Science Fiction PSH!

Postby **Shinfo13** » Tue Aug 01, 2017 10:35 pm

I've found at least 7 fresh(ish) boxes at different GS and HTs in my area and absolutely no luck finding Zoidberg. Its the last one I need as I'm not going for the full set, but at this point I'm just gonna hold out til they're out everywhere and like $5 on ebay.

Postby **synergy56** » Wed Aug 02, 2017 1:44 am

Are Marty and Zoidberg only in common boxes because I went through an entire Gamestop and Hot Topic case and couldn't find either of those.

Postby **Alpha_Goat** » Wed Aug 02, 2017 2:22 am

Found these at gamestop and HT this weekend, bought about 9 packs, got no dupes and 3 exclusives. Not sure if I should push my luck or just buy the rest on ebay.

Postby **thx42** » Wed Aug 02, 2017 10:37 am

I bought a regular case, so I got 2 of each of the non-exclusives. Bought another 6 from GameStop and was able to get the 3 exclusives. Now I guess I need to try my luck with Hot Topic.

Postby **x56735x** » Wed Aug 02, 2017 5:44 pm

nerdandcheese wrote:Man, I haven't seen these in a store yet. I need that Martian!

Martian should be pretty easy to get. Just feel for his dome helmet and then make sure its him by feeling for the bottom rim of the helmet. G'luck getting him!

Postby **x56735x** » Wed Aug 02, 2017 5:51 pm

synergy56 wrote:Are Marty and Zoidberg only in common boxes because I went through an entire Gamestop and Hot Topic case and couldn't find either of those.

Could be that they're only in common boxes. It seems it has been a trend for them to not be in GS and HT exclusive boxes for me as well.

Postby **x56735x** » Wed Aug 02, 2017 9:34 pm

x56735x wrote:
synergy56 wrote:Are Marty and Zoidberg only in common boxes because I went through an entire Gamestop and Hot Topic case and couldn't find either of those.

Could be that they're only in common boxes. It seems it has been a trend for them to not be in GS and HT exclusive boxes for me as well.

I found zoidberg in common boxes only. Found 2 of them in separate common boxes

Postby **matrixman9** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 12:18 am

gonna go to hot topic tomorrow morning and fight my fear of standing there feeling bags in front of everyone lol

. Gonna try for mars attacks and bender

Postby **CorgiKohmander** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 3:15 am

Heading to my Hot Topic tomorrow and looking for the exclusives there. Fifth Element Mangalore with his pointy ears and Bender with his pointy antenna should be simple enough to feel for. The really tricky one will be distinguishing Neo from Trinity. Any tips out there?

Postby **BadEugoogolizer** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 5:05 am

Scored the only two of this set I was looking for. Managed to find em in only two locations in the same mall =D Now PSH Bender and Zoidberg stand with their Mini and Pop counterparts!

Postby **keyese** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 3:34 pm

CorgiKohmander wrote:Heading to my Hot Topic tomorrow and looking for the exclusives there. Fifth Element Mangalore with his pointy ears and Bender with his pointy antenna should be simple enough to feel for. The really tricky one will be distinguishing Neo from Trinity. Any tips out there?

They are difficult, but here's how I found her! Grab the mini by the base so that you are oriented. Feel on the front and back of the head to see which side is the face. For both Neo and Trinity, you can feel the ridge of their sunglasses to find their face. Now the tricky part! Neo has a more prominent, more towards the middle hair part. Like, the hair is raised so you can feel the swoop, if that makes sense. With Trinity, her hair is more flat, and parted a bit more off to the side. Just don't confuse her with Spock (who's hair is straight across uniformly, and he has pointy ears).

Hope that helps!

Postby **Classier** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 5:24 pm

I went to Hot Topic, and felt one pack. It had the only one I want (Bender) inside. Talk about lucky lol

Postby **CorgiKohmander** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 7:24 pm

kihou wrote:
CorgiKohmander wrote:Heading to my Hot Topic tomorrow and looking for the exclusives there. Fifth Element Mangalore with his pointy ears and Bender with his pointy antenna should be simple enough to feel for. The really tricky one will be distinguishing Neo from Trinity. Any tips out there?

