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Hi there. I know this board has lots and lots of Ape enthusiasts so I hope someone can answer my question, which I'll ask in just a bit.
I own all 7 of the 12" Hasbro (Classic) POTA dolls, I just verified today. I had other reasons for digging deep into my stash of toys so it took me some time to finally get around to it. Besides, the weather at last got nice. I never did support the Sideshow POTA line due to their cost and I got the Mego/Emce scale apes even more recently. Yeah, I was one of those people Hasbro made suckers of, you know, where and when Hasbro was selling exclusive figures on their website such as: POTA, Batman The Animated Series, or the Jerry Robinson style Batman & Robin 9" figures--but later on us consumers found them at discount cost at outlets like Factory 2 U.
Unfortunately, I don't have the space inside my home what with having kids and all so I have resorted to storing so much of what I've bought and collected over the years inside storage units. On one hand this has been handy to free up space inside the home, but on the other hand it becomes quite a task trying to recall exactly what is part of your collection when you can never see it out in the open and you're unsure if it's complete. If I were to add my toys with the toys my kids have in the house it would be complete chaos!
Back up to some time ago when I saw a Hasbro 12" POTA tubed container with an ape wearing an orange zipped up jumpsuit. I wasn't sure I had this toy and at the time I didn't have the additional $8 to pick him up as I was getting other things. This was at one of the three locations in my neck of the woods known as Bookman's, which sales new and used books and pretty much anything else electronic-wise so long as it's used goods. But the location I was at is the furthest from my home and, no surprise, the ape in the orange jumpsuit is long gone now.
So did I see a legit Hasbro item or did some seamstress customize an outfit for this ape and repackage it back inside the Hasbro tube? I looked on eBay and cannot find any 12" scale POTA wearing orange jumpsuits.
-Jacob
I own all 7 of the 12" Hasbro (Classic) POTA dolls, I just verified today. I had other reasons for digging deep into my stash of toys so it took me some time to finally get around to it. Besides, the weather at last got nice. I never did support the Sideshow POTA line due to their cost and I got the Mego/Emce scale apes even more recently. Yeah, I was one of those people Hasbro made suckers of, you know, where and when Hasbro was selling exclusive figures on their website such as: POTA, Batman The Animated Series, or the Jerry Robinson style Batman & Robin 9" figures--but later on us consumers found them at discount cost at outlets like Factory 2 U.
Unfortunately, I don't have the space inside my home what with having kids and all so I have resorted to storing so much of what I've bought and collected over the years inside storage units. On one hand this has been handy to free up space inside the home, but on the other hand it becomes quite a task trying to recall exactly what is part of your collection when you can never see it out in the open and you're unsure if it's complete. If I were to add my toys with the toys my kids have in the house it would be complete chaos!
Back up to some time ago when I saw a Hasbro 12" POTA tubed container with an ape wearing an orange zipped up jumpsuit. I wasn't sure I had this toy and at the time I didn't have the additional $8 to pick him up as I was getting other things. This was at one of the three locations in my neck of the woods known as Bookman's, which sales new and used books and pretty much anything else electronic-wise so long as it's used goods. But the location I was at is the furthest from my home and, no surprise, the ape in the orange jumpsuit is long gone now.
So did I see a legit Hasbro item or did some seamstress customize an outfit for this ape and repackage it back inside the Hasbro tube? I looked on eBay and cannot find any 12" scale POTA wearing orange jumpsuits.
-Jacob
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