Hot Topic 4/12 Hype Release

Postby **emcee** » Thu Apr 11, 2019 5:47 pm

theoneupper02 wrote:
emcee wrote:Star Wars Celebration

Are the SWC pops the chrome ones? If that's all they have it's kind of disappointing.

I thought I saw a GITD vader which is pretty cool.

https://www.funko.com/blog/article/star ... exclusives

Postby **repair-manmanmanman** » Thu Apr 11, 2019 5:52 pm

theoneupper02 wrote:
emcee wrote:Star Wars Celebration

Are the SWC pops the chrome ones? If that's all they have it's kind of disappointing.

I thought I saw a GITD vader which is pretty cool.

You might be thinking of the targetcon vader?

Postby **g3ohss** » Thu Apr 11, 2019 5:54 pm

buried_by_pops wrote:The Hot Topics in my area have been posting cryptic messages to Instagram since yesterday. Apparently they are opening early on Friday for a special Funko release. Any heads up on this? Are we thinking Dark Phoenix?

Probably star wars celebration. Can’t wait to see

Postby **lavery01** » Thu Apr 11, 2019 6:11 pm

I sure hope it’s dark phoenix. We stop collecting SW. lol

just too many to keep up with.

Postby **2017fanatic** » Thu Apr 11, 2019 6:19 pm

jesusunzueta89 wrote:Star Wars Celebration Pops, but some stores will also start to have the Dark Phoenix and rumor has it that Spider-Man Far From Home POP's as well

I need that Dark Phoenix..hoping for an online release

Postby **parrity** » Thu Apr 11, 2019 10:36 pm

2017fanatic wrote:
jesusunzueta89 wrote:Star Wars Celebration Pops, but some stores will also start to have the Dark Phoenix and rumor has it that Spider-Man Far From Home POP's as well

I need that Dark Phoenix..hoping for an online release

Same, otherwise I may not be able to get one.

Postby **Nemesis989** » Fri Apr 12, 2019 9:48 am

Its funny, Ive asked a few Hot Topic stores what is up and all the staff play clueless. I go into Gamestop and the guys says 'oh yeah its Star Wars, want to see what will be coming out?'

Postby **CaseyJones14** » Fri Apr 12, 2019 9:59 am

Whoops I was a noob and posted the blue Leia lol

My store posted and it’s gold Leia and Watto.

Postby **jesusunzueta89** » Fri Apr 12, 2019 11:06 am

parrity wrote:
2017fanatic wrote:
jesusunzueta89 wrote:Star Wars Celebration Pops, but some stores will also start to have the Dark Phoenix and rumor has it that Spider-Man Far From Home POP's as well

I need that Dark Phoenix..hoping for an online release

Same, otherwise I may not be able to get one.

Patience is the Key :freddy2:

Postby **draemar** » Fri Apr 12, 2019 1:36 pm

Nemesis989 wrote:Its funny, Ive asked a few Hot Topic stores what is up and all the staff play clueless. I go into Gamestop and the guys says 'oh yeah its Star Wars, want to see what will be coming out?'

Pretty indicative of the hot topics, they seem to be annoyed of pop collectors.

Postby **Thehueys** » Fri Apr 12, 2019 2:37 pm

I was really stoked for Starwars celebration. I just am not the biggest fan of chromes :/ metallic yes chrome not so much.

Postby **Mrchong156** » Fri Apr 12, 2019 2:41 pm

Joesandwich123 wrote:Some Hot Topics are releasing the new Deku pop early as well so some MHA fans might get luckier on Friday.

did this happen? anyone see the new deku pop today along with the SW shareds?

Postby **2017fanatic** » Fri Apr 12, 2019 2:54 pm

Mrchong156 wrote:
Joesandwich123 wrote:Some Hot Topics are releasing the new Deku pop early as well so some MHA fans might get luckier on Friday.

did this happen? anyone see the new deku pop today along with the SW shareds?

I think it was an accident and is not supposed to release til next week?

Postby **Mrchong156** » Fri Apr 12, 2019 2:57 pm

2017fanatic wrote:
Mrchong156 wrote:
Joesandwich123 wrote:Some Hot Topics are releasing the new Deku pop early as well so some MHA fans might get luckier on Friday.

did this happen? anyone see the new deku pop today along with the SW shareds?

I think it was an accident and is not supposed to release til next week?

ohh ok. i hadnt heard or seen anything. Does anyone know if the dark phoenix got released? or is that another accidental early release?

Postby **2017fanatic** » Fri Apr 12, 2019 2:59 pm

Mrchong156 wrote:
2017fanatic wrote:
Mrchong156 wrote:
did this happen? anyone see the new deku pop today along with the SW shareds?

I think it was an accident and is not supposed to release til next week?

ohh ok. i hadnt heard or seen anything. Does anyone know if the dark phoenix got released? or is that another accidental early release?

