This will be my last post on this subject, promise.
I am grateful to 99% of the people who visit, use, post on this site. You have provided me with invaluable info specifically regarding when items are going to be released, etc.
However its that 1% that refuse to distinguish between being helpful and just glory hunting.
Check my past posts on other threads and you will see that I am constantly seeking items and when I find something someone would be interested I post it only after I can VERIFY its AVAILABLE. Thanks to this site I was able to be on top of the Eye and Thump search and was able to get them out the gate.
For me, to just cry out "They are out" when we have only ONE GUY lucky enough to get one is like yelling FIRE in a movie theater. You create a panic. A panic for that parent who wants to get that toy for his/her child and rushes out to find it because they didn't read all the posts and see that in THIS CASE only one guy has it. Most people probably take the time to read the posts but some might just skim and if they were unlucky to have read a ZapNorris post, dang! They'd think all the remaining characters are out.
Quote: TashijiWay too politically correct for me. They're out, and they don't need to be available to every person in the entire country for that to be true. I agree that it's a moot and silly debate, but I disagree that we need to appease everyone. In reality, folks just need to admit that there are released figures they can't get yet. They're not at my TRU or Target either, but I'm not deluding myself. L. LC Chill and Jade Flashwing are out right this minute, and can literally show up in anyone's store at any time now. That's the information people need to be taking away from this thread.
NO, Tashiji, that's not right. All evidence points to the EXISTENCE of the items but NOT their AVAILABILITY and yes they need to be available to the majority to be considered out. If you told me the whole state of CA has it available. Well! I might consider it out that way but its not. Example, Molten Hot Dog: Whomever put that post indicating that it was available on the Walmart site did everyone a HUGE service. THANK YOU! I was able to get it ordered and not worry about hunting down store after store for it. Right now no Walmart near me has it, but is it out - YES. It is readily available but unfortunately not in my area.
Regarding Jade and L Chill - Oh, you say, its available in CA. Well, unless I missed something here, this ONE GUY (maybe one more) are the only ones to have bought it. And the Jade only the same guy. It is not AVAILABLE and therefore it is not out. What everyone should be focusing on is that there has been a SIGHTING and PURCHASE in CA and to be on top of their area stores to see WHEN they arrive.
I went to the Target near my office and the guy is tired of answering questions and as others indicated the stock number for regular Skylanders are all the same and there is no why to know which is which.
I don't give a carp if you or anyone agrees with me. I just angers me that some people are so desperate to be the one that breaks the news that it creates all this noise that makes it hard to distinguish fact from rumor, out from available. To nomad, who was lucky to purchase these items, you did great in posting your lucky find and I am grateful also because it gave me a chance to express my feeling about all this SPECULATION brought on by first, Activision for being so guarded about release dates and second by that 1%.
Keep the peace! Thanks to the 99%!