So after spending yesterday opening boxes in Toys R Us looking for Captain Phasma in Central World, I decided when the wife was at work to get the 3 baht (6p) ferry across to the local Robinsons store. Robinsons is pretty much we would have called a department store back in the day and sells just about everything - bags, clothes, sportswear, baby stuff, cushions, etc, etc, but luckily it does have small toy department.
The toy department in the one near us (Saphan Taksin BTS), you could probably walk around in less than a minute, and sells very few action figures and things I would even be interested in, never mind buying. Funny enough it has two isles of Lego that would seem to have been priced by a drunken sales department manager in Harrods London ! Lego is priced so far out of anyones price range here that it makes fakes a better option - afterall my wife works an entire 6-day week month as a school teacher for less than £300 a month and a nice sized Lego set can pretty much use up her entire months salary !! I can, and have bought fakes* here at probably a tenth of the price.
*I use the word fake meaning 'copy' - not fake product. No fake Lego coming out of China - Decool, Sheng Yuan, LeLe, etc - as far as I know is or have ever been stamped with the word Lego on them. And the boxes do not state Lego either.
I seem to be gettnig of subject somewhat.
I have been to this shop on numerous occasions. Bought a few Hero Squad (real ones) sets for my two boys at sales prices, but never really seen anything SW I wanted. Well, that said, there are a few sales items in the sales bins I will get later, but that's for another day - unless my dissapearing figures comes back to haunt me again (like Phasma).
Anyhow, there seemed to have been a new delivery of the Star Wars Black Series Force awakens 6 inch figures just come in. And sat in the front was dear old Captain Phasma ! So, not taking any chances of it vanishing in my absence - apart form a visit to the ATM - I took it to the cashier.
Now, I did get worried here. First the lady behind the counter said that the barcode would not read. She took it away and stood talking to another person with it for a while. I hate that, someone walking off with my toy ! I had a vision of her selling it to someone else - serious Toy envy !! It took a full 15 minutes to find someone to get a barcode reading for it !!! Second, whilst I am trying to pay for it, the girl behind the counter is flicking the hangar on the top of the box back and forth ! This was not danging from a hanger, so the hook was flat in the box. Flick, flick, flick. I must get my Thai wife to teach me the words for 'Just leave the bloody thing alone'!!!
Paid, bagged and back on the 3 baht ferry. And hello again to the ferry Pig !
Note : Picture is Yahoo file picture - not actual goods. Pig is real Pig though !!
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