21C WALMART UPDATE...POST FINDS HERE

mikeg · Post by **mikeg** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 4:07 pm

I found 4 of the 21st Ridge Runner P-51s at the lockeed-dobbins arb walmert today; now there are three. Where are the 15 new 1/32nd zero, maachi, and p-47 combos???

Website · Post by **Teamski** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 4:23 pm

mikeg wrote:I found 4 of the 21st Ridge Runner P-51s at the lockeed-dobbins arb walmert today; now there are three. Where are the 15 new 1/32nd zero, maachi, and p-47 combos???

Sweet!!! They're out boys (and girl)!!!!! Thanks for the report. I definately will get at least 1 or 2 Ridge Runners!!

-Ski

CW4USARMY · Post by **CW4USARMY** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 4:41 pm

Hooooooooooaah! I wasnt going to get one but I've got to buy somoething new! If they are in Georgia, then ALabama cant be too far off!

tmanthegreat · Post by **tmanthegreat** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 5:46 pm

Why is the coolest stuff always east of the Rockies

All I've got around here are Graff 109s, which don't sell.

mikeg · Post by **mikeg** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:28 pm

Well, the scout meeting is over and I put the Ridge Runner together. It is certainly "smoother" than the BBI killer, but it is still a close comparison to those of us not considered rivet counters. The BCA preorder info says their picture shows a "prototype" paint scheme and will come with a different prop; I don't see those differences. The landing gear, cockpit, fusilage lines all do look very good, but this "early" offering has some features that are too tight and some too loose. This ambiguous ambiguity is probably more due to having several P-51s, not any real shortcomings with this new one. Overall, I think I just need something totally, physically new like an avenger or F-86. Good luck with finding them at your local Walmart or with the preorders. THIS IS A POSITIVE OPINION OVERALL...

Website · Post by **Teamski** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 4:36 am

mikeg wrote:Well, the scout meeting is over and I put the Ridge Runner together. It is certainly "smoother" than the BBI killer, but it is still a close comparison to those of us not considered rivet counters. The BCA preorder info says their picture shows a "prototype" paint scheme and will come with a different prop; I don't see those differences. The landing gear, cockpit, fusilage lines all do look very good, but this "early" offering has some features that are too tight and some too loose. This ambiguous ambiguity is probably more due to having several P-51s, not any real shortcomings with this new one. Overall, I think I just need something totally, physically new like an avenger or F-86. Good luck with finding them at your local Walmart or with the preorders. THIS IS A POSITIVE OPINION OVERALL...

Thanks for the review. mmmmmm...."ambiguous ambiguity"?? Is that like a double negative? hehehehehe.....

-Ski

mikeg · Post by **mikeg** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 5:49 am

could be- but I just wanted to see what it felt like to pontificate like a lawyer or politician in front of a mass audience- there is a certain thrill to it, ya know.

vulgarvulture · Post by **vulgarvulture** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 8:28 am

Why is the coolest stuff always east of the Rockies All I've got around here are Graff 109s, which don't sell.

Tell me about it. The W-Ms in California are bleak regarding new planes.

Maybe we'll get lucky, though, and be the first to get the Avengers before they are distributed NATIONWIDE.

KAGNEW · Post by **KAGNEW** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 11:21 am

I'M CONFUSSED?
was your Ridge Runner 1/18 or 1/32 scale?

immeww2 · Post by **immeww2** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 11:44 am

If we get the Avenger before anyone else - that would be soooo sweeet!!!!!

digger · Post by **digger** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 11:46 am

KAGNEW wrote:I'M CONFUSSED?
was your Ridge Runner 1/18 or 1/32 scale?

1:18

mikeg · Post by **mikeg** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 11:49 am

Kagnew- confussed or confused? anyway it is definately 1/18th scale.

KAGNEW · Post by **KAGNEW** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 12:00 pm

ok now i'm mad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i preordered from a etailer so i would be one of first to have it!!!!!!!!!!!

STUKA · Post by **STUKA** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 2:10 pm

Walmart in Morrow, GA put out the second box of humvees and ammo trucks - still two humvees on the shelf. The Humvees are not a big seller - just sitting around. Also - they like to mess with me - they placed all the planes - that are not selling, 109's and 104's, away from the customer and way up on the top shelf - makes no sense. Anyway - i thought to myself...."cool new planes..." "drats they just moved the old stuff around.....should I buy a sweet tea or unsweet ....vacation is in two weeks ... oh wow hanging files for $2.99......"

Post by **p51** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 2:26 pm

Walmart in Brea, CA (right off Kraemer) has XD Marines, XD Imperial Troops, S1 BF-109 G-6, and the covered/non-covered Hummers.

mikeg · Post by **mikeg** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 3:16 pm

Kagnew, to alleviate your frustration, repeat after me-- there are no ridge runners out yet, there are no ridge runners out yet, etc... only a couple of more months on your preorder!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! remember, there were three more on the shelf.

