I have been missing out on online opportunities recently. The other day, I missed a chance at the Playmates Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Classic Rocksteady and Bebop. And now, I missed a shot at a Marvel Legends Blade at Walmart.com. It’s been a while, but you may recall that Hasbro originally planned running change variants for the “bonus” 3rd wave of ML at the end of last year – and one of the variants was a swap-out of Punisher for Blade.
Our good pal Paul sent us the picture above with a brief explanation:
Just wanted to give a heads up that local walmarts are seeing the Rocket Raccoon series here in GA. The figures were available online at walmart.com but are out of stock now. I did find this interesting though, researching the figures online I found the elusive Blade that was a variant to punisher. I instantly thought “it’s probably really the punisher with the red skull” but then I noticed the price slightly higher than the rest of the figures plus, my local stores have the punisher with the red skull at the standard retail at $14.97 not $22.95. Maybe it is wishful thinking that I can finally get my hands on this variant but I took the bait and purchased one. Hope all is well and good luck.
Thanks and good luck, Paul! Let us know how it works out!
Man! I wish I could find ANY of those two recent series in stores. I got the Iron Man at Target, but they otherwise have just the first two and the IM movie waves. I finally cave when I found a decent deal on Jean on eBay. Still, I’d prefer to see the figure first, and avoid having to pay S&H.
wait, that really was for BLADE?? I thought it was for Punisher and they used the wrong pic!
and I missed out on Jean the other week, too. after not ordering any new ML for this year, they finally get a case of “refresher” Zola/Terrax mix. I figured that was it and went on my way and saw this online, but she was sold out. the next week, I go in and find Two Scarlet Spideys and Red Punisher. #FML
I am not positive it is Blade. Just took a leap of faith based on the retail higher than the rest of the ML figures. Should be here next week so I will send an update and hopefully, if it is Blade, there will be restock opportunities. If it isn’t Blade I just return it and since I did “ship to store” I didn’t have to pay shipping. Worth the gamble.
hasbrotoyshop.com has the jean grey figure in stock. they have the marvel knights figure listed agian but this time they also included the punisher figure pic as well. i bought it hoping its blade. i should have it on friday.