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Post by Robyn on Mar 29, 2008 20:42:38 GMT -5
This is exciting to start the new Speed Racer category here on the forum! That means it's official and they are in the stores. We got Snake Oiler today at Toys R Us. They had a bunch more, but we're pacing ourselves! Plus waiting to find them at Walmart because they'll be $3 less! What is everyone else finding?
Thanks, FunkeyNut for posting here that you found the hub & Funkeys at Toys R Us.
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Post by wench05 on Mar 30, 2008 8:03:26 GMT -5
:{ Bugger guess it will be months away for us yet we still havent had Funkiki Released here and by the time the site goes interactive we will be way way behind everyone else if we even get it
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Post by Robyn on Mar 30, 2008 10:55:46 GMT -5
Oh, that doesn't sound fair!!!! Maybe we'll have to start looking into how low of a cost we can ship some over to you.
But the Speed Racer ones might be different than Funkiki Island since they are timing them with the release of the movie & I think you are only a month behind....might not be too bad, I hope!
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Post by timmster on Mar 30, 2008 20:38:50 GMT -5
Stopped by Toys R Us after work today..... found a few Speed Racer Funkeys on the shelves... picked up snake oiler and racer X. BOTH games quite difficult!!! Especially for my son!! LOL He definitely likes being able to walk around the racing zone and into the stores though. I am sure we will pick up some more-- but at Walmart since they are 3$ less than Toys R Us. Anyone have hints on the boxing game of Racer X??
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Post by timmster on Mar 30, 2008 20:39:54 GMT -5
Forgot to ask-- Robyn-- what do you think of the Snake oiler game??? Long and tough, don't you think?
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Post by wisteriatayu on Mar 31, 2008 9:18:21 GMT -5
This is exciting to start the new Speed Racer category here on the forum! That means it's official and they are in the stores. We got Snake Oiler today at Toys R Us. They had a bunch more, but we're pacing ourselves! Plus waiting to find them at Walmart because they'll be $3 less! What is everyone else finding? Thanks, FunkeyNut for posting here that you found the hub & Funkeys at Toys R Us. Visited our Walmart in town this morning...talked with the toy dept. manager who was stocking the Speed Racer stuff. No funkeys!!! He called the Walmart in a larger town nearby...they have totally dropped funkeys from their lines. The nearest Toys R Us is 60 miles away. Robyn, can I just send you shopping for me since you seemed to hit the mother load?
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Post by luli on Mar 31, 2008 13:16:17 GMT -5
I'm down in Florida and i just ran to town to check the targets andd walmarts and toys r us NOTHING FOR SPEED RACER!!! NONE! ZIP! ZERO! timmster were do you live? in the us?
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Post by Robyn on Mar 31, 2008 14:43:23 GMT -5
Timmster - I haven't played the game yet, but my son says it's hard. I suppose that's not a good one for the 5 & 6 year olds. I'll be watching out for reviews on the other games to see which ones would be better for their age. Wisteriatayu- Nothing at our Walmart today. Talked to the manager & she's got her Speed Racer action figures out, but no Funkeys yet. That store isn't dropping them. So I'll check back there on Friday. I'll go back to our Toys R Us (there are about 3 within our reach) & see if they still have bunches. We can work out something for those of you who still need them. Luli - Not even the Toy's R Us? They better catch up with the rest of the world!!!!! Perhaps it will be any day now.
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Post by luli on Mar 31, 2008 15:46:06 GMT -5
i don't know but my mom and i are going to check every day now. it's not that far to the stores and i hope there there tommorrow!
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Post by timmster on Mar 31, 2008 18:33:27 GMT -5
We are in the us--- New Hampshire. The Toys R Us had a HUGE display of ALL things Speed Racer. My son went with his dad to walmart today, actually, and they had NOTHING out.....
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Post by luli on Apr 1, 2008 13:35:57 GMT -5
i went today and ... NEW SHIPMENT!!!!they had every singal one and i got them all exept the red eyed japanese one cant think of his name! but not in all of the colors that was too much money!
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Post by Robyn on Apr 1, 2008 16:30:04 GMT -5
Congrats, Luli!
Went back to that Toys R Us that we had luck with on Sat., not much left. Picked up a hub since so far that was the only way to get speed racer & chim chim.
Luli - did you see any single speed racers & chim chim?
Sounds like Snake Oiler that you didn't get.
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Post by luli on Apr 1, 2008 17:08:23 GMT -5
no i have him. and no i didn't see any single speed racer and chim-chim. he is the last one in the racer biios and he has a dragon on his shirt.
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Post by luli on Apr 1, 2008 18:02:43 GMT -5
his name is Taejo... i think.
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Post by wisteriatayu on Apr 1, 2008 18:13:35 GMT -5
Sounds like luli is going to have all the games mastered before the rest of us have the characters.
So tell us the scoop. Any shards or just playing the games to attempt to win the trophies? Games seems easier or harder than the other funkeys (LOL I'm asking the girl who managed to master Bones if a game is easy or hard). What kind of cool stuff do they have in the stores?
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Post by luli on Apr 1, 2008 18:32:44 GMT -5
Well i won't give it all away but ... The games are (as far as i can see) just trophys. i played snake oiler's game like 200 timees and i got nothing special. you may have to play them more or collect allof this or that. i don't really know.