They are difficult, but here's how I found her! Grab the mini by the base so that you are oriented. Feel on the front and back of the head to see which side is the face. For both Neo and Trinity, you can feel the ridge of their sunglasses to find their face. Now the tricky part! Neo has a more prominent, more towards the middle hair part. Like, the hair is raised so you can feel the swoop, if that makes sense. With Trinity, her hair is more flat, and parted a bit more off to the side. Just don't confuse her with Spock (who's hair is straight across uniformly, and he has pointy ears).

Hope that helps!

Thanks for the detailed feeler info. That will definitely help. If i Happen to get duplicates I'll just give them away during one my CorgiLoot giveaways on twiter.

Postby **InternationalPopper** » Fri Aug 04, 2017 10:33 am

OMG!!! I need the Robot from Lost In Space!!! That is crazy cooooooolllll!!! The more I look into Funko products there more my wallet starts to cry! lol

Thanks Funko these are the bomb dot com!
:razz:

-InternationalPopper

Postby **cerealkiller** » Fri Aug 04, 2017 4:13 pm

my martian army is growing! 13 and counting.

Postby **KnightsOfRey** » Fri Aug 04, 2017 8:09 pm

I did pretty well with these at Gamestop, managing to get all 12 with only a single dupe Predator, but I failed spectacularly at Hot Topic. Bender was easy, but I pulled a robot thinking it was the mangalore, then a spock, two Neos, and a Leeloo before I finally got Trinity. I really don't understand why Hot Topic needs to charge 40% more than everyone else for Funko minis.

But it was worth it; these little guys are amazing. I vowed to always love Mystery Mini more than PSH but they are starting to break me down...

Postby **longlegs** » Fri Aug 04, 2017 10:23 pm

I know how you feel. I failed at a few Gamestops. I've been trying to get the Borg, but no luck. So the hunt continues...

Postby **keyese** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 5:41 pm

CorgiKohmander wrote:
kihou wrote:
CorgiKohmander wrote:Heading to my Hot Topic tomorrow and looking for the exclusives there. Fifth Element Mangalore with his pointy ears and Bender with his pointy antenna should be simple enough to feel for. The really tricky one will be distinguishing Neo from Trinity. Any tips out there?

They are difficult, but here's how I found her! Grab the mini by the base so that you are oriented. Feel on the front and back of the head to see which side is the face. For both Neo and Trinity, you can feel the ridge of their sunglasses to find their face. Now the tricky part! Neo has a more prominent, more towards the middle hair part. Like, the hair is raised so you can feel the swoop, if that makes sense. With Trinity, her hair is more flat, and parted a bit more off to the side. Just don't confuse her with Spock (who's hair is straight across uniformly, and he has pointy ears).

Hope that helps!

Thanks for the detailed feeler info. That will definitely help. If i Happen to get duplicates I'll just give them away during one my CorgiLoot giveaways on twiter.

How'd you do?

Postby **MiniDeadpool** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 5:45 pm

I only saw ONE of these at Hot Topic after checking FYE, HT, Gamestop and TRU.

And the one that was at HT had tape on the bag so I didnt bother. Why do people feel the need to rip the bag just to see what it was?

Postby **KnightsOfRey** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 8:42 pm

MiniDeadpool wrote:I only saw ONE of these at Hot Topic after checking FYE, HT, Gamestop and TRU.

And the one that was at HT had tape on the bag so I didnt bother. Why do people feel the need to rip the bag just to see what it was?

The why isn't difficult to figure out, but it's disappointing how common this behavior is. I guess it's a shade better than just flat out stealing them and leaving an empty package in there, which I see in like 75% of PSH boxes.

I have a feeling that retailers won't tolerate that sort of thing forever, and we'll all end up worse off for it.

Postby **MiniDeadpool** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 10:09 pm

KnightsOfRey wrote:
MiniDeadpool wrote:I only saw ONE of these at Hot Topic after checking FYE, HT, Gamestop and TRU.

And the one that was at HT had tape on the bag so I didnt bother. Why do people feel the need to rip the bag just to see what it was?

The why isn't difficult to figure out, but it's disappointing how common this behavior is. I guess it's a shade better than just flat out stealing them and leaving an empty package in there, which I see in like 75% of PSH boxes.

I have a feeling that retailers won't tolerate that sort of thing forever, and we'll all end up worse off for it.