KAGNEW · Post by **KAGNEW** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 4:54 pm

it's not working

but i guess you win some and lose some.
our walmart has never even had the Me 109G-6 or F-104's yet let alone the new Mustangs
some system

JOC · Post by **JOC** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 5:57 pm

The two WalMarts near here, Tulalip Indian Res (Marysville) and Mount Vernon Store had bunches of 1:18 ME-109G-6's and 1:32 Me-109E-4 (Wasp Squadron); P47D Bubbletop (61st Fighter Squadron Capt Witold Lanowski; and P-51D Mustang (Ridge Runner III).
JOC

Black_Dragon_One · Post by **Black_Dragon_One** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:12 pm

do those who have the new p51 compare pic of bbi the 21st old and new to see if they change a lot of stuff.

any open gun bay as rumer, how about open engine compartment.

tmanthegreat · Post by **tmanthegreat** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:48 pm

I found the S1 F-104, Sky Captain P-40, and Sahl & Hackl ME-109Gs in a Fresno, California Wal Mart today. This is the same sort of caseload that appeared in the east late last November! The F-104 box was trashed, but the others looked fine. Given this distribution trend, we westerners may see the new P-51s as early as May

I agree with immeww2 that the Avengers had better show up in the west first! We need that sort of preference, given that all other recent releases of new 1:18 planes at Wal Mart (save for the tropical Stuka and BH Corsair) arrived on that end of the country first. Besides, 21c headquarters are located here

Jesse James · Post by **Jesse James** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 5:53 am

Depends on your area... Wal-Mart's distribution is a mess, at best.

I collect Star Wars figs so I hit a lot of Wal-Mart's in the Pittsburgh area so let me give you my view on how messed up their distribution habits are from my own experiences out this direction...

-1 WM has a couple (2 or 3) S1 Marines... That's it. They never update, they never get new XD figures. They've had these Marines since last year and they just won't sell or order new ones. It's a high traffic Wal-Mart SC, but they don't get many XD figs or Star Wars... Weird place.

-Another WM 15 minutes from this one was the first (and only place for a long time) to get any new figures. They got Marines, and since then they subsequently have ONLY gotten Marines. They had S1, then S2 Camo ones, then they got more S1, then more S2... Then they got in 4 Sahara figures to spice up the look of the pegs a little bit and that's it. Right now they're crammed with Marines except the riflemen and the guy holding the Japanese flag who is drying up since he's not being distributed with the flag anymore.

-My nearest WM is 20 minutes away, it's a smaller one... It got Marines in droves leading into Christmas. Dozens, and they have almost all sold now. I'd say they have 12 at best, but they've not gotten new figures in that I have seen. Lots of Marines (S1 mostly, and one time they seemed to get a case of S2, but those have sold all but one). That's been mostly it...

-A WM that's near my girlfriend's place that I wouldn't go to if it weren't for being down at her house so often didn't get a SINGLE XD figure in till just this past week. Then they got at least 2 cases of Marines, a couple cases of Battle of the Bulge Series 1, Patton's, Pilots... It's the most diverse sighting of XD I've seen at any store. I've cleared them out of most of the Bulge figures but this place didn't have a single XD figure till last week then the flood gates opened at it thankfully.

-My girlfriend's place just got a mall built literally 3 minutes from her house, and the last day of January a WM Super Center opened up. They have been the only WM that I visit in the Pittsburgh area that has had the Japanese and Operation Market Garden figures. I went in for the first time to the store and they had S1 Japs and OMG, so I grabbed stuff for lay-away... They got cleared out between then and the 2nd time I visited this store. They went without figures for most of February then but when I went there just last night they had S2 Japanese (in the more tan/mustard colored uniforms) and more Market Garden Para's... I got more, of course, because I have a problem not buying this stuff.

And a WM I don't hit often at all because it's closer the cityhad a lone BotB German at it months ago, but that was it and I don't get there often.

So that's a number of WM's in my area, and really not one of them are similar. It's insane how this stuff's distributed. Most vehicles are the same as well though I Saw RC tanks (both of them) at almost every Wal-Mart leading into Christmas, I saw helicopters (and still do) of all types at every WM I visit, and more recently I have seen that the new Humvee's and Weapons Carrier Dodge are at probably half (if not more) the WM's I visit routinely.

Right now not a lot of planes are around except a Nightfighter that hasn't moved for months at one WM and the obligatory P-47's I see everywhere that can't seem to make it to the runway.

Tinman · Post by **Tinman** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 1:46 pm

Tempest66:

The Japanese figures are hit or miss from my experience (in contrast to the S1 Marines, which seem to be in nearly every WM). I did pick up the S2 Japanese in Troy MI a few weeks ago when I was there.

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