Discussion Of The Week- Hunt For Iron Man 2 6" Line

So today was the supposed launch date for the Iron Man 2 6" Exclusive Movie Series figures at Walmart. Yet all I've found were sightings in Canada, none in the US. This, has left many of us, very disappointed.

I have read that apparently tonight at midnight(4/20) there will be a midnight launch of these figures in the US. Whether this is true or not remains to be seen but we have hours to go. Nonetheless, we can presume we will see these figures at Walmart sometime, eventually, this week at Walmart(hopefully).

So the poll for this week is, how many of you are going to be looking for the 6" movie series figures?

HELL YEAH! Im not a big fan of the silver on the iron man armor but i'll buy it anyway

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Ive been hunting and went to walmart twice today. ughghuguhuhg. i'm such a sucker. my theory is this:

i went to target this morning they were setting up the end cap with a hall of armor cardboard display. is it possible the release date is for those, it got confused with the walmart exclusives? Because its pretty regular that target puts dates on exclusives within an already released main line, but I have never heard of walmart putting specific dates on anything like that.

their really supposed to be today or tomorrow??

I'm definitely hunting for them. Getting at least 2 War Machines, 1 Mark 4, 1 Mark 6. That should do it for me. Going to the 5 walmarts around Atlanta tonight to look for them. Thanks for the info.

Supposedly

went to 2 walmarts today. one department head said they havent received any yet. another said, they'll PROBABLY get those within this week. i'm in LA area.

Dammit, how do I mess up a simple yes/no question?

Er, just pretend that one vote for no up there is a yes. Being in Canada, I think I'll be looking out for these. They seem to be pretty cool.

Still wish I could find wave 2 of the 3-inch figs.

Glad I woke up early to pick mine up, since it was the last War Machine. (I'm in Canada)

I don't want to sound like a hater, but what's so special about this figure? I get that is has extra hands, but what else is special? How's the articulation? does it come with a base/stand with an arm, or something? Or are people just freaking out because 'zomg h00g moovie war mahcine so cool lololol'?

Well, I have the Marvel Select version and it's not that articulated, no extra hands, the gun doesn't slide, kinda mis-proportioned really, and it's picky on how it wants to stand. The WM version is the better version, it has/does everything the Select does not and does it well.

this isn't just for War Machine, it's a whole IM2 6" (aka Marvel Legends) line (-vs- the standard 3.75" line that is everywhere)

where are ppl getting all these release dates? im pretty sure there isnt one, and if there is i doubt its a day away. I have seen NOTHING in the back of my store, and im sure someone pallet diving would have seen them by now or they would have accidently got put out early somewhere.

I got my info from the guy in toys at my local and a couple other sites.

I just got back from my 2 local walmarts and they had none but one was setting up the display so I'm thinkn it'll be this week I just don't wanna miss them Ive been lookin forward to these figures since first seeing the prototypes. if any one gets more news on release dates or stock numbers let us know.

question how are the sightings in Canada I mean are they in good numbers at the stores?? might give us an idea state side on what to expect.

Gosh, no wonder i can't find them here in malaysia, it hasn't even been released state side. No one here understood when i asked about the 6" line. They do though have the 6" concept series (ice, fire and sand prototypes).

I hear yah we state side have been waiting patiently Ive seen them posted on sites such as toywiz.com for pre-order...but that's all. I picked up the toyrus concept 3 pack over 2 weeks ago was a sweet buy all I want now are the walmart 6 inch war machine and mark 6. this is all very frustrating this waiting lol

it's not frustrating, it's insane!!!

I just went on a couple sites that have pre-orders up its insane between $30.00 to $40.00 and that's without including shipping

I am going to get the 3 pack, War Machine and Mark V. I found the 3 pack at my local Toy's R Us and a friend and I are gonna go halves cuz I only actually want one of them.

I mainly got the 3 pack for the arctic crusader heavy armor the other two I wasn't into and have left in the package. to me that was the best figure of the concept series both that mold and the heavy artillery were just awesome.

Where did people hear about this release date exactly?

I saw the 6" 3-pack at TRU tonight. Didn't get it but I will soon. I'm still mad that I saw two or three of the 3 3/4" War Machine variant (with the blue arc light), passed on it, then two days later they were both gone.

I just got that one at Kmart the only one out 3 that had a decent paint job. Looks like even the 3 3/4 are as popular as the 6 inch!!!

Usually by now we would have seen some accidental sightings, some lucky hunter who accessed a pallet early, or an Ebay sighting. I don't think we've seen any of these yet.
I'll save some gas, because when they do hit, it will be some super-big display either at the front of the store or an entire endcap. These are the only ML sized figures for IM2. I don't think it will be a matter of finding them, just a matter of finding good paint applications.

I'm excited too, but I'm not wasting gas hunting right now. I'd think Walmart would wont to have something heavy to drop on kids & collectors a little closer to the movie release date which is only a few weeks away.