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SailorButterfly
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Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 10:56 pm
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Yeah, that's pretty accurate.
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Asrialys
Joined: 12 Dec 2006
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Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 10:56 pm
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Sweet Jesus, indeed...
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kyokun703
Joined: 06 Jan 2005
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Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 11:06 pm
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Nina's frustrated face is fabulously hilarious.
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animefan1238
Joined: 28 Nov 2006
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Location: Ma
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Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 11:06 pm
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Any guess how much money was spent? If that ever happened to a friend of mine I would reply with, "Holy jumpin' f@*$in' Jesus." Then give them a stupid slap.
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Greed1914
Joined: 28 Oct 2007
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Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 11:20 pm
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Fortunately, I've been lucky with the blind boxes. I got the specific ones I wanted without having to try to many times, and I haven't repeated (which is the worst option). The only bad one I've ever ended up with was a completely clear variant, which makes it hard to discern any features.
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SailorButterfly
Joined: 29 Aug 2005
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Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 11:21 pm
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animefan1238 wrote: | Any guess how much money was spent? If that ever happened to a friend of mine I would reply with, "Holy jumpin' f@*$in' Jesus." Then give them a stupid slap. |
Let's see...those blind boxes usually run $5-$8. I'm counting about 44/45 individual figures...so I'd say somewhere between about $225 and $360.
Just a wild semi-educated guess.
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Asrialys
Joined: 12 Dec 2006
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Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 11:47 pm
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SailorButterfly wrote: |
animefan1238 wrote: | Any guess how much money was spent? If that ever happened to a friend of mine I would reply with, "Holy jumpin' f@*$in' Jesus." Then give them a stupid slap. |
Let's see...those blind boxes usually run $5-$8. I'm counting about 44/45 individual figures...so I'd say somewhere between about $225 and $360.
Just a wild semi-educated guess. |
She did give the man two bills. So unless she has a good supply of $2 bills, she's either paying $2 each or more than $5...
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Emma Iveli
Joined: 19 Jun 2005
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Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 11:49 pm
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I'm someone who doesn't care what I get in a blind box... I'm really happy when I get one of the figures I want. The only time I was unhappy with a figure was when I got a Yuki figure from Haruhi... it's not the character, it's just that the figure itself... it's her in her Fortune Teller outfit... and if I knock into the bookshelf she falls apart, and it takes a while to put back to together! Last time I did jam the head on good... so hopefully it won't happen again...
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bahamut623
Joined: 23 Jun 2005
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Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 12:03 am
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I've been there. I get the characters I want the least (Hisagi and Izuru from Bleach) and then I don't wanna spend more money and risk getting a repeat. But one time at a con there was a nice lady who let me look in the boxes and pick. It was super nice, and I was able to get Luffy and Sanji (but I would've been happy with any Strawhat).
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Cosplaybunny
Joined: 10 Apr 2007
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Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 12:14 am
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I go the lazy route with blind boxes and try to get the full set on Y!J. Poor Nina, Y!J is your friend
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domino
Joined: 25 Nov 2004
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Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 12:18 am
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This happened to me once... fortunately after the 4th time I got the same damn figure out of a $12 blind box, the guy at the convention booth pitied me enough to let me exchange one for a box he'd peeked into.
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belisarius
Joined: 29 Jul 2005
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Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 12:29 am
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I think I'd have prefer'd a last panel showing Nina's furrowed sweaty brow bent over the last Binki figure, it's head bashed in with a bowling ball and Nina saying "I'm finished!"
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Maryohki
Joined: 01 Aug 2006
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Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 12:43 am
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I know how this is. This is why I set some rules with myself for blind box figures only on. I won't do it if there's a character I HATE in the set, and I will only give myself two tries at any one set, at least at any one time.
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Dargonxtc
Joined: 13 Apr 2006
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Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 12:52 am
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Asrialys wrote: | She did give the man two bills. So unless she has a good supply of $2 bills, she's either paying $2 each or more than $5... |
So $6 is the best guess estimate.
$264 is quite overly OCD Nina.
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walw6pK4Alo
Joined: 12 Mar 2008
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Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 12:59 am
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Gotta learn to shake and feel the weight of those boxes. Helped me get what I want many-a-time. Sometimes my friends and I just might buy an entire box and then share the contents. There's also a guy who opens the boxes and marks which one it is with a sticker. Takes out the "mystery", but the mystery isn't really an important issue.
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