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new Tiger

Post by digger » Sun Apr 06, 2008 9:46 pm

aferguson wrote:I thought the second wave of Tigers wasnt' due til fall......maybe the line is so successful they rushed the order (thinking wishfully).
Almost every single thing we have heard from fov about this line has been wrong, especially about distribution, so really no surprise. This is good news and hopefully it means the next wave is on the fast track. :D

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Post by Jesse James » Mon Apr 07, 2008 12:09 am

Well since I never got the 1st Tiger I hope I can get this one and that camo Sherman... I'm feelin' left out right now. ;)

Hoping to get some extras for the kid too... He's wanting a tank badly right now.
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Post by warhawker » Mon Apr 07, 2008 8:25 am

This past Friday I picked up the camo Sherman from the Target near my house for $19.99. I think it is a great price!! I hope to find a Tiger if there are any left here in the DFW area.

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Post by CW4USARMY » Wed Apr 09, 2008 9:55 am

Stug45 wrote:Just got back from target in waterford lakes, here in orlando.

They got in a new shipment of vehicles i picked up a tan tiger, when i left they had 2 green Shermans. the top of one the Shermans packages was messed up.
Any other sightings or pictures of this one? East or West coast?

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Post by olifant » Wed Apr 09, 2008 10:10 pm

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Stug45 wrote:Just got back from target in waterford lakes, here in orlando.

They got in a new shipment of vehicles i picked up a tan tiger, when i left they had 2 green Shermans. the top of one the Shermans packages was messed up.
Any other sightings or pictures of this one? East or West coast?
I have hit four Targets in my AO with the same results: nada. I am not surprised as I never saw any Tigers here in the first place and the closest sighting was T-man in CA :? .

I wonder if this was a case found in the back of a warehouse somewhere...
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Post by tmanthegreat » Wed Apr 09, 2008 11:09 pm

Yeah, I only ever saw four of the FOV Tigers (red & tan cammo) at only one of my local Target stores. That was right around the holiday season. I don't want to say it was the only sighting in the west as I'm sure there were more, but the Tigers certainly were not common! The Shermans have made a far better showing, despite taking their sweet time to come west, with four of the six Targets in my area getting at least 2-4 of the tanks. I'm not really after the new Tiger variant, but nevertheless it would be cool to find it...
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Post by pickelhaube » Thu Apr 10, 2008 3:06 pm

Is the new Tiger's sku number the same ? Does anybody know?
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Post by normandy » Fri Apr 11, 2008 3:41 pm

Well over this past week I've hit 3 Targets and no Tiger I's. I think Stug was in the right place at the right time....... just lucky. Targets in my AO ONLY put out 2 armor pieces at a time, in the last month or so its been the OD and Camo Shermans. If those sell what do they do????????? restock with Bradleys. :twisted: So unless there are Tiger sightings in my neck of the woods, I'm done with Target.

Pickelhaub, as for the sku #'s :roll: we'll have to wait for Stug.
So whats up with this 21st King Tiger I keep hearing about?..... or not. :P

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Post by grockwood » Fri Apr 11, 2008 6:07 pm

Here in the Kansas City metro I have seen a couple of Shermans, a few Bradleys but mostly a whole lot of nothing.

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Post by 75th Ranger » Mon Apr 14, 2008 5:59 am

Has anyone found the FOV Stryker vehicle...in 1/18?
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Post by Razor17019 » Mon Apr 14, 2008 6:51 am

75th Ranger wrote:Has anyone found the FOV Stryker vehicle...in 1/18?
I thought they had cancelled this one?
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Post by Birddog » Mon Apr 14, 2008 7:37 am

Razor17019 wrote:
75th Ranger wrote:Has anyone found the FOV Stryker vehicle...in 1/18?
I thought they had cancelled this one?
Nope...FOV cancelled the 1/32 scale Stryker they were going to produce.

The 1/18 Stryker is said to still have the green light. Guess we'll have to see what unfolds.
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Post by digger » Tue Apr 15, 2008 6:04 am

The 1/18 Stryker is said to still have the green light. Guess we'll have to see what unfolds.
Hope you're right BD. Lady at the FoV booth at Toy Fair seemed to think they died together...but she was pretty clueless altogether (or a good actor).

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Post by Birddog » Tue Apr 15, 2008 9:23 pm

I hope I'm right too. I read this over on the Joecustoms board where the FOV rep has been posting about the Bravo and Ages of Action lines. He stated that there supposedly hasn't been any changes for the Bravo line of vehicles despite the cancellation of the 1/32 Stryker.
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Post by 75th Ranger » Sat Apr 19, 2008 2:27 pm

Any idea when the Stryker 1/18 will come out?

is there a FOV website different than the old one that i'm looking at that do not shows the 1/18 lines.....

please let me know.

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Post by 75th Ranger » Sat Apr 19, 2008 5:38 pm

thanks!
that is definitely a different website than the one i was looking previously.
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DFW report

Post by dandaman » Tue Apr 22, 2008 6:56 pm

DFW report:

Sad news with just about every Target I've visited. They're bone dry when it comes to the 1:18 figures. I've been to every location I can get to and it's pretty pathetic.

For example, one Target has a US Marine Pvt. Brooks sitting on the shelf. It's been like that for months.

Another Target has one WW2 US figure and two camo Shermans.

Another Target has a couple WW2 figures and a green paint Bradley.

Another Target has one WW2 German figure, a camo Sherman, and a green paint Sherman.

Another Target has one WW2 German, two green paint Bradleys, and a camo Sherman.

I have also been to Louisiana and the selection there is pretty dismal as well. There are a couple modern US army guys and that's about it.

I guess if you had to sum it up, you could probably piece together a semi-complete collection of WW2 guys if you shopped around at every single Target in the metroplex. As far as the modern figures go, you might as well forget it until they restock. Which I hope they do soon.

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Post by grockwood » Tue Apr 22, 2008 7:32 pm

I noticed that the M16 appears to be an actual M16. The 21st version is a M16A1.

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Post by echoes » Sat Apr 26, 2008 7:10 pm

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Post by Fitzystigertank » Sat Apr 26, 2008 7:25 pm

isn't the german with the panzerschreck holding it wrong??

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Post by Stug45 » Fri May 02, 2008 3:56 am

The oviedo target has 6 german figs & 9 american figs.

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FOV in DFW area

Post by dandaman » Sat May 03, 2008 9:15 am

DFW update:

FOV figures and vehicles are hitting the shelves again.

Unfortunately, it's the WW2 line of figures, camo Shermans, and green Bradleys.

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Post by Stug45 » Sat May 03, 2008 3:54 pm

The target in waterford lakes has 9 german figs & 12 american figs

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