06/06/2005 Entry: "Wal-Mart Receipt."

Those of you who read my "I'm bored" post on Saturday night know that we were...well, bored. And what better way for a true socialite to cure boredom than find any still-open store in the area to blow money on completely worthless crap? I've still been sporadically trying to gather a complete collection of the Revenge of the Sith action figures, and for that effort, at least I found a Destroyer Droid. The last one in the store. I shared the aisle with two other guys also too old to be there but shameless all the same, and they pretty much followed me around for an hour waiting to see if I decided against the purchase. Sorry suckers. Still haven't seen a single damn Royal Guard in stores since the line debuted. I refuse to buy one from a dealer on eBay or elsewhere -- I refuse to believe that there will never be a red Royal Guard in a store I have access to. Life is too easy for it to be that hard. The search continues. No real point to this post, I just wanted to archive my stupid Wal-Mart receipt for posterity's sake.

Chestnuts roasted by modern day pirates @ 06/06/2005 09:24 PM EST

Done the middle of the night walmart shopping spree quite a few times, last time I picked up a blacklight and two led color changing bulbs.

Chestnuts roasted by lunatic soul @ 06/06/2005 09:24 PM EST

Hey Jeff, it is sooooo worth it to carefully post, take it from someone who has jotted in a post, and then just hit the post button. I learned my lesson after posting on the Garfield topic last night, and became a self proclaimed blog dumbass! Thankfully, Matt forgave me. (ha ha tee hee.) j/k

Chestnuts roasted by TW @ 06/06/2005 09:25 PM EST

"Life is too easy for it to be that hard."
Wise words! That's a cute receipt.
EMajor, have you gotten a Darth V yet? After collecting 6 toys I got so sick of BK that I've stalled. I still really want all the viewmaster ones. I bet I could just hit Ebay and save the trouble.
Sometimes firsties posts go poof. Better to say something interesting and hang the post count.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 06/06/2005 09:37 PM EST

Hey you went the walmart i go to. wierd. Did you get a threepio figure yet? if not i can tell you where ones hidden in that store if its still there. I hide it last week just incase i decided to buy it. but if you want to try your luck and see if its still there let me know i tell you where its is.

Chestnuts roasted by paul @ 06/06/2005 10:00 PM EST

I went to Toys R Us today and they had a huge display for Batman Begins. They had everything from Batmobile alarm clocks to Batgloves that make sounds when you punch(not exactly Hulk Hands but still...)

BTW Matt, have you been collecting the Burger King Star Wars toys?

Chestnuts roasted by Luap @ 06/06/2005 10:34 PM EST

I agree Matt, wholeheartedly. I drive all the way around my conglomeration of cities that are hooked together before I finally crawl to ebay, like the pathetic loser I am.

Of course I'm usually looking for movies no one but me would ever watch or out of print albums.

Recent Ebay Purchases: Blow Dry (Rachael Leigh Cook movie), 50 My Chemical Romance stickers (which I gave out for free at the concert =).

Ohhhhh and I bought Rock On Honorable Ones (Bowling for Soup record) and then the next week they released it nationally and so now it glares at me in obscene numbers everytime I go to Best Buy. But it was a gift, so I think that worked in my favor. Woohoo!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 06/06/2005 11:02 PM EST

Kool-Aid, stickers, Kit Fisto...sounds about right.

Chestnuts roasted by The Yeti @ 06/06/2005 11:16 PM EST

I noticed on your receipt you got a kit fisto figure. I realy can't stand that character. He never does anything really cool. All he does is smile while he's killing things, and everybody loves him for that. I've asked a ton of people why they like kit fisto and nobody ever says anything except, he smiles. I hope you enjoy your figure anyway matt, it probably looks cool. I just had to rant a little aobut kit fisto.

Chestnuts roasted by BrightNoah @ 06/06/2005 11:19 PM EST

Always low prices. Always.

Chestnuts roasted by Laughingboy69 @ 06/06/2005 11:20 PM EST

Always abusing employees and representing Corporate America. Always.

Chestnuts roasted by Warx @ 06/06/2005 11:28 PM EST

BrightNoah: If it makes you feel better, Kit Fisto done be actin the fool hardco' in ROTS.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 06/06/2005 11:31 PM EST

I know it was one of my favorite sceens.

Since we are on the subject of star wars, antbody ever play the knights of the old republic games? I've been playing both of them like crazy lately. I really like the battle system, Its very efficent and easy to use. I wish the first game had more crytal colors, I really liked wielding both a silver and purple lightsaber in the second one. These games also have to be the only star wars games I have played without a death star run or hoth level, seeing how they take place 4,000 years before the movies hapen.

