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No steelbooks to be found at the Target here and I was the only one there at opening looking for them. Guess I'm done collecting these.

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Did you ask somebody about them? A few times I have only scored previous Target exclusives by asking where they were. After a couple minute of waiting he/she comes out from the back room with the exclusive copies they had not put out yet.

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Went to Best Buy and picked up the exclusive set with the figure and the hardcover trade. They only had 4 of these, 2 of them damaged and none of the regular sets with the figure and no trade. The figure is the size of the previous Best Buy exclusives, like the Reverse Flash and Harley Quinn. These Best Buy exclusives are numbered at the bottom of the box. Mine is 47780/62515.

It seems that none of the B&M retailers are carrying the set with the action figure (other than BB with their exclusive), so the best way to get this set is going online to Target.com, BestBuy.com or Amazon.com.

Also, the Hardcover trade of the Battle for the Cowl is the size of a mini-comic. It fits inside the box and it's pretty neat except that it's hard to read due to being so small. Still, it's a nice collectible.

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Did it have a slipcover? Some of the boxed versions in the past do and some don't.

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None at my local store at opening. I asked them to check in the back as well. Went to another Target 5 mi away. None there either. Both got like 2 copies of the Blu, Collector's figure and DVD version. That's it.
I'm so pissed.
Spiderbite, if that offer still stands to buy and ship me one, I'll take you up on it.

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Yeah, I hit up one first thing this morning and no dice either. I'll try hitting up one more on the way home from work tonight. Checking other forums most are having the same problem, and only one person actually posted a pic, so at least it exists.

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Yes, it has a slipcover. They also did a shrink-wrap around the whole box instead of putting those annoying rounded stickers to open the box.


I picked the steelbook at Target and saw 3 others, so I know they exist. The thing is that if they sent 4 per store, I wouldn't be surprised that employees took them, especially if the know they can get twice the money on the secondary market.

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I really don't think so. They really had no idea what I was talking about. I had to show them the Minions Steelbook before they had any idea what a Steelbook even was. They're not that good actors.

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Well my streak is over. By the time my wife got to our store there were not any steelbooks left. She asked and was told if that there was none still on the shelf they had sold the 5 copies they received

Would love to trade with any body that scores extras.

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Two Targets, no steelies of Bad Blood *sigh*, afraid my streak might be over as well. One didn't even have regular copies, the other just had the usual blu/dvd combinations. The last time this happened was Assault on Arkham and it took me 6 months before I spotted a copy at a used shop and paid $25 for it. *grumble*

Spiderbite: I know Decker was first, but if there is more than one copy of the steelie...I will gladly go this route as well.

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Okay. I will run by there this evening and see if they have some and pick up any I can find. No promises but I will check.

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Success! :banana: :dance: :banana:

Went back to my regular Target at lunch time and found it there. The same thing as Gods and Monsters -- they only put the Steelbooks out after lunch time. Not sure why, it might only be in that day's deliveries. In any case, glad I was able to track it down.

You can have firsties now. Good luck. And you might want to swing on back by on the way home.

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No luck at my Target which ALWAYS has copies. Weird.

Anyway, I spoke with a Target guy there from that department and he said that several people had called there looking for them today and they told him not one Target in the city and surrounding areas (and we all have several Targets) got a single steelbook in.

The Target guy said that he thinks they always have distribution problems with these steelbooks but didn't know why.

So, sorry guys. I just knew that if I offered to go by there this one time then they wouldn't have them when they always do. I wouldn't be surprised though if some showed up later tomorrow and in aother day or two. If I find any, I will post back here.

But in other news, they had plenty of the Mondo steelbooks for Highlander and Reservoir Dogs. Why do they suck so bad at the DC steelbooks?

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Glad you got a copy :). Wish I could swing on back on the way home but unfortunately I have a little thing called a car pool with my wifey and kid. Extra trips (unless its for baby) are usually not made, especially for daddy and his "toys" lol :) Oh well, guess I will figure out something. Thanks for checking Spider :)

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Turns out my streak isn't over as well. I checked a second store on my way home from work and behind all the normal copies, at the back of the store, was one sole steellbook.

Hopefully people checking the stock at their stores are looking through every copy to make sure there isn't one hiding in between the others. Since these don't have a unique code in their system they are simply randomly mixed in with the other stock. Based on the woman at our local store that talked to my wife this morning, they come that way in the shipments as well. Steelbooks are randomly placed within all the regular copies in the shipping boxes. The store clerk commented she knew how many they received (5) because they were harder to get in their little plastic jails.

Also the previous post about B&M's not carrying the deluxe version with the figure are wrong. The Target I stopped by on my way home had 4 copies of the deluxe priced at $24.99. But all 4 didn't have the steelbook (I checked, all had shiny slipcovers clearly showing). Some copies of the God and Monsters deluxe did have the steelbook within them at Target.

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found one in another location after striking out in am. too hard for these. not worth it imo...

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The big issue that I have with Target not getting these steenboks is that they were promoted heavily by just having them in their ad. If they have something like this on their weekly ad, then they better had them in-stock, at least during the release day.

