Jakks Pacific Simpsons

Seems like some Targets still have their figures on sale. Went to one and found the new wave for the first time- Grampa, Edna, and Hockey Bart, all for full price, but the next one I went to had Grampa, Troy McClure, and Hockey Bart, all of which rang up at $7. Ended up getting Grampa and Troy, and found Ralph while visiting home last week. Still such strange distribution, but could be worth it to check your local stores.
 
Found a lone Mr. Burns and no one else at a Target last weekend. He was full price but I did see a few days later they were marked down at another store, but just had a bunch of Sick Homers.

My nearest Target had Willie and Otto last night, full price. It is weird distribution. It beats Walmart around here, though, all they ever seem to have is Bart/Bartman.
 
And independent seller on Amazon had Stupid Sexy Flanders for 20 bucks and I caved. I’ve seen Hockey Bart once, but aside from that nothing since wave 3. The distribution is terrible and makes little sense, like they pick and choose who gets which wave.

Flanders is at least a solid one to spend more than retail on. His legs are slightly loose, but not enough to prevent him from holding a pose. I just wish he had a more obvious smile.
 
altcunningham said:
Oh, a Professor Frink figure. That's real useful.
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He better come with the Sarcasm Detector, hoyvin glayvin.

And now that you mention it, a Comic Book Guy in the larger scale is definitely needed too. I have the smaller one on my desk to keep me in nerd-mode when perusing the interweb, but a larger one is certainly welcome, if only to recreate the scene with Frink.
 
altcunningham said:
The people demand Disco Stu.
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Definitely. Did you know Disco Stu action figure sales were up 400% in the year ending 1976?
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Also, he desperately needs the platform shoes with the dead fish in them.

(Also, it's fun that we've lived long enough that disco received a complete critical reappraisal and now it's a beloved retro genre whose influence is directly visible in stateside dance and pop, rather than just obliquely visible through the Euro dance and pop that occasionally lands here.)
 
I am appreciable to disco because in Middle school VH1 got the licence for Saturday Night Fever and just aired it ad nauseam. That Christmas my parents got me the soundtrack so I could walk around to Staying Alive.
 
altcunningham said:
I am appreciable to disco because in Middle school VH1 got the licence for Saturday Night Fever and just aired it ad nauseam. That Christmas my parents got me the soundtrack so I could walk around to Staying Alive.
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We can tell by the way you use that walk you're a woman's man with no time to talk!
 
I went into a Walmart and two Targets today - not a single one had a Simpsons section anymore. Probably not a good sign for the health of the line.
 
Misfit said:
I went into a Walmart and two Targets today - not a single one had a Simpsons section anymore. Probably not a good sign for the health of the line.
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My Walmart and both Targets near me both had all Simpsons stuff on clearance right after Christmas.

One of the Targets still have a bunch of living room and sedans with the family sitting at 50% off on a clearance endcap. There were probably 20 of each when I was there last weekend. The other either sold out or shipped them out (or put them on a clearance endcap somewhere I haven't seen).

My Walmart still has a bunch of 5" Bartman and Homer priced at $7 each now, but I think they were out of the 2.5" stuff when I was there this past weekend, and they had been sitting on a whole bunch before that. They had been put out on a special Toys clearance section along with a ton of Spin Masters Superman movie stuff that was very sharply reduced.
 
I made my weekly trip to Walmart today and they had removed the clearance toy section that had been there a week ago but had moved everything back to a special clearance aisle between Health/Beauty and Lawn/Garden. They had a bunch of 5" Simpsons stuff but like 2/3 of it was Bartman. Some it was marked $5 and some was marked $7. They did have more of the 2.5" line than I remembered marked down to $3 each. I saw a lot of Grandpa and Bart.

Then I went to my closest Target and they at least 20 of the living room set at like $7.69. A week ago they had several of the sedan/family sets but those were all gone this week. I found one lonely 5" Marge and Krusty marked at $4 each. I didn't see any individual 2.5" figures there. The other Target I went to today didn't have any Simpson stuff that I could find, but they might have been on a clearance endcap somewhere that I didn't see.

None of those 3 stores had stock where they used to keep it. It was in a clearance section or not at all.
 
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