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[Time Published October 23, 2013 at 04:48AM]
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I didn't have a kid with me, but the staff didn't stare. I was in the aisle outside the video game area, looking at the Skylanders collection, checking for rare figures. Some of the Skylanders — a collection of physical toys that interact with a video game series of the same name — are harder to find than others, and the scarcity hooked me, and made me ruthless.
One time I snatched a Wrecking Ball away from a 4-year-old before he even had a chance to reach for it; would this be one of those days? I was swinging through around noon, when I landed my best find ever: a Ninjini, the purple, vaguely Christina Hendricks-like genie/ninja that was one of the scarcest figures in the series. They had one left, and as I plucked it off the hook...
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[Source: http://www.polygon.com/2013/10/22/4862422/opinion-the-pleasure-of-being-an-adult-and-playing-with-toys] | Image URL: http://cdn1.sbnation.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/21521067/skylanders-giants-character-list.0_cinema_720.0.jpg]
[Time Published October 23, 2013 at 04:48AM]
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I didn't have a kid with me, but the staff didn't stare. I was in the aisle outside the video game area, looking at the Skylanders collection, checking for rare figures. Some of the Skylanders — a collection of physical toys that interact with a video game series of the same name — are harder to find than others, and the scarcity hooked me, and made me ruthless.
One time I snatched a Wrecking Ball away from a 4-year-old before he even had a chance to reach for it; would this be one of those days? I was swinging through around noon, when I landed my best find ever: a Ninjini, the purple, vaguely Christina Hendricks-like genie/ninja that was one of the scarcest figures in the series. They had one left, and as I plucked it off the hook...
Continue reading…
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[Source: http://www.polygon.com/2013/10/22/4862422/opinion-the-pleasure-of-being-an-adult-and-playing-with-toys] | Image URL: http://cdn1.sbnation.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/21521067/skylanders-giants-character-list.0_cinema_720.0.jpg]
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