes a reality.
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Post by Zincdust on May 19, 2024 12:13:12 GMT -5
Saw two pegs' worth of the red Hogan at my usual WM this morning. Glad that I looked through 'em, because there was a Doink in the very back of the bottom peg!
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Post by BoJack Hogan on May 22, 2024 10:08:27 GMT -5
Is Doink supposed to be hard to find? I’ve seen several this week alone. It was Andre that I’ve barely seen. I do see a lot of the red Boulder, and I’ll buy it if I never see the blue one, but I’m hoping that they’re at Ollie’s when I go back east in December. It’ll be a hard sell for 20.
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Post by Fighter Hayabusa on May 22, 2024 10:13:42 GMT -5
Is Doink supposed to be hard to find? I’ve seen several this week alone. It was Andre that I’ve barely seen. I do see a lot of the red Boulder, and I’ll buy it if I never see the blue one, but I’m hoping that they’re at Ollie’s when I go back east in December. It’ll be a hard sell for 20. At first Doink was and I’m sure in some areas he still is but with the restocks it appears only Andre is the only one that is still scarce across the board.
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zen411
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Post by zen411 on May 22, 2024 16:29:46 GMT -5
Has anyone found Bossman Tatanka Angle in the wild?
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Post by cableV on May 22, 2024 17:20:38 GMT -5
Has anyone found Bossman Tatanka Angle in the wild? Haven't seen Kane, Ali or Bulldog yet.
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Post by wrestlingcollector80 on May 22, 2024 18:06:13 GMT -5
Has anyone found Bossman Tatanka Angle in the wild? I don’t think they have been released yet WM wise.
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Post by wrestlingcollector80 on May 22, 2024 18:07:28 GMT -5
Has anyone found Bossman Tatanka Angle in the wild? Haven't seen Kane, Ali or Bulldog yet. I’ve been saying the same thing I don’t know anybody who has found them yet at any WM across the US. Iof this remains I would t be surprised if they showed up at an Ollie’s eventually..
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Post by thep1 on May 22, 2024 20:50:58 GMT -5
Has anyone found Bossman Tatanka Angle in the wild? No, but I've seen Dibiase, Shango, and Piper in the wild. Everywhere, all the time.
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Post by Fighter Hayabusa on May 22, 2024 21:05:03 GMT -5
When is the last time Paul has had new stock? Feels like it’s been months. Dont think he ever got the Kane, Bulldog, Ali wave
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Post by wrestlingcollector80 on May 23, 2024 10:58:14 GMT -5
where is everyone at, like who needs what superstars wise? I am up to date, I have everything. between all three my local walmarts they have VADER, CAPT LOU, PIPER, THE ROCK, DIBIASE. I wished walmart would not have renewed the line because their distribution is horrible. NONE of my walmarts even carry elites anymore. 1 of them had the monday night wars but they sold quick. and all 3 had the ultimate hogan and charlotte flair, and the miavia triple set for $70.
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Post by Fighter Hayabusa on May 23, 2024 11:08:42 GMT -5
where is everyone at, like who needs what superstars wise? I am up to date, I have everything. between all three my local walmarts they have VADER, CAPT LOU, PIPER, THE ROCK, DIBIASE. I wished walmart would not have renewed the line because their distribution is horrible. NONE of my walmarts even carry elites anymore. 1 of them had the monday night wars but they sold quick. and all 3 had the ultimate hogan and charlotte flair, and the miavia triple set for $70. I have everyone I need through the Andre wave. Haven’t really been hunting much for the Ali wave. Searching for Andre burnt me out.
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Post by jlaf77 on May 23, 2024 12:08:26 GMT -5
When is the last time Paul has had new stock? Feels like it’s been months. Dont think he ever got the Kane, Bulldog, Ali wave I got bulldog from him but it was back in march or maybe early april. Hoping he gets bossman and tatanka but seeing it's been so long since he's had anything new I'm not counting on it. Haven't seen him get Monday night wars series 2 yet either
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Post by jlaf77 on May 23, 2024 12:14:10 GMT -5
When is the last time Paul has had new stock? Feels like it’s been months. Dont think he ever got the Kane, Bulldog, Ali wave I got bulldog from him but it was back in march or maybe early april. Hoping he gets bossman and tatanka but seeing it's been so long since he's had anything new I'm not counting on it. Haven't seen him get Monday night wars series 2 yet either May have even been February when i got bulldog from him. He had kane and ali too but i have zero interest in either of those
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Post by localtalent on May 23, 2024 13:28:24 GMT -5
where is everyone at, like who needs what superstars wise? I am up to date, I have everything. between all three my local walmarts they have VADER, CAPT LOU, PIPER, THE ROCK, DIBIASE. I wished walmart would not have renewed the line because their distribution is horrible. NONE of my walmarts even carry elites anymore. 1 of them had the monday night wars but they sold quick. and all 3 had the ultimate hogan and charlotte flair, and the miavia triple set for $70.
I finally gave in and hit up eBay for the figures I was missing. Now I'm just looking for figures from Series 9+.
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Post by wrestlingcollector80 on May 23, 2024 15:14:33 GMT -5
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