Ok, since I had to drive 30 miles (one-way) on my day off to get a stupid flu shot anyway, I figured I'd do some Hunting on the way home. Was trying to find the new Joe Playsets (WM Excl) and the new PTE Base at Big Lots, but found neither.

I did find these, though:



Didn't even know there was a 12" Hawk out (there's also a Destro, HD, and I think a NeoViper). Was surprised to find Warpath, Jean, & Vizh at a couple of different stores (no variants, though.) - Namor & Guardian are popping up at most of my local Targets now, so I'll have plenty of $9 fodder for now -- You can see where I already modded Wolvie with a custom head - looks way better than the Hasbro job. Gonna replace Jean's pea-head with a Joe's and will be chopping up a Warpath this afternoon to make a Superman to go with my other DC/MU customs. Vision may get a major overhaul, since he uses that crappy DD mold. But the head & cape are good, so they may get transplanted onto the Guardian fig and given a new paintjob. 6

The real shocker was the TRU 5-pack, because my TRU never gets anything new or worth a crap - so that was a nice treat.

Anyway - the stuff's getting out there. Patience is the key, I guess.

Cheers!

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wow that really does look like dennis quade. However you spell his name.

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good job, The desert set I saw last week was gonna get it but passed, found me a vision the other day and was glad , got the other new ones besides wolvy from hts but that wave is now hitting walmarts so I've seen them this last week. I went looking for the wm joe sets for the past week and finally found them at 1 store only got the roadblock set though, others are a pass each set has 1 nice fig but the other is kinda blah

I saw the 12 inch Neo viper at the PX.
I passed on it, but it did look pretty cool.
Nice haul!

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They had the 12" Hawk at the Paramount press event I went to last month. He looks incredibly awesome and I need him in a bad way.

I hit my TRU today hoping to find the 5-packs but no dice. So I ordered them online. $25 for 5 figures (with tax and shipping) is still a great deal so I don't feel too ripped off.

Is Jean's neck as nonexistent as it looks in the photos? That's the only thing keeping me away from that figure.

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What's really hit me over the last few days is I've bought all the Wal-Mart exclusives, the TRU Republic Gunship, Bench Press, AT-ST, a couple of the Marvel figures, some Twilight figures my wife wanted, the A-10 from Dollar General, along with all the regular every day stuff to buy. Great haul, but a kick in the butt and "LASER BLAST" of the wallet. Oh and I got the 12" Destro too. I figured he'd be cool to have ince he does have a Pimp Daddy feel to him with that pinstripe suit.

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Hey, nice work on modifying that Wolverine. I saw him at Wal-Mart a few days ago, and I thought -- sheesh, did he stick his adamantium claws in an electrical outlet or something to get his hair to do that!?

lol - thanks, Trek -- it's a B&B Jericho head that I modded quite a while back to fit the first version of MU Wolvie (X-Force colors) - since this uses the same torso/arms as that version, it fit perfectly.

And yes, Joe - my wallet feels violated. I exceeded my budget slightly, but on the positive side - when I finally have money for another "hunt", those Joe playsets should be in stock

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Isn't that the Vision's classic look? Seems to work for me...

Gotta get that 5-pack too. Is that a new head on Dial-Tone?

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Yeah, the Vision is painted in classic colors - his only problem is that he's a dwarf compared to the other MU figs (i.e., a head shorter than Wolverine.)

And Dial-Tone is just a Helix head on a ROC Cover Girl body.

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Chief:

Try the BigLots at Academy & Union in the Springs.

I found the new PTE building there a couple of weeks ago. I'll be glad to check back there - I pass it several times a week.

By the way, it was the two-story building. Is that the one you're looking for?

Thanks TL -- slim19722 clued me into the Academy BL, but I didn't make it down there this week. Probably head down there this weekend, though. There's one up in Aurora not too far from work that I'm going to check this week - they usually have decent PTE selections, but I'll admit that all the big playsets I've found have been down at the N Co Spgs Big Lots.

And yeah, the burned-out two-story facade thing was what I was looking for

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Hey Chief, saw this in a sightings forum elsewhere,

Found the Wal-Mart Battlestations at the the Wal-Mart off of 136. They had a ton as of 2:00PM, They are not in the main aisle. THey are in one of those island caps where the rest of the single figures are.

They hit Springs and I picked up the Surveillence Port & Outpost Defender ste's.

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Sweet - that means they'll be up here by Saturday (seems to be the distro pattern.)

Thanks for the heads up!

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Very nice haul Chief.

I went to Wal-Mart at lunch and found Jean Grey, Sunfire, Wolverine, and Warpath.
I left Warpath, as I am holding out for the blue and red version, but grabbed the rest.

I also found the new Slave Leia figure.
They had the new WM Exclusive AT-ST, but I have convinced myself that I really don't need it. I already have 4 of the POTF2 version, and the new one would look wrong next to my AT-AT's. It is REALLY cool looking though.

They also had the WM Exclusive Dewbacks, which surprised me. I didn't think that they were suppose to be out until early next year.

Then I came around a corner, and they had an entire back endcap full of the WM Exclusive Masterpiece Skywarp figures.

Due to a tighter budget at this time of year (and saving for a PS3), I only left with the Marvel and Leia figures. I still consider the four figures a pretty good haul (compared to most trips lately) but damn, there is just too much cool stuff coming out all at once.

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