POST ALL 21st CENTURY WALMART FINDS HERE

normandy · Post by **normandy** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 6:34 pm

This is an all new, just opened, this week, walmart. Last year the same location was the former L.I. branch of Brooklyn Poly Tech Univ. The only walmart near the American Airpower Museum is in Massapequa, just south of Republic Airport.
Anyhow BIG walmart, not much 21st product.

c44 · Post by **c44** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 6:43 pm

Moth...Re: that was last year...wha? According to Newsday, the grand opening celebration was today...how long has this place been below the radar?...& Normandy, thanx for the intel, I was thinking of braving tomorrow night's storm to check this place out, obviously no need to rush...I've been spending a lotta time trolling in all my local WMs with nothing to show, there appears to be nothing in the pipeline except 32x reissues...if anybody spots the (not so) new XD 1/2 tracks on LI, please shout it out...

Moth · Post by **Moth** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 6:46 pm

EDITED

Oh, I see Normandy, I was at the Massapequa WM

normandy · Post by **normandy** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 7:24 pm

Moth, its a big island,out here you (I) don't know when one town starts and the other one ends.

If find anything good in this AO I'll let You and Currahee know.
Take Care, Normandy

Moth · Post by **Moth** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 8:17 pm

normandy wrote: its a big island out here you (I) don't know when one town starts and the other one ends.

You got that right!

Thanks Normandy

KAGNEW · Post by **KAGNEW** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 4:53 pm

if anyone is interested. at the Wamart in Warrenton Va. i saw today a pristine 1/18 BBD SI 21st P-51D

it looked brand new. i haven't seen one in any store for at least 5 years

tmanthegreat · Post by **tmanthegreat** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 6:54 pm

KAGNEW wrote:if anyone is interested. at the Wamart in Warrenton Va. i saw today a pristine 1/18 BBD SI 21st P-51D
it looked brand new. i haven't seen one in any store for at least 5 years

Are you sure it was the S1 version of "Big Beautiful Doll"? It shouldn't be that hard to tell apart from the retooled version, but the S1 Mustangs never made it to Wal Mart. They were also in a different box than what the retooled planes come in. I'm trusting your judgement, but could it be that the retooled version is starting to show up?

FieroDude · Post by **FieroDude** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 7:21 pm

I wouldn't rule it out that the new one is starting to show at Wally. It seems like, with the exception of the P-38 and the Flight 19 Avengers, WM has managed to get the new stuff weeks or months before on-line retailers--even if it takes a monthor more for it to work it's way through the WM distribution system to the first stores (and will never reach most of them, it seems).

The downside is that I doubt the Flight 19 Avengers will ever show up in WM, just like the P-38s never did (although for them, it's probably because there is no window box). I wonder if WM will carry anything lhat large again after what happened with the S1 Avengers. Time will tell...

STUKA · Post by **STUKA** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 9:09 pm

I've always thought WM wasnt dropping the prices on them cause they would not sell - but just to clear them out - and they do not lose money - Avengers down to $35
baby diapers and a million other items up 1o cents

KAGNEW · Post by **KAGNEW** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 6:38 am

nope it was an original

the wings snap in about a one & half inch from fus.
i have been collecting a long time and i know a S1 when i see it

tmanthegreat · Post by **tmanthegreat** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 6:58 pm

Must have been someone doing a return of the old plane in anticipation of the new retooled release. If done in the correct box, Wal Mart would never know

FieroDude · Post by **FieroDude** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 7:47 pm

tmanthegreat wrote:Must have been someone doing a return of the old plane in anticipation of the new retooled release. If done in the correct box, Wal Mart would never know

I think if done in a box period, they would never know...

vmf214 · Post by **vmf214** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 2:20 pm

Yeah the S1 would be pretty easy to spot, brown double pane box, and about a million checkers on the nose vice the correct pattern. I believe it, anything is possible. I remember when I announced on the old board the first time seeing Putt Putt Maru (months ahead of expected release) at my local TRU, everyone thought I was seeing things, till I posted a pic that is...

