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Post by dschult3 on Feb 25, 2018 19:49:39 GMT
My kids and I were grocery shopping, and we came upon two boxes Super Mario cereal. I laughed as soon as my son asked for it, because I remembered the Christmas time scalping issue. Normally, I would tell him no due to the price. ($4.50 for a tiny box.) However, the morons on eBay were selling it for $25 a box in December, so I decided to splurge this one time. After my son gleefully stared at the box for 15 minutes, he handed it to my daughter, who is one, and she gleefully threw it on the floor. As she threw it, I heard every neck beard in their mother's basement screaming, "Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!" in Darth Vader's voice. Then, when we went home, my son (gasp!) opened the box to eat the cereal. The "collector's item" was no longer "sealed in box." Later, it was reported that another neck beard was hospitalized at the thought of a child actually using a product intended for him. Clearly there is something wrong in my household.
The cereal tastes like Lucky Charms, by the way. It isn't half bad, but it isn't worth the price.
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Post by Cervantes on Feb 26, 2018 0:46:23 GMT
"But you are eating the collectible food, you monster!"
Being a Nintendo product, did it have any kind of motion controls? The cereal was in a proprietary format? I bet it doesn't have any third parties. Can you build a robot with the cardboard?
Sega's cereal is probably more rad anyway.
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Post by dschult3 on Feb 28, 2018 1:21:46 GMT
Being a Nintendo product, did it have any kind of motion controls? The cereal was in a proprietary format? Actually, you can scan the box as an Amiibo. That's pretty cool. |
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Post by stratogustav on Feb 28, 2018 1:39:46 GMT
I bought 4 boxes. They were $2.50 each at Wal*Mart. I guess I should count them in my Amiibo collection.
The boxes were all the way at the top of the aisle. I think someone put them there to keep them away from people, I don't know, but I couldn't resist buying all four.
By the way, $25 is 10 times the price, those people are nuts if they wanted to sell it to you for that amount.
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Post by centipede on Feb 28, 2018 7:41:50 GMT
Being a Nintendo product, did it have any kind of motion controls? The cereal was in a proprietary format? Actually, you can scan the box as an Amiibo. That's pretty cool. Are you telling me that you can scan a cereal box into a Smash Bros. game? |
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Post by Dan E. Kool on Feb 28, 2018 17:57:59 GMT
By the way, $25 is 10 times the price, those people are nuts if they wanted to sell it to you for that amount.  |
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Post by dschult3 on Feb 28, 2018 23:14:03 GMT
I bought 4 boxes. They were $2.50 each at Wal*Mart. I guess I should count them in my Amiibo collection. The boxes were all the way at the top of the aisle. I think someone put them there to keep them away from people, I don't know, but I couldn't resist buying all four. By the way, $25 is 10 times the price, those people are nuts if they wanted to sell it to you for that amount. Oh, don't get me wrong! I didn't even want a box. I just watched the You Tube videos about the scumbag resellers who were scalping the hell out of them. |
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Post by Pimpjira on Mar 1, 2018 14:00:40 GMT
I bought 4 boxes. They were $2.50 each at Wal*Mart. I guess I should count them in my Amiibo collection. The boxes were all the way at the top of the aisle. I think someone put them there to keep them away from people, I don't know, but I couldn't resist buying all four. By the way, $25 is 10 times the price, those people are nuts if they wanted to sell it to you for that amount. People were paying over $20 for them when they were more scarce, I think that ship has sailed now though. |
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Post by dschult3 on Jul 26, 2018 19:21:50 GMT
That ship has LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG since sailed. I just got back from the store, and there were a ton of them for $2.50 a box. Apparently people like the "cereal" inside. I thought it was rather gross...
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Post by stratogustav on Jul 26, 2018 20:26:37 GMT
That ship has LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG since sailed. I just got back from the store, and there were a ton of them for $2.50 a box. Apparently people like the "cereal" inside. I thought it was rather gross... Yeah, I was refusing to throw away like 10 of those boxes just in case, but I couldn't find where to hide them, and I gave up. |
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