Heh heh heh

Old man, take a look at my life, I'm a lot like you...

Happy B-day young fella.  (I can only presume I cleverly hid mine in my profile).  Thanks for being older than me.

Heh, start collecting McFarlane sportspicks if you really want to see what scalping is all about.  Ebay dictates price, even on that board.  Quite lovely, I must say, particularly since I can't always get to stores at 7 am.  Oh well, lots of contacts in the SW world to help me out.  

I guess with respect to the sponsors, depends on how they obtain their figures.  If a store had someone out at store opening buying up figures to resell, yep, that's scalping.  If, on the other hand, they have product delivered to their door, they can sell it for whatever they please.  For every Ephant Mon they send out the door at $20, they probably take a loss on Jar Jar Senator.  

You've got the right idea Cory, no support, no business.  But I sure see why they have them as a sponsor, because the site costs money, so you takes what you gets.  And from what Scott says, for vintage, they're pretty good.  Not a bad thing to have redeeming qualities.  

Vintage.  *shudder*, now there's a road I don't want to go down...

Oh, stop thinking like a collector Scott  

Seen any Chewie's or Vader's on the pegs lately?  Probably some of the figures that kids actually do buy.  Sales, sales, sales that's what it's all about.  

Not that I need another Chewie, just letting my right wing business side out for some fresh air.

calculus

OH sure, my moment of glory edited away.  

You starting to get nervous about the playoffs?  Trying to make sure my name ain't up there in glowing lights when the Oceaners fail to fourpeat?  Chickenboy?

The Jets huh?

Oh, sorry, ok, I'm better now.  Sorry, that should read bitter

Prior to leaving, they were on the verge of being an amazing team, especially when you could get Zhamnov playing.  Probably the critical element you forgot Scott is Nikolai Khabibulin who started his career in Winterpeg.  They were all too young at the same time, but had they been kept together, they would have been frightening.  I still say they made a mistake when they traded Selanne rather than Zhamnov or Tkachuk.

Selanne is still my favorite player.  Just an all around classy guy.  3 years into his career, his and Tkachuk's contracts came up at the same time.  Tkachuck stayed home in what appeared to be the early years of a perpetual snit.  Selanne showed up at training camp without a contract.  Stupid in the sense of injury and end of career, but utterly and completely classy.  He just wanted to play hockey and do so for the people in Winnipeg.  There are rumours that the chase piece in the McFarlane series NHL6 will have Selanne in a Jets jersey.  I guarantee you, no matter the price, I will win the first one offered on ebay.  

Prior to that though, there was a year in which the Oilers, Jets and Flames, all in the same division, finished 1-2-3 in the league.  Jets beat the Flames in the quarters (IIRC) and then the Oilers, Cup champs that year (again) beat the Jets in the divisional final.  Tragic.  

Winnipeg Arena was a horrible place but it was beyond a shadow of a doubt the loudest arena in the NHL come playoff time.  The whiteout originated there and nobody did it better.  

 

I'm guessing an Ottawa-Detroit final as well, with the Wings winning (unfortunately).  Jersey and Dallas should have a good shot too with Colorado on the outside, though they played extremely well to end the season.  Dallas-Edmonchuk should be a bloody brawl.  No offense to the battle of Alberta, but that is where a true playoff rivalry exists now.  

This should be a pretty spectacular playoff season.

I'm gonna go get a beer, put on my Jets jersey and cry now.  *sniff* thanks for da memories boys.

I am more than a little dissappointed that Dale has not posted last night's pics of Shania for Scott.  Several different hockey based outfits at the Juno awards and no pics here?  Shame on you

Well, it just so happens that my commtech reader is right here beside me

turn it on

Hold your chip over the red dot at the bottom.  Hold the button (one of the four just above the label that says Star Wars Commtech) you want to have store that chips information down until it does beep, just as Chris said.

Stored in mine right now are:
Admiral Motti
Stormtrooper
one of the Darth Maul chips
R2-B1