[Black Arbor]

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Originally Posted by TomsToyChest

And now for the aforementioned incident:

In addition to the Guardians figures, I found some new Arkham 3.75 inch figures: Arkham Origins Joker, Harley Quinn, Batman and Black Mask. Wow, I thought to myself, I didn’t know these had come out. Since we don’t get new stuff very often in my area I put the four new Arkham figures in my cart along with the Guardians and headed for checkout.

The Guardians rang up just fine, however the Arkham figures all came up item not found. The cashier was clueless as to how to proceed (perhaps it was a new or seasonal employee) so she put on her flashing register light to summon a manager. The manager came over, saw what I had and suspended the transaction. The manager then took all the Arkham figures and then went over to the customer service desk with them, using a computer to do something, what exactly it was is a mystery. After a few minutes the manager came back to the register and I was informed that the Batman figures should not have been out on the shelf and that I couldn’t buy them. I asked why and was told they’re part of a Black Friday event. So I asked if I could at least put them on layaway since I’d already gotten them from the toy section and was told absolutely not, you (emphasis on the word you) can’t have these figures at all.

I had already been having a rotten day so at that point I hit the ceiling. I not so nicely said that using Black Friday as a reason to not sell these figures to me was the dumbest g-damn excuse I ever heard and that if your employees don’t know what products to put out on the shelves then you (and I echoed the emphasis on the word you) being the manager need to take your thumb out of your ass and start doing your job to make sure that your employees know when to put out the correct products on the shelves at the correct time.

At that point the cashier was backing away from the register along with the next customer in line behind me. The manager then told the cashier to finish my transaction as quickly as you can and then walked away with the Arkham figures towards the back of the store where the toy section was located. The cashier then dumbly asked if I still wanted the Guardians figures. I told her yeah, I walked up here with them to buy didn’t I? She finished the transaction and I left.

Anyway, before the Arkham figures were seized from me, I wanted to share my observations of them with everyone: many of the Joker and Harley figures both seem to have derpy eyes, and some of the Harley figures also have a defect where a blonde lock of hair can obscure about a quarter of her face. It might be fixable with a hair dryer but I won’t know until I get one in hand at a future date. Batman once again has a cloth cape, same buck as Arkham City Batman with some minor detailing differences on the costume. Black Mask appeared to be using the same buck as Two-Face and comes with a gun and an alternate head sculpt. Harley comes with her over-sized mallet.

There were plenty of Jokers, a few Harleys and Batman’s, but only one Black Mask. So I’m guessing Black Mask is going to be the hard one to find.

While that is a really crappy thing to happen, and you were completely justified if she was acting that way, at least she saved you from ending up spending ten bucks on this:



Mattel could really have something here, if they'd just go the extra mile like Hasbro does on (most of) their SW figures.