Does Gung Ho not come in the retro case with Baroness and Lady Jay at Wal-mart? I just picked up Baroness and they had 4 Lady Jay and 8 Baroness and no Gung Ho's. Was wondering if I just missed him or if he's like online (Pulse) only or something?
That'd be me. Unless Target does another reset it's unlikely stores will get them. I'll ask a friend to kick me in the dick if Target actually gets them LOL. I think Classified is practically an online-only line now. No one seems to be making an effort to stock it anymore. Fred Meyers/Kroger used to carry it for the first year or two but they've long since dropped it.
I mean, how dumb must they be to continue to stock the worst figures in the line and then act surprised they still warm the pegs and refuse to try the newer figures they've already received in their warehouse that might actually sell. This seems to be an example of how poor store display strategy can negatively impact a toy line's ability to succeed, even one that's proven massive demand and interest when sold through online retail outlets. Many of those same people shop at Target and WalMart and would impulse buy the hell out of them if they actually stocked them.
I actually haven’t seen any SE Movie figures in my Target for a long time. But if anyone needs a hundred Lady Jayes or Cobra Commanders, I’ve got you covered…
All of my local Targets finally cleared those movie figures out by marking them down. Though, one of the stores then proceeded to get another case of the Flint/Lady Jaye wave after they were finally gone. Surprisingly those sold really fast for them having been out for some time. The other Super Targets got the Alley Viper/BAT wave in finally after that. Unfortunately, those decisions are done on a store-to-store basis. As for the number of pegs available for Classified... I'm thinking that Hasbro may have decided to pay less for slotting space (yes, Hasbro and other companies have to essentially "rent" shelf space) this past year.
I think it boils down to management looking at it like “well if this line allegedly sells well then all of it should sell”. Random employee: “hey what about those BATs and Alley Vipers in the back that always sell when we put them out while the Gung Ho figures never get sold and end up taking up space on the pegs” Management: “oh yea? Well we’ll get to those once we sell through these Classified Snake Eyes Origin figures and Lady Jayes, Flints and Cobra Commanders that are still there”. In some ways I think the Snake Eyes Classified movie figures should’ve just been released in box sets as fan channel exclusives. Meanwhile I think Cobra Commander and Gung Ho didn’t need to be repacked. A case of 3 BATs and 3 Alley Vipers has no problem selling either as a whole or as individual figures.
Hasbro shoulda twisted Paramount’s arm to get Michael Bay for GIJoe. This is the one IP of theirs he would absolutely kill at (imo). Those stupid movie figures would’ve flown off the shelves! Non-movie Classified would’ve flown off the shelves by association alone. But even after catching lightning in a bottle several times, they still think media = toy commercial. Wrong Hasbro! The media and the toy are a set, a combo, a combiner (if you will). When both are done well, it unlocks the vast El Dorado of massive scale merchandising. You could get away with going cheap on the media in the days of radio, 3 TV channels, and theater-only releases. Nowadays you have to stand out. When the figures are great and the media is great, you just start printing money. Anyway, thank you for being bored to death by my TED talk on ways to travel back in time to redo things to get rid of these damn movie figures already.
My TF Outback and PP Viper order from Hasbro Pulse hasn't shipped or updated in the same long period that other's Target orders haven't. Hasbro and Target both dropping the ball here for U.S. collectors.
Comment spotted in a local fb group regarding the runaround Target is giving people with Tiger Force pre-orders: Grain of salt but if true, yikes. What a mess.
The latest wave is being found at both Walmart and Target so both are continuing to receive new inventory and ship it to stores that need it.
Gung Ho may not have sold as fast as the Bats and AV but every store I saw a Gung Ho or two at ended up gone within a few weeks, well ahead of the 8 week ST Target and Walmart look to achieve. Don’t conflate not selling as fast with not selling within the acceptable range. The movie figures, on the other hand…
Please no. If Hasbro needs to get another use out of the HISS moulds at retail (all stripped down) then an arctic HISS or a Crimson HISS make much more sense.
Just picked up this bad boy. Box is amazing, one of the tape seals is dry and not holding. Is this worth grading?
Doubt it, looks like the tape on the left is not original at all, it's probably been opened and resealed. But it's an awesome piece none the less.
Depends which location I guess. I’ve seen more than 7 Gung Hos on a peg for longer than 8 weeks, only saw an Alley Viper once and never saw a BAT.
I don’t think any store can likely move that many of most single figures, but I suspect that’s an issue of a-holes returning Gung Ho’s more than a store receiving 4+ cases of that single wave in that short period of time, the same way one of my local stores are flooded with about 16 Lady Jayes; that store never received 8 cases of that wave but then never sold a single LJ.
