Wednesday 29 April 2009

Plastic crap


Bakugan
Originally uploaded by Crit Chicken
So I finally caved. D'Arcy has been at me for weeks about Bakugan Battle Brawlers. At the start of it we went to the local stupid market where we knew they had them, and saw how expensive they were. $19.84 for one figurine, one 'gate card' and one Bakugan. "Not bloody likely, it's such a rip-off" I said to my darling son, but he was determined. Every time we went to the shop he'd look, and we'd debate the pros and cons of $20 worth of plastic crap. He had an idea "you know that $20 I got for Christmas? I could use that" and I reluctantly agreed that if he wanted to blow his $20 on plastic crap, maybe that was OK. Since then, however, there has been a city-wide Bakugan shortage. Until today. We went to BigW and saw that you could buy a $19.84 pack of 1 Bakugan, 1 'gate card' and 1 'ability card', or you could buy a $38.88 pack of 6 of the above. After some negotiation D'Arcy is the proud owner of 6 Bakugan Battle Brawlers. I've said that that's the end of it. I hope it is. Erik loves the crunchy plastic packaging it came in, so everyone's a winner tonight.

As a kind of post-script to it all, when I showed D'Arcy the picture I took I said "that's the one I'll use for the blog post." He said "What are you going to call it? Plastic crap?"

3 comments:

Ampersand Duck said...

OMG! We HAVE to have a playdate. B spent all his birthday money on that crap, including $40 or so on a large one! Such a RIP-OFF! But he loves tham, and would love to hang out with someone who loves them too. Not this week, I'm swamped, but maybe the week after? I'll email.

Ampersand Duck said...

tham = something priced way beyond its future value.

Mummy/Crit said...

Sounds great, Duck. He wanted me to play with him, but I refused this time. I did read him the instructions in French (translated). Wed Thurs or Fri arvos are good.

And I like your new "tyop definition" policy!