RenesisX

You give up too easy. Did 60 packets with the light method last night. Just push the leaflet and base to one side. Takes 2 seconds.

This is great, thank you! I didn't want to do the feel method on them in case there was a Mr Gold and I scratched the hell out of him. This works great with my uber LED torch behind them. Although I keep accidentally blinding myself.

Damn. I hit up like 5 Targets over the last few weeks (some of them multiple times) and not one of them would sell them before 1st May. Target made a mistake by allowing the tills to ring up the sales before May 1st. Anyway, I went to another Target tonight and cleared them out. They let me take the display box and the outer carton this time. Exactly! The manager that wouldn't give me the box had me help her remove all the Series 9 from the pegs on the endcaps so she could put up the empty display box. Weird. I'd never found the minifigures in that store before - they were in the camping/hiking section. I don't know why. No wonder they still had dozens of Series 9 left. Ah man, I feel for ya. The odds were well in your favor - from people's very, very rough calculations it looks like maybe 1 Mr Gold per 600-1000 packets.

Cleared out a Target today when they opened at 8am. Had a hell of a job persuading them to sell me the whole lot. I thought it would be 2 boxes of 60. I didn't know they were doing single hanging boxes of 120 now. It was a sealed case. They wouldn't let me have the case. They said they had to put the empty case up on display. Weird.

The graphic designer at Lego didn't have his fonts set up correctly I guess. For some reason "Matthew" and the "S" in Ms Stevens were perhaps in a different font variation, and when they moved the files to another PC that didn't have those fonts installed it went cuckoo like that. Happens a lot in design work. I've never seen that happen on a Lego item though. I hope that was just on whatever PC they use to do the 3D box renderings and it didn't go to print like that! Or the cynical side of me says they did that to find leaks. They put certain edited box images on the internal network and wait to see which ones show up on Eurobricks so they can find who is leaking them ;)