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That's pretty good. I am indeed missing the Arctic Troopers, Advanced Soldiers and Zombies Nuketown.ColBosch wrote:I believe Target has the Arctic and Advanced Troopers as in-store exclusives. I have an expedition planned this weekend to find out. If so, then they may start hitting other retailers within the next couple of months. Both the Coastal Intercept and Arctic Invasion started as store exclusives, but later could be found at a variety of places. I don't know if Zombies Nuketown was ever actually released; I suspect the four people who claim to own it might be exaggerating, to be polite. It might just be delayed; Nuketown II similarly took forever from announcement to actual release. In that case, it might be delayed enough to require rebranding to the Mega Construx line, which would mean printing new boxes, at least.
(I didn't even have to guess which sets you're missing. I just knew.)
Also, just because something is "discontinued" doesn't mean that it's dead forever. Lots of sets have been reprinted under new codes. Plus 2016 saw the first true "redeco" sets, with the white snowmobile and green camo inflatable boat, and those had been out of production for years. So I wouldn't worry about it. Mattel/Mega don't seem interested in playing artificial scarcity games.
On a personal update, I have the ATV Ground Recon and both Armory sets. They're nice! The Armory sets are now showing up at MSRP at Toys R Us and online retailers, so I'd call them fully released.
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