Hey everyone,
I didn't mean to start any negative emotions here, I was just posting the lament of a loyal fan who may have to give up collecting if he can't find a way to cut his spending. My shelves are currently packed to the gills with all the figures I've collected for the past 10 years or so, including the Simpsons, the Muppets, Futurama, Buffy, Angel, Star Wars, Star Trek, Austin Powers, Space Ghost, and many miscellaneous others (all OUT of their packaging, I might add). I already made a consious decision to not collect the new Peanuts figures, and it kills me because my love of Charles Schultz is almost as great as that for Jim Henson. My solution for now is to only collect the Simpsons, the Muppets, Buffy, & Angel, and to only buy variant figures from those lines if they happen to really appeal to me in some way.
Also, as a Toys R Us Employee, it really infuriates me to find out that they are not going to carry the Muppets anymore. I mean, why the heck am I working there if I can't get first dibsies on the Swedish Chef and his kitchen? I'll have to call my local comic shop and see if they're getting them and if they'll be willing to hold onto them for me. If not them then Electronics Boutique at the mall. Or I could just order them from the Palisades website, but then I wouldn't know which version of Zoot I'd be getting. Anyway...
If the fine folks at Palisades are out there reading this, thanks again for making such AWESOME toys! In case you're planning ahead, a rare Muppet I'd like to see a figure for would be "Digit" from "the Jim Henson Hour: MuppeTelevision". He was kind of a cross between Data from Star Trek and Reverend Jim from Taxi. Maybe around Series #27 or so, that would be great.