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Re: Mego wave 2 Frankenstein is out!
« Reply #105 on: October 05, 2018, 08:33:12 AM »
I was seriously on the fence about getting this. Walked into Target yesterday and 1 lone Frank was staring at me on the rack. Anything Frankenstein related is my weakness. Couple that with seeing it was #62 of 10,000 and I couldn’t resist...



Now I’m severely tempted to grab a Drac.

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Re: Mego wave 2 Frankenstein is out!
« Reply #106 on: October 05, 2018, 09:01:32 AM »
Drac is even prettier than Frank. Get him.

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Re: Mego wave 2 Frankenstein is out!
« Reply #107 on: October 05, 2018, 10:26:47 AM »
Now I’m severely tempted to grab a Drac.
Army Boots Frankie is the cheezy green suited stepchild that we like to make fun of but still want to have (kinda like Plan 9...), but Mego Drac is legit good.  ;)
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Re: Mego wave 2 Frankenstein is out!
« Reply #108 on: October 05, 2018, 11:47:17 AM »
I'll pass. Frankie looks bored and the card "art" has zero appeal.

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Re: Mego wave 2 Frankenstein is out!
« Reply #109 on: October 05, 2018, 11:51:02 AM »
I'll pass. Frankie looks bored and the card "art" has zero appeal.
Of course he's bored. He's stuck in that drab card for eternity.

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Re: Mego wave 2 Frankenstein is out!
« Reply #110 on: October 06, 2018, 06:48:20 PM »
Finally found this piece of crap. It was $12.99, so I bought it. It's the first time I found any Megos in a Target store. As bad as it is, the others were hideous. Has anyone seen the Happy Days Ritchie? That gets my vote for worst. You can't tell who it is. Wrong hair color, wrong face...just terrible.

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« Reply #111 on: October 08, 2018, 08:47:43 AM »
Got mine from Target.com and it was here after I got back from NYCC.  I opened it and was less than impressed.  On the card this one could be an easy pass— bored expression, army boots.  A swing and a miss.  I would have passed in a store.

Then I opened him— and he’s the best balanced sturdiest Mego figure I’ve ever seen.  He also holds a pose really well.  I made a custom card for Dracula;



Which I think dresses him up a bit, I might do the same for Frankie but he poses so well I kind of hate to stick him back in the box. 

The included chain makes little sense to me, it’s too small to wrap around his wrist and it doesn’t hang onto anything— should I make it a necklace?  I’m not sure what you’re supposed to do with it.

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Re: Mego wave 2 Frankenstein is out!
« Reply #112 on: October 08, 2018, 08:51:19 AM »
I don’t understand how DRACULA got so much care— nice sculpt, good paint, likeness is there, etc, while Frankie is pretty much a low rent re-do of the EMCE figure.  He needs some love!

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Re: Mego wave 2 Frankenstein is out!
« Reply #113 on: October 08, 2018, 07:50:15 PM »
Got mine from Target.com and it was here after I got back from NYCC. 

Did I miss the link?  I didn't even think it was on the site yet.  I thought the listing was "coming soon" like Dracula.  Hopefully someone will alert us when it goes live again. 

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Re: Mego wave 2 Frankenstein is out!
« Reply #114 on: October 08, 2018, 09:40:55 PM »
Did I miss the link?  I didn't even think it was on the site yet.  I thought the listing was "coming soon" like Dracula.  Hopefully someone will alert us when it goes live again.
I ordered my Frank on 10/2 and it arrived on 10/6. Now it shows as "not available" on my order. The Drac isn't available either, currently. I ordered my Drac several days ago.

I wonder why Target keeps dropping the listings for the monsters on their website, then putting them back up. At least that happened with Dracula, and the Frankenstein will probably pop back up like the Drac did a couple of times. It looks like they would just leave them listed until they sell out. This in-and-out crap just pisses people off who are trying to buy one. I wonder if the monsters disappearing have to do with good sales, or is Target just screwing around with the listings? If so, is it through incompetence or a hairbrained scheme to try to generate demand through a façade of scarcity?  ???
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Re: Mego wave 2 Frankenstein is out!
« Reply #115 on: October 08, 2018, 10:14:56 PM »
I ordered my Frank on 10/2 and it arrived on 10/6. Now it shows as "not available" on my order. The Drac isn't available either, currently. I ordered my Drac several days ago.  … 

I ordered my Frank on the 2nd.  I've been given three different expected delivery dates ranging from the 9th to the 13th.  Frank was up on the Target site for just a few hours in my area. 

When I ordered, I searched availability in my area, within 100 miles.  I live about 50 miles south of Los Angeles.  I checked my package's progress and found it was shipped by UPS, probably by truck - from Petersburg, Pennsylvania.

The same kind of disorganized nonsense Target gave us with the Monsterville product last year.

I think Target needs to revamp their stocking/ordering/warehousing/shipping procedures.  In the age of computers, they should be able to do a little better.
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Re: Mego wave 2 Frankenstein is out!
« Reply #116 on: October 08, 2018, 10:48:04 PM »
I ordered my Frank on the 2nd.  I've been given three different expected delivery dates ranging from the 9th to the 13th.  Frank was up on the Target site for just a few hours in my area. 

When I ordered, I searched availability in my area, within 100 miles.  I live about 50 miles south of Los Angeles.  I checked my package's progress and found it was shipped by UPS, probably by truck - from Petersburg, Pennsylvania.

The same kind of disorganized nonsense Target gave us with the Monsterville product last year.

I think Target needs to revamp their stocking/ordering/warehousing/shipping procedures.  In the age of computers, they should be able to do a little better.
Target does seem disorganized and confused much of the time.

When I ordered my Frank on the 2nd they gave me an expected delivery date of the 10th. Then, they sent an email the next day saying it was shipping early and it arrived Saturday the 6th. It must depend on what else is ordered with it and where those items have to ship from to complete the order.

It could be much worse, I guess. At least we can pretty much count on getting what we order and it usually gets delivered fairly quickly from my experience. I've been impressed by Target's packing on the last few orders too. Everything was packed safely and arrived undamaged.

I just wish they'd get their sh*t together with these availability problems. Those figures should stay up on their website until they're sold out, and if there's a delay in filling an order due to logistics then they should keep the order active until it's filled or the customer notifies them to cancel.
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Re: Mego wave 2 Frankenstein is out!
« Reply #117 on: October 09, 2018, 10:02:38 AM »
Trying to collect the Target Mego Monsters has already become frustrating. I managed to order Dracula off the Target website, but as many Targets as I've checked in the Louisville area, I've yet to actually see one on the pegs. My local Target still has the sad remnants of Wave One on the shelves that nobody wants (a few Norms, Tooties, Alices and maybe a Fonzie). I doubt I'll ever see a Frankenstein and I've yet to see it available on the website.

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Re: Mego wave 2 Frankenstein is out!
« Reply #118 on: October 09, 2018, 01:36:06 PM »
There are 24 Frankenstein Megos on eBay. I guess that explains why you can't find these in the stores. Damn scalpers suck the joy out of this hobby.
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Re: Mego wave 2 Frankenstein is out!
« Reply #119 on: October 09, 2018, 02:32:12 PM »
As much as we've enjoyed making fun of Army Boots Frankie, I wouldn't have bought one if I had to give more than $15 for it. It really is of low quality...real bargain basement stuff. The main selling point is the dialed-up cheez factor. Scalpers would be SOL if they depended on people like me to throw money at them.
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