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JD Sports Forum! / Re: Starring Pete Rose As The Gambler
« on: March 15, 2007, 01:40 PM »
Pete Rose's latest confession

"I never bet on baseball"
"OK, I did in fact bet on baseball... but I never bet against the Reds"
"OK, I did in fact bet on every Reds game for a while... but I never bet against them"

What's next? 

"OK, not only did I bet on the Reds every night, but sometimes I bet on them to to lose."

I think at this point he'd say anything if he thought it would help him get back into baseball...  ::)

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I've received a few (unconfirmed at this point) reports this week of folks who are finding Targets on the West Coast (CA and AZ) with the 2-packs in the back-room.  All three people who e-mailed had positive DPCI hits, but couldn't actually get them out of the backroom.

087-06-0884 - Order 66 2-Packs ($9.99)

I guess this is just a heads-up to all you "gotta have it now" folks (you know who you are  ;)) as it sounds like these will be arriving with (or shortly after) the big toy aisle reset at the end of March/early April...

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Feedback / Re: JesseVader08's feedback
« on: March 15, 2007, 10:47 AM »
Another quick payment from Jesse as usual...  :)

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The only thing that irritates me about the SBD is the two little holes in his torso.  Too bad they couldn't have left the flames as "clip-ons" and avoided the holes in the torso.   :-\

I love the clones and I love the SBD, but the one that has really grown on me since opening him is R2.  Sure, he's very scene specific (after so many R2's I guess that's all they have left at this point is ultra scene specific), but when combined with the SBD, they do make for a very cool little display.

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Feedback / Re: iFett's (pka infinittifett) feedback
« on: March 13, 2007, 11:19 PM »
Thanks to Mike for hooking me up with a Capture of Tantive IV Battle Pack.   :)

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Feedback / Re: Darth Vlad's feedback
« on: March 13, 2007, 11:19 PM »
Thanks to Steve for hooking me up with one of the new 30AC Darth Vader w/Coin Album sets.  Now I have a place to put all my new coins...  :)

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Feedback / Re: knashdx's feedback
« on: March 13, 2007, 11:18 PM »
Thanks to Ryan for buying some old stuff from me so I can afford to buy new stuff.   ;)

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Feedback / Re: jedijaybird's feedback
« on: March 13, 2007, 11:17 PM »
Thanks to Jayson for hooking me up with a few of the 30AC figures I was seeking.  Just need 3 more to finish off the wave!   :)

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Feedback / Re: Bob Dylan SW fan's feedback
« on: March 13, 2007, 11:16 PM »
Thanks to my best Kubrick customer Dan for buying even more Kubriks from me.

Enjoy your new Kubrick!  ;)

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Comic Book Thread
« on: March 13, 2007, 04:59 PM »
I think that's more Marvel trickery.  Lately, they seem to be taking an upcoming summer comic cover and doctoring it up for "fun".

Newsarama showed off a Cap teaser image last week too...

New Captain America?


Based off this Real Marvel Cover:


I don't think they'd give it away so soon, I think the "Cap is Dead"  story will play out a bit longer before someone else replaces him...

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JD Sports Forum! / Re: MLB 2007
« on: March 13, 2007, 10:56 AM »
I expect they haven't made it north of the border just yet ::)

Well, I was at a mall on Saturday, so I stopped into a sports haberdashery to check out the new caps. 

Unfortunately, all they had in-stock were the old 100% wool caps, so I guess they haven't even made it up this far north yet...  I'm interested to see what they look/feel like for myself. 

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JD Sports Forum! / Re: NHL 2006-07
« on: March 13, 2007, 12:08 AM »
Bear in mind the Pen's attendance # there is partially because our building is incredibly small too...  Their 16,000 number is a little deceiving because of how small the building is compared to most other NHL arenas anymore.

Yeah, that's why I tried to get those "capacity" numbers in there for comparison... but I guess I left out the middle ten teams.   :-X
  • San Jose   99.5%
  • Philadelphia   99.0%
  • Edmonton   98.5%
  • Colorado   97.9%
  • Dallas      96.3%
  • Pittsburgh   96.0%
  • Anaheim   94.5%
  • Carolina   91.7%
  • Los Angeles   90.7%
  • Columbus   90.6%

You can see there that The Pens fill 96% of the arena on average.  That to me says more about attendance than just the total numbers - you can only draw so much based on the seats you have.