I think it was the common Dark Phoenix that was released and not the hot topic exclusive

Postby **GettingSodas** » Fri Apr 12, 2019 3:48 pm

CaseyJones14 wrote:This thread makes me giggle.

Maybe a picture will help - this is what the "surprise" release is for and nothing else.

No it’s the gold. Blue isn’t shared.

Postby **GettingSodas** » Fri Apr 12, 2019 3:49 pm

AND Watto! The only pop I’m getting in stores.

Postby **CaseyJones14** » Fri Apr 12, 2019 3:56 pm

GettingSodas wrote:No it’s the gold. Blue isn’t shared.

Yeah I know, admitted my noobness a few posts above lol

Postby **GettingSodas** » Fri Apr 12, 2019 4:29 pm

CaseyJones14 wrote:
GettingSodas wrote:No it’s the gold. Blue isn’t shared.

Yeah I know, admitted my noobness a few posts above

Oh I’m sorry. Just didn’t want anyone to get confused that didn’t know in this thread.

Postby **repair-manmanmanman** » Fri Apr 12, 2019 5:58 pm

Wondering if anyone even bothered to get the gold chromes at SWC...

Postby **Nemesis989** » Fri Apr 12, 2019 7:32 pm

draemar wrote:
Nemesis989 wrote:Its funny, Ive asked a few Hot Topic stores what is up and all the staff play clueless. I go into Gamestop and the guys says 'oh yeah its Star Wars, want to see what will be coming out?'

Pretty indicative of the hot topics, they seem to be annoyed of pop collectors.

That's too bad, other than pops a lot of their other products (a lot, not all) are junk

Postby **Mags** » Fri Apr 12, 2019 7:39 pm

Nemesis989 wrote:
draemar wrote:
Nemesis989 wrote:Its funny, Ive asked a few Hot Topic stores what is up and all the staff play clueless. I go into Gamestop and the guys says 'oh yeah its Star Wars, want to see what will be coming out?'

Pretty indicative of the hot topics, they seem to be annoyed of pop collectors.

That's too bad, other than pops a lot of their other products (a lot, not all) are junk

Hot Topic had to change its pop release policy recently because of flippers. Maybe that's why the staff didn't give a straight answer.

Of course, if you look at any of the IG announcements saying something big was happening today it was kinda obvious that it was Star Wars themed lol

All of my locals did a post that had yellow text on a black background that looked very similar to the title crawl of the movies.

Postby **SchoolBoyQ** » Fri Apr 12, 2019 9:34 pm

Saw plenty left at my local HT store

Postby **FuegoGlorious** » Fri Apr 12, 2019 9:47 pm

nah its something far more superior and powerful: Watto

Postby **FuegoGlorious** » Fri Apr 12, 2019 9:47 pm

nah its something far more superior and powerful: Watto

Postby **emcee** » Sat Apr 13, 2019 4:30 pm

repair-manmanmanman wrote:Wondering if anyone even bothered to get the gold chromes at SWC...

Don't think they have any of the golds at the booth there. Didn't see any in the booth tour video.

Postby **repair-manmanmanman** » Mon Apr 15, 2019 1:33 pm

emcee wrote:
repair-manmanmanman wrote:Wondering if anyone even bothered to get the gold chromes at SWC...

Don't think they have any of the golds at the booth there. Didn't see any in the booth tour video.

That kind of defeats the purpose of calling it shared doesn't it? Might as well just be a straight up store exclusive.

Postby **kappait** » Mon Apr 15, 2019 3:12 pm

repair-manmanmanman wrote:
emcee wrote:
repair-manmanmanman wrote:Wondering if anyone even bothered to get the gold chromes at SWC...

Don't think they have any of the golds at the booth there. Didn't see any in the booth tour video.

That kind of defeats the purpose of calling it shared doesn't it? Might as well just be a straight up store exclusive.

That's kind of odd. They could have sold a ton of those there.

Postby **repair-manmanmanman** » Mon Apr 15, 2019 4:00 pm

kappait wrote:
repair-manmanmanman wrote:
emcee wrote:
Don't think they have any of the golds at the booth there. Didn't see any in the booth tour video.

That kind of defeats the purpose of calling it shared doesn't it? Might as well just be a straight up store exclusive.

That's kind of odd. They could have sold a ton of those there.

If anything it would've been cheaper for them to produce one kind of chrome between SWC and the shared stores.

Postby **kappait** » Mon Apr 15, 2019 9:42 pm

repair-manmanmanman wrote:
kappait wrote:
repair-manmanmanman wrote:
That kind of defeats the purpose of calling it shared doesn't it? Might as well just be a straight up store exclusive.

That's kind of odd. They could have sold a ton of those there.

If anything it would've been cheaper for them to produce one kind of chrome between SWC and the shared stores.

Yeah but if there were a ton of gold ones at the booth they could sell all day and open to the general public after the blue ones sold out in the first 30 minutes.

