I know the site has been somewhat vacant the past few days…been a whirlwind couple of days in the “real world” (yeah, there is a distinction… :shifty: ). Deploying a new mail server at work, revamping the IS budget at work for 2010 with a hard deadline, all alongside a 2 month old that decided to stop feeding from the bottle and a wife whose back went totally sideways, leaving her bedridden has made for an interesting week.
Of course, amongst all those events, I managed to make a toy run. Boy, I got my priorities straight, don’t I? :/
In all seriousness, I had to go south for work on Monday, so I had another chance to zip through an number of Targets, Toys “R” Us’ and Wal-Mart cruising through southern NH…and honestly? I was quite a bit more impressed and optimistic than I was the last time through. Obviously, as everyone is aware, both Wal-Mart and Target have slashed prices on the single packs, and I think it’s helped. A lot of those wave 1 pegwarmers had cleared out, at least somewhat, and many of them were replenished by the much improved later assortment offerings. I saw numerous Pit Commandos, Rex “The Doctor” Lewis (all black coats), Helix, Flash, Elite-Vipers, Eels, etc… I mean, I saw them in abundance. Pit Commandos were still the most rare, as I only saw 4 of them total in two different locations, but nearly every place I stopped had a nice assortment of Wave 3 items mixed in. Heck, I even found some Wave 4 Charbroils and Night Adders! Two Night Adders, one with blue tats, one with black, so I still have no clue which one is rarer.
But it wasn’t all sunshine and roses. Still didn’t see any Wave 2 Alpha’s at all (and I really want that Sky Sweeper!), and never touched either of the new TRU exclusives (Bench Press and Snow Serpent). No Wave 5, even though I hit a couple of K-Marts expressly for that purpose, and none of the Wal-Marts I hit had a hint of the Battle Station exclusives. Out of the 4 TRU’s I stopped at, one of them in Salem, NH had the Troop Builder 5-Packs, which was cool to see. Speaking of which, reviews of those should be going up next week, hopefully…
The week’s looking up. The Pats play the Colts on Sunday night, we actually have no plans this weekend, and the wife thinks she’ll be out of bed for Monday, but just in case you see spotty updates for the next couple of days, that’s why.
Yeah, I made a run up to Salem on Tuesday and am kinda disappointed that there no wave 2 alphas out yet. I did find two of the mini battle sets at the Salem Wallmart though, The Survailance port and the LAW (btw its way cooler than I thought it would be!) Also found the black tatooed Night Adder, but passed on Charbroil. Also found the Wallmart two packs in abbundance In some Mass Wallmarts on the way up.
night adder is a great surprise of a figure! i thank the action figure god (you bet your ass there’s an action figure god) that the one adder i found and bought, was black inked.
I know how bad back problems can ruin your overall enjoyment of life, so do whatever it takes to make your lady feel better General J. You take care of the most important action figures in your life; the family. If you need anything just drop me a note bub. I means it!
Man, I can’t find a Night Adder to save my money, and when I ordered a Doctor from Hasbro, they sent me a white-coat version…which I wasn’t hoping for, frankly. I can’t believe I haven’t seen the black-coats here in CA at all.
Did find all the Wal-Mart Battle Stations, though. Just got the Roadblock one. The others don’t do anything for me.