Chestnuts roasted by BrightNoah @ 06/06/2005 11:38 PM EST

Hey Matt, I was just wondering if all of the older articles will still be accessable with the new layout? Will there be any sort of archive page? I love reading all of the old articles to kill some time untill the next new one.

Chestnuts roasted by D-roc @ 06/06/2005 11:38 PM EST

You have not experienced Wal-Mart until you've been there at three in the morning looking for Star Wars figures....exactly what a friend and I did right after Episode II came out...

...Though I'm more into Lego Star Wars, now....Figures got too complicated for me...

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 06/06/2005 11:46 PM EST

hahah! You're incredible, Matt. "Stickers". So awesome!

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 06/07/2005 12:05 AM EST

BrightNoah, KOTOR rocks. It's one of my favorite games. But the real question is has anyone played Tie Fighter? They should remake that game.

Chestnuts roasted by Jeff @ 06/07/2005 12:07 AM EST

Hey Everybody! (Does anyone else picture Brak?)

Squee4242: Yes, I did get a Darth Vader at BK, the first day actually. Not knowing how RARE they are, I opened it. So stupid. Could have paid for my son's college fund with that sucker. I believe it says on their cardboard box there is only two Big Bad Vader Daddy figures per box. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Oh, I remember midnight college runs with a galpal (no I'm not gay) to K-Mart and Wal-Mart. Good times, good times.

I miss a "real" Wal-Mart. AAFES isn't up to snuff. About the only new things we get around here are rap albums and DVDs.

I sure do complain alot eh?

Semper Fi,
Erik Majorwitz

Chestnuts roasted by EMajorwitz @ 06/07/2005 12:23 AM EST

Matt - If I remember tomorrow (er, later today) in my 7am TRU haze, I'll see if we have any unopened cases of SW figures in the storeroom, and if there is a Red Royal Guard, I'll snag him for ya.

Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 06/07/2005 12:37 AM EST

Hmm...I wonder what Nathan Bitner is doing right now...?

Chestnuts roasted by robbie @ 06/07/2005 12:44 AM EST

Ha! I saw someone with that last name just a day or so ago - I had to laugh.

Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 06/07/2005 12:45 AM EST

Behold the new great american past time: Going to the 24 hours walmart and looking for stuff or other weird things. Thanks for making me feel that much more better!

Chestnuts roasted by Ryan @ 06/07/2005 12:52 AM EST

I know whatcha mean about scouring some store late at night cuz ur bored. I think I may hafta walk on over to the local grocery store. The reason why I say "walk" is because I don't have a car. Furthermore, I'll hafta make an effort not to wake up my parents, whom I am sadly living with for now. I'm 24. I'm a loser.

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 06/07/2005 01:00 AM EST

What kind of stickers did you get?

Chestnuts roasted by Joss @ 06/07/2005 01:13 AM EST

Just to make everyone hate me, I happen to have 21 Clonetroopers. No, not all of them are opened- I'm saving most of them until after I've designed the custom unit decals for them.

Also, the Republic Gunship is absolutely badass. The wingspan's practically as wide as the motherloving Millenium Falcon.

Chestnuts roasted by DarkPrimus @ 06/07/2005 01:35 AM EST

1. Walmart is awesome when you are bored. Its THE place to be at 2 am! Not only is it THE place to be, its the ONLY place to be, since everything else is closed.

2. I know exactly how you feel about ebay. I refuse to use ebay because it makes it all to..I don't know, cheap. I rather find something myself somewhere and feel victorious..like I conquered the world! For example, I am in search of one of those white plastic kool-aid pitchers, well there is like 100000000000 of them on ebay, but wtf? Shouldn't there be a better and more satisfying way of getting one?
There should be, but not a single one exsists in vegas, nor does anyone I know ever see one, but one day..one day i friggin tell you I will get it.

Chestnuts roasted by the80sruled @ 06/07/2005 01:36 AM EST

Oh, by the way, I don't know what the case distribution of the Royal Guards are (I think it's a 1/1 ratio between the red and blue ones), but since only one of them comes per case anyways... you only see the red one every 2 cases. And everyone loves the red ones. I feel stupid for not getting the only red one I ever saw, but to my defense, this was the same day I bought about $60 worth of Clonetroopers.

Chestnuts roasted by DarkPrimus @ 06/07/2005 01:37 AM EST

First glance at the receipt, I was like: "They made a model kit of Fisto from He-man!?"

