Lies, all lies!
Jan. 18th, 2018 11:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
insaneladybugSo we got to go out today, which is awesome because it was the last day of my Barnes and Noble coupon and the last day before things are supposed to start acting like winter around here. I think the East Coast is having their winter plus ours this year! We need some more moisture or we'll probably have a drought come spring and summer.
Anyway, Target did have some of the Ponies! Squeee. As I half-expected, Bluebelle and Blossom weren't there. Neither was Butterscotch. But I was happy to get Minty! I wondered if I should have got Snuzzle too. I wanted to save money and hope to have a chance at getting Bluebelle and Blossom later (and Butterscotch), but really, I want all six. I kind of wish I'd gotten Snuzzle too. But I needed to check Toys R Us to see if they had any, so I opted to just get Minty. And really, I'm glad of that, because I met a guy there who was absolutely chuffed to see 1980s Ponies back and he was excited hoping to go buy some with his paycheck tomorrow, so I really hope Snuzzle and Cotton Candy will both still be there for him! Toys R Us doesn't have any yet, but they're being shipped to the warehouse, so maybe in a couple of weeks.
I also saw the Mutagen Canister figures back at Toys R Us, but they only had two Raphaels. Honestly, he seems to be the worst seller of the set. The Wal-Mart I visited later didn't even have a place for the Mutagen Canister figures anymore. Now I'm a little worried that maybe I won't get to buy another Baxter to fix into Barney for my dA friend....
I didn't end up going to Build-a-Bear because I felt I wanted to save the money for more Ponies, but Mom asked twice if I'd gone there and now that's making me nervous wondering if I should have. I have a month to use that coupon, but the time will likely go by quickly.
At Barnes and Noble I was considering getting the book on Legendary Pokemon, but when I saw it, I wasn't impressed. It told some of the encounters from the series and movies, but it didn't seem to want to talk about Pokemon Classic much at all and refused to mention movies 2 and 3. WTH.
I saw the new Equestria Girls book and it said that Sunset's friends fell under a spell where they only remembered the bad things about her. I'll probably want to read it since it is an original story, but that sounded sad and I knew I'd probably spend the whole book feeling bad for her, so I decided I didn't want to get that right then either.
Then I looked in some other Pokemon reference books and ended up hopping mad. I thought that book about Ash's journey from Kanto to Kalos was bad in their descriptions of Team Rocket. I found way worse! One reference book out and out lied about James' past. It said he got bored of the rich life and ran away because of that. No mention of being engaged to an abusive girl his parents were forcing him to marry. Maybe they felt that was too dark for kids to hear about, but why make up stuff?! Just say nothing like the Kalos book did! Then a book about the movies slanted it so that Team Rocket's unselfish acts sounded selfish. True, they did try to say that they were only helping to save the world because if it was destroyed there wouldn't be anyone to steal from, but their later sacrifice proved that was just talk. They thought they were going to die, which they outright said and which the book outright didn't say. Ugh. It's one thing to want to make sure the kids don't want to emulate the antagonists, but making them sound worse than they were and even lying about them is not the way to go about it.
I ended up supremely ticked off and bought a Nancy Drew book instead. There was one classic Nancy Drew that they had that I didn't. And heh, oddly enough, the few Nancys and Hardys they had were on the bottom shelves, just like in my dream. They weren't on the bottom shelves the last time I was there.
All in all, a fun little outing and I discovered an amazing Darren figure modeled after his character in A Christmas Story! I couldn't get it right then, as it was $30, but I'm going to keep monitoring it for a price drop! I must have it!
I just hope I won't regret not going to Build-a-Bear....
Anyway, Target did have some of the Ponies! Squeee. As I half-expected, Bluebelle and Blossom weren't there. Neither was Butterscotch. But I was happy to get Minty! I wondered if I should have got Snuzzle too. I wanted to save money and hope to have a chance at getting Bluebelle and Blossom later (and Butterscotch), but really, I want all six. I kind of wish I'd gotten Snuzzle too. But I needed to check Toys R Us to see if they had any, so I opted to just get Minty. And really, I'm glad of that, because I met a guy there who was absolutely chuffed to see 1980s Ponies back and he was excited hoping to go buy some with his paycheck tomorrow, so I really hope Snuzzle and Cotton Candy will both still be there for him! Toys R Us doesn't have any yet, but they're being shipped to the warehouse, so maybe in a couple of weeks.
I also saw the Mutagen Canister figures back at Toys R Us, but they only had two Raphaels. Honestly, he seems to be the worst seller of the set. The Wal-Mart I visited later didn't even have a place for the Mutagen Canister figures anymore. Now I'm a little worried that maybe I won't get to buy another Baxter to fix into Barney for my dA friend....
I didn't end up going to Build-a-Bear because I felt I wanted to save the money for more Ponies, but Mom asked twice if I'd gone there and now that's making me nervous wondering if I should have. I have a month to use that coupon, but the time will likely go by quickly.
At Barnes and Noble I was considering getting the book on Legendary Pokemon, but when I saw it, I wasn't impressed. It told some of the encounters from the series and movies, but it didn't seem to want to talk about Pokemon Classic much at all and refused to mention movies 2 and 3. WTH.
I saw the new Equestria Girls book and it said that Sunset's friends fell under a spell where they only remembered the bad things about her. I'll probably want to read it since it is an original story, but that sounded sad and I knew I'd probably spend the whole book feeling bad for her, so I decided I didn't want to get that right then either.
Then I looked in some other Pokemon reference books and ended up hopping mad. I thought that book about Ash's journey from Kanto to Kalos was bad in their descriptions of Team Rocket. I found way worse! One reference book out and out lied about James' past. It said he got bored of the rich life and ran away because of that. No mention of being engaged to an abusive girl his parents were forcing him to marry. Maybe they felt that was too dark for kids to hear about, but why make up stuff?! Just say nothing like the Kalos book did! Then a book about the movies slanted it so that Team Rocket's unselfish acts sounded selfish. True, they did try to say that they were only helping to save the world because if it was destroyed there wouldn't be anyone to steal from, but their later sacrifice proved that was just talk. They thought they were going to die, which they outright said and which the book outright didn't say. Ugh. It's one thing to want to make sure the kids don't want to emulate the antagonists, but making them sound worse than they were and even lying about them is not the way to go about it.
I ended up supremely ticked off and bought a Nancy Drew book instead. There was one classic Nancy Drew that they had that I didn't. And heh, oddly enough, the few Nancys and Hardys they had were on the bottom shelves, just like in my dream. They weren't on the bottom shelves the last time I was there.
All in all, a fun little outing and I discovered an amazing Darren figure modeled after his character in A Christmas Story! I couldn't get it right then, as it was $30, but I'm going to keep monitoring it for a price drop! I must have it!
I just hope I won't regret not going to Build-a-Bear....
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