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[Palifan]

How come I never pay any duty when I buy something from GB?

That's the whole mystery to me and what kind of seems unfair. I guess we just have a government who likes to screw all of us vintage toy collectors over lol!

Ian

[marsattacks666]

Best collectible value in years!

WM offered so many they crushed the scalpers on this one. 

Indeed!!!👍🏻

[John Pertwee]

Well that explains why some people seem to be selling a lot of these in the UK if they are packing just that figure in one box. This wave has been the first lego wave that's being offered up by a few online retailers over here and I'm really hoping that this will happen from now on so that we can get them at a better price than importing them from the US.

Saying that though I've been going through a US private seller who charges the right price and exact shipping but if it gets picked up by customs there's going to be an extra charge to pay that wouldn't make it worthwhile is there's a UK option.

I long for the day that we get a fair crack at buying toys in the UK.

Ian

Before shipping went up, I used to send American toys to someone in England in exchange for Doctor Who toys.

[Palifan]

Before shipping went up, I used to send American toys to someone in England in exchange for Doctor Who toys.

That's the better way to do it if you have a friend that you can help out, especially if it works both ways. It's always been like this in the Uk but I'm just more aware of it now a days due to following toy releases over the past several years.

Where there's a will there's a way though

Ian

[Hepcat]

Best collectible value in years!

WM offered so many they crushed the scalpers on this one. 

That's what I like to hear!

[Lazarus]

Another one for the monster game shelf.  Lovecraft Letter is a Love Letter variant with a Lovecraft theme and some additional mechanics involving (surprise, surprise) INSANITY!  It's also fancier than the usual Love Letter presentation.  i noticed it appears to be out of print and prices are starting to go up quite a bit, as many versions of Love Letter seem to, so I got my stores last copy before I never see it again for a reasonable amount of money.

Love Letter is a very quick little game that usually comes in a drawstring bag.  It's very popular among board game people, and tends to be brought places like restaurants and pubs, where they can play a game or two while they wait for their food to be brought out.  It's also inexpensive at about $12 retail.  Lovecraft letter is a more spruced up version, featuring weighted poker chips, a fancy box, and sleeves for the tarot sized cards, so it runs about $30 retail.  It's also the only spooky version of Love Letter, so if I was going to have a version on my shelf, it would have to be this one.

[Mike Scott]

Got these CDs in the mail, today. They are low budget reissues, i.e., they don't have the original multi-page booklets. They were only about 7 bucks ea., though.

[geezer butler]

little bro sent me a t-shirt and stickers 

This sticker represents my religion 

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[horrorhunter]

This sticker represents my religion 

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That's a religion I have total respect for. 

[Mike Scott]

All that is on one t-shirt?

[geezer butler]

All that is on one t-shirt?

Hey, Mike

No, the t-shirt only has the Phantom image on it. The rest are stickers. I placed the stickers on the t-shirt when i snapped the pictures, so it's kind of misleading. He sent me 2 UM stickers, 1 Hellraiser sticker, and the Rock n Roll Monster Movie sticker. And one Phantom tshirt.

[Mike Scott]

The rest are stickers.

Ah! I see it, now.

[Lazarus]

This one is a bit of a cheat, as I bought it about a year ago close to when it came out as a gift for my little brother.  He's a big disney guy, and loves this movie.  But, we just sat down to play it for the first time tonight, so now I can actually tell you about it.

  This is another Prospero Hall game, the same board game design studio that did Horrified, Haunted Mansion: Call the Spirits, Godzilla: Tokyo Clash, and Back to the Future: Back in Time, and Jaws.  All of which are excellent examples of thematic games.  They also did Monster Crunch, a little card game about the General Mills Cereal Monsters, but that one is little more than a theme slapped on a card game, like a licensed UNO deck.

So, this is a cooperative game, the players vs the Sandersons.  There's a cauldron board, a Sanderson Sisters tracking board, 4 trick tiles, a Binx cat token, a spell deck, and an ingredients deck. 

Your goal is to impede the Sanderson Sisters until the sun rises the day after Halloween, and the magic that resurrected them has been spent.  You do this by playing ingredient cards into the cauldron, and trying to get a set of 5 ingredients of 1 of the 5 types, a set of 1 of the five colors, or a set of the same ingredients in all 5 colors.  Achieving one of these 3 objectives stuns the corresponding sister, and ends the round.  Do this 3 times, and you win.

Sounds easy enough.  But here's the trick:. You cannot talk to the other players to coordinate your plays, with 1 exception.  At the beginning of your turn, you can ask a player a question.  It's kind of unclear what the parameters this question has to meet are, but we think the intention is to only be be able to give vague, one word answers.  Like "Do you have any Dead Man's Toe?" And they answer yes or no.  You have to gamble on this limited info, and make your plays.  You also have special ingredients and trick tiles at your disposal.  The trick tiles can be used on any players turn, but each can only be used once the entire game, so they must be used sparingly.  Special ingredients do one of two things: Binx the cat comes to aid you, allowing you to place your hand on the table so the other players can see your cards, or the Sandersons cast a spell.  The spell can be cast by Mary, Sarah or Winifred individually, or they can cast a spell as a group.  This is always bad.  Binx stays in front of the player who summoned him until another player plays a card with his ability on it, or the Sandersons spells make him leave until another Binx card is played.

A turn goes as follows:
1) Ask a question
2) Play a card onto one of the 5 slots of the cauldron board, from your hand of cards.  If a special ingredient is played, resolve that Binx or Spell card ability.
3) Replenish you hand.

And play continues until one of 2 things happen: a Sanderson sister gets stunned, or the ingredients deck runs out.  If the deck runs out, it's game over, so getting a witch stunned quickly is ideal.  If you manage to stun a sister, the tracker advances a space, and any spells that sister casts next round are negated.  If you can stun one of the sisters 3 times (Any sister.  You can stun one 3 times or get each of them once.  Doesn't matter.) the sun rises, the magic fades, and you win the game.

Once a sister is stunned, however, you take the ingredient discard pile (an effect of the sisters spells, players never discard cards on their own.), and all of the ingredients in the cauldron, remove all of the special ingredient cards from the game, and shuffle the rest back into the ingredient deck.  This replenished the deck a bit, but you lose opportunities to show your cards.  However, you also have less chances for the sisters to cast spells the next round.

And that's it.  Run out of cards and you lose.  Stun a witch 3 times, and you win!
It's a fine little game.  Not amazing, but not bad.  The card stock is terrible, though.  Buy sleeves for them.  It'll make your life much easier, because they're a weird glossy stock, and shuffling them sucks.

[geezer butler]

Picked these up today. Shout out to Mars for explaining that Frankenstein Monster to me. I had never heard of that line and the guy at the comic book shop didn't know what it was either  .

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[comixzombie]

Picked these up today. Shout out to Mars for explaining that Frankenstein Monster to me. I had never heard of that line and the guy at the comic book shop didn't know what it was either  .

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Okay, now I've gotta know. What IS that Frankenstein?