There’s A Cash Register Ringing And It Weighs So Heavy On My Back
OK folks, first off, I apologize (again and again) for the delayed blogging here. Galactic Blogger HQ (my house) is undergoing renovation, and it eats up some serious Internetting time.
I’m going to start today with Black Friday Sales just because I’m a total pushover for cheap.
Let’s start with Sprawl*Mart:
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Walmart.com is offering over 60 items from their Black Friday ad available online at Walmart.com starting Friday, November 24th at 5am EDT. (Note: That’s not a paid plug link or anything, just informing readers.)
Star Wars — A New Hope Exclusive DVD with Graphic Novel for $9.72
Star Wars — The Empire Strikes Back Exclusive DVD with Graphic Novel for $9.72
Star Wars — Return of the Jedi Exclusive DVD with Graphic Novel for $9.72
Wal*Mart stores will have the Darth Vader Voice Changer for a rock bottom price of $10.
Exclusively at Wal*Mart is the Transformers Millennium Falcon with Bonus Titanium Ships, and that will set you back $28.88.
The Working Man’s Boutique (aka Target) is really only rolling out one deal for Star Wars toys, and that’s the (regular edition) Transformers Millennium Falcon for $15, which is a heck of a deal.
The Store With The Biggest Line (or Best Buy) will have the standard single edition of the Star Wars Original Trilogy for $9.99, and other stores will be similarly priced.
Don’t forget Costco‘s Tater Trio featuring that cool Darth Tater container. (It’s as big as a cookie jar, and it does rock. Needs a cape, but it rocks.)
Some store info won’t make it out until Wednesday night, but we’ll update as much as we can to keep you up on the deals. (Also check bfads.net for pretty much everything else.)
November 21st, 2006 at 4:33 pm
No deal! Where’s the 50% off Lego Star Wars, ala Millenium Falcon in 2005? TF Millenium Falcon is not even close. But at $15, I think they are more at hom in the Christmas stockings than the Lego version. Still its a emphatic NO DEAL for me at Target this yearNo deal again! Where’s the $65 Interactive R2-D2 driod this year? The Tater set at Costco looks cute, but cuteness doesnt cut in when cheapness is demanded. Alas this is the year when the wallet finds out.
November 22nd, 2006 at 6:33 am
$9.72 each might just be cheap enough for me to pick up the DVDs. I’ll probably get blasted for this, but I think the 2004 versions are actually better films.
I wouldn’t go to Target just for the Han and Chewie Transformers, but if they’ve got something else in their ad that gets me there at 6am, I’ll probably throw a couple in my basket.
I usually try to put some Star Wars toys in the Toys for Tots barrel, so $15 for a $35 toy is a pretty good deal.
Welcome back, blogger!
November 22nd, 2006 at 7:06 am
At kay bee On Black Friday ALL Action Figures (Star Wars Transformers Ect Up to $14.99) Are Buy 2 Get one free. On Sat & Sun All Star Wars (Excluding lego) is Buy one Get 1 50% off
November 22nd, 2006 at 9:27 am
Hey Rich – have you seen any scans or anything for KB deal? I’ve been checking all of the Black Friday sites, and none have any mention of it. I didn’t post that (yet) because I thought it was still a rumor.
November 22nd, 2006 at 11:58 am
Gus, yeah, thems could be blastin’ words! But all depends on what you mean by ‘better’. I mean yes they cleaned them up but all that extra garbage just hurts them, makes them seem cynical of the era they were born out of, under appreciates the innocence and hope they represented and how they were absolutely just fine without it. I’m just happy George finally threw us a bone, even if it is a little lean. I would have settled for special editions that just cleaned up the mask lines and maybe, MAYBE some of the lightsabre stuff. But the CG dewbacks, Rontos and annoying little spy droids buzzing around Mos Eisley, not to mention Greedo shooting first, just dumb mistakes. I watched these ‘bonus’ discs and was blown away by how I felt I’d finally been allowed to come home. But I’m getting to be an old guy now since I was 6 when th original films hit the theatres so maybe this coming home feeling only works for me and my generation. Anyway, this has been said and said again, but just wanted to defend the new bonus disks a little (not that you were knocking them hard or anything!)
November 22nd, 2006 at 4:34 pm
Not that this is an Orginal Trilogy vs Special Edition Thread, but other than the Greedo/Han thing and maybe the Hayden’s head on the Anakin spirit, I think the changes improved the movies in the overall saga. I’m an old guy too, and I’ll always love the chimp-eye Emperor and the singing Ewoks that I saw in the theaters in the 70s and 80s. If you look at the changes documented on http://www.starwars.com, there are dozens of small things that needed fixing.
Watching A New Hope without Jabba makes it feel like there is a big hole in the middle of the movie.
Kind of bugs me that he didn’t fix the Boba Fett scene in Jabba’s Palace where the image is reversed.
$9.72 is a good price though (just to complete the collection).
November 23rd, 2006 at 8:56 pm
Yeah, again, not that this is that kind of thread as you say, but other than purely aesthetic changes, some of which are kind of weird, like lowering a horizon, I think the movies were fine as they were. And I wish I could agree with you on Jabba but he looks like Roger Rabbit to me, meaning waaaayyyy too animated for a live action film. Plus, he comes off as a shrimpy, wimpy slug, like Jabba’s insecure nephew, rather than a commanding, so-gluttonous-he-can’t-even-get-around-without-a-dias, humourless slob. There was an interesting Gary Kurtz interview someone pointed me to recently, and if I can find it I’ll try to send the link, in which he discusses some of GL’s "I always meant to do that" justifications for changes to the films. And supposedly the Jabba scene, as an example, was always meant to have that actor in it and it was merely a camera thing that bugged them enough to cut it, plus the info you got from Han and Greedo in the previous scenes was deemed enough to hint at this mysterious crime lord. And he’s right really, you don’t get anything new or better from that scene than you do from your imagination after hearing his name mentioned and the situation alluded to. Plus the tail stepping thing?!?!? Silly and fake. I’m still hoping beyond hope that they’ll release a FX-cleaned up/audio pumped up but NO NEW SCENES version someday…oh yeah, and if I had to pick a scene to keep, it would be the reunion with Biggs before the attack on the Death Star…but that’s as far as I’ll go away from "pure"! (See what Walmart does with their low low prices!?!? They open old wounds and drive wedges between fans!)
November 28th, 2006 at 11:43 pm
I wont comment on Original Trilogy vs Special Editions cause ill just take up too much of your time. I’ll just say that I agree with some of the points posted here. What i do want to say is that I too love cheap stuff. lol I had bought the original trilogy dvds about 3 weeks ago at $19.96 each. When i saw the black friday ad for walmart.. well… let’s just say I wasnt happy. My idea was to show up and buy them again and then return the first ones i bought and get a refund. Which i did…. well i didnt.. since my ma was goin there anyway, i asked her to buy them for me ( 4:30 in the am, she was there, what a trooper….hehe…THANX MA). Three days later I returned the first ones i got. In all i saved over $30. coool. lol The odd thing that i saw is that the new ones i got had a black tape over the upc codes printed on the picture of the comic book on the box cover. Does this mean employees were scanning that code instead of the one on the actual product? How dumb would that be? lol Or was it simply to mark items that were destined for the black friday sale? anyone know? Please somebody post something, so i can sleep at night. lmao. well… gotta go. cya. tc.