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Community => Watto's Junk Yard => Topic started by: Phrubruh on March 16, 2020, 10:26 AM
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Are you holding off purchasing any star wars items until after covid19 blows over?
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I've got a salaried position, so luckily my paycheck isn't directly impacted like service workers, contractors, etc., so it won't put a crimp in my online orders.
Store runs were already pretty unusual (nothing to find) and I expect it will stay that way.
Hopefully everyone can find their way through this health and economic chaos we're going to have for the next couple of months.
I was talking to my parents about similar lockdowns they experienced in the mid-50's with polio. Schools cancelled for months, etc. I guess our society hasn't seen anything like this since then. 65 years later we've got our own pandemic and lockdown to manage through.
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Financially I'm not too concerned. Store runs are done unless I'm grocery shopping at Target. And I'll plan to limit toy buying for a bit to Star Wars and not other lines.
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There's nothing 3.75" to buy anyway...
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I haven't had time to due any "runs" lately as I was focused on finishing my novel by the kids' Spring Break (which I managed). And now with schools out for until April sometime, it seems unlikely I'll be making many more.
But I have to run to Target today and while there, found the Mandalorian wave! Nice to be done with that.
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Seeing as retail around here has been a desert, I've been purchasing what I want online anyway.
My current job isn't going anywhere so money's not an issue.
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There's nothing 3.75" to buy anyway...
Yeah. Nothing at brick and mortar anymore. Other than to check Five Below, which only gets in that boring TLJ Force Link case that has no army builders in it and R2-D2 sells out first. (I did finally get one.)
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I've mainly been hitting grocery stores, which don't sell Black Series, so yeah, I'm on hiatus until this all blows over I guess. All the stores here are still clogged with #100 Lukes and Jannahs, and I was hoping to get that wave on Amazon for under MSRP. I did find the new Marvel Legends Vulture the weekend before all of the you-know-what went down, so that will likely be the last figure I buy for a while.
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I’ve just been checking out Target and Best Buy mostly because the 6” wave with Dooku is hitting there now, but I fear those runs will soon be coming to an end.
I don’t mind going online for stuff, but I have to wonder who is going to still be around to pull and pack those orders soon. Could definitely see things slowing down for awhile.
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I'm not sure yet...kind of in wait and see mode. I could see cutting back if things don't improve in the next few weeks. I am extremely disappointed watching local posts about collectors (not from JD) making increased toy runs due to lower store activity from the rest of us. My kids can't play within 6ft of their friends but some jackhole is driving around the metro to snag 8 Red Hulks? That's messed up. Stuff like this makes me start thinking about closing down the collection or at least really pulling back.
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I haven't really changed anything, I don't do toy runs and haven't for years. If I can get it online, I 100% will pay a few extra dollars to have it dropped off at my door rather than wear and tear on the car and spending money on gas, not to mention my time.
With Toys R Us gone, and the nearest Walmart a 45 minute drive, the only time I ever check a shelf is if I walk over to Target downtown at lunch just for the hell of it, or if I happen to be at the one near my house for groceries or other stuff.
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I haven't really changed anything, I don't do toy runs and haven't for years.
Ditto. I look when I'm at Target on a grocery run, but haven't made dedicated toy runs in a long, long time. Having to manage the schedules of four busy kids killed my toy runs before the current barren distribution ever did. I get most everything these days from Amazon, EE, or HasbroPulse.
The only way COVID has affect my collecting so far is that I lysol-wiped the hell out of the TVC figures I got from Amazon this week before I opened them. Wanted to make sure same-day delivery only sent me TVC figures and no viral surprises from the Amazon warehouse workers/drivers. :-\
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This has only really saved me money from impulse purchases and expensive dinners out... my toy ordering shifted to online eons ago. Haven’t seen much here in a while. That’s fine... I enjoy seeing less people, in a way. My shopping has been later after work too as less people in the stores so I have taken to all the social distancing well. Toys long before this were online.