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fixed

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They always have them in their ad, and they're always out by morning, at least around here. If nothing else, the toy scalpers can just add them to their pick list when they make their rounds.

Although these drop in price relatively quickly (I think Gods and Monsters was much cheaper within a couple of weeks) so if I miss out on the steelbook (like this morning), screw them, I'll wait.

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Checked the two Targets nearest me this morning. Neither had a steelbook in stock. We just got 15" of snow last night so I wasn't about to traipse all over town looking for this thing, fuck it.

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Alright, Target #3 near my house finally had a couple of copies. Thanks to you guys it gave me the confidence to check one more Target after I put my kid to bed :)

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Had to drive about 25 mins, but I got one!

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:up:

But it shouldn't be this hard to track a copy down on the release date. It's a store-exclusive Steelbook, not a goddam Golden Ticket!

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I got the steelbook, it was easy this time. The store had three minty copies.

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Agreed, but Target is absolutely horrible (on average) with DC Animated Steelbooks and I have no idea why. If the demand isn't there (but it clearly is), then why produce them at all? If people are having problems finding them, make them more accessible. Nope...we go through this same song and dance every 4-6 months. Next time will be the Killing Joke (unless there is a Justice League animated one in between but I sometimes skip JLs).

On the plus side, this is the first time I've visited Target #3 since I just moved to this area. I liked it...it wasn't packed, it didn't smell funny, and I got Empire Records on blu for $5 as well as a Funko Daredevil T-Shirt that was apparently some kind of exclusive. So for all of the grief of the two horrible Targets near my work, this one is kinda nice.

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No luck on the exclusive at my Best Buy.

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Look forward to doing this again on April 12th

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I didn't. But I managed to find one at a different store last night.

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It's not just DC Animated Steelbooks, for example the Big Hero Six exclusive Steelbook was also a pain to get.

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*cry*. Teen Titans (minus the horrible GO! cartoons) is a must have for me because of Robin and actually the wife too because of Raven. Long story short, when we were just friends, I gave her half of a 2 action figure pack, or the Raven figure (the other was the Flash). She's kept it FOREVER (and hardly keeps any other collectible)....it sits on top of our living room television. Suffice to say, she would love a fairly serious (even animated) flic with that character.

So yep...steelbook away on that one.

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Ahh, but on average it does seem to be much easier. I still saw Straight Outta Compton steelbooks at my Target last night. When they released the X-Men: Days of Future Past Steelbook, there was PLENTY of copies....I mean like a couple of dozen. I can't speak directly to Big Hero, but on average, it seems like they at least try to keep up with demand on other titles.

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They made a cute direct-to-video Teen Titans movie where they visited Japan.

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Yeah, I have that one upstairs:

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Just got my discs (since we have a house now) unpacked from storage the other day. I'll have to show her that one as well, thanks for the reminder.

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Horrible? Seriously?

My son watches it every morning and my wife and I get sucked it to watch it as well. GO! is hilarious.

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I wish I could say GO! is hilarious (to me anyway)...I've watched at least a dozen episodes with my 9 year old nephew. The childish humor borders on "toilet humor" and trying to make some sense of each episode is an activity in complete frustration. I guess I just want to see a point or story arc from episode to episode and it all seems like one bad joke after another.

I guess cause I know the old Teen Titans cartoons so well, that's what I keep comparing them to. I know the Teen Titans should be corny, but it feels like GO! goes WAY over the top and then once it gets there it does it all over again.

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But that is why we love it. Some of the situations that happen are supposed to be nutty and they all act that way because of it. We walk around quoting Starfire from the show constantly. And they way they poke fun at Robin all the time makes us laugh the most.

I think it is as good as the mind frame you take into it. If a show where they have a "brocation" and say the word "bro" the entire episode gets on your nerves, then you will hate it. Or they have an entire 12 minute episode dedicated to waffles.

I know what I am getting and can get in and get out. It is definitely confection but it makes me laugh which is all I need. The old show was funny as well, just in a different way.

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I think that's my problem in a nutshell. I'm a huge Robin fan, and I do feel often the show is just "Let's slam Robin and show how stupid he is" And the "brocation" episode (which is one of the dozen I've seen) is the very example of "Let it go already, we get the joke". Now 12 minutes dedicated to waffles should be encouraged :). I want to like it for my nephew's sake (cause he is an awesome kid), but I just can't...

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My daughter actually hates Robin because of how insensitive and mean he is in the cartoon (I think she really hates Robin in that Kid Flash episode). Time to break out the Teen Titans (non-Go) dvds so she can get a better perspective... :)

I do think the show is hilarious, but if you're heavily invested in any of the characters, well, they're all terrible, terrible people in this incarnation. I do appreciate any cartoon where Nightwing marries Batgirl, though.

I was watching some of the DC Girls shorts with my daughter, and Beast Boy has the same voice there too.

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WTF is Teen Titans anyways? Just teenage versions of the superheroes?

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Its a team of teenage heroes. Robin is their leader (Tim Drake currently) and there have been various other members throughout the years. Its not characters like Batman, Superman, etc. as teenagers.