We get the three and leave the rest, likely for another person to come and buy them all. Now, there was blood in the water.Īcross three more stores, we finally hit paydirt around 9:50, ten minutes before closing. The foil was Robin Hood, Unrivaled Archer. My daughter opened it in the car and we oohed and ahhed. I have no idea if some kind soul thought “well, I’ll buy these 23 packs but leave one” or if a middle aged baseball card dude dropped one while was sweatily scooping up all the inventory. But- I’ll be damned- there is a single booster pack. With the path to the card aisle unobstructed by Lorcana robber barons, we make our death march to disappointment. I knew full well this guy didn’t know the Duke of Weselton from Flynn Ryder. I said “well, I hope you enjoy playing the game” as I walked off. Some of these unscrupulous scoundrels have gone so far as to put air tags on the vehicles of distributor representatives to track them as they do their stocking rounds. It was almost like this scalper was staking out the cards and waiting for potential buyers, which he may have been. He offered me starter packs that he had in his car. I’m relieved that there aren’t any middle aged “baseball card dudes” sniffing around, I had already had an unpleasant exchange with one earlier in the day, when he asked me if I was trying to buy Lorcana. To the sound of a phantom calliope, we approach the trading card section, as we had something like eight times across eight different stores earlier in the day.

Fine, but I’m still not buying a $12 booster pack even if they are coming through the French Connection. His allocation was small, and apparently, he had to go through “other sources” to secure anything. And everything was marked up twice retail. It’s run by this guy with a wild shock of white hair. In a dead shopping mall by my house, there’s a coin and stamp shop that’s been there, I dunno, 40 years. I had actually already been within spitting distance of buying the cards a few days earlier. I opt for the more sophisticated and somber Pierrot style because I’m sick and effin’ tired of walking into Walmarts and Targets looking for Ravensburger’s Disney Lorcana Trading Card Game.Īt this point, just take the damn boxes too. She says “imma go for the rainbow wig and floppy shoes this time”.

But we’re not looking for the hot new console, we’re looking for Mickey Mouse cards. It’s a meme I picked up back during the Great PS5 Hunt, you’d go get in the Sony virtual queue and feel like a clown for waiting when you got in and there was no stock. It’s about 7pm, and my kids and I are putting on imaginary clown suits to walk into a Target.

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