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02-14-2012, 02:12 PM

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As of last sunday, the local TRU had some of those for $9 each, though.

I hit my TrU right after I posted this and they had 3 Renegades Ripcords... They'd had nothing the day before... so either I need to stalk them at opening everyday, or (breaks out the tin foil hat) "them danged employees be scalpin muh toyzzz"

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02-14-2012, 08:52 PM	#12
roguetiger Veteran Offline --> Posts: 870 --> Join Date: Sep 2006	I found a Renegade Scarlett at King Soopers (Krogers company) the other day and grabbed it.. no other ones from the new waves..just Renegade Snake-eyes, Rene. Firefly, and Rene. Cobra Commander..They might sneak them in in later on though.

02-15-2012, 09:59 AM

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I found a Renegade Scarlett at King Soopers (Krogers company) the other day and grabbed it.. no other ones from the new waves..just Renegade Snake-eyes, Rene. Firefly, and Rene. Cobra Commander..They might sneak them in in later on though.

No Kroger in the area, but I've been checking walgreens and CVS stores pretty regularly too.

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02-15-2012, 10:16 AM

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one day at Krogers when i was living in Houston, I saw a Cobra Shock Trooper and the peg label had it for $10.99. I shrugged my shoulders and put 1 in my cart and continued shopping.

I went to self-checkout and started ringing up my stuff. I was doing it at a fast pace, I failed to see the screen say something like unable to find price, whatever. i was a litte confused, was it the Shock Trooper or the peanut butter? the kid at the counter just swiped his ID, pushed some buttons and got me on my way. It was the Shock Trooper. they haven't scanned it into their system and when the kid cleared me, I got it for free!

the ff day, I found myself at the self-checkout looking confused again

and again the day after

and the day after that

hence my squad of Cobra Shock Troopers gratis care of Krogers

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02-15-2012, 11:29 AM	#15
Reverend Blood Veteran Offline --> Posts: 577 --> Join Date: Dec 2010	I took a different route to work and stopped into a Walgreen's that had a Tunnel Rat and Ripcord, so now I can cross T-Rat of my needs list. The hunt continues. __________________ My little corner of the internet My want list My Pictures

02-15-2012, 12:50 PM	#16
Django Veteran Offline --> Posts: 990 --> Join Date: Mar 2010	I went to CVS hoping to find a joe and i did $15.99 I found law and two zombie vipers at TRU but i refuse to buy anything from there,unless its a reasonably priced neca but thats about it.

02-15-2012, 01:01 PM

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I went to CVS hoping to find a joe and i did $15.99

I found law and two zombie vipers at TRU but i refuse to buy anything from there,unless its a reasonably priced neca but thats about it.

If they still have them next time you're in there I'll cover shipping. lol

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02-15-2012, 10:21 PM

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This is what worked for me......

Go to the website...www.walmart.com...
and go to the contact page....put the store # of the stores near you....They have a store finder that will give the #'s if you don't know them... send a email complaining about how the Dept Mgr for toys is NOT ORDERING Joes and make sure to leave a contact #... I did this and a Asst. Mgr. called the next day from the store and I told him what was going on... in my case it was 5 missile Duke's and thats it sitting there.. the dept mgr told me that they had 26 on hand according to the Gemini (the gun they order with) but yet she tells me there's none in the back for over a month... I told the asst mgr this and he went and ordered 2 cases......supposed to be in the store in 3 weeks.. it might work so might try it...
In a case like this if they HAVE the pegs for them but empty for a LONG while you'd just say it in the email about them being empty and how you WOULD buy them IF they had them on hand....

ok, just left them a nice note w/a contact number. let's see how long it'll take 'em to reply.

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02-18-2012, 08:56 AM	#19
yorktownjoe Enjoying the season Offline --> Posts: 5,106 --> Join Date: Nov 2005	The 2 Walmarts near me have one or two Renegades Cobra commanders. That's it. TRU has Renegades Duke, Commander, Firefly and Iron Grenadier for $9 each. I have an eerie feeling that there might be a plan to make these scarce and leave things empty until the movie figures come out. If they kept rolling out waves they could keep collecting our money all year long... They need to learn how to pace the waves to maximize the opportunity to pick up new figures w/o leaving old ones there for 6 to 18 months.