EMPIRE Strikes Back Mystery Minis

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Re: EMPIRE Strikes Back Mystery Minis

Postby Megacam » Tue Jul 24, 2018 11:16 pm

stormofgrace wrote:Does anyone have any layout info for Hot Topic exclusives?


I'd like to know this also. Any sweet spots?

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Postby RBlue30 » Tue Jul 24, 2018 11:30 pm

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Hot Topic online blessed me with these today.


Dang nice pulls! Did you happen to get a lot of 1/6s with the order?


I did. I basically have 2 sets of the 1/6s with Hoth Luke. And from earlier pulls I have 2 Vaders, R2, and Cloud City Han.


Aw dang that’s what I’m scared of. I ordered some lord of the rings minis online and it was basically all 1/6 with a couple 1/12...

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Postby jtee1957 » Wed Jul 25, 2018 12:34 am

Bought my first boxes tonight with last of my hot cash. Got 2 Vader's, a wampa and am R2D2! Happy with that....

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Postby Popfanatics » Wed Jul 25, 2018 12:41 am

Megacam wrote:
stormofgrace wrote:Does anyone have any layout info for Hot Topic exclusives?


I'd like to know this also. Any sweet spots?

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Postby Funko Hunter » Wed Jul 25, 2018 1:13 am

KnightsOfRey wrote:I'm sorry but I'm just insanely jealous of that Bossk. Amazing pull.

I'm mentally preparing myself for the cases with 2 missing that I'm going to see when these start showing up in the couple Hot Topics near me. I don't know about everyone else but I feel like competition in Mystery Mini collecting has become much more fierce recently. The rare figures get picked out within like 8 hours and then there is a box of 1/6 and if you're lucky 1/12 figures rotting on the shelf for the next 6 months. Just brutal.

My only consolation is that this is Star Wars and there will likely be restocks. (Although TLJ was Star Wars and the 4 Walmarts in my town never even got one case between them...)

I actually came across 2 full cases at HT but passed since I wasn’t sure where to pull from. With the wallet being light from SDCC, I didn’t want to risk the disappointment of pulling 4 Chewies

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Postby RogueSolo » Wed Jul 25, 2018 7:18 pm

Hot Topic case E stands for "Everything Except Exclusives"... Lando and Wampa.
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Postby yokofox33 » Thu Jul 26, 2018 8:44 am

Hit up 5 GameStops yesterday in search of 4-Lom. Pulled an AT-AT, GS Leia, Wampa, IG-88, and a few Landos as my "chase" slots. Can't complain too much about the IG-88, but was very frustrating thinking I had beat everyone (FINALLY) to a full case of these and then not pulling 4-Lom.
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Postby Popfanatics » Thu Jul 26, 2018 11:11 am

RogueSolo wrote:Hot Topic case E stands for "Everything Except Exclusives"... Lando and Wampa.

Don’t forget there is exclusive Han in there ;-)
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Postby Jevanow » Thu Jul 26, 2018 11:42 am

The IG-88 will forever elude me. Lol He’s the only one I’m looking for out of the set because he was my favorite as a kid. All 5 seconds of screen time he got, and then seeing the figure in store (one of my first Star Wars purchases) cemented him in a special place in my nerd heart with Chewbacca.
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Postby RogueSolo » Thu Jul 26, 2018 1:03 pm

Popfanatics wrote:
RogueSolo wrote:Hot Topic case E stands for "Everything Except Exclusives"... Lando and Wampa.

Don’t forget there is exclusive Han in there ;-)

I was only counting "chase" ratio figures above 1/12.
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Postby AnyGivenFunko » Thu Jul 26, 2018 1:40 pm

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Hot Topic online blessed me with these today.


So that's where are all the exclusives went. My online order had two R2-D2, two Vaders, two Chewie, one Hoth Luke, one Lando, and two Yoda. lol
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Postby bug86 » Thu Jul 26, 2018 3:54 pm

Saw a few boxes at Hot Topic yesterday. Didn't want to take a chance since i'm still waiting for my online order to get here this week.
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Postby Jackson » Thu Jul 26, 2018 8:30 pm

yokofox33 wrote:Hit up 5 GameStops yesterday in search of 4-Lom. Pulled an AT-AT, GS Leia, Wampa, IG-88, and a few Landos as my "chase" slots. Can't complain too much about the IG-88, but was very frustrating thinking I had beat everyone (FINALLY) to a full case of these and then not pulling 4-Lom.

I called my GameStop today and hey had got them in but I was gonna wait and see if any sweet spots had been found. After four cases did you find any. Thanks for the help

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Postby Jackson » Thu Jul 26, 2018 8:32 pm

Also I found some of these at hot topic today and I bought a full case and got lando and IG-88. There was another box so I grabbed the middle four and got another lando and a wampa. I little disappointed I didn’t get the bossk or snow trooper but getting an extra lando and the wampa in four cases eased the pain.

