Seriously, going to Target and Walmart every day or two is the only thing I look forward to anymore. Especially at target when I can get an iced coffee from starbucks in target while I look through all the aisles. I love looking for red label and platinum mcfarlane figures and the thrill of the hunt and the hope I find stuff on clearance. Anyone else feel the same way?
>>11544135Fuck off with this spam
>>11544136Don’t worry I look for NECA products when I toy hunt too, especially clearanced ones
>>11544141You'll have more luck dumpster diving out the back.
>>11544159That doesn't make any sense
>>11544135Hunting is fun for a while, but in the end it grinded me down with all that time and gas money spent on rarely finding the shit I was after the most.
>>11544169What stuff were you after?
>>11544159I don’t get it
>>11544135Your ancestral gathering instincts have taken you over and you need to budget.
>>11544592I do budget though
>>11544135>Anyone else feel the same way?Trust me, spending all that time and energy getting laid is WAY more fun. Just spend the cash you spend on overpriced RED and PLATINUM's from Todd on ordering cold brew concentrate from Crapazom or WalMart (or Target for that matter), and enjoy some cold coffee after they leave.>>11544159>>11544165>>11544323The piles of toys you see on Clearance (one of my large Targets had one half of an entire aisle full of clearance toys - when they don't sell AT THAT POINT, they don't return them to the manufacturers or anyone else, they just send them to the dumpsters. But you need to live in some suburban area that doesn't have mall cops running around and doesn't have their dumpsters locked up, which is pretty much very few. During the daytime hours it might not be locked but then that's when there's more store personnel and shopping center/mall security around. There's entire videos and tiktoks of people who spend a lot of time and energy getting entire things like clothes, food, etc. from dumpster diving. What's to understand?
>>11544135I used to leave the house early just to go to faraway Toys R Us, then I'd enjoy the rest of the area, but that closed down. Alternatively, I'd go to Gamestop, but I do digital now and their toy section is rarely worth it anymore. I hate this future
>>11544135Do they restock that often?
>>11545085Depends on what you’re looking for honestly and clearance can change by day
>>11544749Oh then you're fine, carry on.
>>11544996Aren't most Gamestops closing up too? A few of them in my area are now closed.
>>11544165Because it isnt true. They use trash compactors. Anything else gets shipped back to the dc via fed ex. The only dumpster youll find behind most walmarts is for food waste or oil recycling. Notice i say most, there may well be a walmart with a rolling dumpster in use somewhere.
>>11544996>>11545380Yeah, they've closed a bunch since that entire meme stock bubble burst; I've only seen them open a truly new location in my entire (very populated county, larger than many states) once in the past 5 years, since you can count them consolidating 2-5 stores in one area into a large store in the same shopping mall as a really 'new' location.Supposedly, now that they sold GameStop Canada back to some Canadians, those will count as 'store closures' but that same story implied that they intend to close more stores, probably after the holidays this year.
>>11545391They would be in the exact same situation now a few years earlier if not for that whole event. People just do not trade in games any longer and a store full of tshirts and funkos is not that interesting to enough people. Plus Gamestops were obnoxiously everywhere for the longest time anyway. Around 09 there was at least one every 2-3 miles down the road. What I do miss is the Thinkgees store, that Gamestop bought out and only absorbed a fraction of their content, only to drop all of that after about a year.
>>11545397Wait Thinkgeek used to have its own locations?
>>11544135Do you not have a job or a family to be with?
>>11545391Surprisingly no gamestops near me have closed and we have 3
>>11544135We need a Spider-Man paperboy Mezco figure
>>11545474I only ever saw one in Manhattan. It was a Gamestop upstairs, and a full toy department downstairs with glass cases and statues too
>>11545474>>11545397>>11545899Yeah, the last Think Geek I saw that still had that branding was during a trip to Vegas in 2019. I picked up some great Diamond Select stuff that my local LCS in LA wasn't even carrying or had it marked up like they were scalpers on eBay (and since the LCS did have an on-line storefront, that is exactly what they were).
>>11545959Vegas had a ThinkGeek? I actually lived there since before EB Games merged, and they also had Game Crazy
>>11545973What’s Game Crazy?
>>11547044Game Crazy was something Hollywood video had on the side which specialized in games. The whole buy/sell/trade. Blockbuster had Game Rush but it wasn't as good more bland but in my experience had more game variety.
>>11547842Oh okay, thanks for the info
>>11545973Yep, I was volunteering for a week and I forget exactly where I was since I was doing some door to door shit, since I had no control over my schedule and someone else had volunteer to do the driving (and had driven from next door - Utah or New Mexico or some place else), I was stuck taking the bus a few times, it wasn't any big deal since it was February and more cold than hot. So I couldn't tell you where but it was some huge mall, and there must have been a Panda Express or a Chipotle nearby because that's what I stopped for - to eat, and just saw the Think Geek/Game Stop sign and stopped because in those days I had like $100-200 in GS $50 gift cards I had earned at my then job as bonus because they were too fucking cheap to just give us cash.
>>11550807Sounds like you went to the one in El Paso, which just about borders both Mexicos. Vegas then only had 4 major malls and they all had Gamestops then
Does GameStop still carry thinkgeek stuff in stores?
I think going and looking for cool toys used to be my favorite thing growing up, right up until I was around 18 or so, but unfortunately the entire industry collapsed when I became an adult and any toy stores I liked are gone and the toy department in most stores is so boring or depressing now I haven’t looked at one in a decade it seems like. I have no idea what you guys look for or collect these days or what even is available so more power to you if you find shit you like. I just gave up looking after around 2016 or so.
>>11544135Why are grown men beefing over toys. Does rocco not wanna share his spiderman with schizotoyreviews? Is that why they hate eachother?
>>11544135The only places worth doing this is thrift stores and flea markets, modern toys bore me. I find some really nice Beanie Babies and miscellaneous action figures that way.>>11554495Try secondhand, that's where all the soul still is.>>11555699>Why are grown men beefing over toys.Where do you think we are?
>>11544135I prefer >I just want to be able to breathe everyday
>>11555730>Where do you think we are?A board for resellers?
>>11544135Is that the paperboy from Spiderman 2