Yeah, this isn't the first time Ive seen one having to be taped up...I saw a GOTG2 one taped up in FYE last time I was at the mall too.

Well at another store in the mall which had some Five nights at Freddys and disney PSH's...I saw a sign that basically said "you open it, you have to pay for it" which meant that some retailers are trying to curb this sort of behavior. But yeah, PSH's seem to have flown out of the stores that I see them in most of the time within under a week or so.

Postby **CaseyJones14** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 10:44 pm

The PSH bags can be pretty flimsy and I'm sure lots of the open bags are accidents. You get tons of people feeling them up and they are bound to break at some point. Most of the bags I see opened are either open from the side or bottom and not the top. I'm not exactly sure what Funko could do to fix this problem, but hopefully we don't see mini-boxes for PSH in the future.

Postby **KnightsOfRey** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 11:03 pm

Some PSH bags are flimsier than others. I doubt many WWE or Science Fiction minis have opened just from people groping them. GOTG2 bags pop open if you look at them wrong.

Postby **MiniDeadpool** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 11:31 pm

CaseyJones14 wrote:The PSH bags can be pretty flimsy and I'm sure lots of the open bags are accidents. You get tons of people feeling them up and they are bound to break at some point. Most of the bags I see opened are either open from the side or bottom and not the top. I'm not exactly sure what Funko could do to fix this problem, but hopefully we don't see mini-boxes for PSH in the future.

The one I saw open was probably from the top. Anyway when I try to feel the bags I generally try to be careful and try to prevent myself from "pushing" the PSH upward on any of the sides.

Postby **TriFeckTa** » Tue Aug 08, 2017 3:32 am

Went to gamestop on my lunchbreak to try to "feel" for a predator and noticed all the Sci Fi PSH packages were opened up by someone and had scotch tape to reseal it. Needless to say the transparent gamestop exclusive predator wasn't there.

Postby **keyese** » Tue Aug 08, 2017 12:22 pm

KnightsOfRey wrote:Some PSH bags are flimsier than others. I doubt many WWE or Science Fiction minis have opened just from people groping them. GOTG2 bags pop open if you look at them wrong.

Yeah I popped a couple of those bags open by accident trying to feel for Groot. I ended up buying them because I felt bad, but it did put a damper on trying to feel them up too much.

There are some times when it's the bag's fault, but most of the time I see them ripped open from the top as though someone opened them to investigate and (maybe) put them back. I've seen some stores put them in the plastic security boxes, which sucks for hunting because you have to find someone to open them, and then you probably can't feel them up as much.

Postby **MiniDeadpool** » Tue Aug 08, 2017 5:34 pm

TriFeckTa wrote:Went to gamestop on my lunchbreak to try to "feel" for a predator and noticed all the Sci Fi PSH packages were opened up by someone and had scotch tape to reseal it. Needless to say the transparent gamestop exclusive predator wasn't there.

Ugh. I hate it when this happens so someone can pretty much cheat to get one of the store exclusives.

Postby **Propellarhead9** » Wed Aug 09, 2017 11:14 pm

I think I need to buy a few more this weekend. I've only picked up 3 so far. I've tried to feel out specific ones and guess wrong every time lol

. Luckily still ones I wanted though.

Postby **MiniDeadpool** » Fri Aug 11, 2017 4:43 pm

So I felt some up at games stop and bought one, I could tell it was either 2 robots and one martian so I bought one, and ended up with the robot.

Postby **x56735x** » Sat Aug 12, 2017 4:13 am

I'm on the fence about the "feeling" the bags. On one hand, I feel like its a good thing to be able to guess what something is so that the money you spend is relatively put towards something you want. On the other hand, it causes some behavior that could be questionable and it takes the "fun out of the surprise". All in all though, I guess its a pretty good mix as Funko has both the bags you can "Feel" and the MM which are totally blind.

Postby **MiniDeadpool** » Sat Aug 12, 2017 1:12 pm

x56735x wrote:I'm on the fence about the "feeling" the bags. On one hand, I feel like its a good thing to be able to guess what something is so that the money you spend is relatively put towards something you want. On the other hand, it causes some behavior that could be questionable and it takes the "fun out of the surprise". All in all though, I guess its a pretty good mix as Funko has both the bags you can "Feel" and the MM which are totally blind.

