My brother and I went to Borders the other day for some Christmas shopping (as it turned out, I had a coupon for 40% off a kid's toy, so I got my sister Minotaurus (along with A Wrinkle in Time) for Christmas) and right as we walk in we see a blue box of collectible minifigs! We immediately look for the bumps until a moment later I realize they were blue and part of Series 2. My brother it looking at them and next thing he knows I had pulled a barcode sheet out of my wallet. He was a tad surprised, but probably more impressed (and even more appreciative).

Although they were $4 each, it's not like we were going to get a better deal nowadays, so I found him a pharaoh and Mexican while I got myself a surfer dude, female lifeguard, karate master, and second spartan. (I say second because a WAMALUG mother I'm friends with sent me a pharaoh, vampire, and spartan a few months ago, but I intended to send one to my 300/Gerard Butler-loving friend while she was in Scotland studying abroad, so I did not have one for myself (partially for a Rory Williams minifig, partly because they are so popular).)

I checked my Toys R Us both Wednesday when I got home and at 10 pm when they opened Thanksgiving night for pre-Black Friday, but they did not have Series 3. When I was at my LEGO Store's mall on Wednesday I called them (I was up at the movie theater) and they said they were not coming until January. Guess where I'll be heading on my way home from New Years festivities?

-CF