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They are 2 different sightings...
you can look at the original and see the hook is USA made:
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html...cat=0&_from=R40
The youtube video has a UK hook

I also asked where cindybean got it from and this is the response:

I have a direct account with Activision. I received in a shipment of 250 boxes of the Wave 5.1 single pack Skylander Giants these were in that shipment. If you would like pictures I will gladly show you the shipment sitting on 3 pallets

Thanks

Anthony

Quote: dinoah2005

They are 2 different sightings...
you can look at the original and see the hook is USA made:
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html...cat=0&_from=R40
The youtube video has a UK hook

I also asked where cindybean got it from and this is the response:

I have a direct account with Activision. I received in a shipment of 250 boxes of the Wave 5.1 single pack Skylander Giants these were in that shipment. If you would like pictures I will gladly show you the shipment sitting on 3 pallets

Thanks

Anthony

But didn't we already establish that she couldn't have had an account with Activision because her net worth wasn't high enough? I for one would just like a clear, not shady or distorted answer. I'm so close to not even caring about variants anymore after all this headache.

Just saw a purple variant metallic EyeBrawl from another site.





Unless I was able to get one for retail or they showed up as an in-game variant I'd rather make my own customs.

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Quote: dinoah2005

They are 2 different sightings...
you can look at the original and see the hook is USA made:
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html...cat=0&_from=R40
The youtube video has a UK hook

I also asked where cindybean got it from and this is the response:

I have a direct account with Activision. I received in a shipment of 250 boxes of the Wave 5.1 single pack Skylander Giants these were in that shipment. If you would like pictures I will gladly show you the shipment sitting on 3 pallets

Thanks

Anthony

But didn't we already establish that she couldn't have had an account with Activision because her net worth wasn't high enough? I for one would just like a clear, not shady or distorted answer. I'm so close to not even caring about variants anymore after all this headache.

I thought someone asked her this earlier and she said the above statement.
If this is true thou and she has account with them then it makes some sense shes finding these things. I for one have seen wave 5.1 1 time at Walmart. the Walmart buy me got one wave 5.1 box and not another since. I know its very rare but maybe those first set had none of these are so little that the 1-5 ppl that found them just kept them and haven't come online to sell them etc.

I think these well be popping up by months end more on eBay or at most August. I mean Swap force is due to Oct there not much time left.

Somebody did--it was me--and she contradicted herself. I'll post--

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Quote: UncleBob

You spread your written feces across three different threads

For someone that claims moral superiority, that is quite a vivid picture you are painting. Shall we call you out for using a mature insult indicating someone is playing with their excrement, or should we just assume you are using a slang term and don't mean it like that? After all these are just little plastic toys and fragile children minds we are talking about. That sort of salty language isn't nice!

See how that works?

Aren't you tired of getting taken to the psychological woodshed by Defpally yet, UncleTroll?
If someone took me to the woodshed as many times as you've been taken there over the past couple of days ... I know I would be tired and sore.

Regarding Cindy Beans ... there is no way that she has an "account" with Activision. She even said so herself. She has a personal "in" with someone at a major retailer's distribution center and/or brick-and-mortar storefront. The other two possibilities are that she buys them stolen/black market or from an international wholesaler, most likely from China. Regardless of which of these scenarios is the reality, it obviously involves some shady activity (at best) or illegal activity (at worst). I would lean toward shady, rather than illegal, because if what she has been doing was illegal, I'd like to think she would have been caught after being "in business" for over a decade.

If we make a (very modest) estimate that each 12-box of brand new sealed Skylanders costs $60 (it's probably higher than that), then she would have had to spend $15,000 to acquire 250 boxes. Think about that.

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I think this is a second sighting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCztcKTIVgU

EDIT: Or rather the first sighting according to the date the video was posted.

NOW we're talking.

That little girl's accent .... Australian?
Pardon me if I'm wrong, Australians.

I've never heard of "TESCO" stores ... so I assume this came from outside the USA.

AHHH! Her accent is so cute! And she sounds like she's from the UK., I've watched plenty of UK TV to recognize it. I believe I've also heard of Tesco as a UK store. Also, notice it has the Euro peg hole, which I think is also in the UK, I believe Australia has the same peg holes we North Americans do.