Some games are harder than others like, for example, i thought the Chim-chim game was insanly easy but the Racer X game was quite chalanging. so it differs like usual.
well my favirote would have to be Speed Racer's store and game the game is fairly hard but not insanely hard. you just have to get used to the controls first. But his store is AWESOME!!!!!! He's got a bunch of stuff like blueprints, tires and little R.C. cars. that probubly dosen't sound like much but once you have the totaly a cool car lift in any color ,including glass, and then put Mach 6 on it. it looks so cool. the other stuff is like in Cannanball's you can buy um.... well actualy a poker table chips and all. thers also chim-chim's camdy jars and Jungle flooring, thers also Trixe's place that has less than desirable wallpaper. Ok so i gave it all away-lol. hope this helps oh and one more thing, the Racer X game is kind of vilont the point is to nock your aponent out ... buy hiting him ...Hard. Well i hope this helps! ;D
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Post by luli on Apr 1, 2008 18:34:31 GMT -5
plus the Speed racer stuff is realy cool in your garage! looks cooler than it sounds.
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Post by wisteriatayu on Apr 1, 2008 19:17:48 GMT -5
I loved forward to seeing them all. I'm already a bit worried about the games you consider hard.
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Post by luli on Apr 1, 2008 19:27:14 GMT -5
don't worry ;D i think there not as hard as well... chalanging mostly. it's trying to get a hold of the driving controlls is the hard part. you will crash about 2,000,000 times it's normal and the best news is that your car won't explode!!!!
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Post by wench05 on Apr 3, 2008 23:41:37 GMT -5
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Post by wisteriatayu on Apr 4, 2008 20:24:18 GMT -5
No, I'm using my speed racers in the old white hub. They work fine.
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Post by wisteriatayu on Apr 4, 2008 20:27:38 GMT -5
We are very excited. Despite our computer crashing yesterday. The very nice people who fixed my computer managed to save my funkeys data (after I bugged them of the importance of doing this for me ...and they even stayed a half hour late tonight to get it finished so I could take it home with me). We now have Trixie and Racer X.
I'm dying to know what character goes in the oriental looking place...as my old cribs would tell you that I love oriental stuff.....so would my real life crib. Anyone know whose place it is?
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Post by wisteriatayu on Apr 4, 2008 21:30:07 GMT -5
Anyone else notice the door on the first floor on Royalton Complex that looks like it should open?
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Post by wench05 on Apr 5, 2008 6:49:20 GMT -5
Omg i wish i could get in to speedracer complex i really dont want to have to be buying my funkeys on ebay they are getting way to costly i still only have 2 left in first series to collect 40/42 and we still dont have Funkiki Island Released here let alone Speed Racer Series so Im way way way behind which i hope Mattel Realises and when they go LIVE I HOPE fingers x they release that function all over at same time just to be fair.......wwwwwahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh we will know all the secrets before we even have 1/2 the set and wont be as fun.
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Post by luli on Apr 5, 2008 6:59:31 GMT -5
We are very excited. Despite our computer crashing yesterday. The very nice people who fixed my computer managed to save my funkeys data (after I bugged them of the importance of doing this for me ...and they even stayed a half hour late tonight to get it finished so I could take it home with me). We now have Trixie and Racer X. I'm dying to know what character goes in the oriental looking place...as my old cribs would tell you that I love oriental stuff.....so would my real life crib. Anyone know whose place it is? The Oriental looking place belongs to Tagao. he actualy looks a lot like speed racer but w/o the Racer symbol on his shirt insted theres a dragon there. he also has red eyes and his visor is down he won't be reasaced along with the VR and N speed racer untill Summer 08. look Tagao up in the SR bios and he's the bottom one.
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Post by Funkey Liam FL on Apr 8, 2008 18:25:43 GMT -5
Racer X gave us a car, a trophy and a yellow checkered flag after we beat the 3rd opponent.
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Post by wench05 on Apr 9, 2008 14:39:48 GMT -5
d**n im envious guys i think i might have to ring mattel every day and have a sook so i can get all funkik island i just had to invest in nibble and flurry on ebay just waiting for them to end and ill have one of each funkiki Island then i guess ill have to invest in ebay again for one of the 4 speedracers d**n im addicted i need a speedracer hit to my addiction.. d**n i sound desperate.....
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Post by Robyn on Apr 9, 2008 22:14:32 GMT -5
Racer X gave us a car, a trophy and a yellow checkered flag after we beat the 3rd opponent. Good going! We haven't won those things yet! If you are keeping track of the scores that earned you each of those, you can post it under "High Score", we always like to know how close we get to winning something.
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Post by Robyn on Apr 9, 2008 22:17:55 GMT -5
d**n im envious guys i think i might have to ring mattel every day and have a sook so i can get all funkik island i just had to invest in nibble and flurry on ebay just waiting for them to end and ill have one of each funkiki Island then i guess ill have to invest in ebay again for one of the 4 speedracers d**n im addicted i need a speedracer hit to my addiction.. d**n i sound desperate..... I noticed today that the Amazon.com link that I have on my blog takes you to some options that ship internationally. The cheaper one from Target said that, although they aren't available yet. That might be an option for you.
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Post by wench05 on Apr 10, 2008 6:25:59 GMT -5
Thanks Robyn I will keep and eye on that
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