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Postby xbox_jeff » Thu Jul 26, 2018 11:56 pm

I'm such an idiot...I knew better than to buy them on Amazon as they came from some toy store (Outlander Toy Store)...I ordered 4, got Han, Chewie, Yoda and Vader which I already had plenty, but, wanted to gamble to get a bounty hunter...anyhoo...One of them showed up with no shrink wrap, when I opened, there was a ton of glue and Vader was not in a black bag. Clearly, someone glued this one back to look like new. I'm kind of p*** because I expect a Toy Store to not do this...They clearly did it on purpose hoping someone wouldn't notice. Seriously? I guess I should have expected at a min a toy store might weight these and sort what they keep vs sell. Perhaps they thought vader was some other higher variable, then tried to sell it off. I accept my super low odds of getting a good one, but, don't cheat me. A-holes!
Update: Amazon removed my seller feedback, what!? I complained, they refunded...spent the $ at Gamestop today. Last time I buy blind bags from Amazon.
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Postby bug86 » Fri Jul 27, 2018 4:45 pm

Picked up four boxes at game stop today. Got Vader,Yoda,Lando and Chewie. Happy I didn't get any doubles there. Got my six boxes in the mail from Hot Topic. Got two Vaders,a chewie, two regular hans and a wampa. So i'm only missing three of the regular ones and the exclusive ones which isn't so bad.
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Postby xbox_jeff » Fri Jul 27, 2018 6:06 pm

bug86 wrote:Picked up four boxes at game stop today. Got Vader,Yoda,Lando and Chewie. Happy I didn't get any doubles there. Got my six boxes in the mail from Hot Topic. Got two Vaders,a chewie, two regular hans and a wampa. So i'm only missing three of the regular ones and the exclusive ones which isn't so bad.

Nice, I got 4 today too...grabbed the middle boxes, Wampa, Lando and two R2D2. Donated the R2D2s, but, a good score on Wampa and Lando which I didn't yet have.

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Postby RogueSolo » Fri Jul 27, 2018 6:08 pm

Sounds like Wampa and Lando is a pretty common case.
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Postby jcrook » Fri Jul 27, 2018 6:17 pm

I picked up 3 boxes and got wampa, R2D2, and Chewie. Pretty happy with mine. Still waiting for my HT ones to arrive.
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Postby LordBrubaker » Fri Jul 27, 2018 6:41 pm

Still looking for 4Lom!

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Postby yokofox33 » Fri Jul 27, 2018 8:55 pm

LordBrubaker wrote:Still looking for 4Lom!


You and me both, friend. No luck at like close to 10 GS stores for me.
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Postby RogueSolo » Fri Jul 27, 2018 9:25 pm

Hot Topic warehouse must have been inundated with orders for these, I just received an email saying they shipped the rest of my online order but not the minis.
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Postby RogueSolo » Sat Jul 28, 2018 3:43 pm

... and now my minis were cancelled. Lame.
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Postby MyFriendKevin » Sat Jul 28, 2018 11:13 pm

Does anyone have any information about when the Target wave is going to be released?
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Postby Mini-B » Sun Jul 29, 2018 8:43 pm

Hey everyone, new to the board, but wanted to share the info my daughter and I had pulled together so far.
We pulled an IG-88 from GS (49.74) & from HT (49.41). Lucky enough to get a 4-LOM (53.90) & Leia (54.34) out of a Gamestop Case "B".

We grabbed the Top 6 from the box we found at Hot Topic. It appeared to be untouched. That layer had the following: IG-88, Lando (56.20), Hoth Han(54.15), Hoth Luke(56.91) and two Vaders(59.85 & 57.36).

We have struck out in the search for Wampa and AT-AT.

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Postby yokofox33 » Sun Jul 29, 2018 9:55 pm

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yokofox33 wrote:Hit up 5 GameStops yesterday in search of 4-Lom. Pulled an AT-AT, GS Leia, Wampa, IG-88, and a few Landos as my "chase" slots. Can't complain too much about the IG-88, but was very frustrating thinking I had beat everyone (FINALLY) to a full case of these and then not pulling 4-Lom.

I called my GameStop today and hey had got them in but I was gonna wait and see if any sweet spots had been found. After four cases did you find any. Thanks for the help


Sorry for the late reply, but it seems that Gamestop cases have sweet spots of top middle from my experience of hitting up stores. Got chase pulls every time I found an untouched case from the middle top slots. Still no luck with 4-Lom though!
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Postby bkizzle74 » Sun Jul 29, 2018 11:08 pm

Bought 4 boxes at ThinkGeek and pulled a 4-LOM. Willing to trade it for a Bossk from HT.

