Toy Store Goodness

DangerDwarf · Post by **DangerDwarf** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 6:39 pm

The other day I took the kids to Toys R Us, and as they ran around looking through the joyous mass of it all I was over perusing the board games when I came across a nifty little surprise.

In with the games was the 4th edition beginning box set deal. Regardless of your thoughts on the system, it is pretty kick ass seeing a RPG back in a toy store. As a kid I bought all of my BECMI sets and most of my modules at toy stores. I would absolutely love to see Dragon Age and eventually C&C Basic manage to work their way into that sort of distribution.

Rigon · Post by **Rigon** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 7:59 pm

Agreed.

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Secret Skeleton · Post by **Secret Skeleton** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 8:33 pm

I remember trying to get my old rich grandmother to buy me Secret of Evermore on SNES for Christmas when I was a kid. She lived in Florida, so I had to write it down.

Come Christmas, I had the gift, and the box was a bit flat for an SNES game, but I believed anyway.

I opened it, and she had bought Everway, and included a receipt to Toys R Us. An honest mistake, I suppose.

My mom, seeing it was Satanic immediately, threw it in the fireplace.

jaybird216 · Post by **jaybird216** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 11:09 pm

My buddy and I were just reminiscing yesterday about how we bought most of our gaming stuff at Toys R Us back in the day. The BECMI boxes, most certainly.
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Hrolfgar · Post by **Hrolfgar** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 11:34 pm

In college(early 80's) I briefly had a part time Toys R Us job. Some of the first products I stocked was the BECMI sets. Hope they start to carry other rpg's.

Recently I noticed that the local Borders' bookstore was stocking Pathfinder, White Wolf games in addition to just carrying WotC products. Would like to be able to go to Borders, Barnes and Noble or Toys R Us and see Castles & Crusades on the shelf someday.

seskis281 · Post by **seskis281** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 11:38 pm

Yes it would be nice to see C&C on the bookshelves at Borders, B&N, Bookworld etc. Just tough for any small co. to break that market - the local Bookland here in Manitowoc (subsidiary of Bookworld) only caries the following - limited WotC products, minis, one or two World of Darkness books, WotC starwars, outdated Exalted books, and some Munchkin stuff. They don't have PF let alone C&C

Now the good news - had occasion to revisit Gnome Games in Green Bay again today - the entire stock of 4th Print PHBs and M&Ts that were on their shelf last week have sold out... (that's 4 PHBs and 2 M&Ts as I remember from last Sunday... and it wasn't my group, they had already bought their's)

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Lord Dynel · Post by **Lord Dynel** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 1:27 am

seskis281 wrote:
Yes it would be nice to see C&C on the bookshelves at Borders, B&N, Bookworld etc. Just tough for any small co. to break that market - the local Bookland here in Manitowoc (subsidiary of Bookworld) only caries the following - limited WotC products, minis, one or two World of Darkness books, WotC starwars, outdated Exalted books, and some Munchkin stuff. They don't have PF let alone C&C

That's like every chain bookstore around here, unfortunately. I'd love to see diversity on some shelves.

I was actually in Toys R Us yesterday, buying my soon-to-be 5-year old a birthday present and I went over to the game section in hopes of finding some - any - rpgs there. Nothing. I haven't seen anything since the 3.5 Quick Start, and I hadn't seen that for about 4 years or so. Maybe this news that DD brings is a sign of good things.

It's no secret that I'm not a 4e fan, but it's only good for the hobby if rpgs are exposed as much as it possibly can. On that note, and speaking of Dragon Age RPG, it's now back on my "to buy" list now that I recently found out that it's not 4e (like originally advertised).
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Secret Skeleton · Post by **Secret Skeleton** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 2:43 am

Yeah, the Dragon Age game is its own system. I have played it and it works pretty well, but does not stand up well to micromanaged characters. Most of the character is dedicated to non-combat use.

Combat is fairly fast once you get the hang of the terms of it.

The production quality is out of the park, too. It is a very well put together product.

The $29.99 price tag is hard to fully justify for less than 200 pages of material, but at least what they give you is in top form.

Frost · Post by **Frost** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 3:18 am

This was posted before, but just in case you missed it, WotC is releasing a new red box for 4e: link
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Lord Dynel · Post by **Lord Dynel** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 3:22 am

Frost wrote:
This was posted before, but just in case you missed it, WotC is releasing a new red box for 4e: link

Ah, yes, the red box...
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Frost · Post by **Frost** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 3:22 am

jaybird216 wrote:
My buddy and I were just reminiscing yesterday about how we bought most of our gaming stuff at Toys R Us back in the day.

