Target Exclusive Ad Icon Bazooka Joe / Target Exclusive Ad Icon Noid

[sree]

Good thing prices are coming down. I'm just waiting for these to show up online. I hope it doesn't drop randomly at 6AM like Pikachu.

Yup that ridiculous release time crushed me, still trying to get my pikachu =(

They are restocking everywhere. Most folks in my area who wanted em got em. You should keep an eye out! They said they'll restock in the fall too so I would not be too worried.

[Jaybrd1095]

They (4) look so much better when altogether

[RogerDuckDodgers]

Oh I do help they drop online soon! I was at my local Target today for daily life items but of course checked the Pops and they had nothing.

[RobinBear177]

I hope they drop online soon too. Only one I need is GITD Twinkie now

[socaliwong]

yes, i'd much rather wait for the online drop then to wrestle with the AM'ers...

[w00tw00t]

A buddy of mine went to Target and there was two managers that said they were too busy to look in the back for it. They knew they had it, but didn't want to look in the back since they are "busy" pretty upsetting as my friend stood in line for a while before they opened.

[imbatgirlpop]

so tough to find! grrrrr these should just all be made available as preorder

[Shertle]

Email to Target
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This is the second time I’m complaining about the same issue, and two different stores, in the matter of 3 days.

I’ve been coming to the Monroe, NY target for 3 straight days because Brickseek have shown these products to be in stock. The last 3 days, employees were unable to find the box of 28 pops. Today they found them. I got to the store around 12:15 and waited in electronics for 45 minutes before an employee even approached me to see if I needed help. The “need help?” button is broken, and every other employee nearby told me that I had to wait for an electronics employee. When the employee came back, I asked for the POP ad icons and he said they were sold out except for 1 that was hidden under a few boxes behind the counter. I told him that these products still say they’re in stock and that if these items are scanned for purchase, if they were actually sold out, brickseek would update immediately by saying “out of stock”. I know this because I have checked on many occasions and the immediate changed occurred every other time.

As I said earlier, this is the 2nd complaint this week for the same product and issue with employees hiding them and buying them for themselves when they’re off the clock. Tuesday morning I went to the Fairfield, NJ Target after speaking to an employee the night before and being told they would be put out at store opening.

The Fairfield Target is an hour drive from my house, and I arrived at the Target at 7 am and was 5th in line. There are 28 pops (7 of each character) in 2 displays, in the same box. There were 7 of the Noids, Sugar Bear, Bazooka Joe, but only 4 Captain Crunch funko POPs. As I said before, I was 5th in line, suffice to say, I didn’t get one, and I was not pleased after dedicating 2.5 hours out of my day to find my most desired Funko POP was unavailable due to 3 of the stocked items gone “missing”. Where could those 3 have gone? Well, target employees have the reputation of hiding the valuable funko pops, and buying them when they’re off the clock. That to me is taking an unfair advantage and is against company policy. This issue is growing very tiresome. These employees have every opportunity to wait in line with the paying customers, and yet they take advantage of being able to simply open these boxes, hide them away from customers and purchase them for themselves, sometimes to sell them on 3rd party sites for 5-10x the original cost.

Attached I have pictures proving the available stock, and time stamped along with my receipt with the timestamped



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Now to wait for their generic bs response

[FredKruger]

A buddy of mine went to Target and there was two managers that said they were too busy to look in the back for it. They knew they had it, but didn't want to look in the back since they are "busy" pretty upsetting as my friend stood in line for a while before they opened.

Pretty much same thing happened to me. Luckily went to another Target same day with normal employees.

[coopscohen]

Anyone finding the shirts? Are they in the Funko area or the clothing area?

[w00tw00t]

A buddy of mine went to Target and there was two managers that said they were too busy to look in the back for it. They knew they had it, but didn't want to look in the back since they are "busy" pretty upsetting as my friend stood in line for a while before they opened.

Pretty much same thing happened to me. Luckily went to another Target same day with normal employees.

Lucky. Well glad you got it. I think sme target were limiting 1 per person too. So that made it more difficult to get all 4

[perfectflaw00]

Email to Target
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This is the second time I’m complaining about the same issue, and two different stores, in the matter of 3 days.

I’ve been coming to the Monroe, NY target for 3 straight days because Brickseek have shown these products to be in stock. The last 3 days, employees were unable to find the box of 28 pops. Today they found them. I got to the store around 12:15 and waited in electronics for 45 minutes before an employee even approached me to see if I needed help. The “need help?” button is broken, and every other employee nearby told me that I had to wait for an electronics employee. When the employee came back, I asked for the POP ad icons and he said they were sold out except for 1 that was hidden under a few boxes behind the counter. I told him that these products still say they’re in stock and that if these items are scanned for purchase, if they were actually sold out, brickseek would update immediately by saying “out of stock”. I know this because I have checked on many occasions and the immediate changed occurred every other time.

