Small Scale Military Headquarters

...all the Borders and Barnes & Noble bookstores near me stopped carrying it months ago...apparently I was the only guy buying it...

Re: offended easily by Nazi stuff...I'm not easily offended, but I take offense...on one of the site's page selling posters, for instance, the lame quote is repeated that the ardent Nazi Jules Streicher's crime was "practicing FREE SPEECH in a sovereign nation!" The site has a few military history b...

...just a few random thoughts & one gripe...I personally just want a cool looking & finely detailed vehicle (or a/c); I'm already too neurotic about too many other things to be concerned over the precise metal content...besides, as petroleum prices go up, the number of plastic components may eventua...

Would love to see photos...where did you get a hold of the Grant? & is the crew member a new fig?

I picked up a new Cold Steel Chaffee with a 3-tone camo scheme (3 horizontal broad bands of brown, tan, & olive green on the tank sides, then repeated on the turret) with a unit marking of a 3 enclosed in a triangle. All my reference books are buried under mounds of XD & FOV(what a state of affairs)...

...running on the Military Channel? It shows a Sherman & later an Abrams (among other vehicles) --- being propelled with the assistance of a small human hand --- pay no attention to the man behind the curtain... :D Boomers will get nostalgic at the echoes of the old Marx toys & GI Joe TV spots...awe...

One of the few knowledegable "associates" I've met in Wal-Marts explained to me that not only are toy stocks completely different from store to store, but the entire inventory of various stores can be radically different from location to location...as far as how the demographics relate to what goes ...

I don't think these are coming in the same cases as the JTs & KTs because I've seen the Shermans in 3 different WMs with no sign of the tigers (if they do come shipped with the Sherman, damn, they were snatched up fast!)...but the good news for me is that all the exterior stores are all included ---...

Tee hee hee...I can see it now...the geniuses at CSI Wal-Mart send out an APB for a perp by the name of Ray New returning panthers & tigers to the pet department in Hello Kitty boxes...with the trouble WM has tracking shopping carts in the parking lot, I'm not hopeful they'll be bringing Law & Order...

Actually, there is a new service available to retailers that is essentially a database of customers that do a lot of returns...some big ticket retailers of products such as consumer electronics will actually decline to sell you merchandise if you have a history of frequent returns...low-rent retaile...

...hearing that people actually possess these rather than only heard of them is like discovering that the imaginary friend you had as a kid really existed (OK, maybe not so dramatic...)...but I guess we can agree that these carded first offerings are the least common of the 32X...it got me thinking ...

RE: Carded Stuart...very interesting! Are the markings (basically a serial # and a white star on the boxed version) any different...? There was a fellow on the old GP site who was searching high & low for one of these and was told (by I think a retail dealer) that a carded version was never released...

Before this thread sinks to the back pages, let me offer what I think is the best answer to the original question...the rarest 32X is the carded Hellcat tank destroyer that was offered at Wal-Mart & maybe a few dealers back when TRU was the main connection for 21CT. The markings (and dry-brushed wea...

Re: what's the rush... that's a commendable display of willpower, Normandy! :) ...in my case, it was I came, I saw, I had to have...for me, it was too good to pass up, plus I always have this nagging paranoia that first-run editions may be nearly impossible to snag should I want one in the future (...

Normandy...my cover is blown (never should have ordered that martini shaken, not stirred) ...but yeah, 'tis I, same clown, different make-up...just got too lazy to type out Currahee! Let me know how the hunt went...

ATTENTION NORMANDY...I picked up one of 2 Mustangs at the Holbrook TRU on Saturday nite...I thought you had mentioned at some point you had one, but if you're still hunting, go get 'im...

Re: Huntington L.I., N.Y. toys r us had...no P-51s...... I was speaking to a guy buying some 12" BBI at the Stony Brook TRU who said (and I believe him) that he had picked up the BBI Mustang there about 2 weeks ago...if this is the case, they were snatched up in a hurry, because I've been doing som...

Re: discontinued...yesterday I picked up 2 109s & a 262 marked down to $7 --- this after paying full price less than 2 weeks ago for the whole set of 3...well, WM never did make too much sense with its pricing & distribution...still, I gotta shake my head at this turn of events...

Hmm...did anyone else notice that the Eastern Warriors have morphed into bad guys(see 21stcat1 on page 2)...what happened to "I Love the United States" spelled backwards? I always thought that was 21CT humor at its best...

No such luck by me...the store had actually removed the green tags from some BBI items the last time I visited (Saturday)...maybe this is actually a sign of health on the part of TRU, who knows...but you might wanna get those green tags while they're red hot...

Whoa...I just caught up with this post...this is real exciting news...to anyone isn't familiar with these figs, they were very nicely detailed and the pieces fit together really well --- and came with a bunch of weapons & accessories to boot...if anyone sees these finally released & for sale, please...

This is possibly the most peculiar offering 21CT has made since the Frankensteined limb-swapped all-captain American infantry series (was that series 3? I just don't remember)...however, I'm just so glad to have the Russkies that I'll take 'em where I can get 'em...but indeed, you're right, there sh...

...check out picture at http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA ... nes-6.html (about 2/3 down the page, at sub-chapter 127 --- you can click on the photo to enlarge it)...curious that this site calls them "Bazooka Pants", a new one on me...

...a possible explanation for this most interesting surprise may come from a Wall Street Journal article I read about a month ago: many of the big toy retailers (such as Hasbro) are offereing exclusives to TRU for the express purpose of boosting TRU's sales --- and hopefully staving off its demise.....