So we decided to get two of our nephews different boxes of Heroscape. If you don’t know this game and you have boys 7 and up, you may want to look it up. Imagine Dungeons & Dragons meets Risk. With a cooler map that you can build. We were able to get the first master set easily. This one is about Valkyries and other cool things like that. Got it for $27 too. Nice! Then we had all sorts of trouble getting master set #2, Swarm of the Marro. Giant evil looking buggy monsters. Very cool, could not find the dang thing though. This is a Milton Bradley/Hasbro game and their page told me that I could get it at all sort of toy stores. Yeah, right. Nobody had it, nobody knew what I was talking about at Target, Walmart, Kmart, Toys R Us. At least my local comic shops knew about it, but don’t carry it since it is so easy to get at the above named stores. Sigh.
I did find it at one online dealer. Hooray! That was before I went out in the ice storm to go to the already named and now disparaged big box stores. So when I came home I went back online and got my credit card out only to find it had sold out. Sigh. Thanks to Google though, I was able to find another merchant, this one in FL who had it. After shipping, it was $40. And yes, the other place I had bookmarked would have shipped it for less.
Lesson of the day – if you see it and want it, stop screwing around and just buy it.
Beyond Candy Land 