Days of Joy Posted by: Ric Nimrod 4-24-02 12:01am The mighty NIMROD leaves his home at 11:15pm on April 23 and heads to a 24-hour-a-day Kmart to look for the new Star Wars figures. Despite the fact that I am the ONLY guy there looking for them, the manager will not even let them leave the back room until midnight. I assure him I just wanna look and by the time midnight rolls around I will have decided what I want to buy and check out AFTER midnight, thus the store breaks no rules. BUT this guy was a bucket of ass-juice and would not allow me THE ONLY FRIGGIN' CUSTOMER IN THE STORE to look at the product. MIDNIGHT hits and the toy stocker (a man who became good friend with me during my 20 minute wait) heads to the back and wheels the pallet out. A BIG ASS PALLET stacked high and not a soul around but me. :) Unfortunately the store only got wave one SO I got no Yodas or Dookus and other figures BUT I did have new product and got to open a lot of the boxes. It was such a rush to look at all that NEW Star Wars product. All the stores have their chip displays up and Episode II hype is coming with Hayden's face plastered all over the place. JOY! While I only saw a fraction of the figures, I did see all the ships and games and sabers and other stuff.... but me, I am an action figure man. So I get home and open a few pieces and I gotta tell ya, I am NOT impressed with these stiff-ass figures. HOW IN THE HELL ARE ANY OF THESE THINGS SUPPOSED TO FIT INTO ANY OF THE VEHICLES? I mean, it does not matter that much, I don't play with the toys, I just display them BUT my niece and nephew play with them and how the hell is Anni supposed to fit into his speeder cockpit with his legs spread as far apart as the can go and his arms only position is a weird Saturday Night Fever pose. (Tho I must admit that I do like the old school retractable saber in his arm) At 3am I smoke pot, look at my toys and drift into slumber only to awake at 7am with that familiar Star Wars obsession in my soul. (I love it when that happens, the inability to sleep or even THINK about anything but Star Wars) YODA was out there and I had to find him. To Wal*Mart I go and there is the green bastard and his mini light saber. SNATCH-n-SCORE. I go home to breakfast with the only figure I really wanted a happy little fanboy. I go to school and after class I head to the service office to get my graduation tickets, I am informed that I am graduating with HONORS. Me, the pot head NIMROD is graduating with friggin' honors... there must be a mistake. Nope, no mistake sir, it seems as if you are much smarter than you look. I take my honors metal. (after the lady warned me not to lose it or I will have to buy a replacement... I guess I am smart enough to get out of school with honors, but not smart enough to hold onto a piece of tin for 2 weeks) and I head home. When I get home I tune into MTV to watch the Star Wars video for Across the Stars and after suffering through these screaming fools on TRL for 30 minutes (where are these jackasses from? WHY do they scream at everything that guy says? WON'T THEY SHUT THE HELL UP?) Finally it came on and it was great to see (tho no real new footage, just some extended scenes that we have already seen). I tune into Cartoon Network for a few toons before my night class and BAM... I see a Star Wars trailer. THE TIME IS HERE MY LOYAL NIMRODIANS!!! Star Wars opens in less than a month... this is my favorite time and THIS was my first real Star Wars day of the year. Enjoy this, SAVOR IT... it will only happen once more. See you at Celebration 2 Nimrod