Recent content by GrumpyMatt

I was waiting for some snappy Toy Fair-specific lyrics ... Anyway, it may not be much now but Toy Fair + Toyfare magazine back in the day = awesome.

Yeah, something screwy happened. He's been up everyday on Target's eBay store with wide windows of availability. I was in a store last night and they had about a dozen Law & Orders marked at $23 something. What I keep missing on Bullseye Deals is the $17.99 firefighter and police officer, Not...

I popped in Thursday or Friday as I do occasionally out of morbid curiosity — it's also still one of my shortcuts — and it was up and running. I think one of the Marvel topics showed recent activity but literally nothing else.

I started going to early showings, a lot of the time early Sunday afternoons, last year after I had trouble staying awake for a late showing of Nosferatu and it's changed my life. Like mrboshek says, there's hardly anybody at these screenings. No talking, people constantly getting up to go to...

Found a lone Mr. Burns and no one else at a Target last weekend. He was full price but I did see a few days later they were marked down at another store, but just had a bunch of Sick Homers. My nearest Target had Willie and Otto last night, full price. It is weird distribution. It beats...

As far as I know, unbearable collectors putting TRU workers under siege began with those damned Hot Wheels treasure hunts in the mid- to late-'90s, when I was working at Toys R Us. The HW collectors were a permanent fixture at my store. And the lengths some of those guys would go to ... We...

I know exactly that overwhelming sense you're experiencing. It's hard to know where to start with so much stuff. It helped me to focus by dumping one area of my collecting at a time. Mezco, for instance, I got it all ot it together (a smaller subset than say Marvel Legends, so easier to handle)...

Looks like a bunch more Law & Orders are up on Target eBay for $22.99.

No problem. I got another one — my nearest Target just dropped Heavy Duty to 50% off — $17.49. I assume it'll be happening at other stores this week or next.

Law & Order are back on the Target eBay store, $22.99, more than 10 available here.

If such things existed, I'd definitely be down for one. I'd have a hell of a time deciding if confronted with all the choices shown, though.

Tough choices. I really wish I could swing the all-in as I'm probably gonna end up with most of these when all's said and done but I ended up grabbing the two big boys — the crab and the walrus — since the 25% preorder savings is a bit more than the standard figures. I also couldn't stop myself...

He popped up on the Target eBay store this morning for 22.99, too. There was only 2 left when I saw it, so I didn't bother posting it. But it's not a bad idea to check in there a few times a day.

Was at the local Walmart this morning and made my usual cruise through the action figure aisle and noticed they had three or four each of the Desert Scorpion and Snake Eyes/Polar Bear sets locked up in in a plexiglass case at the end of the aisle they usually put the Pokemon stuff in. Not sure...

The latest Four Horsemen IG post indicates Dawn of Discovery standard figures are going to retail at $55. Standards have typically been $49.99. So it's probably a little better of a deal to preorder from Store Horsemen at $42. Of course, SH takes your money right away while BBTS doesn't collect...