Originally Posted by
e3NiNe
I met a very nice Hot Wheels collector at Wal-Mart. I was looking for a novelty Bat Mobile for my cube. He asked what I was looking for ...
him: hi, i've been in this bin for 30 minutes, was there something you were looking for? I'm sure I can let you know ...
me: oh, that new batmobile, it's freaking cool.
him: this store actually has stock people bribed by collectors. There's a shop notorious for this in the area. They'll float the stock people $20 to hide items during the nightly shift.
In the morning, the scalper is here first thing in the AM and looks in the spot that was emailed to him during the night.
me: :O
him: this happens quite a bit and sucks for casual collectors.
Casual collectors like me.
This may seem sacrilegious to some, but I open and play with every singe one of my transformers. They're not for collecting or investing, they're for me, and frankly, they make me happy
It just ticks me a little bit cause, for once, I'd like to walk into a Target and, y'know, find a toy that I would buy.
On the other hand, a good transformers drought led me to start looking at Legos... so far I've only found one kit that I really liked in Target, but for $10, it was a gread buy:
http://creator.lego.com/en-us/Produc...ator/4953.aspx
(Wings can move like a F-14, plus landing gears retract and flaps move
... not bad for $20)