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Collectibles => Past Hasbro 3.75" Lines => Revenge of the Sith => Topic started by: Maul on May 25, 2005, 08:00 PM
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I was in Wal-Mart and for the first time ever, saw the new wave of figs, grabbed abunch of Neimodians, Wookies(both diff colors and droidekas, but behind all of this was one SA clone, I was so excited and quickly grabbed.
As I walked out of the toy aisle I saw a kid that looked about 8 looking through the pegs, I walked over and said what are you looking for? He told me he was looking for the new clone trooper, I though for a minute, smiled and handed him the SA clone, saying to myself ill find it another day, I havent felt bvad about it since, I made a kids day and gave it to someone who these were meant for, not a collector, a scalper
a kid
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Nice!!
I gave away an At-TE gunner a few weeks ago and the next time found 6 on the pegs. I wish the same to you.
:D
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Great job! Those kinds of stories are always good to hear!
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I bet his dad told him to say that! ;)
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You should have kicked that kid's ass - wait, wrong forum, sorry.
Good job. :)
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Awesome, keep the Satr Wars tradition going. Its good toy karma as well.
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Thats cool man! Good deed indeed.
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Not enough good deeds these days. That is great, it is good to help a fellow collector, but it is GREAT to help a kid.
PM
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I bet his dad told him to say that! ;)
Yup, and his dad is all fat hiding in mommy's basement with a tight t shirt stretched over his hairy beer belly with greasy hair tied back in a pony tail, glasses, and a goatee that doesn't fit his face. He also has a connection to the internet and eBay as his homepage :D
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Just imagine the kid then turning the corner and saying to his dad, "Look Pop, another 41 clone, now we have 2 squads".
No, really though, that was a great thing to do. Sometimes we have to remember that these are just toys and kids are going to enjoy them a hell of a lot more than we are.
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That was a cool thing you did!
Not to toot my own horn, but yesterday I gave my wife two AT-TE Gunners and two Nemoidian Warriors all MOMC to give to two of her students for their birthday.
I feel horrible for these kids... my wife teaches MR (severely mentally handicapped kids) and the boys in the class love Star Wars. At first I wanted to open them, but I'm glad these kids will have these figures.
:P
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I've given up a couple of things I hid in the pegs before, and I get good karma for even trying sometimes. I saw a vader Med Table a guy(teen) was looking for, and I hid it for me(very swiftly), and then my concience got to me, and I tried to hunt him down to hand it off, with no luck, but I was rewarded later by finding a gunner. :)
Kevin
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Way to go. It's so nice to see kids into SW.
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I bet his dad told him to say that! ;)
Yup, and his dad is all fat hiding in mommy's basement with a tight t shirt stretched over his hairy beer belly with greasy hair tied back in a pony tail, glasses, and a goatee that doesn't fit his face. He also has a connection to the internet and eBay as his homepage :D
I don't have kids, thank you very much.
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This is always good to hear and my hat goes off to you for doing so. The thing that a lot of people forget is that kids don't have the means or the time to go to stores every day like most of us do, and because of that, a lot of the more difficult to find figures are ones they don't ever even see. This might have been the kid's only chance to see a Clone, so you did a good thing.
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half the new SW stuff I bought april 2 I gave to my son. It's kinda cool to play with him remembering how much fun SW was to me as a kid.
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Great work on the assist! Love to see kids getting the cool figures for a change.
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Good job! That probably made his
dad really happy. day. ;)
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Saw a couple kids out today buying lightsabers and figures.
I should say, trying to decide what they were going to convince their parents to buy. ;)
One couldn't decide between Yoda or Dooku. He had a hell f a time pronouncing Dooku. :)
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I applaud a collector who's willing to know 'when not to be a collector'.
Just in the past few months I've been going through all my POTF, POTJ, SAGA, EP1, EP2 and OTC figures and have been picking out the dupes for Toys for Tots. I now have a very impressive large box of SW figures I can drop off this Holiday season, and although it's hard to part with a couple of the ones I know are still considered desirable or rare, I think they'll be better appreciated by some fan who otherwise wouldn't have them.
Just about the time of EP3's theatrical release I tried to help a lady track down a #11 Vader for her son, because I just get a thrill out of seeing shorties enjoying the stuff like I did when I was their age (who am I kidding, I still enjoy it as much as I ever did). However, these 2 greasy geeks (who also work for the local comic/hobby store) had walked in and picked up all the Vader and Clone related stuff and literally were giggling all the way out, probably to stock them at twice face value or to start their eBay Empire so the little kid who simply wanted one Vader figure walked out empty-handed. I recently found over a dozen new SA clones at a local Wal Mart, but turned off my army-builder desires for the group of kids who were all ecstatic to get their hands on them. Instead I picked one on a really good card, admired the younglings' adoration for SW and walked away. And I get appalled when I see shameless scalpers (including a family of whom I ran into repeatedly on 4/2 during my voyage) who will literally race you to the toy aisle and make every effort to guard their little area til they've pillaged it clean of high-profit items. I still recall back when the McQuarrie Stormtroopers hit the shelves, my TRU got in so much product there were literally about 10 of them on the display, and this one ******bag walks up with his price-guide (I'm not making this up) and pen, and grabs all of them at once and shoots for the register. Luckily I was able to obtain one elsewhere, and I know most children aren't going to be enthralled with the concept figures that never appeared in the films, but I have a death wish for scalpers because they ruin it for the HONEST collectors as well. And it sucks because although I don't have children of my own just yet, I do have a 5 year old nephew who's addiction to SW I am feeding, and it makes me livid that I have to go through hurdles or resort to eBay scalpers to even get him the figures he wants for his collection (to PLAY with...gasp!). So I admire anyone who knows when to be a collector, and when to keep the fire alive for the young-uns. I believe those acts are rewarded, in many ways.
Heath
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I love doing good things. makes you feel all warm and fussy inside. I volunteer my spare time to my old elementary school tutoring kids french and helping the preschool/kindergarten kids.
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WAY TO GO ... FOR REAL THATS SO COOL ... I LOVE TO HEAR STUFF LIKE THAT . LIITTE KIDS THAT CANT FIND THAT STUFF JUST DIE FOR IT WHEN THAT KINDA STUFF HAPPENS ... I BET HE KEEPS IT FOREVER LIKE WE ALL DID LOL
SORRY CAPS LOL