Any good toy stores in Phoenix, AZ?
>>11775459Phoenix is a hell-hole in every sense of the word. THIS place, that features Funko Pops and Hot Wheels on the front page of their website, is considered their "best" toy store on shit holes sites like Yelp, and what passes for crowd-sourced blogs/postings, etc.:http://www.collectorsmarketplace.com/
>>11775459Check comic book shops, which for decades have sold far more than just comic books. >>11775493>Phoenix is a hell-hole in every sense of the word.120-degree summers are hell on earth. Fuck that city.
https://brassarmadillo.com/phoenix/This place is an antique mall, but there are a ton of old toys. I've found some good stuff there. Also, fuck Phoenix.
>>11775493>>11775650Reason im going here because they're opening a Buc-ee's. I intend to go on a month where the weather is better>>11775857That sounds perfect too, there's one nearby
>>11776475The weather is better NOW. I went to school in Tucson and we could go hiking and enjoy ourselves in early May, the summer months were for avoiding anything that wasn't air conditioned to the max. They don't have roadside gas or fried apple pie where you live?
>>11776475The weather will be much worse a month from now.
>>11775459Walsmarts
>>11775459I have a Buc-ee's Cup that doubles as a "figure" and a keychain plush I got a year ago. I live in the Northeast so going there was sort of an event for me. Food was pretty good too desu.
Weird thing to open /toy/ and see my city be a thread topic but because you asked I am compelled to give you the deets....The best toy shops (price and inventory wise) are Polar Bear's Pop Culture Shop, Retro Exchange, and somewhat Toy Anxiety. The ones to avoid because they're raping you with their prices would be Collector's Marketplace and Toying Around Collectibles.Toy Fiends and TriForce Collectibles are underrated hidden gems that occasionally get good shit in for a somewhat good price. Check all of them out at least once because YMMV but that's just based on my personal experience going to all of them these past 5ish years.
>>11776903It sounds like OP is going for a weekend visit. My experience in my home town is that a store that was recommended to me (largely puzzles, but they sell other shit, like slinky's, SHF, old action figures, basic bitch LEGO, etc.) was worth checking out once a year if I was in the area, but not regularly. So I would assume anything where you put "occasionally" is only worthwhile for a native or local - unless OP had a lot of time and was willing to drive around in Phoenix heat in June. Even with full blast AC, your car will be sitting in a parking lot for at least the 20 minutes it takes you to walk to and from the front door and take a quick cursory look at product. If you actually find shit you were interested in and had to pay, you're talking a car might sit in an open parking lot anywhere from 30-40 minutes. It's why I largely just rode a bike or my brother's convertible if I knew where I was going had shade, when I had to be in Tucson for the summer afternoon visit.
>>11776556Yeah, but we dont have "the biggest gas station store ever with great food", from what ive heard.>>11776566Buc-ees opens next month. and as a Nevada resident, I definitely will wait to go in the fall>>11776891Definitely looking forward to getting what you have.>>11776903>>11777141Will likely hang around the area between Phoenix and Goodyear depending on the time, but these all sound good.
>>11777391Buc-ee's is good as fuck. Get the chopped brisket sandwich imo.
>>11777448Well done chopped brisket is always great, but you don't need to be in 90 degree heat or higher in June, or a road stop chain, to get great brisket.
>>11775459Local comic shops are the best you got really. And their prices kind of blow.
>>11777498>90 degree heatOh sweet child. It will be at least 110 by the time Buc-ees opens at the end of June.
>>11777534>t will be at least 110 by the time Buc-ees opens at the end of June.When it comes to heat, Phoenix really is hell's asshole. I don't get how people can live there especially with the high utility bills due to the air-conditioning, but the born-locals love it and can't imagine living anywhere else.
>>11777534We've all misunderstood OP - he's going in the fall, probably October or November."Another" month, not "next" month.>110 >end of JuneAnd it's been more than a decade since I was last in Arizona. I haven't even driven through it and the last time I did that, it was that northernmost Interstate that goes through Flagstaff and it must have been winter because there was still SOME snow on the ground when we had to stop in a motel for the night. I keep meaning to go back, for the Fiesta Bowl, but the matches have all sucked.