With respect to Jeff's attendance numbers (well, the NHL's numbers), I'd love to see those broken down to paying attendance versus giveaways/discounts/promotions (buy one get one free). 

Unfortunately, the NHL doesn't care if bodies are in the seats, only that someone paid for them.   :P

And, remember those are just the average numbers.  I'm sure Nashville has it's share of split games - 17000 (sell-out) for games against Detroit, 11000 (6k empty seats) for a few of those Tuesday night games.

I agree that the numbers seem fishy, but the way teams count attendance is fishy anyway.

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Unfortunately, this topic must be locked.

At the request of LFL, we no longer allow folks to advertise the sale of unlicensed props/replicas here, sorry.


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JD Sports Forum! / Re: NHL 2006-07
« on: March 12, 2007, 02:22 PM »
Just some food for discussion on Jesse's Pens and Nashville and other "Hockey Hotbeds"...


First up, average NHL attendance per home game this year (06-07)

  1  Montreal   21273
  2  Detroit   20066
  3  Tampa Bay   19786
  4  Toronto   19467
  5  Philadelphia   19304
  6  Ottawa   19294
  7  Calgary   19289
  8  Buffalo   18690
  9  Vancouver   18630
10  Minnesota   18442
11  NY Rangers   18200
12  Dallas   17847
13  Colorado   17630
14  San Jose   17404
15  Carolina   17176
16  Edmonton   16839
17  Los Angeles   16774
18  Columbus   16433
19  Pittsburgh   16278
20  Anaheim   16210
21  Atlanta   15980
22  Florida   15242
23  Nashville   14999
24  Phoenix   14724
25  Boston   14422
26  New Jersey   13978
27  Washington   13547
28  Chicago   12771
29  NY Islanders   12532
30  St. Louis   12177

No surprise that the SE USA and the bad teams dominate the bottom half of the list....   But look at TB up at #3 in average attendance.  Proof I guess that if your team is good, people will come watch even in the south. 


Next, these are the ten teams that have "sold-out" every home game this year... in fact, the top six teams listed are actually over 100% of their seating capacity thanks to standing room and additional suite tickets)
  • Calgary      112.4%
  • Ottawa      104.3%
  • Toronto      103.5%
  • Minnesota   102.1%
  • Vancouver   101.1%
  • Tampa Bay   100.1%
  • Montreal     100.0%
  • Detroit       100.0%
  • Buffalo       100.0%
  • NY Rangers   100.0%

Gee, look at that.  5 of the 6 Canadian teams, 4 Northern US Teams, and kudos to TB (I guess having a really good team really makes a difference  :P).


And these are the bottom ten who can't even fill their buildings (>90% of capacity).
  • Nashville     87.7%
  • Atlanta       86.2%
  • Phoenix      84.1%
  • Florida        79.2%
  • Boston        77.4%
  • NY Islanders   76.9%
  • New Jersey   73.4%
  • Washington   72.6%
  • Chicago       62.3%
  • St. Louis      58.0%

Man, I had to double check, but yeah - things are so bad in STL that nearly half the building has been empty the whole year.   :o

Also kind of surprised to see Chicago, NJ and Boston on there, but I guess that's more "no one wants to see a sucky team" related than anything else.



And, one last interesting note [insert knife]...

Using the median NHL attendance figure of buildings running at approximately 95% capacity, a certain 16,000 seat MTS Centre in a certain Canadian prairie town would average 15200 tickets putting it around 22-23 on the list.  [twist].   :-*

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Saga Collection '06 / Re: The "Final 22"
« on: March 12, 2007, 11:02 AM »
For 30 AC, I'm strongly considering ordering 2 cases of every wave from Entertainment Earth and just checking the Star Wars section when I happen to be out anyway.

That is what I'm doing this year, but I ordered from New Force Comics not EE.  I've ordered 2x each 30AC case they have put up so far (wv 1 and 2). 

Figures will be shipped right to my door and the cost works out to around $6.75 per figure shipped.  That's less than retail with none of the wasted gas or time. 

Yeah, I'll miss the hunt but with the 2 little guys at home I almost never go on the epic hunts anymore anyway.  I hit the Target near my house when I go on diaper runs and that's about it.  :-\


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