Walmart WWE Superstars line

[kojikanemoto]

I found 4 Bigelows in the sea of Flairs at Ollie’s today too. He was the one character I haven’t found at Walmart and resorted to eBay for, thankfully I didn’t spend too much on that one. Bam Bam was priced at $9.99 rather than $3.99 for Flair

[nomorexclusives]

Oct 12, 2024 17:55:10 GMT -5 kojikanemoto said:

I found 4 Bigelows in the sea of Flairs at Ollie’s today too. He was the one character I haven’t found at Walmart and resorted to eBay for, thankfully I didn’t spend too much on that one. Bam Bam was priced at $9.99 rather than $3.99 for Flair

I cannot be the only one pissed off at this. Waited before buying one for 40-50 bucks only to see him hanging at every ollies now for a fraction of the price. Disgusted with it. Also due to the fact that these are single cases of bambam as we saw single cases of mr.perfect being sold from sultan.

For me It was all the driving around not knowing that mattel sold them to ollies. No damm transparency
We are all chasing bananas. How hard is it to say; ""Hey guys just letting you know that Bambam will be available later at discount stores and mrperfect from sultan on ebay, so dont bother driving around and wait it out until at least series 7 comes out"". But no nothing. Mattel does not care about us. This is clear to me now. I remember clearly when hasbro employers let people know through interviews in toyfare magazine and action figure digest when the orange carded holo series with pote sniktin was moved as an exclusive through the star wars club (their early version of pulse in partnership with Lucasfilm Ltd.) They were constantly keeping people in the loop.

But as I have said, once hard to find figures become available at discount prices,the secondary market will drop off. Many People will stop buying them from sultan and in return he will order less from Mattel. But it is all a pipe dream until we see previous series show up. S1 & 2 have all been available for cheap. Now bambam. Just a,matter of time before s3-7 get discounted. If andre ever shows up for 10 bucks than sultN may opt to go all in with mnw and give up on superstars. He may get stuck with 10$ mr.perfects soon. I hope this wakes people up. Do not buy from sultan. Let the house of cards fall on him. He wanted to be the exclusive dealer with mr.perfect so let him eat them and all the razor ramons he has.

[thebigzakbowski]

I get the feeling I over paid for Mr perfect and bam bam a few months ago....
Nothing new at my Walmart tonight. Anyone still seeing piper at retail?

[wrestlingcollector80]

Oct 12, 2024 22:29:01 GMT -5 thebigzakbowski said:

I get the feeling I over paid for Mr perfect and bam bam a few months ago....
Nothing new at my Walmart tonight. Anyone still seeing piper at retail?

Yes Harrisburg has like 6-8 of Piper still on the shelf.

[thebigzakbowski]

Oct 12, 2024 22:53:59 GMT -5 wrestlingcollector80 said:

Oct 12, 2024 22:29:01 GMT -5 thebigzakbowski said:

I get the feeling I over paid for Mr perfect and bam bam a few months ago....
Nothing new at my Walmart tonight. Anyone still seeing piper at retail?

Yes Harrisburg has like 6-8 of Piper still on the shelf.

A buddy of mine might need piper and rock I'll double check with him and let you know if you're willing to help me again

[Flair Forever]

Oct 12, 2024 19:23:31 GMT -5 nomorexclusives said:

Oct 12, 2024 17:55:10 GMT -5 kojikanemoto said:

I found 4 Bigelows in the sea of Flairs at Ollie’s today too. He was the one character I haven’t found at Walmart and resorted to eBay for, thankfully I didn’t spend too much on that one. Bam Bam was priced at $9.99 rather than $3.99 for Flair

I cannot be the only one pissed off at this. Waited before buying one for 40-50 bucks only to see him hanging at every ollies now for a fraction of the price. Disgusted with it. Also due to the fact that these are single cases of bambam as we saw single cases of mr.perfect being sold from sultan.

For me It was all the driving around not knowing that Walmart sold them to ollies. No damm transparency
We are all chasing bananas. How hard is it to say; ""Hey guys just letting you know that Bambam will be available later at discount stores and mrperfect from sultan on ebay, so dont bother driving around and wait it out until at least series 7 comes out"". But no nothing. Mattel does not care about us. This is clear to me now. I remember clearly when hasbro employers let people know through interviews in toyfare magazine and action figure digest when the orange carded holo series with pote sniktin was moved as an exclusive through the star wars club (their early version of pulse in partnership with Lucasfilm Ltd.) They were constantly keeping people in the loop.