As I said earlier, this is the 2nd complaint this week for the same product and issue with employees hiding them and buying them for themselves when they’re off the clock. Tuesday morning I went to the Fairfield, NJ Target after speaking to an employee the night before and being told they would be put out at store opening.

The Fairfield Target is an hour drive from my house, and I arrived at the Target at 7 am and was 5th in line. There are 28 pops (7 of each character) in 2 displays, in the same box. There were 7 of the Noids, Sugar Bear, Bazooka Joe, but only 4 Captain Crunch funko POPs. As I said before, I was 5th in line, suffice to say, I didn’t get one, and I was not pleased after dedicating 2.5 hours out of my day to find my most desired Funko POP was unavailable due to 3 of the stocked items gone “missing”. Where could those 3 have gone? Well, target employees have the reputation of hiding the valuable funko pops, and buying them when they’re off the clock. That to me is taking an unfair advantage and is against company policy. This issue is growing very tiresome. These employees have every opportunity to wait in line with the paying customers, and yet they take advantage of being able to simply open these boxes, hide them away from customers and purchase them for themselves, sometimes to sell them on 3rd party sites for 5-10x the original cost.

Attached I have pictures proving the available stock, and time stamped along with my receipt with the timestamped



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Now to wait for their generic bs response

If it makes you feel any better there are a ton listed on mercari and eBay with a 2.5x or less Mark up which will go down even more after the online drop happens.

[Kfresh]

This was a crazy release but the Pops are soo awesome in this set

[BestDadEver]

Finally got all 4, now for the peez and tiger blanket.

[TJLAUTERBACH]

Finally got all 4, now for the peez and tiger blanket.

Same her but was also lucky to get the pez chase and common as well.

[runtodere]

I hoping to get them when they drop online!

When is this????

Soon I hope, the place holders are in place. I get a felling it may be tonight at midnight PST.

Guess that didn't happen. I wish there was some kind of signal!

[runtodere]

Ive managed to nail down the Noid, Joe and Sugar at targets. Have been searching for crunch but no luck!! Last one I need for my icons set! Arghhhhhh

That's interesting that you were able to find the others stand alone - every time I have tried they are usually all gone because people are buying the entire set

A lot of the stores here only allowed one per person. Not one of each but one total!

I saw that. I don't know if I like it or not. Glad you were able to get some

[yanban]

they will drop online someday!

I always miss their drops because I can't predict when they are going to be.

They seem to be so random, some sticking with street dates and some that don't, but I guess that is all a part of the chase!

Agree - it is so hard!

[Thehueys]

That's interesting that you were able to find the others stand alone - every time I have tried they are usually all gone because people are buying the entire set

A lot of the stores here only allowed one per person. Not one of each but one total!

I saw that. I don't know if I like it or not. Glad you were able to get some

It made it tough but luckily a good buddy of mine gave me his set for cost. It meant a lot becuase I collect all the icons so now they’re standing in my tower of icons!!

[cptuff1969]

Still need these 2

[supertoygiant]

When is this????

Soon I hope, the place holders are in place. I get a felling it may be tonight at midnight PST.

Guess that didn't happen. I wish there was some kind of signal!

At first I wanted them all, now Ill be content to just find Cap n' Crunch.

[KidMarvel]

Soon I hope, the place holders are in place. I get a felling it may be tonight at midnight PST.

Guess that didn't happen. I wish there was some kind of signal!

At first I wanted them all, now Ill be content to just find Cap n' Crunch.

Is the official street date 26th August still? Wondering if that's when they would drop online as well. I still need to get my hands on Sugar Bear and Cap'n

[Shertle]

If it makes you feel any better there are a ton listed on mercari and eBay with a 2.5x or less Mark up which will go down even more after the online drop happens.

It’s more of the point that this is a trend that continues to happen no matter how many people inform them that it’s happening. The dropping price still doesn’t make what these employees do, right. At least with online purchases with Bots, it’s unable to narrow it down. Much easier to narrow down the employees that are abusing company policy

[perfectflaw00]

If it makes you feel any better there are a ton listed on mercari and eBay with a 2.5x or less Mark up which will go down even more after the online drop happens.

It’s more of the point that this is a trend that continues to happen no matter how many people inform them that it’s happening. The dropping price still doesn’t make what these employees do, right. At least with online purchases with Bots, it’s unable to narrow it down. Much easier to narrow down the employees that are abusing company policy

I agree with you but I'm also a realist, the fact is occurances like this are going to keep increasing due to the fact that funko is still on the upswing as a company and continues to garner more and more exposure as the months go by. It's not just employees who are taking advantage of this I'm in the North Jersey area and 3 of the targets I went to had lines of 12+ people outside on the days they showed,stock on the ad icons.

[supertoygiant]

Guess that didn't happen. I wish there was some kind of signal!

At first I wanted them all, now Ill be content to just find Cap n' Crunch.

Is the official street date 26th August still? Wondering if that's when they would drop online as well. I still need to get my hands on Sugar Bear and Cap'n

A few targets won't sell till then, so i think it is.

[runtodere]

A lot of the stores here only allowed one per person. Not one of each but one total!

