Do you miss toy hunting?

[DarkArtist81]

Agree 100%!

Besides leaving the house scares me anyway. I prefer to stay in my cave and live life through the internet

Additionaly i like to touch my ween when I get a new toy, they frown on that kind of thing in stores.

Another thing I hated about shopping and running from store to store... The damn fanboys. I almost got into a fist fight with a guy at a Midnight Madness Star Wars thing, over a stupid damn figure that didn't matter much in the long run. The guy was rabid over it, with his cart full to the brim with swag.

All I had was 4 or 5 carded figures and a 12 inch. I remember leaving disgusted and never wanting to do that again. I left and never looked back.

Now I can shop for toys with my pants around my ankles... nobody cares.

I can buy things without having to deal with the smelly masses of fans

I can buy without dealing with midnight sales or "Chase" figures.

And I am much MUCH happier for it.

 

[King Darkness]

Now I can shop for toys with my pants around my ankles... nobody cares.

 

[Devil_666]

pfft.. I shop with my pants around my ankles in real stores.

 

[King Darkness]

Shoping at Big Als again Devil??

 

[Devil_666]

Nah.. here:

 

[The Entity]

I almost got into a fist fight with a guy at a Midnight Madness Star Wars thing, over a stupid damn figure that didn't matter much in the long run.

I have a fun hunting anecdote too

I didn't exactly had a fist fight but I remember once that an old lady was trying to talk me out of buying a Turtles figure.

I was about 7 or 8 at the time and almost every Saturday I had to tag along with my mother and grandmother to the local town to go shopping. Luckily there were 2 toystores there so I could do some hunting.

So I finally found a Bebop, in the back of the shelf, I had to pull out 10 other figures or so to get to him and all of a sudden there's this old lady and her husband.
She starts talking all sad about her grandson who had his birthday the day before and who got some Turtle figures but he didn't get Bebop and that was his favorite. She said he was upset about it and that made her upset. She didn't exactly ask for it, but she tried to psychologically manipulate me in to giving it to her.

Well, that didn't work
I figured that kid just had a bunch of Turtles for his birthday and still wanted more, so he was probably a spoiled brat who didn't deserve this one. So I said something like: "Well, yeah tough luck" ( I wasn't exactly good at witty remarks back then) and I walked away

But now lately I kinda miss the hunt. There are almost no 1/6 figs available in stores so online shopping is the only option.

I do let my figs arrive in a local store though, so I don't have to pay shipping costs and I can see the figure in hand before actually paying for it.
So that brings back the hunting feeling a bit

 

[Devil_666]

My OWN grandmother talked me out of an original 1979 Kenner Alien. Instead based on her recommendation I got a glow-in-the-dark rubbery skeleton. That I tore apart within a matter of days.

 

[King Darkness]

Did you burn her house down?

 

[-jay-]

I have a fun hunting anecdote too

I didn't exactly had a fist fight but I remember once that an old lady was trying to talk me out of buying a Turtles figure.

I was about 7 or 8 at the time and almost every Saturday I had to tag along with my mother and grandmother to the local town to go shopping. Luckily there were 2 toystores there so I could do some hunting.

So I finally found a Bebop, in the back of the shelf, I had to pull out 10 other figures or so to get to him and all of a sudden there's this old lady and her husband.
She starts talking all sad about her grandson who had his birthday the day before and who got some Turtle figures but he didn't get Bebop and that was his favorite. She said he was upset about it and that made her upset. She didn't exactly ask for it, but she tried to psychologically manipulate me in to giving it to her.

Well, that didn't work
I figured that kid just had a bunch of Turtles for his birthday and still wanted more, so he was probably a spoiled brat who didn't deserve this one. So I said something like: "Well, yeah though luck" ( I wasn't exactly good at witty remarks back then) and I walked away

But now lately I kinda miss the hunt. There are almost no 1/6 figs available in stores so online shopping is the only option.

I do let my figs arrive in a local store though, so I don't have to pay shipping costs and I can see the figure in hand before actually paying for it.
So that brings back the hunting feeling a bit

Harsh but fair!

I'd have done the same tbh why should you care? if you found the last one it's yours.

 

[Master Wayne]

Did you burn her house down?

 

[Devil_666]

No. But I did set HER on fire.

 

[King Darkness]

No. But I did set HER on fire.

Even better

 

[The Entity]

Harsh but fair!

I'd have done the same tbh why should you care? if you found the last one it's yours.

Yeah the old h*g probably stood there lurking until some kid (me in this case) dug up a Bebop from all the way in the back

 

[-jay-]

Yeah the old h*g probably stood there lurking until some kid (me in this case) dug up a Bebop from all the way in the back

Yeah probably.

 

[EVILFACE]

I don't miss it at all. Since I only collect 1/6 I don't even go to the toy section in stores anymore.

Just thinking back of searching for those "rare" Toy Biz X-men figures that are worthless now. Man, what a waste of time, money and gas.

 

[Puay]

I am still doing so to a certain extend. I might not need to hunt for 1:6 figures. I still go to departmental stores hoping to find an odd Hasbro SW figure that might interest me.

 

[Morbach]

To be honest I don't miss it and the only reason is that there's this guy at my local Farmer's Market who's a fellow collector and he always has the movie maniacs and other old finds that I never got to get. So going to him on the weekends I can is toy hunting for me.

 

[Agent0028]

I've been tempted to buy a little something when I've gone to a toy department just to get the slight thrill back. I almost bought one of the Hasbro Jedi Starfighters once because it was cool, but I knew that in a couple weeks I'd look at it and wonder what the heck I was thinking.

I did have fun when I went looking for the TMNT toys that came out a few months ago. Digging through the toys on the rack to find all four of them. Maybe I'll go hunting this weekend for Splinter...

 

[karamazov80]

I still try to rely on my local "brick and mortars" for some DCUC and exclusive Minimate figures, but I don't enjoy it, and typically order online whenever possible. When the 25th Anniversary Joes came out, I went hunting all the time instead of ordering online. It was frustrating, time consuming, and a costed more in gas than in shipping/jacked up eBay prices in the long run. Internet is the way to go.

 

[Skiman]

I have fond memories of me as a child going through the GI JOE racks, I remember finding Storm Shadow which was still rare back in those days. I think I found like 4-6 of them and I begged my mother to buy them all because he never shows up in stores. As a kid I looked through the Sears catalog and seeing all these figs that never showed up at my local Wal-Mart. So whenever they did show up I was freaking out running down the aisle with some carded figures.

Great times, so I guess I do miss the hunt but like some have said it's wasting so much fuel these days and I think the internet with pre-orders and such it's just being there at the right time or place. The items are still available elsewhere you just might have to pay a premium price.