But as I have said, once hard to find figures become available at discount prices,the secondary market will drop off. Many People will stop buying them from sultan and in return he will order less from Mattel. But it is all a pipe dream until we see previous series show up. S1 & 2 have all been available for cheap. Now bambam. Just a,matter of time before s3-7 get discounted. If andre ever shows up for 10 bucks than sultN may opt to go all in with mnw and give up on superstars. He may get stuck with 10$ mr.perfects soon. I hope this wakes people up. Do not buy from sultan. Let the house of cards fall on him. He wanted to be the exclusive dealer with mr.perfect so let him eat them and all the razor ramons he has.

Dude.... what you are describing..... is NOT how business works; A company is NEVER going to tell you "hey, don't bother buying these from us, we're going to be selling a bunch off to clearance stores. Save your money." This is not a real expectation.

For whatever reason - - - and YES I'm sure it is a stupid reason - - - Mattel made a certain number of these and Walmart wanted less. Walmart sold the ones they took to customers, and then either Walmart sold the rest off at a fraction of the price (in which case, Walmart LOST money on these) or Mattel was put into the position of having to unload them and did just that.

Enjoy the $10 discount figures but you can not expect to be notified that a business is going to clearance stuff. Even if their reasons don't make sense.

I'm a pretty sharp bargain shopper - but I do view anything I find at Ollie's, or any other Clearance Section or sale as a total BONUS. I never expect to find anything at Ollie's or on Clearance. Just enjoy the cheap figures.

[alphadeltaxray]

I have an extra Bam Bam moc if anyone wants to trade. Looking for Andre, Doink, or Boss Man moc, lmk.

[nomorexclusives]

Oct 13, 2024 10:37:28 GMT -5 Flair Forever said:

A company is NEVER going to tell you "hey, don't bother buying these from us, we're going to be selling a bunch off to clearance stores. Save your money." This is not a real expectation

I never expect to find anything at Ollie's or on Clearance. Just enjoy the cheap figures.

edit: i didnt say dont buy them from mattel. Mattel does not have them available anywhere on creations. I was speaking about a heads up that mattel themselves sold the bambams to ollies. Hasbro did in the late 90s. Just read the articles/interviews in toyfare/action figure digest/whites guide/wizard/previews/gijoe collectors club/star wars insider, etc. You are completely wrong on this. Also dont forget hasbro reps were frequently at toysrus and shared what they knew with customers.bmattel is not collector friendly dude. Come on you know this too. Sorry bro but i have been at this for a long time, i know my history as i lived it. Mattel notified collectors numerous times down the line. The orange carded greedo wave was only available on the east coast. Hasbro reps then shipped them to the west coast where they were sold for 2.99$ at toysrus. All through communication and listening to their base (collectors). They were not prioritizing entertainmentearth or toybiz. A good business who wants to keep their customers will keep them in the loop. Mattel fails at this. Just look at the q&a thread.

Bonus or not, noone expected this. So many people had to go to paul to finish out their missing pieces. We will see how you feel if one day mnw show up somewhere at discount after you paid 5x just at retail.

Just because a company doesn't do it now doesn't mean they didnt do it before. Its like tooltips in videogames. They didnt exist then but they do now. We can question if it is or isnt good business but it does not take a rocket scientist to find out people don't like to be treated as morons. The bambams come in a single case without other figures and direct from mattel. I mispoke when i said walmart sold them off. Obviously these are not the regular case assortments from s6. This is on mattel. Should we be happy? Noone likes throwing money away.

Went to 8 ollies in NJ toda. I can confirm all of them had them. One case of 4.

[wrestlingcollector80]

Hey you can’t be that upset about it, I pulled and hid bam bam bigelow for you and a Mr perfect at a Walmart for you back in February. You could have bought it for store price. You said you were coming to them up.

