Oh gosh.

That 18-inch Boba Fett figure is still at Wal-Mart. I thought sure it would have been sold. I looked in stores on my birthday, but I couldn't find it anywhere else. Now I wish we'd gone to the local Wal-Mart on my birthday, for more reasons than one. I don't know if it's phasing out or phasing in, making me worry I really need to get that one quickly.

Problem is, right now some of my money is in transit and hasn't arrived yet, so the only way to get it right now would be to ask Dad for $10. Or to take $10 from some money he had for us to use for needed things. But ... I kind of hate to take any of his money to buy something that he wouldn't be too thrilled for me to get.

I think my money will be available Wednesday, but maybe by then someone will have bought it. And it would be hard to get Dad to go to Wal-Mart again this week, I think.

I have tried and tried to tell myself every excuse I can think of to get me to not want that figure. But it's almost impossible to tell that to someone who's found something very cool involving a character she's loved since she was five or six.

I even tried to convince myself that maybe I'd be leery of having such a big figure of a character that canonically really isn't very friendly. But it didn't help. Seeing it again tonight was like seeing an old friend (which it really feels like he is, after loving him for so long). I know I wouldn't be leery at all.

Figure vs. Plush

Ladyamberjo sent me a lovely gift card for Build-a-Bear! I'm thrilled. I was thinking of using it to get Applebloom, but when I was at the store on Friday, I took the time to examine the Raph plush and I found myself really kind of wanting it. I decided I could sew on the removable shell.

Then I learned that the Turtles plushies are probably not going to be there for much longer; they told me that all of them had shipped, so I assume when the current stock runs out, there won't be any more unless there's still some in the back. I need to get back to the store quickly with my gift card if I'm going to buy Raph.

I'll need $15 to add to the gift card amount to get Raph, which means that if I get the Boba Fett figure, I'll still need to borrow about $10 if the plan is to get both right away. I learned that the figure is phasing in, not out, but it's a Wal-Mart exclusive. I've had trouble getting hold of store exclusives sometimes, with the Funrise Pony plushies as prime examples. I can see an exclusive once or twice, then it's gone and I don't see it again for months on end.

I don't know when I'll be able to get out to get the Raph plush. And when I also don't know how long an exclusive will still be around before disappearing and needing to be restocked (which can take ages to happen), I don't know whether to pass up the figure. If I focus on the plush when I don't know when I can get up there, I might not be able to get the figure. And I don't have any original trilogy Boba Fett figures at all; my only one was a little first-edition Kenner figure that was my brother's when he let me have some of his collection, and he wanted his Star Wars figures back while I was still small. I was willing to trade them back to him to play his Mario games several times. I mostly had supporting characters or cameo characters; I think Yoda and Boba Fett and Admiral Ackbar and Lando were the only "bigger" characters I had from his collection.

But yeah, anyway. I do have an Episode II child Boba Fett figure that the same brother gave me, which I treasure, but I don't have any adult Boba Fett figures and boy, do I want this one.

Then there's a snarly Raph plush I saw at Rite-Aid. That's actually the plush that captures Raph more as I really think of him. But I don't think Dad would like me having such an angry plush and I did really end up liking the Build-a-Bear Raph a lot more than I thought I would. He was so cuddly! So with a gift card to cut down the cost, I think I'd like to get that Raph the most.

And if I do need to borrow a little money, I definitely think Dad would be more receptive to the plush (even of a Ninja Turtle) than to a Boba Fett figure.

I'm going to go try to get the figure tonight, I think, as the money processed today so that I'd have enough for the figure and we need to exchange a product that will be needed before the next grocery trip. I guess if the figure is gone, that will seal my decision right there. But if it's still there, I can't quite imagine myself leaving without it again. It was torture leaving it there yesterday.