I saw that. I don't know if I like it or not. Glad you were able to get some

It made it tough but luckily a good buddy of mine gave me his set for cost. It meant a lot becuase I collect all the icons so now they’re standing in my tower of icons!!

Do you have a picture of said tower?

[runtodere]

At first I wanted them all, now Ill be content to just find Cap n' Crunch.

Is the official street date 26th August still? Wondering if that's when they would drop online as well. I still need to get my hands on Sugar Bear and Cap'n

A few targets won't sell till then, so i think it is.

I hope so - it would be nice to have a solid date to watch Target all day long

[supertoygiant]

Is the official street date 26th August still? Wondering if that's when they would drop online as well. I still need to get my hands on Sugar Bear and Cap'n

A few targets won't sell till then, so i think it is.

I hope so - it would be nice to have a solid date to watch Target all day long

Of 12 targets around me, 2 are going to wait to sell on street date, the others have already sold theirs. So it may not be so easy to get, people who already got them may want to get more and create long lines.

[runtodere]

A few targets won't sell till then, so i think it is.

I hope so - it would be nice to have a solid date to watch Target all day long

Of 12 targets around me, 2 are going to wait to sell on street date, the others have already sold theirs. So it may not be so easy to get, people who already got them may want to get more and create long lines.

ARGH!

[Comic Book Girl]

I've been trying to get my hands on both of those with no luck ...... BUT I did get my PIKACHU!! Last one, like it was waiting for me, I was so stoked !!! <3

Congrats on the Pikachu, definitely a cute pop. Also, best of luck finding the ad icons. I'm hoping that once the hype dies down they will be a little easier to find.

Thanks Yeah me too, haven't even seen them locally, just online.

[L3g3nD33]

Finally got all 4, now for the peez and tiger blanket.

The Tony blanket is nice though a bit short and I'm not even that tall (average at best). I still sleep with it even if my feet stick out and get cold with the AC

[chaostryder]

Good thing prices are coming down. I'm just waiting for these to show up online. I hope it doesn't drop randomly at 6AM like Pikachu.

Yup that ridiculous release time crushed me, still trying to get my pikachu =(

They are restocking everywhere. Most folks in my area who wanted em got em. You should keep an eye out! They said they'll restock in the fall too so I would not be too worried.

Hopefully that includes an online restock, I'm outside of USA =\

[geoffdude]

These are not "street" dated.

[Thehueys]

I saw that. I don't know if I like it or not. Glad you were able to get some

It made it tough but luckily a good buddy of mine gave me his set for cost. It meant a lot becuase I collect all the icons so now they’re standing in my tower of icons!!

Do you have a picture of said tower?

GIve me a few minutes and Ill find one!

[MiniPop]

I've been trying to get my hands on both of those with no luck ...... BUT I did get my PIKACHU!! Last one, like it was waiting for me, I was so stoked !!! <3

Congrats on the Pikachu, definitely a cute pop. Also, best of luck finding the ad icons. I'm hoping that once the hype dies down they will be a little easier to find.

Thanks Yeah me too, haven't even seen them locally, just online.

I heard the target near me had some, but sold out less than an hour after opening. I ended up buying on ebay because I had only really wanted Bazooka Joe and/or Noid.

[Thehueys]

I saw that. I don't know if I like it or not. Glad you were able to get some

It made it tough but luckily a good buddy of mine gave me his set for cost. It meant a lot becuase I collect all the icons so now they’re standing in my tower of icons!!

Do you have a picture of said tower?

All of the Dorbz, Dorbz rides and Vynl are in my room. This was in there yesterday and Dad vertical not horizontal haha

The empty space is for Lafoote!

[RobinBear177]

Got my set today. They’re awesome

[KidMarvel]

It made it tough but luckily a good buddy of mine gave me his set for cost. It meant a lot becuase I collect all the icons so now they’re standing in my tower of icons!!

Do you have a picture of said tower?

All of the Dorbz, Dorbz rides and Vynl are in my room. This was in there yesterday and Dad vertical not horizontal haha

The empty space is for Lafoote!

Wow that is one sweet collection of Ad-icons right there!

[Thehueys]

Do you have a picture of said tower?

All of the Dorbz, Dorbz rides and Vynl are in my room. This was in there yesterday and Dad vertical not horizontal haha

The empty space is for Lafoote!

Wow that is one sweet collection of Ad-icons right there!

I love them! THey are my babies. I have metallic count too. Had metallic frank and boo too but had to sell them for tuition. Will need to get them soon! Was lucky and got LaFoote when he dropped. Also have a Jollibee coming!

[runtodere]

It made it tough but luckily a good buddy of mine gave me his set for cost. It meant a lot becuase I collect all the icons so now they’re standing in my tower of icons!!

Do you have a picture of said tower?

All of the Dorbz, Dorbz rides and Vynl are in my room. This was in there yesterday and Dad vertical not horizontal haha

The empty space is for Lafoote!

Incredible! Thanks for sharing!