. You know your hooked when you drop everything to go find a new plane. I told the toy mgr I metioned on the phone that 
It's not unusual to see wierd things popup.. I know the Sahl, Hackl and F-104 showed up at a Walmart here almost a week or more before anyone else saw it..digger wrote:I doubt they sent just two Avengers from China....I'd hate to think that they will sit in the back various WM for a while like the Stuka and Corsairs seem to have...who knows with 21C, WM and the Avenger - all 3 puzzles in and of themselves.tmanthegreat wrote:This could be one of those "freak" early releases - like when I found the BH Corsairs and tropical Stuka at Wal Mart in January, long before they showed up at other Wal Marts.
Hope that manager wasn't bsing...not funny if so..
It is pretty much the same plane as the S1 release and on up. They did highlight some of the panel lines, which was a nice touchscbvideoboy wrote:Local walmart had suprise! 3 stukas and corsair. First I've seen on the east coast of Florida. I said to myself I wasn't going to buy another stuka, but the tropical scheme looks really good.
Are there enhancements as well? Seems to me some improvements over earlier ones?
DH
Maybe he thought it was the bunker hill corsair, i've seen some of those toy dept staff and they aint working at rockwell for a reason...Threetoughtrucks wrote:That Avenger news can't be right. We are pre-ordering Avengers for alot more and waiting for two years and Wally brings it out for $39.95??
At that price, I sure would buy every paint version.
TTT
Agreed, and I've seen lots of XD pieces that have met that fate, from 1:18 F-104s (those seemed to have a tendency towards box breaking) to any number of 32x vehicles.Timbo wrote:Put an item within reach and people will touch it, tear it, open it, smash it, steal parts from it etc... How many times have you come across an item you've wanted only to find that it's been torn open or broken? Of course the downside to having them up high is that since no one actually works at Wal-Mart, you'll never find anyone to get one down for you.
Yes, it is no fun to try to convince your girlfriend to hold the shopping cart while you stand in it try to look at things on the top shelf. I have since borrowed the store ladder to get what I want. I did get yelled at by a WM employee once for using their ladder. I was standing on it, toys in hand, when she told me to get down. I asked her if she would rather dig through boxes and show them to me, one by one. She just turned around and walked away. I think that decision worked out best for both of us.Now, as for getting help, when I can't find an employee and there's something I really want way up high, I have "borrowed" the store ladder from a few aisles down as it really beat standing in a shoping cart
And How!Timbo wrote:Put an item within reach and people will touch it, tear it, open it, smash it, steal parts from it etc... How many times have you come across an item you've wanted only to find that it's been torn open or broken? Of course the downside to having them up high is that since no one actually works at Wal-Mart, you'll never find anyone to get one down for you.
