Got my order from BBTS yesterday.
Great wave indeed.
It's a shame that it's so hard to find, because many figures of this wave would make awesome army builders.
The cobra "ninja' trooper makes a great generic minion.

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Well, I just saw the Walmart reset in progress today. Little planograms all over the toy section.

NO -- repeat NO space allocated to G.I. Joe. Looks like these figures, from a retail standpoint, anyway, are TRU exclusives.

I just don't get this. I was under the impression that Hasbro delayed this wave in order to make more of them because they were selling well. What happened?

Obviously, I'm not the least bit optimistic about Wave 4 at this point, and any help in tracking down KWINN, ULTIMATE COBRA COMMANDER, and a DATA-VIPER or two on my behalf would be immensely appreciated.

I don't like to make predictions, especially grim ones, but -- while I can't imagine that Hasbro will let the 50th Anniversary in 2014 go by without something on the shelves, I think we've seen the last of G.I. Joe for a while, at least until Christmas at the earliest.

Frankly, it's pretty slim pickings out there for anything interesting.

Did any Hasbro rep officially state wave 3 & 4 were delayed to increase production, or was that a working theory the forums were going with? I just find it curious that the after the movie was released, there was little new product available. And now the DVD release has passed and there wasn't any Joe product on the pegs to push any sales. From a marketing standpoint, this seems like a disaster. Supply chain management can't be this disfunctional. You can order an Apple laptop online and it'll come to you in less than a month directly from China.

I guess I shouldn't hold my breath for the Night-Landing release, since that didn't even show up at Comic-Con this year.

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I'm starting to doubt ill be able to get as many of these as I wanted to. I actually believed all the increased production hype so I only preordered one of each figure that I really wanted expecting to be able to buy them with ease at retail for customizing. Oops.

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It didn't?????? viewtopic.php?f=51&t=38394 shows it was there.........

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http://generalsjoes.com/2013/04/06/g-i- ... more-18250



The Night Landing Craft was always going to be a fall release. Half with cobra symbols and half without. That info also came from the Hasbro panel at Joe Con.

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Whoops...I stand corrected. When I passed by the Joe case at SDCC, there didn't seem to be a whole lot of new product. I guess all that bright yellow Retaliation packaging made everything blur together. I can stop holding my breath now

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I'm sure Ross & TJX stores will have plenty of them.

So, that means one will have the symbols, and one won't?

Someone over at Jedi Temple Archives posted a pic of Walmarts new planogram which has Joes, but looks like some stores are dropping the line.

I checked 4 of 6 Wally's that completed the reset and 2 dropped Joe's and 2 kept them. The 2 that still have them are the 2 stores that never dropped MU. 2 pegs each for singles and Alpha vehicles so the NLC may pop up soon. Unfortunately one of the stores with Joes restocked today.....with a case of w1.

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I'm wondering how over produced the first bunch of figures really were.
It's surprising that they're still getting shipped in favor of the more movie accurate figures.

The lack of new products on the shelves to go with the DVD release is a pretty disturbing.
You'd think that the whole point of making a movie based on a toy franchise would be to move some toys.

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Dump all those wave one Joes at a WM that dropped them.

In theory, you could buy out the whole Joe display at the recently restocked store, keep the receipt, and take it all back to one of the locations that dropped Joe. Wal-Mart pretty much has to refund your money, and maybe by the time you're through that customer service line, the store that is still getting Joes will have restocked some newer product?

Stopped by a Walmart yesterday that had sold all of their figures a couple of weeks ago. They restocked! With a case of wave one.

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I'm still waiting for my preorders to ship.