Chestnuts roasted by RewolfJ @ 06/07/2005 01:42 AM EST

Man, can I relate to this. I'm so desperately board (and like Nate I live with my parents and have no car), that it get's to the point where if my Mother goes to the grocery store, I desperately want to go along just to get out of the house for a few minutes.

I need to get some publicity for my site. That would solve a couple problems.

BTW Matt, I still have that tape of three bad movies I could send you if you want.

Chestnuts roasted by Tetsu Deinonychus @ 06/07/2005 01:44 AM EST

Jeff:

I played HOURS of Tie Fighter when it first came out. I had X-Wing, too, but TIE Fighter was the one that I loved. Something cool about flying for the "Bad Guys"

In those early 3-d game days, that game really sucked me in.

I bought it on PC cdrom again about two years ago, and it was fun for awhile, but then I lost interest.

Never again has there been a flight sim that I enjoyed so much...

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 06/07/2005 01:51 AM EST

that place used to be bradlees. hey jersey, i know jersey.

Chestnuts roasted by retrogen @ 06/07/2005 08:21 AM EST

http://www.hasbro.com/pl/page.viewproduct/product_id.9749/dn/default.cfm

Is this what you're looking for Matt?

Chestnuts roasted by Joe in OH @ 06/07/2005 08:31 AM EST

I can't wait to see what all of these collected SW figures are up to in the coming months. Maybe they'll send Ralphie back to Hell? Maybe they'll buy themselves some Spongebob painted hermit crabs? Maybe they'll eat some NADS?

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 06/07/2005 08:37 AM EST

Oh, yeah, did you go visit the crazy jellyfish convention on LI? It was all the rage.

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 06/07/2005 08:39 AM EST

Still haven't seen a red Royal Guard either. Did see the new Spider and Crab droid though.
Haven't been to BK yet this summer but I am planning a trip. WAL-MART and WAFFLE HOUSE: You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villany...at 3 AM.

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 06/07/2005 08:49 AM EST

No WalMarts here, thank X, but we have shitloads of independent toy stores on my street alone. Personally, I want the huge-ass Millenium Falcon LEGO set I saw when I was picking up that Dora the Explorer LEGO set for my cousin. Of course, since I don't have a large spare wad of green to blow, I'll probably have to settle for the $5 little Emperor's runabout thingee. But, you know, I can imagine that there's a red Royal Guard inside it. . . .

Chestnuts roasted by Molten @ 06/07/2005 09:48 AM EST

Really. Crystal Lite? Seriously.

Chestnuts roasted by jhnnywalkr @ 06/07/2005 09:54 AM EST

It's just iced tea mix, let's not get out the giant cross just yet.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 06/07/2005 10:02 AM EST

Crystal Light + Vodka = Good Times

Semper Fi,
Erik Majorwitz

Chestnuts roasted by EMajorwitz @ 06/07/2005 10:53 AM EST

Crystal Light...half the calories and none of the guilt as your usual Crystal. Tweak all week with Crystal Light!

The wood background seems to load a tad slower than the previous bg.

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 06/07/2005 11:04 AM EST

on the right side it looks like a puppy..

Chestnuts roasted by aj @ 06/07/2005 11:12 AM EST

The wood loads up right quick on this here blue gumdrop. The true cure for combined boredom/need to buy useless crap is the Flea Market. Of course, as far as I know, there is no such thing as a 24-hour flea market, so late night crap purchases are not yet possible. Unless you go to one of those giant neon truckstop complexes along your local superhighway. Then, it's expensive and useless crap purchasing.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 06/07/2005 11:53 AM EST

You know, in some circles, we would be looked upon as freaks and ne'er-do-wells for pouring over a reciept like the rosetta stone.

But here, oh it feels like home =)

Alright, I'll take one for team to clear up the last mystery (besides the stickers):

So what kind of Kool Aid did ya get?

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 06/07/2005 12:08 PM EST

Kind(s) of Kool Aid, notice the two different item numbers.

Okay this IS kinda sad.

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 06/07/2005 12:10 PM EST

Hey Knegative! Why so...oh never mind, too easy.
I'm at work. What else is there to do?

Chestnuts roasted by jhnnywalkr @ 06/07/2005 12:25 PM EST

Bilmarie Broco? Is that a real name?

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 06/07/2005 12:51 PM EST

new pic of E. Claire that is XE-tastic.....
http://www.msnusers.com/Manimal-aholics/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=24

whats the latest Erik?

