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Originally Posted by scourge1017
I must say while at TRU Brampton today with my son I witnessed the same type of immature and overenetitled behavior from an older fan wearing a Podolski soccer jersey.
He was carrying on like he was owed something and even whined to the manager that he should be allowed to participate. The Manager relented and let him go but he cut the line and rushed through to get his swag and took off. I assume to the next store. He was behaving worse than the kids there trying to enjoy and participate in the day. My 5 year old even recognized his immature behavior and that of his girlfriend and said "daddy he shouldn't get a toy, he was being a bad boy"
The day is about the kids. I've been a fan a long time too and I don't think I am entitled to anything but to enjoy the special occasion. But hey if taking something away from kids makes you happy because "you've been a fan forever and they owe you" then you are in the wrong hobby.
Embarrassed to be a fan today.
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lolz,i almost went through the same situation,only exception being the little boy asked his dad loudly "daddy,are you going to sell these on ebay too"?
i actually managed to have fun tough today watching my daughter put the white and blue set together.(i don't know the names of the bayverse combiners as i don't care for them,just the g1 kreons matter to me.
we spent just over two hours there,first she had fun coloring the my little pony pic,then she drew "mommy" on the back of the optimus coloring page,then spent the rest of the time assembling(somewhat)the afformentioned white/blue set.
funny thing is,i was wearing a transformers "dotm" t-shirt,but alot of the parents there thought i was one of the workers so i played along and helped other people.(no,i didn't just ditch my wee one,my little sister works at the tru and she was doing the whole shebang too,so she helped watch the wee one and a couple other little ones put theirs together while i helped out other parents and fans with transformers toys itself as she usually works the lego department and doesn't really know about the transformers stuff.
i'm kinda surprised that for a hasbro sponsored event they didn't actually have a hasbro rep on site,kinda like how when lego does it there's actually somebody there from lego.
lolz,at one point,there were so many kids building the same kreo set (white/blue) that pieces kept getting mixed/dropped/flying off the tables.
all in all,i had fun with the wee one and that's probably the main point.
she ultimately came home with the autobot/decepticon logo stickers
popsicle stick and decepticon faction logo mask
kreon combiner white/blue set
my little pony coloring pic
optimus prime coloring pic
optimus prime poster(this is not war,it's extinction)
idw transformers micro-comic "optimus prime"
lego chima blue lion? case to store her mini fig collection she's starting to aquire
megabloks the smurfs "snorkeling smurfette set"
edit: and once it was over at 2pm,my little sister texted me saying that the tf stylized black and white autobot shirts they were wearing for the promotion were given to them so the next time my little sister comes over i get that shirt.