^ good call and thank you for the response, Niceguy1.

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I think this is a second sighting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCztcKTIVgU

EDIT: Or rather the first sighting according to the date the video was posted.

NOW we're talking.

That little girl's accent .... Australian?
Pardon me if I'm wrong, Australians.

I've never heard of "TESCO" stores ... so I assume this came from outside the USA.

AHHH! Her accent is so cute! And she sounds like she's from the UK., I've watched plenty of UK TV to recognize it. I believe I've also heard of Tesco as a UK store. Also, notice it has the Euro peg hole, which I think is also in the UK, I believe Australia has the same peg holes we North Americans do.

I said this in post 151.

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Quote: dinoah2005

They are 2 different sightings...
you can look at the original and see the hook is USA made:
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html...cat=0&_from=R40
The youtube video has a UK hook

I also asked where cindybean got it from and this is the response:

I have a direct account with Activision. I received in a shipment of 250 boxes of the Wave 5.1 single pack Skylander Giants these were in that shipment. If you would like pictures I will gladly show you the shipment sitting on 3 pallets

Thanks

Anthony

But didn't we already establish that she couldn't have had an account with Activision because her net worth wasn't high enough? I for one would just like a clear, not shady or distorted answer. I'm so close to not even caring about variants anymore after all this headache.

I have noticed that alot are calling CindyBeans a SHE, but he/she signed it "Anthony". Sounds like a guys name to me.

All the messages I got were from Cindy. When I bought a GITD figure some time ago from her I got a call regarding shipping from an Anthony. I'm not sure what the relationship is.

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AHHH! Her accent is so cute! And she sounds like she's from the UK., I've watched plenty of UK TV to recognize it. I believe I've also heard of Tesco as a UK store. Also, notice it has the Euro peg hole, which I think is also in the UK, I believe Australia has the same peg holes we North Americans do.

I said this in post 151.

When I wrote, the thread had passed Page 3 and gone onto Page 4 (with your post 151, actually), and I had forgotten to read Page 4 before writing.

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Quote: dinoah2005

I also asked where cindybean got it from and this is the response:

I have a direct account with Activision. I received in a shipment of 250 boxes of the Wave 5.1 single pack Skylander Giants these were in that shipment. If you would like pictures I will gladly show you the shipment sitting on 3 pallets

Thanks

Anthony

But didn't we already establish that she couldn't have had an account with Activision because her net worth wasn't high enough? I for one would just like a clear, not shady or distorted answer. I'm so close to not even caring about variants anymore after all this headache.

I have noticed that alot are calling CindyBeans a SHE, but he/she signed it "Anthony". Sounds like a guys name to me.

Aside from the obvious, to assume "Cindy's Beans" is run by someone named Cindy, so presumably female... In another thread, I think the similar "Metallic Purple Wrecking Ball" thread, someone came across and shared Cindy's Facebook page, indeed a woman named Cindy. Although Cindy's Beans appears too small to be dealing with Activision, they DO seem to be considerably sized, I've seen "her" own page, I've seen eBay listings/store, and my first encounter was seeing her on Amazon (For a couple of "So-and-so is back in stock on Amazon" threads, every time they declared it to be Amazon listings with proper store prices, every time I checked they were out again and I only saw the reseller price, and it was always CINDYSBEANS). This sounds large enough to have employees. Maybe Anthony is her right hand man, or a manager, or a boyfriend, and as one of the above is the one who has a contact/account within Activision, which would be why HE answered and not Cindy.

the hunt is on!!1

I got it, by the way. We can call these latest variants, "oil slick."

How about Magic Oil Slick? As in Hot Head?
Eh? Ehh?

I like "oil" being used to describe it--fits perfectly--great idea

I like "Blurple" variants.

I'm quite partial to "anodized."

nah, the variants should be called "no matter how much money you have to burn on these some guy making a bad joke will always take away from the original thread" variants.

We could morph RyderZ's idea and ZapNorris' idea:

"Anodized Argument Violet Variants", or AAVV's for short.

Or maybe "Purple Rage."

Midnight Purple or Moonlight Glimmer .-.

