May 2012 - Recently Added To Collection/Recently Purchased

[soera]

Yeah thats why I went ahead and bit on it. The only downside was no dogbone.

The originals are better anyway

Blasphemy! The dogbone fixed the annoying sharp corners of the original and made the thing comfortable to hold for hours on end.

[scott]

Yeah thats why I went ahead and bit on it. The only downside was no dogbone.

The originals are better anyway

Blasphemy! The dogbone fixed the annoying sharp corners of the original and made the thing comfortable to hold for hours on end.

I've never head a problem with the original controller's so called "sharp corners". 

[jcalder8]

Yeah thats why I went ahead and bit on it. The only downside was no dogbone.

The originals are better anyway

Blasphemy! The dogbone fixed the annoying sharp corners of the original and made the thing comfortable to hold for hours on end.

I loved my dogbone when I first got it but after a couple hours of playing it just doesn't feel right so I switched back.

[brettybluevein]

Yeah thats why I went ahead and bit on it. The only downside was no dogbone.

The originals are better anyway

Blasphemy! The dogbone fixed the annoying sharp corners of the original and made the thing comfortable to hold for hours on end.

I've never head a problem with the original controller's so called "sharp corners". 

Me either....guess Soera has little sensitive girly-man hands. That's what I heard anyway

[soera]

The ladies like em! 

[forte]

Got this bad boy in the mail today, never folded "Acquired via Nintendo Employee" apparently

[madmax]

Frame that badboy and keep it out of direct sunlight

[varkias]

@forte That's awesome, congrats!

[desocietas]

I walked into GS today to try to make use of my 20% off bday coupon...


On the left item's spine, you'll find an example of a GS employee trying to save a collector some grief - the price sticker backing is still attached, making removal *very* easy.  The other price stickers in the same item's corner are at least on the case itself, and not on the artwork.

The item, on the right, however...

I'll swing by another GS or two in the next few days to see if I can make use of the B2G1 deal that's goin' on for the older systems - that'll really sweeten the deal on this find.

[scott]

Nice! Does that Outbreak have the anime disc? Also tough luck on that spine sticker. Though I will say, I have a copy of Burnout 3: Takedown and it had the spine sticker treatment on it. I spent about 15 minutes playing with it and eventually was able to remove it without damaging the artwork, hope you have as good of luck on it as I did!

[desocietas]

Nice! Does that Outbreak have the anime disc? Also tough luck on that spine sticker. Though I will say, I have a copy of Burnout 3: Takedown and it had the spine sticker treatment on it. I spent about 15 minutes playing with it and eventually was able to remove it without damaging the artwork, hope you have as good of luck on it as I did!

Outbreak does indeed have the anime disc; when I opened up the case in the store, I immediately thought, "@scott's gonna want to make sure this has the anime disc."    No manual, unfortunately...  :'(

I was able to remove all the stickers pretty easily, though the spine sticker on Outbreak seems to have done a little damage already to the color (probably an older sticker from when it was originally labeled) but all in all still happy with the unexpected finds.  They must've been traded in recently because the employee was a little dismayed that she didn't catch them on the shelf before I did. 

On a related note, NEVER put Post-its on anything that you're trying to preserve.  As handy as they are, the glue is not archival and will leave a residue and eventually stain.  Many adhesives are not archival (but for some reason, glue stick is...?).  /libraryemployeerant

[scott]

Picked up Warhammer 40000: Space Marine finally. It was marked down $20 and have been meaning to get it since release, and I'm kinda a big fan of the 40k universe. If only the main hobby of war gaming wasn't so expensive.. I'd be building up a sweet Space Marine tabletop army.

[killerchameleon]

I got into Warhammer stuff 15 years ago, decided that it was too expensive and just stuck with the Space Hulk box sets.

[scott]

Yeah... I missed out on the latest release of space hulk.  :'(

[killerchameleon]

I still have the original box set with the two expansions Genestealers and Deathwing I missed out on the second release but I did get the newest one when it first came out and boy is it hard to find now.