>>11777586>the born-locals love it and can't imagine living anywhere elseThis, anywhere else seems like the shittiest place on earth. You just don't go outside for more than 3 to 4 minutes in the summer months, it's really not that big of a deal. Especially since it's a dry heat. Humidity is what'll get ya, I went to DC during like September or something and almost passed out while touring the Capitol Mall because it was 90 degrees but like 60% humidity which I'm just not used to. Meanwhile, I walk to the store if it's 90 or lower.
>>11777590On the opposite side there's people in the "deep south" (Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, and Georgia) who have humid-hot summers, and they're just fine in it. I guess growing up in certain climates acclimates you to them.
>>11776475>>11777391Based. I can't help you with toy shops in Arizona, but I will recommend you grab a brisket sandwich like the other anon said, and a choc peanut butter Overbite. It kicks the shit out of Reese's peanut butter cups.And remember to double wrap it if you decide to take a lot lizard back to your hotel room.>>11777587I understood, but I did need to read it twice.>I intend to go on a month where the weather is betterNot >I intend to go in a month, when the weather is better
I know people in the south that live and die by Buccees and when they opened one in my state I was tempted to go but it's a two hour drive and I can't imagine it's worth all that hassle for a fucking gas station
>>11778343I just like roadtrips/traveling. It's interesting to see what other states have and all those middle of nowhere businesses along the way. I also want to see Casa Bonita in Colorado
>>11777590>>11777595I grew up in Southern Arizona and loved it. If I had kids, that's the idea of what I would like to bring them up in. But the hottest we ever experienced was going further north, it even snowed - rarely - where we lived. Yes, I agree dry heat is different. I also went to DC during the summer and sleeping on someone's sofa during the summer, I would have been better off paying and staying in the student hostel with AC, but I also lived in South Florida and Atlanta (which are both different and worse kinds of hell hole). tl'dr, if I had to pick dry heat, I'd pick Vegas over Phoenix. There's more to do.
>>11778068Fuckin hell, they're all so fat. God I hate americans.
>>11776475>I intend to go on a month where the weather is betterNo one tell him
>>11780324Is late September onwards a bad idea?
>>11780401It'll still be hot. It doesn't usually cool down until the last week of October if you're lucky.
>>11778068>>11780094>all so fatwalking diabetes
>>11780401Alright, fine.Oct to April wintertime is the window to visit. You missed it. May and Sept are borderline, usually bad. Some years okay, this year it will be far too hot for outsiders. Phoenix is massive. Huge. If you don't have a rented car, visiting some areas will be difficult.If you absolutely must go now in May, bring a massive 1Liter water bottle if you are not from the desert. Not joking. Go to the Botanical Garden only if temps are below 100F that day.It is too far into summer to go hiking. You will die. Not an exaggeration.
>>11780709>You missed itBuc-EEs isn't open, so he hasn't "missed" what he wants to go to that Hell Hole for.
>>11780715>so he hasn't "missed" what he wants to go to that Hell Hole for.Hell has clean bathrooms and 3 meat brisket sandwiches?
>>11778068I've seen fat before and then there's this guy.bless him with longevity, wherever he is.
>>11780716Heck, son, in hell holes all across the deep south, they have clean bathrooms AND serve you sweet tea with your brisket. And they serve that sweet tea in actual plastic cups that they put into steaming hot water before they allow them to cool down to add the ice and that sweet tea.That still doesn't keep those Hell Holes from being designated as Hell Hole.
To put it into context it was in the mid 80s earlier in the week and today we're hitting a high of 105 F. Summer's here.
>>11782808>today we're hittingAnd a happy mother's day to you, too
>>11780094You thirdies can't help but seethe with jealousy, lol
>>11783087I live in the States and even I think that most of the people in that webm are grossly obese Starving kids can still be undernourished and not have enough food and be grossly overweightyeah, it's great that we have a lot of stuff other places don't and that we even take it for granted, like clean running water that we can even waste for long showers when other countries have people boiling it just to have enough to drinksand also great that most people can walk a few blocks and find stores with plenty of food but even in the states we have people with lead and crap in their pipes and not even a 7-11, AM/PM or CircleK to get milk at for miles and miles
>>11778068It should be illegal to be a millennial.
>>11783087Not a thirdy. Live in the US. They're almost all obese.