Good ideas taco--I like the 1st one better

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Or maybe "Purple Rage."

Purple Haze!! haha Actually, I like GameMaster and MatteoMax's ideas for Magic Oil Slick... i immediately thought of those iridescent oil stains when i saw the color too!!

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And has anyone come up with a name for this Lightning Rod yet?

~Chris

Late to the party, but what the heck...

After seeing that the Eye-brawl has a prismatic effect to it, which I'm sure is shared by Lightning Rod and Wrecking ball, and knowing that this color is pretty much referred to as "blurple" among the automobile customizing community, I'm going with that...Blurple Lightning Rod.

I didn't know that "blurple" was a real term.
Cool---

Not sure if this one was suggested, but how about: Purple Pearl Lightning Rod / Purple Pearl Wrecking Ball / Purple Pearl Eye-Brawl

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I didn't know that "blurple" was a real term.
Cool---

Thought I was just making that term up back in post #167, Shelly?

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Not sure if this one was suggested, but how about: Purple Pearl Lightning Rod / Purple Pearl Wrecking Ball / Purple Pearl Eye-Brawl

Why Pearl?

What I was referring to was post number 46--where it was said that this is a term used regularly in the custom Auto Industry. I wasn't talking about who said it in the thread first.

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I didn't know that "blurple" was a real term.
Cool---

Thought I was just making that term up back in post #167, Shelly?

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Not sure if this one was suggested, but how about: Purple Pearl Lightning Rod / Purple Pearl Wrecking Ball / Purple Pearl Eye-Brawl

Why Pearl?

The pictures I have seen looks like the purple paint has that haze/glossy look that pearls have.

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I didn't know that "blurple" was a real term.
Cool---

Ditto! LOL!

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Thought I was just making that term up back in post #167, Shelly?

I know I sure did... I just ignored it. After all, "blurple" sounds like "Blue/Purple", and there's no blue, LOL!

Since it's a car custom term, I would suggest that if you want to use it outside of car custom circles you mention where the term came from, like you did when asked.

So Niceguy, Bahmut, or anybody who has an answer---
In one of those messages back and forth with Cindy Beans---she said that her Activision rep told her that these were "very rare, maybe only 500 or so total"
The context of that comment was that I should buy the one she had listed so that I didn't miss it. Of course that is a common sales technique. But I wondered, in the history of chase variants released...have there ever been any that are THAT rare? That couldn't possibly be true---RIGHT?

The Employee Prism Break, or Gold Flocked Prism Break, is probably less than 500. That's not much of a comparison, because it's a REALLY special case, but just to say it's not unheard of.

Otherwise, I mostly only know what I read on these forums. That, and my own grasp of logic. I suspect in this case it's rare right now since it's so new, but I expect it will be just as rare as other chase variants, like Glitter Hot Head. Especially since this isn't just one variant like this, there are 3 Metallic Purple variants.

That's what I thought. She sent a message asking if I was intersted
And I said that I was going to wait until there were a bunch on eBay and thus the price will go down. That is when she sent the message mentioned earlier. It sounded like a "pitch" but I thought I'd ask anyway. Thx

Shes trying to make you buy it, making you think if you dont act now it will be gone.

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Quote: shelly9871

I didn't know that "blurple" was a real term.
Cool---

Ditto! LOL!

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Thought I was just making that term up back in post #167, Shelly?

I know I sure did... I just ignored it. After all, "blurple" sounds like "Blue/Purple", and there's no blue, LOL!

Since it's a car custom term, I would suggest that if you want to use it outside of car custom circles you mention where the term came from, like you did when asked.

So I'm the only one who sees any blue in the picture of the Eye Brawl variant?

And it's not a custom car term - it is used to describe a color: http://www.google.dk/search?q=...iw=1280&bih=852

I think he said in the custom car world people commonly use the term "blurple" to describe that color. I see the blue--I also think most people see the blue & purple mix.

Shelly:

I highly doubt only 500 of these were made. That's too few ... they wouldn't have bothered with the production. However, you can be 100% sure that the total number made is relatively small. This number is pure speculation, but if only 5,000 were made, that wouldn't surprise me.

