{"id":9330,"date":"2012-11-27T13:52:36","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T19:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/?p=9330"},"modified":"2012-11-27T13:52:36","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T19:52:36","slug":"older-waves-continue-to-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2012\/11\/27\/older-waves-continue-to-surface\/","title":{"rendered":"Older Waves Continue to Surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/phpBB3\/viewtopic.php?f=129&amp;t=5580&amp;p=124953#p124953\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9332\" style=\"border: black 1px solid\" src=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/vintage1127121.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"329\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/vintage1127121.jpg 329w, https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/vintage1127121-300x249.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By most accounts, this has been a dismal year at retail for the Star Wars line, starting with a massive overproduction of the first wave of vintage, followed up by Hasbro carrying forward far too many TPM figures in subsequent waves that ended up creating a terrible logjam at retail &#8211; so many amazing figures this year have been nearly impossible to score at retail thanks to this disaster.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, there are still rays of hope, as with Christmas rapidly approaching, retailers are beginning to stock the pegs a little more frequently with waves we expected to be able to find over the summer (b<em>etter late than never, right?).\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re brave enough to fight the crowds at retail, and are persistent enough, you just might be able to score a few late gems this year &#8211; I&#8217;ve personally seen the Evazan wave three different times (all at different retailers) over the past two weeks, and other forum members <a title=\"are reporting\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/phpBB3\/viewtopic.php?f=129&amp;t=5580&amp;p=124953#p124953\">are reporting<\/a> similar finds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By most accounts, this has been a dismal year at retail for the Star Wars line, starting with a massive overproduction of the first wave of vintage, followed up by Hasbro carrying forward far too many TPM figures in subsequent waves that ended up creating a terrible logjam at retail &#8211; so many amazing figures &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2012\/11\/27\/older-waves-continue-to-surface\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Older Waves Continue to Surface<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,32],"tags":[42,39,71,30,41,160,16,53],"class_list":["post-9330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collecting","category-site-news","tag-collecting-2","tag-hasbro-2","tag-k-mart","tag-store-reports","tag-toysrus","tag-tvc","tag-vintage","tag-walmart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9330"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9335,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9330\/revisions\/9335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}