[Flair Forever]

Oct 13, 2024 19:34:02 GMT -5 nomorexclusives said:

Oct 13, 2024 10:37:28 GMT -5 Flair Forever said:

A company is NEVER going to tell you "hey, don't bother buying these from us, we're going to be selling a bunch off to clearance stores. Save your money." This is not a real expectation

I never expect to find anything at Ollie's or on Clearance. Just enjoy the cheap figures.

edit: i didnt say dont buy them from mattel. Mattel does not have them available anywhere on creations. I was speaking about a heads up that mattel themselves sold the bambams to ollies. Hasbro did in the late 90s. Just read the articles/interviews in toyfare/action figure digest/whites guide/wizard/previews/gijoe collectors club/star wars insider, etc. You are completely wrong on this. Also dont forget hasbro reps were frequently at toysrus and shared what they knew with customers.bmattel is not collector friendly dude. Come on you know this too. Sorry bro but i have been at this for a long time, i know my history as i lived it. Mattel notified collectors numerous times down the line. The orange carded greedo wave was only available on the east coast. Hasbro reps then shipped them to the west coast where they were sold for 2.99$ at toysrus. All through communication and listening to their base (collectors). They were not prioritizing entertainmentearth or toybiz. A good business who wants to keep their customers will keep them in the loop. Mattel fails at this. Just look at the q&a thread.

Bonus or not, noone expected this. So many people had to go to paul to finish out their missing pieces. We will see how you feel if one day mnw show up somewhere at discount after you paid 5x just at retail.

Just because a company doesn't do it now doesn't mean they didnt do it before. Its like tooltips in videogames. They didnt exist then but they do now. We can question if it is or isnt good business but it does not take a rocket scientist to find out people don't like to be treated as morons. The bambams come in a single case without other figures and direct from mattel. I mispoke when i said walmart sold them off. Obviously these are not the regular case assortments from s6. This is on mattel. Should we be happy? Noone likes throwing money away.

Went to 8 ollies in NJ toda. I can confirm all of them had them. One case of 4.

My friend you still aren't looking at this like an actual business;

Mattel isn't going to offer Walmart exclusive figures (Superstars) then message the collectors "hey if you can't get it at Walmart, don't worry, we're sending a bunch to Ollie's Bargain Outlet for half the price". Mattel has a partnership with the largest brick & mortar retailer in the world, Walmart. They just aren't going to undermine their agreement like that. Mattel is obligated to honor that partnership, even when Walmart probably doesn't play fair by reducing their order and leaving Mattel holding extra product.

I truly don't think Mattel OR Walmart WANT to sell off product to Wholesalers or Clearance Stores. But when there is product that they feel they can't or won't sell - it's a necessary practice. And we (the customers) DO benefit by getting the bargains. I refuse to look at that as a bad thing.

Walmart has well-documented distribution problems and they don't seem too worried about fixing it - - - so this is just the way it's going to be.

Look at it this way - - - If Ollies is selling them for $10, they probably paid $5 each (or less) for them from Mattel. I'm sure they buy pallets of them. SultanSwat or Paulmart are taking those same $5 figures and selling them for $30=$50. God Bless Ollie's for bringing us the bargains. Screw those resellers.

[nomorexclusives]

Mattel: Ok. Series 5 mnw is at walmart. Go go go. It is exclusive to their store

Mattel (9 months later) just kidding we sold them to ollies and sultan. Sorry if you overpaid on ebay because you couldnt find it at walmart (because you trusted us! Haha fooled!!). And sorry for the 9 months of gas you paid driving around. Oh wait ya we are not sorry. We dont care as you are not our customer; Sultan is. The Customer is not king, the sultan is!!!

Let me know when you understand. (If s6 was never supposed to hit walmart shelves we should be told where it is exclusive to, hint: s6 was exclusive to sultan)

I would never run a business like that and mislead customers. It is not honest and it lacks transparency.

In other news, started seeing some red pants hogans/etc figures leaving their warmed pegs at several stores. They were not put on clearance.

Straight to ollies >>>

[wrestlingcollector80]

Oct 14, 2024 21:46:53 GMT -5 nomorexclusives said:

Mattel: Ok. Series 5 mnw is at walmart. Go go go. It is exclusive to their store

Mattel (9 months later) just kidding we sold them to ollies and sultan. Sorry if you overpaid on ebay because you couldnt find it at walmart (because you trusted us! Haha fooled!!). And sorry for the 9 months of gas you paid driving around. Oh wait ya we are not sorry. We dont care as you are not our customer; Sultan is. The Customer is not king, the sultan is!!!

