Figure vs. Plush
Oct. 7th, 2014 08:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladybug_archiveLadyamberjo 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.
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.
