Root beer, A&W, cold....

[graycardinal]

Being a properly qualified member of geekdom, I have on a handful of occasions ordered things from ThinkGeek.  Most notably, I ordered one of the "con edition" Bags of Holding almost instantly after their initial release, and it's still in my regular rotation of messenger-like bags.

And then, early last week, I got email from ThinkGeek announcing their first Oregon store.  On one hand, it's in a shopping center all the way over on the opposite side of the metro area from my abode (which is somewhat less centrally located than it was at this time last year).  On the other hand, the grand opening was on one of my days off, and this was after all ThinkGeek....

By bus and light rail, this turned out to be a trip of a bit under two hours.  And there was an actual line to get in (the crowd being good-sized, and the store's square footage relatively modest).  But there were also Imperial stormtroopers, and some other cosplayers, and small bits of swag, and interesting geeky things to look at.  And I may now have a set of coasters that look like Star Trek transporter pads, complete with blinky lights and sound effects.  (Fortunately, there's a mode for "blinky lights only"; otherwise, your glass makes transporter noises every time you pick it up and put it down.)  Now if the next release will just include a working replicator function, so it will actually refill the glass of root beer on demand....

The trip was also justified by the discovery that the B&N at the other end of the mall had significant markdowns on a large selection of their genre DVDs...and I have a B&N membership/discount card.  Thus, among other things, I now have the first season complete-series set for Class, the Doctor Who spinoff, in my stack of things to get around to watching eventually.

Comments

[grrlpup]

Oooh! That's probably the most convenient mall for me, and I have a gift certificate burning a hole in my pocket. :)

Sanguinity and I just watched Class. I liked it, especially once I'd had a chance to get attached to the characters a bit (by the third episode or so) and recalibrate my horror threshold up from "anything horror is too scary." Still have Big Feels about a couple of the characters.

[graycardinal]

Be advised that at least as of last Friday, mall management had not got ThinkGeek into the big directory kiosks. It is, in fact, on the second floor not far west of the food court on the opposite side. Evidently they took over the space from a jewelry store that moved around the corner into a side-alley.

The B&N DVD markdowns included the second and third seasons of Elementary at a good enough percentage (with my extra 10%) to knock them under $20/set. I may have succumbed to those, too, but deity only knows how long *that* will take to come around in the TBR binge-stack. [At some point I really do need to watch them, though -- and pick up season 4 -- because I discovered some while back that a college classmate of mine did a guest-star turn on two episodes of the series, as one Jonathan Bloom.]

[jedibuttercup]

There is a what? Where?

If Maevebran and her spousal unit weren't currently celebrating their 20th on a three-week trip to Europe, I suspect we'd be making a visit there ASAP; it's an hour and a half or so trip for me, but it's a lot closer to her place, so she'd never forgive me if I went alone. :)

At this point, though, I won't have a chance to go until late October. Glad you mentioned it, though!!!! I used to be on their mailing list; I wonder what happened?

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, glad you got some bargains! I still have to watch Class - I have it sitting on my DVR and keep forgetting it, which is silly.

[martianmooncrab]

oooh, that mall is right up 205 from me, and I plan on going tuesday.

[grrlpup]

It's a good time of year to have a nice tall TBR stack to settle in with. And I now remember Jonathan Bloom. Fun!