Let me know when you understand. (If s6 was never supposed to hit walmart shelves we should be told where it is exclusive to, hint: s6 was exclusive to sultan)

I would never run a business like that and mislead customers. It is not honest and it lacks transparency.

In other news, started seeing some red pants hogans/etc figures leaving their warmed pegs at several stores. They were not put on clearance.

Straight to ollies >>>

Now I’m confused, because I had perfect and bam bam hidden in a store for you to drive up and get which you did come drive up from your place in PA and get. Series 6 is perfect and bam bam bigelow, mr t and rick rude which I pulled and hid at Walmart. I hid them in the figure isle and you drove up and picked up which ever ones you wanted. 

[nomorexclusives]

Oct 15, 2024 4:20:53 GMT -5 wrestlingcollector80 said:

Now I’m confused, because I had perfect and bam bam hidden in a store for you to drive up and get which you did come drive up from your place in PA and get. Series 6 is perfect and bam bam bigelow which I pulled and hid at Walmart, you asked me to put in the Barbie isle which I refused. I hid them in figure isle and you drive up and picked up which ever ones you wanted.

Thanks man. Will never forget that gesture. I collect 2 of each. One as the backdrop and one to open. Been a very expensive set to open which is part of the frustration. I can buy legends figures at clearance all day long but superstars rarely ever go on clearance. Only series 1+2 (s3 in some areas) and bambam so far. I do hope that changes. It does seem that will happen soon. Keep an eye on those 5/6 pipers in harrisburg.

You are a real one. Would do the same for you if i could find anything. Went to nj this past weekend and stores there were just as bad off. Will go to ny on thursday. Hoping i can find us something.

[wrestlingcollector80]

The distribution seems to be getting a little better for Superstars. 2 to 3 times the latest series Rey Mysterio, Beefcake and Razor have been available at my closest Walmart. Haven't seen the chase Razor yet. As of Sunday Rey Mysterio was still sitting on the shelf, and they put another set out, which quickly sold. I bought that Brutus my second to make zodiac out of. 

[@Chair.Shot]

Had a good news/bad news/good news experience!

The good: I finally broke down and ordered an Andre the Giant Superstars figure! This is something I have been searching for in person and holding out hope it would eventually pop up somewhere but no dice. eBay prices have stayed fairly consistent in the $30-40 range for a while now and I missed any really deals that seemed to have popped up. But then the other day I saw it on Amazon for $35 and thought “what the hell?”

The bad: Package arrived today and it was in a bubble mailer. The card was pretty bent up and the bubble was a little beat as well.

The other good news: I contacted Amazon about either a partial refund or a replacement and they said “just keep it” and issued me a full refund!

Though I admire the Superstars line, this is likely my first and last figure from it. Other than Hasbros/Retro style figures, I really only collect Andre The Giant items. It is really impressive how much bigger they made this figure compared to the others in the Superstars line. There is a fair chance that I will pick up a second one just so that I can display both versions.

[Fighter Hayabusa]

Oct 11, 2024 20:30:02 GMT -5 ttmbrad said:

Oct 11, 2024 8:23:02 GMT -5 Fighter Hayabusa said:

Next time I’m at Ollie’s I’ll pick you up a Flair and send it to you loose. Just send me your info. Dont need anything in return.

That would be awesome. There isn't an Ollie's within 3 states of me.

Message me your mailing info and I’ll send it your way

[Fighter Hayabusa]

My NG/AE/Misc shelf is getting a bit overcrowded

[ttmbrad]

Oct 18, 2024 9:10:27 GMT -5 Fighter Hayabusa said:

My NG/AE/Misc shelf is getting a bit overcrowded

Looks great!

[@Chair.Shot]

Not mine but I saw this beautiful collection and thought you guys would love it too:

http://instagram.com/p/DBRgVmasUlX

[ttmbrad]

Only missing blue boots hogan, typhoon, and Mr. T to complete my set.