Speaking of Guile, it looks like his air force blue P2 colors is a Target exclusive releasing around early April and as a Wonddrcon exclusive. Not only that kinda breaks the mold of red color Target exclusives, but out of all the colors it had to be exclusive to Target. That sucks. I was hoping this would be online store exclusive as that opens the gate to better distribution and availability. I don’t know about you guys, but my local Targets have been absolutely crap when it comes to stocking Jada SF recently. They seemed to improve last year but ever since wave 3 was released , I have not seen anything physical with wave 3 in stores. Just some smatterings of wave 1 and 2 but even they disappear after a few days still. 

Btw, I heard reports that Cammy is showing up in Barnes and Nobles. 

Granted, I didn’t have too much trouble with Red Chunners, however that was when my stores were getting shipments and restocks every 2 or three weeks. Red Chunners doesn’t seem to be shipping anymore in my area as the blue Chunners has replaced the red variant in the 3pack she ships with Dhalsim and Bison. I hope to God blue Guile will be plentiful. I really don’t want to have to hunt too hard for this guy. 

Alright Jada, here’s my personal rant for you. Start having other exclusives to stores available on your site as well. It just sucks hard for some collectors to have to go to stores when time is limited. 

My Target has had the same Fei Long and Red Chun since Thanksgiving.

@spongyblue You are fortunate to have some Jada SF to look at in a Target  store. I have roughly 20 Targets I can get to in a reasonable amount of time. Only 8 or 9 carry Jada SF. No figures from any waves so far as I know the last few weeks in my area. They may have showed up but not last long on the shelves.

Also on another note, GameStop USA seems to have the Jada SF listings in their system for April release supposedly. But at $29.99 for their regular sized figures. This tariff related or Just a GameStop thing?  Also BBTS has increased Sagat and Blanka preorders from $29.99 to $34.99. Their in stock Jada SF are still regular price at  $24.99 except regular Ken who is a little higher for some reason. But the interesting figure to note is the regular blue Chunners as she is the only one not instock at their site currently but has a preorder price of $29.99. It doesn’t look like Entertainment Earth has raised prices on Jada SF yet.  Looks like some places are starting to implement that $5 increase. Hopefully not every store does it but we shall see.   

I clocked the $5 price increase as well.   I saw it, too on the new wave of Thundercats figures that just came in stock.   My pre-orders were fulfilled at the original price but the figures are currently on sale at a $5 mark up -  so I definitely think this is tariff related adjustment.

And just when I said my Targets were crap with Jada SF restocks, I see Cammy and Deejay at one Target. Not sure who the third pack mate was supposed to be since it was just the two of them, but I am assuming it was Guile. Could be Ryu since I seen him a month ago by himself at Target. 

Hopefully the restocks start picking up steam, as that blue Guile must be mine. 

Saw Ryu, Chun-Li, Fei-Long at Walmart for the excessive price of 31.44 each! 🤯 

@kryptonian gross! Walmart never ceases to disappoint me.

Seriously considering starting a P2 variant collection. Bison looks really good and I really want a yellow and blue Blanka..

I would really like some beat up head sculpt accessories from the continue screens too. That would be something we’ve not seen before.

Found Bison and Dhalsim at Barnes and Noble the other day.  First time seeing a different wave there. Hoping Vega preorders go up soon 

Saw the Jada SF figures at my local Walmart at the $31.44 price also. I may vomit. 

P2 Blue Guile found at one of my local Targets. Still $24.99. Case of three consisted of 2 blue Guile and one red Chun Li. Looks like he’s starting to hit the bay. Glad I got him and no need to hunt further. 

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I would really like some beat up head sculpt accessories from the continue screens too. That would be something we’ve not seen before.

Have you not seen any of the Storm SF2 figs?

Saw another case of Jada SF hit my local Target. This time a case of 3 with 1x Cammy, 1x normal Guile, and 1xRed Chun Li. 

@shinigami-customs Ive seen them but didn’t know about the extra heads. I honestly never really considered Storm figures in the same category as the SOTA, Jada, Playmates, NECA, Resaurus, Figuarts, or High Dream lines due to pricing and size.

I’ve waffled back and forth trying to get back into collecting Storm. I am in on their Arena line but I have been interested getting back into their normal SF line. However the showstopper is the price and availability. If we are being  honest, the normal Storm line is not new collector friendly. If I wanted to go back and collect older SF figures, the only place I can get it is the aftermarket and be prepared to sell my left testicle. It’s a shame too because I just did not have enough funds at the time of their preorders to get them as I had other lines I collected. Storm figures do look better to me but price and availability is where Jada has a one up on them. Any new collector can still just jump right in and pay normal retail for any earlier main line figures and in some cases even below normal retail. Plus with price hikes coming, the Arena line is where I will focus on Storm. The normal line is just not feasible for me right now. 

Saw some Targets get a refresher cases over the weekend. Mostly case packouts  of  what seems like 1x Guile, 1x Cammy, and 1x Red Chun Li. Did not see any Deejays this time, but he shipped heavily the last time. I did not see any Blue Guile cases except the one I found last time and no luck yet spotting Sagat or Blanka. I’d like to find them at Target now if possible since EE has now raised my preorders for them to 31.99 each. Not bad considering their current price is now 34.99. which is now Bandai SH Figuarts price level at Target.  Still not bad but not good either.