Connell, just wondering, any attempts of bringing this up, first hand to the "toymaker" personally?

The real gut-puncher was when I related my disappointment to you and you just shrugged your shoulders like "what am I gonna do?"

You would have made a stronger statement by not buying anything rather than posting it to a message board where it may or may not be read.

Nah. It's good to vent your frustration over a crap situation like that. Whether the offending parties read it or not.

Natalie Portman wants me.

Dear Toymaker,

You had a special sale event at this years SDCC. As someone that collects some off your figures I came early to your event in the hopes of purchasing one or two of your smaller figures. I was the fourth person in line and waited with a handful of other people for 45 minutes while you set up your presentation and chatted with the first people in line. I and others around me were getting excited with each new piece you unwrapped. It was when you opened up the line for sales that my mood went sour. I and the other people around me were floored when you proceeded to let the first two people in line walk away with about 15 of the smaller figures (these two people were together and had been chit-chatting with you prior to your opening.) I feel that this blatant act of greediness was a slap in the face to the other fans that had waited all that time in line. Perhaps these guys are super collectors of your toys. Good for you if that is the case but you could have at least had the common courtesy to not have the rest of us be witness to this hoarding ritual. You should have just invited them to your hotel room and let them have everything, sight unseen, with no expectations from other fans. As a point of information I am not some fly by night fan of yours and on one occasion traveled from LA to SF to be at one of your shows. The real gut-puncher was when I related my disappointment to you and you just shrugged your shoulders like "what am I gonna do?" I can't think of single other toy event at Comic Con that I attended where they let the first person in line scoop up almost the entire stock of a particular line. I am hoping that this is just one isolated incident on your part and that you were caught up in the moment . I just thought you should get a different perspective on how things went down.

Connell/plastichunter

Natalie Portman wants me.

bumped into tia carrere, dennis miller and saw natalie portman introduce the movie she's in ("Hesher" - which was funny as hell btw) <3

The movie.fucking.ruled.

Damnit. Should have tried to gone.
I ended up staying around the Gaslamp late into the night.

As a post script, another board member sought me out on the convention floor and hooked me up with one of the figures I had missed.

There were some people in a few S7 lines that were just so fucking annoying...