That's a mid-order 66 Jedi, I swear.  Always laugh at the bugging eyes.

I have no bias, I go to whichever is cheaper, however that's only for Star Wars...  for groceries I tend to shop the big chain here over WM simply because I don't want a WM in my immediate (like 5 minutes away) area.  Nobody else seems to either since it's been fought fairly well. 

For my area (Pittsburgh) shopping's funny.  I live a ways outside the city, in an area that's just not developed much and remains rural.  There's shopping 45 minutes in a number of directions, and that suits me...  it'd be nice if it was 20 minutes away but I live.  Long toy hunts is all.  I mean, just to hit 2 WM's and a Target and TRU, I'm looking at leaving around 6 and getting back around 9 or 10.  That sucks.

WM's where I'll get my SW fix for now till Target comes down.  I honestly would buy at the local KM if they were $5.99 or less...  I bought most of my POTJ figures there actually, literally saw every wave once there.  That was a good year.  I got final 12 there too on Black Friday and for real cheap.

WM and Target are hit and miss for me and I tend not to skip much if I want it unless I'm sure I'll see it at a cheaper price. 

I probably shop more at Target than WM in general (I look at them as being just as shady as WM though in all likelihood) because the stores are cleaner and less congested around here.  I don't know why that is though...  Their checkouts seem more logically laid out and more are open though.  If they had self checkouts it'd be great.  The store's noticeably cleaner generally though and Target seems to not be so dreary inside, I don't know why.  I'm sure someone with a psychology background could tell us that though.

Neither seems to outdo the other on finds though, I clump them together in my opinion and until Target drops the price I'm not as interested in it.  I wanna find a cheapy cheap TIE Fighter at Target though and some Shadow Troops for cheap, haha.

WM's opening near my gf's house soon so I'm sure I'll be there more.  It's like 20 minutes away too so that's not bad.

Holy headrests.

I'm not sure.  I had all of 9 weeks of Spanish.  El is The, isn't it?

Some spaz at the local Toy SHow in early December tried offering me a Dark Trooper in his "cheap figure box" for the low low price of *drum roll*

$80 (included getting a Sentinel too).

WTF?!?  What a tool.

I got my EU off of the Fan Club store at the time and got extras when I could.  They were impossible to find in Pittsburgh.  From what I've heard from the locals at the time, they either lucked into a few at TRU one day and never saw them again or they didn't see them and did what I did.  I've never heard of them being found by any of my local friends at any store but TRU, though at the time I don't THINK we had Targets.  That was about 1998 if I recall and Target hadn't opened here yet save for maybe out near the airport.  We didn't get a Target store till the exclusive Y-Wing shipped.

Wal-Mart stores were more sparse at the time too and I didn't hear of them getting any, nor KB or KM.

Sad because the Darktrooper's amazing really, and I would buy a couple Katarns for customizing.

Way to go El Bitches, you scared it off.

Back to the Dolphin marriage...

This just has me howling out loud right now in laughter:

"I made a dream come true. And I am not a pervert."

Oh I wish all stories could end that way...  Sadly there's always one part of that equation missing, isn't there?

If you HAVE to end your dream come true statement with "And I'm not a pervert", then you probably are.

BTW on the automatic weapons thing I actually know some guys in groups like that.  I've gotten to shoot some pretty sweet antique firearms like a Thompson used in WW2, and a German MG440.  I loved firing them at a range...  We didn't shoot a Thunderbird (I was pissed, I could've used some parts off that car before they blew it up) but it was still a blast to shoot at targets.  The Thompson was just great though.  I'd known about its kick and to aim low when firing and it basically can spray upward, and it does just that.  Cost the guy that owned it a fortune though, and he only brought it out like once a year at most.  Rest of the time it was on display in a case custom made for it.