KAGNEW · Post by **KAGNEW** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:52 am

WELL you all will just have to believe me because i'm not going back there anytime soon to take a pix.

i'm headed south next time, not north.

VMF115 · Post by **VMF115** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 10:53 am

I picked up a Me-109 Seeman on clearance for 5 bucks, I only wish they had something I did not have,

hworth18 · Post by **hworth18** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 1:34 pm

VMF115 wrote:I picked up a Me-109 Seeman on clearance for 5 bucks, I only wish they had something I did not have,

An awesome deal on an awesome plane, I don't think I'd be complaining!!

MIGMADMAVIS · Post by **MIGMADMAVIS** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 3:36 pm

Picked up 2 P-40 Warhawks (one, forty eighth scale) for 10 bucks, and also found all the 21st century 1/32 model kits including the stuka, the zero, the corsair, and the bf-109, each for 10 bucks

other than that, found all mig 15s, but 40$ for each one

tmanthegreat · Post by **tmanthegreat** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:36 am

Stopped by the Hobbypeople hobby store in Chino, Ca while on a weekend trip to So Cal. They had a pretty decent selection of 21c planes, including many new pieces like the Flight 19 Avengers, new F-104s and Pear Harbor P-40s, plus a couple old favorites like the FW-190 and CIA Huey. They also had a bunch of FOV 1:32 tanks as well. It was a much better 21c selection than what is to be found at my local Hobbytown USA store a few hundred miles to the north

The planes were all at the regular retail price.

hworth18 · Post by **hworth18** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:24 pm

F-86 Huffs have finally showed up in Tulsa.. Nothing else new..

warhawker · Post by **warhawker** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:21 am

hworth18 wrote:F-86 Huffs have finally showed up in Tulsa.. Nothing else new..

Sweet!! Then I will keep an eye out for them here in Texas! When new items start to show up in OK then we usually start to see them south of the Red River!

Tinman · Post by **Tinman** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 11:12 am

The WM outside of Newark NY had a bunch of stuff on clearance yesterday for $5.00. It was all Humvees and the VN Mutts and Navy Seal Tactical jeeps. The only item I did not already have was the Seal jeep, which I was never that keen on, but what the heck for five bucks I picked one up. That store's in a fairly out of the way location or I'd snoop there more often.

normandy · Post by **normandy** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 8:31 pm

I stopped at two wal marts today, the first... Carl Place; nothing. The second was Uniondale, L.I. N.Y. And as far as I know one of the first locations to have the XD WERMACHT German Artillery Crewman... LT. Klaus Bucholtz. Is the 88 on it's way ?

digger · Post by **digger** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 8:36 pm

normandy wrote:I stopped at two wal marts today, the first... Carl Place; nothing. The second was Uniondale, L.I. N.Y. And as far as I know one of the first locations to have the XD WERMACHT German Artillery Crewman... LT. Klaus Bucholtz. Is the 88 on it's way ?

I believe that is a first! Congrats!

Please tell me you bought him..

zonetoys · Post by **zonetoys** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 9:36 pm

normandy wrote:I stopped at two wal marts today, the first... Carl Place; nothing. The second was Uniondale, L.I. N.Y. And as far as I know one of the first locations to have the XD WERMACHT German Artillery Crewman... LT. Klaus Bucholtz. Is the 88 on it's way ?

I found two of them in Virginia Beach today! Bought one and didn't really check him out till I got home! At first glance I thought he was a German soldier with a Bazooka. Wish I had bought the other too!
Did pick up a Platoon Leader "Lt. Roger 'Tracker' Richards" which was the only one I thought I was missing from the last release! The WM also had two 1:18 P-51D Mustang "The Flying Undertaker."

c44 · Post by **c44** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 9:46 pm

I also picked up the arty officer tonight at a Suffolk WM, now he's all dressed up, nowhere to go...I won't be holding my breath for an East Coast appearance of the Flak or King Tiger...I have yet to lay eyes on the latest half-tracks...though figures have been plentiful, aircraft arrivals are spotty, vehicles non-existent...but if you want pool supplies or Easter baskets, the WM toy depts have 'em!

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