Postby **repair-manmanmanman** » Tue Apr 16, 2019 1:47 pm

kappait wrote:
repair-manmanmanman wrote:
kappait wrote:
That's kind of odd. They could have sold a ton of those there.

If anything it would've been cheaper for them to produce one kind of chrome between SWC and the shared stores.

Yeah but if there were a ton of gold ones at the booth they could sell all day and open to the general public after the blue ones sold out in the first 30 minutes.

This is true. I'm guess the logistics only let them bring a finite number and they just went with the blues.

Postby **Mrchong156** » Tue Apr 16, 2019 3:52 pm

2017fanatic wrote:
Mrchong156 wrote:
2017fanatic wrote:

I think it was an accident and is not supposed to release til next week?

ohh ok. i hadnt heard or seen anything. Does anyone know if the dark phoenix got released? or is that another accidental early release?

I think it was the common Dark Phoenix that was released and not the hot topic exclusive

OH ok good to know! i need to add her to my og phoenix collection!

Postby **theoneupper02** » Tue Apr 16, 2019 4:59 pm

I'm waiting for the 4/19 release! Deku!!

Postby **hailmary25** » Tue Apr 16, 2019 5:12 pm

theoneupper02 wrote:I'm waiting for the 4/19 release! Deku!!

I will be outside my HT waiting for this one.

Postby **Mags** » Tue Apr 16, 2019 5:13 pm

hailmary25 wrote:
theoneupper02 wrote:I'm waiting for the 4/19 release! Deku!!

I will be outside my HT waiting for this one.

I'm ready for this one too! Might just get it online tho haha

Postby **kappait** » Tue Apr 16, 2019 10:13 pm

repair-manmanmanman wrote:
kappait wrote:
repair-manmanmanman wrote:
If anything it would've been cheaper for them to produce one kind of chrome between SWC and the shared stores.

Yeah but if there were a ton of gold ones at the booth they could sell all day and open to the general public after the blue ones sold out in the first 30 minutes.

This is true. I'm guess the logistics only let them bring a finite number and they just went with the blues.

I wonder how long they lasted each day. I saw they are doing the next celebration in Anaheim next year. They must be trying to cash in on the opening of Star Wars land and doing it on back to back years. I'll definitely be hitting that up next year. You should head down.

Postby **repair-manmanmanman** » Wed Apr 17, 2019 1:05 pm

kappait wrote:
repair-manmanmanman wrote:
kappait wrote:
Yeah but if there were a ton of gold ones at the booth they could sell all day and open to the general public after the blue ones sold out in the first 30 minutes.

This is true. I'm guess the logistics only let them bring a finite number and they just went with the blues.

I wonder how long they lasted each day. I saw they are doing the next celebration in Anaheim next year. They must be trying to cash in on the opening of Star Wars land and doing it on back to back years. I'll definitely be hitting that up next year. You should head down.

Don't they do it every year? If it's in Anaheim, I'll definitely go and I can check out Galaxy's Edge during that trip too.

Postby **kappait** » Wed Apr 17, 2019 5:26 pm

repair-manmanmanman wrote:
kappait wrote:
repair-manmanmanman wrote:
This is true. I'm guess the logistics only let them bring a finite number and they just went with the blues.

I wonder how long they lasted each day. I saw they are doing the next celebration in Anaheim next year. They must be trying to cash in on the opening of Star Wars land and doing it on back to back years. I'll definitely be hitting that up next year. You should head down.

Don't they do it every year? If it's in Anaheim, I'll definitely go and I can check out Galaxy's Edge during that trip too.

No it's always been every other year and they have done the other year in Europe. So it's been 4 years between celebrations in the US. 2015 was Anaheim 2017 was London I think 2019 was Chicago. I think 2013 was Germany.

And I guess the lottery system was not great this year. Plus badges are 2x the price of SDCC. It's pretty pricey. But I'll be there next year. Haha.

Postby **Nemesis989** » Wed Apr 17, 2019 5:51 pm

Did anybody have any issues getting the gold ones in store? I showed up early, I was the only one who seemed to care about this release

Postby **repair-manmanmanman** » Wed Apr 17, 2019 8:05 pm

kappait wrote:
repair-manmanmanman wrote:
kappait wrote:
I wonder how long they lasted each day. I saw they are doing the next celebration in Anaheim next year. They must be trying to cash in on the opening of Star Wars land and doing it on back to back years. I'll definitely be hitting that up next year. You should head down.

Don't they do it every year? If it's in Anaheim, I'll definitely go and I can check out Galaxy's Edge during that trip too.

No it's always been every other year and they have done the other year in Europe. So it's been 4 years between celebrations in the US. 2015 was Anaheim 2017 was London I think 2019 was Chicago. I think 2013 was Germany.

And I guess the lottery system was not great this year. Plus badges are 2x the price of SDCC. It's pretty pricey. But I'll be there next year. Haha.

Yeah I heard a ton of people weren't able to get into any of the panels they wanted to this year.

wasn't there one in orlando recently?

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