The damnedest thing happened to me today. Some girl I graduated with mentioned that someone was planning our 5-year reunion. Now, this girl was barely aware I existed until she wrote in my yearbook 'I wish I'd have gotten to know you better! Bye!' or something like that, and now she was acting like we were a tight knit group in high school. Right.

Funny how the heads seem to come out of a$$es when cliques fall apart.

If it wasn't for the fact that they have the Hasbro Transformers reissues, I would rarely go to TRU. My local TRU doesn't carry the Unleashed figures, the sporadically get in the Clone Wars 3-packs, and the only figure they have on the Star Wars pegs is Jango Pilot. They're pretty good for LOTR, but the assurchin employees cherry-pick those cases.

I picked up the red-boxed Fellowship pack at Wal-Mart today for the handsome sum of $25, apparently a 'clearance' price from the regular $29.72. Hm.

It's cool, but I really didn't figure that I have to put it somewhere when I got it home. Damn thing's huge.

I have my 5-year coming up next year. It will be a cold day in hell before I actually want to see those people again. So no, I'm not going.

Way to go on catching up!

I think I'm only missing the Eopie and some Unleashed figures, but I don't collect everything Hasbro puts out.

I'd do away with bigotry, intolerance, and competition. And get rid of crime too.

HMI (Hasbro's Missing Integrity)

Name: Ben
Where he be: Waterloo, IA
Occupation: writer, well-educated slacker, bum, whatever
Age: 22
Status: Single, then not, then single, then not. Single now.
Children: None they can pin on me.
Pet: cat named Peregrin, dog named Jarrett.
Musick: Kiss, Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Pearl Jam, Radiohead, Neil Young, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix in any form, and scored film music.

I was introduced to Star Wars by way of Return of the Jedi, that being in theaters in a rerelease in 1984. Loved it, and saw Empire and A New Hope on VHS shortly thereafter. Of course, like any child who saw these movies, I had to have the toys. And, here we are. I collect Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel Legends, G1 Transformers, and occasional McFarlane, Star Trek, GI Joe, MOTU, and Buffy figures. Also collect comics and DVDs. I play the guitar. Sort of.

I keep the moniker around because I like it. Hasbro really doesn't bother me that much any more.

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Damn. Just, damn.

So they're going to be statues then, right? I'd pick up the Schoolmaster.