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Postby Nooklin » Mon Jul 30, 2018 7:39 pm

Bummer that the most desired are store exclusives. So far only an IG-88 and Bossk. The troopers are harder to find. This set is essential as I'm a trooper nut and love the bounty hunters.

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Postby FunkoFern » Mon Jul 30, 2018 11:40 pm

I really need to find me a Yoda!!! Might have to resort to eBay!
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Postby xbox_jeff » Tue Jul 31, 2018 12:21 am

FunkoFern wrote:I really need to find me a Yoda!!! Might have to resort to eBay!

Seriously? Its super common...hell, I'll just send you one of my extras.

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Postby xbox_jeff » Tue Jul 31, 2018 12:23 am

yokofox33 wrote:
Jackson wrote:
yokofox33 wrote:Hit up 5 GameStops yesterday in search of 4-Lom. Pulled an AT-AT, GS Leia, Wampa, IG-88, and a few Landos as my "chase" slots. Can't complain too much about the IG-88, but was very frustrating thinking I had beat everyone (FINALLY) to a full case of these and then not pulling 4-Lom.

I called my GameStop today and hey had got them in but I was gonna wait and see if any sweet spots had been found. After four cases did you find any. Thanks for the help


Sorry for the late reply, but it seems that Gamestop cases have sweet spots of top middle from my experience of hitting up stores. Got chase pulls every time I found an untouched case from the middle top slots. Still no luck with 4-Lom though!


So an interesting issue is walking into gamestop and there are just a handful of boxes left. Do you assume someone too the chases or did someone take a bunch not knowing. I'd bet the ones left over are commons, but, you just don't know.

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Postby MiniDeadpool » Tue Jul 31, 2018 12:24 am

I pulled one and got a Chewbacca lol.
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Postby FunkoFern » Tue Jul 31, 2018 12:27 am

xbox_jeff wrote:
FunkoFern wrote:I really need to find me a Yoda!!! Might have to resort to eBay!

Seriously? Its super common...hell, I'll just send you one of my extras.


Aww thats nice of you! HAHA going after just 1 saves me from getting the entire line (I'm so out of space!!!!)
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Postby ImranC23 » Tue Jul 31, 2018 12:43 am

need a boba fett bad! has anyone been able to find one in the wild yet? I haven't seen any ESB boxes in my area
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Postby xbox_jeff » Tue Jul 31, 2018 10:34 am

ImranC23 wrote:need a boba fett bad! has anyone been able to find one in the wild yet? I haven't seen any ESB boxes in my area

Im sure some have been found, I saw one on ebay. Seems to be more people showing off their 1/72. Perhaps they are just more excited about the 1/72, but, I expected many more people showing off their Fetts.

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Postby Jevanow » Tue Jul 31, 2018 10:51 am

Nooklin wrote:Bummer that the most desired are store exclusives. So far only an IG-88 and Bossk. The troopers are harder to find. This set is essential as I'm a trooper nut and love the bounty hunters.


I’m in the same boat with you. Lol I’ve got all of my BH pops lined up on my case and they’ll never have their tiny counterparts. :(

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Postby Jackson » Tue Jul 31, 2018 6:35 pm

I have an extra IG-88 if anyone is wanting to trade. PM me if interested

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Postby Grex54 » Tue Jul 31, 2018 7:55 pm

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ImranC23 wrote:need a boba fett bad! has anyone been able to find one in the wild yet? I haven't seen any ESB boxes in my area

Im sure some have been found, I saw one on ebay. Seems to be more people showing off their 1/72. Perhaps they are just more excited about the 1/72, but, I expected many more people showing off their Fetts.


I've managed to find two boba fetts, but the extra is already spoken for.
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Postby xbox_jeff » Wed Aug 01, 2018 12:12 am

FunkoFern wrote:
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FunkoFern wrote:I really need to find me a Yoda!!! Might have to resort to eBay!

Seriously? Its super common...hell, I'll just send you one of my extras.


Aww thats nice of you! HAHA going after just 1 saves me from getting the entire line (I'm so out of space!!!!)


Ok, well let me know if you want this Yoda, else, its being donated to coworkers. BTW, pro-tip...yoda and R2 are easy to pick out of a case, they are the super light ones.

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Postby xbox_jeff » Wed Aug 01, 2018 12:18 am

Grex54 wrote:
xbox_jeff wrote:
ImranC23 wrote:need a boba fett bad! has anyone been able to find one in the wild yet? I haven't seen any ESB boxes in my area

Im sure some have been found, I saw one on ebay. Seems to be more people showing off their 1/72. Perhaps they are just more excited about the 1/72, but, I expected many more people showing off their Fetts.


I've managed to find two boba fetts, but the extra is already spoken for.

Congrats! Were they both in the top middle chase spots or elsewhere?


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