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Back in March over at Star Wars site Galactic Hunter Adam Pawlus set out to get some sort of near-definitive count of how many "different" Star Wars action figures had been released by Kenner/Hasbro since 1978 (you can read his results/method of counting …
Well, May 1st has FINALLY arrived and my excitement comes from being able to "officially" buy the new Indiana Jones toys (Jonathan Coulton’s idea sounds good, but I’m gonna need a wife first, but I digress…). I hit the local Wal-Mart at midnight and scored one of every basic and deluxe 3 3/4" figure for the launch (I passed on the vehicles ’cause that would’ve added another $40 and I just couldn’t bring myself to do that this morning…) Here’s my collection so far… (I apologize for the sloppy photography)
I’ve been collecting action figures for a long time now and everytime there’s a price increase I wince. Like many of you, I get comfortable with the pricing on the lines I collect and it’s not easy to make an adjustment to new pricing, but I think we’re all going to be in for a lot of price jumps for the remainder of the year.
Okay, so it wasn’t all that noticable where I am but there is just somethng freaky about having the floor move beneath your chair. Got to say that was the strangest "coffee-break" I’ve taken at work in a long time, everyone was just looking at each other going "is …
Well, it’s just a little over two weeks until the official release of Hasbro’s new Indiana Jones toys and I’m chomping at the bit. See, I’ve been waiting nearly 25 years for these just because I missed out on them the first …