If you're really serious about buying this Blurple Eye-Brawl, I would track the 4 or 5 listings that are on E-Bay right now. I would be shocked if any of them ends up selling higher than the CindyBeans fixed price. But you're definitely going to be spending at least $200 on this item on Ebay, and probably at least $300, to be honest. That's a lot of cash, but it's still less than whatever CindyBeans was asking for ... wasn't her price like $450 or something ridiculous like that?

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Shelly:

I highly doubt only 500 of these were made. That's too few ... they wouldn't have bothered with the production. However, you can be 100% sure that the total number made is relatively small. This number is pure speculation, but if only 5,000 were made, that wouldn't surprise me.

If you're really serious about buying this Blurple Eye-Brawl, I would track the 4 or 5 listings that are on E-Bay right now. I would be shocked if any of them ends up selling higher than the CindyBeans fixed price. But you're definitely going to be spending at least $200 on this item on Ebay, and probably at least $300, to be honest. That's a lot of cash, but it's still less than whatever CindyBeans was asking for ... wasn't her price like $450 or something ridiculous like that?

Actually she was asking $599 for the Eye-Brawl, but sold for best offer..probably ended up being about $450 to $500...

If you look now at the later pages of this forum talk, there is a link to the cindys bean persons website shes selling the new variant lightning rod, If you look at the others listed you'll find that the other violet variant is wrecking ball, the scheme on him looks very well applied and this brings up the question, are these new variants real?, and with this my opinion is yes. evidence #1: toys for bob employee confirmed the variant, evidence #2: two different characters have been seen in the new colors, evidence #3: another person found the new variant in question and posted a video up on youtube.

No Lightning Rods on eBay as of yet. Kinda interesting the few that have popped up have been from my home state.

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No Lightning Rods on eBay as of yet. Kinda interesting the few that have popped up have been from my home state.

Actually,there is 1 double hook violet lightning rod at little over $15!!!Along with 2 wrecking balls,3 eye brawls.

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Shelly:

I highly doubt only 500 of these were made. That's too few ... they wouldn't have bothered with the production. However, you can be 100% sure that the total number made is relatively small. This number is pure speculation, but if only 5,000 were made, that wouldn't surprise me.

If you're really serious about buying this Blurple Eye-Brawl, I would track the 4 or 5 listings that are on E-Bay right now. I would be shocked if any of them ends up selling higher than the CindyBeans fixed price. But you're definitely going to be spending at least $200 on this item on Ebay, and probably at least $300, to be honest. That's a lot of cash, but it's still less than whatever CindyBeans was asking for ... wasn't her price like $450 or something ridiculous like that?

Oh yeah, if there are only 500 of these that's more rare than any of the variants released....so that makes sense.

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No Lightning Rods on eBay as of yet. Kinda interesting the few that have popped up have been from my home state.

Actually,there is 1 double hook violet lightning rod at little over $15!!!Along with 2 wrecking balls,3 eye brawls.

I just realized I am going to have to use all sorts of names and spellings lol.

The rarest variants released were the E3 figures, less than 300 of each exist.

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The rarest variants released were the E3 figures, less than 300 of each exist.

Really....like E3 hot dog and metallic spyro? Seemed to be more around that that. Maybe Im confused, but I keep hearing 1500 to 3000 for those.

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The rarest variants released were the E3 figures, less than 300 of each exist.

Really....like E3 hot dog and metallic spyro? Seemed to be more around that that. Maybe Im confused, but I keep hearing 1500 to 3000 for those.

I meant the E3 2012 Spyro, Gill Grunt, and Trigger Happy single packs.

You mean the E3 2011 Spyro/Gill Grunt/Trigger Happy figures. E3 2012 was Chrome Spyro

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The rarest variants released were the E3 figures, less than 300 of each exist.

Really....like E3 hot dog and metallic spyro? Seemed to be more around that that. Maybe Im confused, but I keep hearing 1500 to 3000 for those.

I meant the E3 2012 Spyro, Gill Grunt, and Trigger Happy single packs.

LOL I don't even count those as chase variants as they were not technically released to the public.

Here's a quick video showing Lightning Rod rare purple metallic variant - enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzRpzO-zyCs

He's out there...

http://www.thehdroom.com/news/...-Surfaces/12861