Observations at Toys ‘R Us sale

Yesterday, I went for the Toys ‘R Us members’ or UOB card members only priority sale held at United Square, with a pony collector friend.  Like any warehouse type of sale, it was packed with shoppers fishing for the best bargains amongst the toys offered for sale. 

My friend and I found only a handful of My Little Pony toys - 2 Ponyville Starsong with Popcorn Theatre, a Cheerilee plush and a Play Doh set.  The rest of the toys there weren’t that exciting, mostly leftover Movie Transformers, Indiana Jones, Over The Hedge plushes, Power Rangers Mystic Force, and a whole lot of other miscellaneous assorted toys. 

Oh yes, some guys managed to fill their canvas Toy ‘R Us bags with huge but battered boxes of Lego playsets like those of the knights’ castles, Harry Potter series etc.  Each of those battered boxes of Lego still cost over SGD 100.00!  That is still a lot of money.  I guess Lego will never ever really go for at super rock bottom prices.  Their resistance price levels are even more steady than most stock prices today, even for very beat up box sets!

While at the sale, I came across MOC Movie Transformer Bonecrusher.  I deliberated for a very long while on whether to pick him up because he cost only SGD 10.00.  There were 3 large boxes of assorted Deluxe Movie Transformers toys to choose from.  However the lack of space to stack up the unwanted toys tossed aside by shoppers, meant that it was very challenging to dig to the bottom of those 3 deep boxes.

It was also very difficult to stay rooted to any spot to dig for the toys you are looking for because other shoppers are constantly squeezing past you along the narrow aisles.  It was mayhem and your instinct is to want to get out of the enclosed sale area as soon as possible. 

Many of the male shoppers filled their canvas Toy ‘R Us bags with huge boxes of Movie Transformers.  I spotted MOC Deluxe Bumblebee Camaro 2008 in one guy’s canvas bag.  He was so lucky and that could be the only piece at the sale!  If I was the one who had grabbed Bumblebee, I would have surely gotten him (at just SGD 10.00) and remove him from the package for display.  Argh!  It really pays to dig persistently deep into the boxes during a sale!

Anyway, after spending nearly an hour trapped in the sale area, my friend and I finally decided to head for the cashier.  My friend got herself a Sesame Street Globe ornament for only SGD 15.00.  It’s that type where you turn the ornament upside down and the “snowflakes” would begin to snow inside the globe.  I carried MOC Movie Transformer Bonecrusher around for what seemed an eternity before finally deciding to take photos of him for memorial instead.  I took these shots of him while waiting for my friend to go through the boxes of globe ornaments to test for the one that worked best.

And so we joined the long queue and finally paid for the globe ornament.  I went home empty-handed.  I was mulling over that it was a waste to miss out on that heavily-discounted MOC Bumblebee.  On my way back, I passed by a VCD shop and picked up a cheap China-import Transformers Movie DVD for only SGD 11.95.  It had been a year since I watched this Movie at the cinema.  My memory of the scenes and details had been become a bit hazy.  It was a great refresher movie to watch and I enjoyed it.  Best of all, it was cheap!