I think I saw on the facebook groups that Vegas got them late last week so it should be filtering through to the rest of the West Coast fairly quickly I assume? I still have to wait at least another two weeks for Australia to get them
I'll probably just order a case and until it comes take my scales to stores and try for exclusives/rares as I really want the Merry/Pippen pairing and the case layouts I've seen have NOT been good...
Grex54 wrote:I ended up grabbing the front two on top and bottom from gamestop. I got Arwen and Sam from top two, and Frodo and Pippen from the bottom two.
Congrats! I know everyone is after Eowyn, but I reckon Arwen is going to be just as hard to get, but may improve over time, I guess depending on how many HT vs normal Funko cases are produced...
Esko5150 wrote:Called around my local Hot Topics to see if they had gotten any of the exclusives yet. Not surprisingly 2 of the closest cities had already sold out, they didn't even post on their IG that they were on sale. such bs. Then I call the farthest of the HT's near me and they surprisingly had about 7 boxes the guy said. So I asked if he could hold them and he said yes, so I drive about 45 minutes to the mall where it's at and he hands me the case. Looked pretty new and my girl and I buy like 5 boxes. Open them up and this is what we got
[bummer image]
We weren't happy I can tell you that. They basically got the leftovers of two boxes and threw them into one to make it look new and we got the S#%t end of the stick. Oh well, if anyone needs a frodo or samwise let me know.
That sucks mate, I feel for you... That's exactly what drove me to get scales... It's a bit harder over here because most if not all stores pull out the boxes and put their own barcodes on them. so you can't trust that they're in their proper spots, and I got sick of the dupes, especially in a case with 3x 1/6s! Best $10 I ever spent... has saved me a lot of wasted $ and annoyance...
saban wrote:Is there a petition somewhere to stop 1/6 ratios? If I'm looking to buy a fresh full case I really don't want to get duplicates.
I think we all need to stop whinging about the ratios and actually get out there and do something like a petition... If thousands of Funko fans actually get behind this, at least Funko will know that it's not just the few collectors and flippers that have a problem with it... I'm sort of ok with maximum of two 1/6s IF they are done right (like LOTR with two highly popular characters) or if it doesn't matter if they're doubles like Stormtroopers or even Jawas or whatnot, but the best situation is like the Disney Afternoon series where the exclusives are the 1/6s (mostly) and the rares are the same across the entire collection... That promotes more sales across different sorts of variants and also the marketisn't flooded with the same 2-4 characters, but it's spread out more over 6-9
If I'm bored at work later I'll have to check to see if there is a petition and if not start one as I'm sick of doing nothing... I know it's a real First World Problem, but we can't sit back and let big companies keep screwing fans over...