ToxicTwistOfFate
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Post by ToxicTwistOfFate on Feb 22, 2009 21:21:46 GMT -5
I'm still around just haven't been buying much lately. I still need to pick up the figures I want from CS 23. I figure I've waited this long I mine as well wait a few more weeks till they show up in TRU.
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Post by ebilbryan™ on Feb 22, 2009 21:24:28 GMT -5
and some little bastard and his parents will have the figs you want in his hands
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Post by D-Rock on Feb 22, 2009 22:44:22 GMT -5
Chill out man that's why we "hunt" for figures. I rember being younger and my dad buying me figs. Idk about you. I got like one every other month.
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Post by ebilbryan™ on Feb 22, 2009 22:54:08 GMT -5
chill out? I'm just saying, kids don't even know who half of the people are and just randomly blurt out their false knowledge and so & so is da bestest! ugh, hate kids...
Only time I used to get figs was Christmas/Birthday, whenever I saw them in the store my mom would lie about how we didn't have the money (we were f*cking loaded at the time) but man did I get figures on those 2 days.
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Post by ToxicTwistOfFate on Feb 23, 2009 0:27:18 GMT -5
and some little bastard and his parents will have the figs you want in his hands Na my TRU right here in Waterford, CT is pretty good. I've never had much trouble finding anything. Most of the time I do all my buying online though because I'm to impatient to wait. I just like to post on here to help out since we usually get things in a day or two (sometimes the same day) before RI TRU stores do. Once in a while though I go over to RI to find something I can't get here. Which isn't that bad seeing as I pretty much live right on the border of CT/RI.
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Post by xpac4life on Feb 23, 2009 0:43:38 GMT -5
If i'm in an aisle and there's a kid who wants a figure i'm looking for and they have it your damn straight the kid is the one who's going to get the figure its that simple anyone who thinks otherwise collects for the wrong reasons.
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Post by Chip on Feb 23, 2009 10:15:18 GMT -5
just a heads up...spam got DA 18, RA 38 & PPV 19 in
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Post by Icon on Feb 23, 2009 16:16:13 GMT -5
lol where did everyone go? I'm around, but I'm out as far as collecting figs. I sold off a large chunk of my collection and kept only a few that I wanted. Now, I'm even thinking about dumping them too. I still have fun checking whats new in stores like Target & Walmart but don't have that urge to buy anything. Can't tell you the last time I stepped in a TRU in either Attleboro or Warwick though.
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Post by Icon on Feb 23, 2009 16:24:33 GMT -5
Na my TRU right here in Waterford, CT is pretty good. I've never had much trouble finding anything. Most of the time I do all my buying online though because I'm to impatient to wait. I just like to post on here to help out since we usually get things in a day or two (sometimes the same day) before RI TRU stores do. Once in a while though I go over to RI to find something I can't get here. Which isn't that bad seeing as I pretty much live right on the border of CT/RI. I always liked that Waterford TRU store. I used to stop by that store every once in awhile when my company would send me around that area. It helps that the Crystal Mall is practically across the street with a Target up the road.
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Post by dogink on Feb 23, 2009 19:04:34 GMT -5
I don't collect figures anymore either. Just autographs and DVD's etc. One of my friends actually only collects Build"n"Brawlers now. A sad fate for a great collector indeed.
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Post by xpac4life on Feb 23, 2009 23:29:20 GMT -5
Hey any of you guys who are getting rid of your collections im looking for some older classic sets loose or mint my grail is the Hollywood Blondes i missed em when they were out so shoot me a pm if you wanna do a deal. Thanks in advance Pac
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Post by Icon on Feb 24, 2009 0:05:54 GMT -5
I don't collect figures anymore either. Just autographs and DVD's etc. One of my friends actually only collects Build"n"Brawlers now. A sad fate for a great collector indeed. Funny you should mention autographs. I've always liked collecting wrestling autos, but my collection is modest & I still pickup DVD's here and there. My friends auto collection is insane and he cut back on figs except for those cheesy little Micro figs. You should get into shoot interviews like him, he's got a ton of those too if you are into DVD's.
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Post by Icon on Feb 24, 2009 0:08:39 GMT -5
Hey any of you guys who are getting rid of your collections im looking for some older classic sets loose or mint my grail is the Hollywood Blondes i missed em when they were out so shoot me a pm if you wanna do a deal. Thanks in advance Pac I got rid of most of my sets unfortunately, including the Hollywood Blondes. I'm down to around a dozen or so CS figs and a handful of CSDA figs.
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Post by Chip on Feb 24, 2009 11:38:42 GMT -5
I find myself going through my figure bins to get rid of some "dead weight" but otherwise I just cant get rid of something I've put so much effort into the past 2 years
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Post by Icon on Feb 24, 2009 14:09:24 GMT -5
I find myself going through my figure bins to get rid of some "dead weight" but otherwise I just cant get rid of something I've put so much effort into the past 2 years I hear ya. I had a hard time doing it with my own collection, but space became a problem and newer & better figs kept coming out. I sold all of my BCA's at a street wide yard sale a few years back to start off scaling my collection and I did the same thing with my TTL's and R3's a year later. Last year, I nearly let go of everything else. I hung onto a few others for sentimental reasons like my CS1 Warrior & CS8 Hogans (since those 2 wrestlers really got me into wrestling back at Wrestlemania 6). I have no wrestling stuff on display. I keep my autos in an autograph book, my dvd's in a hidden DVD cabinet, and my leftover figs boxed up in a closet. Even with the effort I put into the "hunt" of figure collecting, I never got that urge to get back in. Instead of figures, I put that money into other things that I could proudly display.
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Post by D-Rock on Feb 24, 2009 14:43:14 GMT -5
It maybe just me but it seems like you guys don't get the "thrill" anymore. Maybe its teh interwebz??? I stll get the trill of when I walk into TRU...and when packages show up at my house too.
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Post by Chip on Feb 24, 2009 15:38:45 GMT -5
Who me? I stop at 2 different TRUs once a week. I still get that ray of hope, that I will find a 1/500 or something interesting. Its the "thrill" thats kept me so into the figure collecting over the last 2 years.
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Post by Blackjack on Feb 25, 2009 8:31:49 GMT -5
Backlash tickets this saturday
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Post by D-Rock on Feb 25, 2009 11:20:09 GMT -5
Who me? I stop at 2 different TRUs once a week. I still get that ray of hope, that I will find a 1/500 or something interesting. Its the "thrill" thats kept me so into the figure collecting over the last 2 years. Nah man...it seemed like it was just me and you left everyone else...or they just grew up [quote author=wwefan4life board=Findings thread=43434 post=2134426 time=1235568709]Backlash tickets this saturday [/quote] Random Blackjack sighting Im trying to get the cash together.
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Post by the nexus on Feb 25, 2009 12:57:21 GMT -5
Got mine today 2 tickets at 70 a piece. Can't wait
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