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I've bailed on the SW business and have been out for years now. However, I am collecting select 80s GI Joes. I have a salary and am continuing to work, so aside from not driving right now, my financial situation is the same. So with a number of people putting collections up for sale, I've been able to get some good deals on some normally expensive figures.
However, as I mentioned elsewhere, I'm more focused (hobby wise) on building a number of model projects for clients. So unless I see something I'm dying to get, my energy and finances go towards the clients work.
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I traded Target and Walmart brick and mortar for online a while back. I'll check out their toy aisles only if I'm at the store for some other purchase.
The shelter-in-place we're under has stopped my occassional visit to discount outlets like Ross.
What is making me pause is thinking about the amount of stuff I've accumulated. As cool as something is, how many times will I use it or appreciate it? As convenient a book or blu-ray at my fingertips are, would checking it out from the library or streaming the movie from a service make more sense?
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If I have to wear a mask to shop at Walmart, you would think they could at least stock their star wars section. They haven't stocked in about a year. All I see is crappy lightsabers and Jabba palace sets. They have more toilet paper than action figures. There can't be that many of us left to buy this stuff.
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I haven’t changed anything here but like others have said, toy runs are long dead for me. I look while I’m in but that’s it right now. Even that I’m skipping sometimes since I just don’t care really. I rather enjoy it just shipping to my house and I don’t army build quite as nuttily as years before. I can order a squad and call it a day.
I will say my Walmart has been doing a good job keeping the store stocked for people. Things were bad here for a time... I had my family covered but it was rough. Don’t know what stores are like in the rest of the country but I think living where I do might’ve had something to do with the hoarding. It’s leveled out some now though.
One thing is nice about this... I realize how much I piss away on impulses haha. I’ve been much more frugal.
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I’ve only been looking for stuff online. In the past 6 weeks I made one trip to Target and a couple of trips to Walmart. On each of those I was looking for household supplies first. And I didn’t find anything on the collecting front. I think the chains are prioritizing with cleaning supplies and groceries over most other stock in the stores, and they’re adjusting their supply chain with that in mind.
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Agreed on that Nick... I’ve noticed far fewer in the other areas of the store stocking than in groceries, health/beauty, etc. Toys, clothes, and all that have hardly had employees in them when I’ve been in.
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After I wrote this I went on a supply run to Walmart. They've been good with paper products, and sure enough I found some. And then a cursory swing through the toy section had me find a Remnant Stormtrooper, the Clone Trooper reissue and Cara Dune. I also got what might be my only single carded Retro Collection figure - Yoda. Easily one of my favorite vintage figures from back in the day.
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One of the things I've been up to with my kid is a pretty sizable LEGO build. We've built some of the smaller sets before (Theed generator duel, Death Star chasm swing, Luke's hut on Ahch-To). But there was a set that we had seen in the LEGO store that kept drawing us back in - Darth Vader's Castle!
The Vader Castle is on the verge of being retired. But I managed to track it down through LEGO directly. It took a little while for them to deliver, but I've gotten accustomed to shipping taking a little longer than usual these days.
This set is BIG. At over 1,000 pieces I have never built a LEGO set this big before. But I really like how it's been split up into 11 separate bags of parts, with things coming together in a pretty logical fashion. And it's been fun doing this together with my daughter. She's getting really good at figuring this stuff out. Although when she was looking at the package and saw Vader in the Bacta tank, she called it his "Bacteria Tank", which I just had to laugh at! But we put together one bag of parts at a time, and we're having a good time doing this together. We're probably going to be done with it in the next few days.
Now I'm kind of regretting not getting Krennic's shuttle. It would be a great companion piece to the castle!
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I scored the 40th Anniversary Black Series Boba Fett helmet last week at Walmart. I haven't really changed or modified my hunting practices but at the same time, there hasn't been anything released (other than the Fett helmet) that would motivate me to be on the hunt, either.