Check out the price tag on my MMII:

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Secret Skeleton · Post by **Secret Skeleton** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 3:33 am

I am not going to start a fight over the whole red box, but I think that it is reprehensible. Bill Slavicsek is probably leaning back in his chair impressed by his own smugness with this one.

Last time I saw this, about a week ago, they had different box art on the front. It had the same art as the Set One: Basic Rules with the sword and board fighter facing down a big red dragon.

I certainly do not hold the red box as sacred, I sort of skipped over it, but this is ridiculous. Why don't they just dress up Rob Heinsee as Gary and have him tell everyone that it is okay to play 4E?

I respect a companies right to make money, but do not look me in the eye and tell me that's not what you are doing.

Alright, I'm done. Nothing to see here anymore.

Frost · Post by **Frost** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 3:36 am

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Secret Skeleton · Post by **Secret Skeleton** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 4:00 am

Francis has lightened up, sir.

jaybird216 · Post by **jaybird216** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 7:08 am

Frost wrote:
Check out the price tag on my MMII:

Love it!

Speaking of the red box (which was my personal introduction to gaming and is held in the highest regard), my friend sent me this for a laugh the other day:

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Secret Skeleton · Post by **Secret Skeleton** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 7:16 am

The Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Red Dragon

Post by **Fiffergrund** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 6:09 pm

Ah, Aleena. Good times, good times.
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Hrolfgar · Post by **Hrolfgar** » Tue Feb 23, 2010 1:04 am

jaybird216 wrote:
Love it!

Speaking of the red box (which was my personal introduction to gaming and is held in the highest regard), my friend sent me this for a laugh the other day:

I'll tell you why, Look at that half acre of gold the dragon is standing on

Zudrak · Post by **Zudrak** » Tue Feb 23, 2010 7:59 pm

jaybird216 wrote:
My buddy and I were just reminiscing yesterday about how we bought most of our gaming stuff at Toys R Us back in the day. The BECMI boxes, most certainly.

My 1e AD&D Fiend Folio still has (most of) the Toys R Us price sticker on it. I remember those days. They had the AD&D minis back then, too.
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serleran · Post by **serleran** » Tue Feb 23, 2010 8:18 pm

Ah, the good days, when Kay Bee Toys would have the Known World Gazetteers on sale for $5 each.
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Deogolf · Post by **Deogolf** » Tue Feb 23, 2010 9:19 pm

serleran wrote:
Ah, the good days, when Kay Bee Toys would have the Known World Gazetteers on sale for $5 each.

I remember KB also having the OD&D books for $8-10 (or somewhere in that range). I remember seeing Chainmail (silver/gray cover) for dirt cheap as well. I painfully remember passing up on those books at the time to get the AD&D stuff. D'oh!
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Omote · Post by **Omote** » Tue Feb 23, 2010 9:23 pm

Ah yes, KB Toys. In the early 90s I walked into a shopping mall KB Toys. Now I had been to this store dozens of times before. But on this day I decided to look in a section I never normally did (because it was by the girls toys way in the back corner). It was there that I noticed a ton of Basic D&D modules that time had forgotten, along with the Metnzer Basic and Companion rules and Champions of Mystara box set! There was also some of the Karameikos 2E stuff, that I think at the time was fairly brand new. I scooped up as much as I could afford. Man, that was a great find.

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Secret Skeleton · Post by **Secret Skeleton** » Tue Feb 23, 2010 9:49 pm

My only real awesome KB Toya find was a palette of top-loading Nintendo's back in 1999. They were marked to $9.99. Being a video game collector, I bought $365.00 of them or so, as much as I had money.

I made at least $100.00 a piece on each of them on ebay that Christmas. I bought a used Ford Ranger with the money. Good stuff.

anglefish · Post by **anglefish** » Tue Feb 23, 2010 10:48 pm

Red box, Sears Mail Order ... right after I spent a Boy Scout weekend fighting orcs on graph paper by flashlight in a tent.

jaybird216 · Post by **jaybird216** » Wed Feb 24, 2010 6:45 am

serleran wrote:
Ah, the good days, when Kay Bee Toys would have the Known World Gazetteers on sale for $5 each.

Yeah, I got my Fiend Folio for $3 on clearance at Kay-Bee!
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Troll Lord · Post by **Troll Lord** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 2:53 pm

This is actually really good news. Best market news I've heard in awhile. Seeing WoTC putting forth the effort to sell in toy stores is awesome!!! A good move to introduce new players.

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