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 06/07/2005 01:08 PM EST

Don't worry Matt,if I could find a red Royal Guard,so will you. It's a pretty cool figure,with the armor from the Crimson Empire comic series underneth the robe.

Chestnuts roasted by Overlord @ 06/07/2005 03:29 PM EST

I just realized I haven't commented on the evils of Wal-Mart and why you should never ever go back there again but I'm sure you've all heard the arguments already.
Still: DOWN WITH WAL-MART!

Chestnuts roasted by jhnnywalkr @ 06/07/2005 03:31 PM EST

Matt,
The red royal guard does in fact exist. On the day the figures were released the KB toys I went to had two of them, I picked up one initially. Then as the day wore on I didn't see any of them anywhere so I went back and picked up the second, so I'd have one loose and one in the package. The head sculpt is different from the blue guard so it is a seperate figure, although the body's are identical.

I hate to gloat but this guy is definatly worth ebay (provided the price isn't outrageous). The royal guards have the armor underneath instead of the old school plastic robe. And they have a holster for their blaster pistol. By and far I'd say he's the best figure of the ROTS line.

It also bares mention that anytime I'm anywhere that sells toys I look for them and to date I still haven't seen any since the day of release, and only in that one KB toys.

Chestnuts roasted by Former A1C Pete @ 06/07/2005 04:36 PM EST

Late night Wal-Mart and late night Denny's are equally as hilarious/creepy....Taco Bell finishes close but falls short because it is not 24 hours..

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 06/07/2005 07:27 PM EST

Maybe if we call the number on the receipt enough times and complain perhaps they will stock up on royal guards?

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 06/07/2005 07:32 PM EST

I hid a wookie warrior behind a ton of batman begins figures a couple of weeks ago and was reminded of that while reading this blog. I hope they make the wookie boats and helicopters.

Chestnuts roasted by Kennef @ 06/07/2005 08:03 PM EST

I'm avoiding Ebay as well. I heard they'll be shipping more royal guards in a few months, so be patient and you shall be rewarded. Don't ever give in to scalpers. They are evil...

Chestnuts roasted by Michael @ 06/07/2005 08:04 PM EST

The Royal Guards look like the new 3 3/4" cobra commander without their robes.

Chestnuts roasted by Kennef Again @ 06/07/2005 08:04 PM EST

Shopping for toys at WalMart can be an interesting event itself..

Chestnuts roasted by Review the World @ 06/07/2005 08:33 PM EST

No Red Royal Guard today... We have like 15 cases in the stockroom - all the same figurines. :T But yeah, they are supposedly going to be shipping new ones soon, so hopefully we will get more of a variety.

Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 06/07/2005 08:45 PM EST

yay!!!!! more changes!!!!

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 06/07/2005 09:34 PM EST

I wish my manager's name was Bilmarie Broco.

Chestnuts roasted by Prof. PB @ 06/07/2005 10:17 PM EST

Hey Matt, got a local Sam Goody's? The one near me had a red royal guard the other day. Still looking for a Destroyer, myself.

Chestnuts roasted by Para @ 06/08/2005 08:44 PM EST

Ahhh Mas Amedda. That tongue is...well...odd. The right hand fell off mine the other day. /sigh I had to tuck it in his robe.

Chestnuts roasted by jwla @ 06/08/2005 10:23 PM EST

That is so cool..blowing money when bored. I should try that.
Technically I did today.
Not really. Ha.
I like this site very much so.

Chestnuts roasted by CaSara @ 06/09/2005 04:03 AM EST

There is a red royal guard in the new collector set coming out at KBtoys. Unfortunately you have to get 8 other figures you probably already have. I really want a red royal guard.

Chestnuts roasted by Mike @ 06/10/2005 07:10 PM EST

I couldnt help but notice the location of the store on the receipt. I used to live in Woodbridge (a long time ago though--I've been a shore girl since 1985!).

By the way, the CBS-3 Philly internship is going great. You see those anchors? I KNOW THEM!!!!!! I know I sound like Buddy the Elf, but that's ok. It could be worse...

HEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYY KIDS!!! Sorry, had to through in a little Binky the clown from Garfield!!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 06/11/2005 12:55 AM EST

I scored today I got Vaders Medical Droid , Mas Amedda and Neimoidian Warrior. There was a few others I wanted to pick up but didn't have the money.

Chestnuts roasted by Jonathan B @ 06/11/2005 10:25 PM EST

I saw about 10 red royal guards today without exaggeration. They were $8.98 Canadian. Zellers is sweet.

Chestnuts roasted by Milkspasm @ 06/11/2005 10:33 PM EST