5 Minute Figure Hunt

[NameRedacted™]

I am going to try to do this once a week. A 5 minute figure hunt right before a store closes. Here we go!

Time: 2155...9:55 PM LCL
Target: K-Mart...Santa Rosa, CA

Feeling a little shafted from today's in store figure hunt I proceeded over to my local k-mart for a quick little hunt. As my wife and I entered we immediately felt the stares from all of the employees...Not only because we arrived 5 minutes to closing, but probably also because I was wearing my NEW yellow CM Punk GTS lightning-bolt shirt with matching Homer Simpson slippers.

As we proceeded to the toy aisles my wife grabbed a bunch of pudding cups. When she broke off, I spotted a bunch of cubes and end caps waiting for the night crew to set up, none of them being the new WWE shipper / cube...Santa Rosa is def slacking here...

My wife found me and then spotted the WWE sign and we walked down that aisle. There was a bunch of TTTT and GS lines...and a TON of John Cena everything as usual. I moved some of the rings around on the top shelf to see if there was anything back there...and guess what? There was...

I reached up there and found a figure that I have been wanting since I started collecting, the e14 Alberto Del Rio equipped with RAW MITB briefcase and shiny WWE Championship. I don't have a single clue as to why I wanted this thing so much, I just did...In the cart it went.

I am now thinking that the figure gods are on my side and sort of apologizing for me having to settle earlier in the day. I reach my hand back up there a second time and feel another elite package style box. I pulled it down and what is this I am holding? The e14 Undertaker equipped with a pretty cool entrance jacket! I show my wife, who is checking behind the rings on the bottom shelf for hidden gems, and she stands up and grabs it from me. Undertaker is pretty much her favorite wrestler ever, right next to Stone Cold. She checks it out for about 40 seconds and then in the cart he goes.

I looked at my watch and the time was now 9:59 and I am thinking that any second now the k-mart people are going to make the "final selection" announcement...my eye then go into super hunt mode. I see one more thing that been on my list and its the GS Yoshi Tatsu. In the cart he goes without hesitation. Just as I reach back up to the GS peg I start to hear the announcement.

Time up!

Total Haul: e14 Alberto Del Rio, e14 Undertaker, GS Yoshi Tatsu...2 pudding snack packs.

Overall a nice 5 minute hunt. The snack packs came in handy for the quick drive home and I scored on that e14 ADR. Thanks for reading and thanks again for your time.

Happy hunting!

-NameRedacted

[WWEKidCollector]

Awesome! Did you receive the coupon deal? I actually enjoyed reading your story here. I could almost visualize it in my head, It's reminiscence of my own experience with my partner. She gets down low to find any hidden gems in bottom shelves. My son seems to always find something good on the bottom shelves away from the WWE items too. I guess there is a positive for being under 4 ft tall.

I've seen that ADR multiple times before but I passed on it because I bought the E12 Del Rio. After Cena won the MITB match this past summer, I have prayed to the figure gods to help me find this figure. No luck yet, but I will remain hopeful.

[onleeone643]

i should try that, maybe I'll find something good.

[Deleted]

Nice Stuff Bro!

That Yoshi is very underrated!

[Naw]

nice sucka

[NameRedacted™]

Oct 18, 2012 2:01:50 GMT -5 WWEKidCollector said:

Awesome! Did you receive the coupon deal? I actually enjoyed reading your story here. I could almost visualize it in my head, It's reminiscence of my own experience with my partner. She gets down low to find any hidden gems in bottom shelves. My son seems to always find something good on the bottom shelves away from the WWE items too. I guess there is a positive for being under 4 ft tall.

I've seen that ADR multiple times before but I passed on it because I bought the E12 Del Rio. After Cena won the MITB match this past summer, I have prayed to the figure gods to help me find this figure. No luck yet, but I will remain hopeful.

I did not get a voucher for my next purchase. The person working the register said that the voucher was for online purchases only.

[poindizzle]

That Yoshi is among my top favorite basics at the moment and none too easy to find, so congratulations on scoring one! I also love that Del Rio, to me his headscan might be a little too wide, but it trumps his first in every other way possible from detail down to better likeness. That, and some great accessories make him the indispensable version to get.

[rickdeestop40]

Great story, I really enjoyed reading it. Enjoy!

[WMWanimations]

Awesome story! It was fun to read and I could actually imagine whats going on in my head. Being in Canada where the selection is god awful and we get no elites but BOPPV + E8, its fun coming and reading stuff like this. Makes me feel like I'm hunting myself! Haha please keep writing these.

[Deleted]

thats such a d*ck move. you have obviously never worked retail. i wanted to punch ppl in their face when they came in 5 mins before close.

[inkboy83]

That Undertaker is awesome, just got it last month

[NameRedacted™]

Oct 18, 2012 21:36:04 GMT -5 @jessej765 said:

thats such a d*ck move. you have obviously never worked retail. i wanted to punch ppl in their face when they came in 5 mins before close.

Actually my first job was k-mart as a cashier, so I know the feeling of people coming in 5 minutes before. I knew that they only had 5 minutes so it never got to me too much.

[byrnside]

Oct 18, 2012 21:36:04 GMT -5 @jessej765 said:

thats such a d*ck move. you have obviously never worked retail. i wanted to punch ppl in their face when they came in 5 mins before close.

What's the difference? They still left the store at 10.

[Scott!]

Great story and some awesome finds, elite 14 del rio is my favourite Mattel hands down.

[Deleted]

the difference is ppl come in 5 mins before close and managers wont close to they leave, when you have worked a shift at kmart your ready to get the hell outta there asap.