Christmas Toys Come Out After Christmas

Since around October, Calfgrit8 has been wanting to get a Bakugan. At one point he had saved up some money so he could buy one himself — they’re around $4.00 — but every store we checked was sold out. We kept an eye out for them all through November and into December, but none of the stores we visited had any.

In about 6 weeks, we searched at least 6 different stores, visiting each at least twice. We shop at Target usually about twice a week anyway, so each time we’d always check the toy section to see if they had gotten in any Bakugan. We could find the empty shelves and hooks where they were supposed to be, but we never found the toy.

Cowgrit and I searched for these things on the Internet. We could find pictures of the little balls, but all online stock was empty, too. We could only find them in stock on sites like ebay, for $10-15.00 each.

Eventually, Santa got a few a about a week before his big world trip — three for Calfgrit8, one for Calfgrit4. Thank goodness for Christmas magic.

Then, less than a week after Christmas, we spotted this in our local Target (none of these pictures overlap):

This pictures are all from one store. That big red wagon full of boxes: all those boxes are full of Bakugan packs. I estimated probably 500 bakugans on the aisles, not counting how many might be in that red wagon.

What the Hell!?

Bullgrit