Yeah thats what I was trying to say, was that at my game stop I check it every week and one day they had no Sci FI PSH's then the other day they only had three so yeah. Someone else felt all the bags so there was only the 2 robbies/1 martian left

Postby **x56735x** » Sat Aug 12, 2017 1:17 pm

one of the gamestops I went to had every bag opened at the bottom heat seal. I notified the employee and he shrugged it off like it was an everyday thing. kinda sad. he did let me choose whichever one i wanted from the open bags and then put them all in the back. Got me facehugger and the clear predator...so score?

Postby **MiniDeadpool** » Sat Aug 12, 2017 1:22 pm

x56735x wrote:one of the gamestops I went to had every bag opened at the bottom heat seal. I notified the employee and he shrugged it off like it was an everyday thing. kinda sad. he did let me choose whichever one i wanted from the open bags and then put them all in the back. Got me facehugger and the clear predator...so score?

Wow, every bag opened? That..kind of reminds me of the only one I saw at Hot Topic being taped shut. Yeah I mean I do feel stuff up but just to try to eliminate the ones I dont want. (Ie I was kind of trying to go for the common alien but ended up with robby)

Postby **pinklaquer** » Sat Aug 12, 2017 1:25 pm

I have yet to score the Martian from Mars Attacks!
fingers crossed!

Postby **avanegas43** » Sat Aug 12, 2017 3:06 pm

Thanks to Shinfo13 I now have Facehugger and the unmasked Predator! Still looking around to grab the invisible predator and masked predator then I'll be complete for my Sci-Fi PSH line (Alien and Predator)!!!

Postby **Propellarhead9** » Sat Aug 12, 2017 7:03 pm

I ended up being able to find 2 of them that I wanted the most today. I pulled a Martian and Clear Predator.

Postby **Angology** » Sat Aug 12, 2017 7:23 pm

kihou wrote:
CorgiKohmander wrote:Heading to my Hot Topic tomorrow and looking for the exclusives there. Fifth Element Mangalore with his pointy ears and Bender with his pointy antenna should be simple enough to feel for. The really tricky one will be distinguishing Neo from Trinity. Any tips out there?

They are difficult, but here's how I found her! Grab the mini by the base so that you are oriented. Feel on the front and back of the head to see which side is the face. For both Neo and Trinity, you can feel the ridge of their sunglasses to find their face. Now the tricky part! Neo has a more prominent, more towards the middle hair part. Like, the hair is raised so you can feel the swoop, if that makes sense. With Trinity, her hair is more flat, and parted a bit more off to the side. Just don't confuse her with Spock (who's hair is straight across uniformly, and he has pointy ears).

Hope that helps!

This is my technique (probably most people's) I was looking at some PSH and I actually muttered under my breath without realizing it (DH gleefully pointed it out) "Grasp the body, feel the head". And I did it more than once! Funko makes you crazy sometimes, I guess.

At Wal-Mart, a bunch of the Power Rangers bags were opened, but when I went past those, the first one I felt for was one of the WM exclusives.

I haven't gone looking for the Sci Fi ones too much yet. Saw some at Gamestop, but didn't have time to look. They are so cute-I hope to get some soon!

Postby **keyese** » Sun Aug 13, 2017 10:16 pm

pinklaquer wrote:I have yet to score the Martian from Mars Attacks!
fingers crossed!

He's the easiest to feel for at least! Good luck on your hunt

Postby **HellKat613** » Mon Aug 14, 2017 2:29 am

Have yet to find a common box but I don't get out much lately. Still hoping to find Marty and Zoidberg reasonably on ebay.

Postby **keyese** » Mon Aug 14, 2017 3:06 pm

I've found the common boxes at Toys R Us and Box Lunch. FYI, at TRU the sci fi pints are priced $7.99 @_@ I was able to get them to price match to Gamestop by bringing it up on their site and showing the cashier. So don't be afraid to buy them there and price match.

I might have not been good enough at picking out the pints, but I only found 1 Marty in a full box (unless it was maybe messed with already). He's a little more difficult to find because Neo is similar, but you can feel his hair parts the opposite way as Neo, and Neo has sunglasses. Zoidburg is easier to find since he has the weird chin and a circular headband.

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