AO Recon Thread

warhawker · Post by **warhawker** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 11:27 am

For the first time I was found the Tiger-mouth P-51 at a WM today! I usually found it at TRU no WM.

mikeg · Post by **mikeg** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 12:33 pm

New crop of 1/48th appears at one walmart- Aleut p-40, Shangri-la green p-51, and bald eagle p-51s.

Current wave of 1/32nd consists of red 19 and white 7 fws, RAF p-51s. and Angie and Zembke p-47s.

Any day now, other p-51ds, spits, yellow 11 and hungarian fws-

tmanthegreat · Post by **tmanthegreat** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:36 pm

Found newly stocked silver KI-61 Tonys at the Clovis, CA TRU today

First I've seen and couldn't resist getting one. They also had two of the 32x RAF P-51Ds.

Another Wal Mart also got in the silver Tonys, which I only discovered after getting one for a little more at TRU.

Nothing else really new or exciting in the smaller scales.

mikeg · Post by **mikeg** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 11:18 am

I finally found the tri-color hetzer today- bought it, what else was I to do? et tu brute?

tmanthegreat · Post by **tmanthegreat** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 2:34 pm

Good news for those of us on the west coast - I found an RAF P-51D and "Red 19" FW-190A8 at Wal Mart today

I didn't pick up either as I have examples of both planes already, but both were in good shape with near perfect paint schemes. The same store also had the 1:48 Tonys in the silver scheme and three 32x Bf-109Fs.

One of my local TRUs also has a couple RAF Mustangs in stock.

tmanthegreat · Post by **tmanthegreat** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 2:51 pm

Did some more recon today, found a few more RAF P-51Ds and "Red 19" FW-190s at another Wal Mart in my area.

One Wal Mart further afield had an interesting find: a 1:48 scale Marder III SDK 139! I had not seen that reported or advertised before. It was with a selection of 1:48 Marder IIIMs, which I have seen before at TRU but not Wal Mart. The Marder III sdk 139 was in the same scheme as the 1:32 version. Now to figure out how to give it a crew

tmanthegreat · Post by **tmanthegreat** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 8:41 pm

A little more long range recon turned up the 1:144 P-47s and more 1:48 Marders. The P-47s are awesome and probably the best 1:144 plane 21c has yet made

DocTodd · Post by **DocTodd** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 7:54 pm

Went to the Lone Star Flight Museum this weekend and low and behold they had the 1/32 FW 190 F series, and boy the paint schemes are nice. I picked up the red 9 version.
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tmanthegreat · Post by **tmanthegreat** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 12:30 pm

Well, one of my area Wal Marts sold out of the 32x RAF P-51s and "Red 19 FW-190As that were newly stocked last week. The Bf-109Fs are still sitting there.

Just goes to show you that new products move and last year's restocks do not... So. if Wal Mart and 21c want to make a bit more money, they'll keep the new stuff circulating instead of confining it to one region of the country

jlspec · Post by **jlspec** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 6:45 pm

Moved my daughter to Raleigh NC this weekend and WM had the P-51D RAF sharkmouth, Red 19 FW 190, P-47 shilling and P-47 Angie.

hworth18 · Post by **hworth18** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 9:39 pm

S1 Tony's have reshown up at the local TRU, nothing new yet at WM, but I am anticipating the Spitfires here soon, I hope.....

RAD 2112 · Post by **RAD 2112** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 5:42 am

I'm still waiting for the Red 19's to surface out here on the East Coast.
I did see some RAF Sharkmouth P-51's at the local TRU.
When are the Double Nothin' P-51's supposed to come out?

BTW: TRU Upped it's prices...
Instead of 1/32 aircraft listing $19.99, they are now $21.99.

hworth18 · Post by **hworth18** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:23 am

Target now carries 21st Century 1/32 stuff under the "4-star" brand, but it has "21st Century Toys" logo on the bottom of the box.

I found these at Target today:

Double Nuthin P-51D
Black 2 Fw-190 F8
Marder III repaint
and new 1/32 playsets but I didn't look too closely at them.

mikeg · Post by **mikeg** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 2:04 pm

pictures, anyone?...........pictures.......

olifant · Post by **olifant** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:54 pm

Harry, what is the Target price?

tmanthegreat · Post by **tmanthegreat** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 10:44 pm

mikeg wrote:pictures, anyone?...........pictures.......

In case you didn't see the seperate Target thread, Hworth18 took some excellent pictures of the boxed Four Star/32x planes:

hworth18 wrote:

hworth18 · Post by **hworth18** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 3:18 pm

olifant wrote:Harry, what is the Target price?

Price is $17.99

Sabrefan · Post by **Sabrefan** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 4:23 pm

Wow, that Double Nuthin is nice!

Fox Tare-28 · Post by **Fox Tare-28** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 4:30 pm

Went across the border again today. Stopped at a Wal Mart, Target, and a TRU.

Here's what I found:
Wal Mart: One Yellow 11 190 and some carded DAK troops.

Target: Three 1/72nd figure sets (Two WWII and one modern), some Zeroes and Sea Hurricanes, some figure/vehicle sets, and a Bravo Force Sherman. Some of the Indy Titanium series vehicles were there too (Rocket Sled, Biplane, flying wing, Mutt's motorcycle, motorcycle with side car, Mk VII tank, and Jungle Cutter). I should have picked a couple of them up. *Bangs head on table*

TRU: Two dragon wagons, P-40's, 262's and Zeroes, 1/72nd figures, 1/18th DAK figs and a Pak 40, 1/144th aircraft packs, 1/48th, Tonys and 109K's BBI Corsair and "Old Crow" Mustang, four Sharkmouth P-51D's and one Yellow 15 Fw-190D9, and those oddball scale 1/4? tanks (Panzer IV 38T, and Marder).

In addition, I bought the BBC's "Secrets of WWII" by Nugus/Martin productions at an FYE store.

Jagdpanther · Post by **Jagdpanther** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 2:31 pm

Went around today looking for New stuff at Target and Walmart but found nothing new at Target. But at Walmart I found the Chinese Infantry set A, B nothing great but at least something new.

olifant · Post by **olifant** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 10:08 pm

Thought #1: I can't wait to find the Chinese infantry!

Thought #2: It is a sad day when I get excited over Chinese infantry...

mikeg · Post by **mikeg** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 7:06 pm

I visited a longtime dry walmart-- (mutherich 109f/g and DAK 109f) --collecting dust for eons only to see the new(er) red19 fw and the ubiquitous RAF P-51d laying atop 'em. Only as I got closer, after several glances, I noticed the P-51 was really a eagle squadron spitfire. The paint lines all matched up so I bought it. Naturally, It had a fingerprint on the side and the canopy will not stay on, but the wheels will stay up, unlike the fw190s.

Jagdpanther · Post by **Jagdpanther** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 12:01 pm

Was at Walmart today and found 2 Spitfires picked up the one that looked the best. I didnt think I would find them this fast.

hworth18 · Post by **hworth18** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 11:03 am

Spitfire finally showed up today at WM. The box looks like it had been crushed, but the model looked okay so I bought it.. I had too...

hworth18 · Post by **hworth18** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 10:54 am

Found another batch of Spitfires at the 71st St Walmart in BA. There were 6 of them and it seemed that all had some type of QC issue. I picked the best one out of the bunch for anyone that needs one.

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