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Offline Martin Milner

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Re: Creating a Roman Century circa 150AD - how?
« Reply #80 on: September 09, 2008, 16:07:07 »


Hmmm, a bit dark.
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Re: Creating a Roman Century circa 150AD - how?
« Reply #81 on: September 09, 2008, 18:39:15 »
Quote from: Timotheos on September 09, 2008, 12:34:15

But seriously, how did Gepetto manage to nab 25 Roman blisters?  These stores usually stock about 5 at a time.  Was he able to mail order from somewhere?

-Tim

Hello Tim,

Once I found that the Fred Meyer chain was stocking the blister packs, and that the Romans were the blister Du jour  I just made the rounds of the local stores. You are correct in that most stores stock 4-6 blisters but the big stores carried as many as a dozen! I picked up 25 for Martin, 25 for myself (I just got into the habit!) and have a line on about 8 more that are a little too far out to get incidentally. I have been told that no more will be coming in until the Christmas shipment but the new shipments arriving at Kmart are the Crusaders and Pirates so I don't know if the Romans will be around much longer.



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Re: Creating a Roman Century circa 150AD - how?
« Reply #82 on: September 09, 2008, 23:20:24 »
Quote from: playmofire on September 08, 2008, 08:06:07

http://www.thameshudson.co.uk/books/The_Complete_Roman_Army/9780500051245.mxs/35/0/
 and list of contents:


Hi Gordon, Adrian Goldsworthy, author of the book you reference above, is a well-regarded historian.  He has a ton of books and I've seen him in a few History channel documentaries.

Graham Webster, Pat Southern, Peter Connolly are a few other widely-read historians.

Quote from: Gepetto on September 09, 2008, 18:39:15
Hello Tim,

Once I found that the Fred Meyer chain was stocking the blister packs, and that the Romans were the blister Du jour  I just made the rounds of the local stores. You are correct in that most stores stock 4-6 blisters but the big stores carried as many as a dozen! I picked up 25 for Martin, 25 for myself (I just got into the habit!) and have a line on about 8 more that are a little too far out to get incidentally. I have been told that no more will be coming in until the Christmas shipment but the new shipments arriving at Kmart are the Crusaders and Pirates so I don't know if the Romans will be around much longer.

Gepetto

This annoys me that they have only come out at Fred Meyer so far.  I'm banking on Toys R Us or Target getting them in.
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Re: Creating a Roman Century circa 150AD - how?
« Reply #83 on: September 10, 2008, 02:49:26 »
Quote from: Martin Milner on September 09, 2008, 16:07:07
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Hmmm, a bit dark.


Hm ... No no ... Very good! :yup:

More, more! ;D

Anyway ... What a crowd, aye Martin? It seems you can really conquer the world! 8}

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Re: Creating a Roman Century circa 150AD - how?
« Reply #84 on: September 10, 2008, 03:42:33 »
Incredible!  25 blister packs for EACH of you!  I haven't seen ANY of these Roman blister packs at my local Targets, Wal-Marts, or Toys 'R Us.  I'm very jealous!

Martin, I'm sure we'd all like to see some larger pictures and a complete unit list of your army when you get a chance.  :)
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Re: Creating a Roman Century circa 150AD - how?
« Reply #85 on: September 10, 2008, 06:14:23 »
Quote from: Justindo on September 10, 2008, 03:42:33
Incredible!  25 blister packs for EACH of you!  I haven't seen ANY of these Roman blister packs at my local Targets, Wal-Marts, or Toys 'R Us.  I'm very jealous!

I am very surprised I have not seen these blisters anywhere else! Our Target and TRU are just stagnant! I have no idea what is going on, except that I want the Crusaders!!


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Re: Creating a Roman Century circa 150AD - how?
« Reply #86 on: September 10, 2008, 10:23:37 »
Quote from: Gepetto on September 09, 2008, 18:39:15
I picked up 25 for Martin, 25 for myself (I just got into the habit!) and have a line on about 8 more that are a little too far out to get incidentally. I have been told that no more will be coming in until the Christmas shipment but the new shipments arriving at Kmart are the Crusaders and Pirates so I don't know if the Romans will be around much longer.
Gepetto

heh heh heh, [rubbing hands greedily] well I'm sorted for Romans, and I feel a little guilty for poor Gepetto buying perhaps more for himself than originally intended!

Quote from: Justindo on September 10, 2008, 03:42:33
Incredible!  25 blister packs for EACH of you!  I haven't seen ANY of these Roman blister packs at my local Targets, Wal-Marts, or Toys 'R Us.  I'm very jealous!

Martin, I'm sure we'd all like to see some larger pictures and a complete unit list of your army when you get a chance.  :)

It's kind of odd that I've got 25 Roman Blisters, even though I live several thousand miles from where they've been released. All thanks to Gepetto of course, for cruising the stores and fighting off any greedy selfish children who had their eyes on MY Romans. Plus my wife for writing and sending the checks. So far I haven't done a thing except enjoy the fruits of Gepetto's labours, and gloat. Oh yes my friends, a LOT of GLOATING.  >:D

I was planning to do a few more photos last night, but was forced instead to watch the UK TV coverage of the 1st week of the new NFL season.



I'll be collecting Crusaders too, but only when I'm visiting the US myself.
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Re: Creating a Roman Century circa 150AD - how?
« Reply #87 on: September 12, 2008, 06:40:36 »
I stopped by my local Toys 'R Us today and while they had a entire aisle of Playmobil sets, probably the most I've ever seen at Toys 'R Us, the only blister packs they had were a few of the old gladiators.  It looked like the rack had been stripped clean.  Maybe Gepetto was there?   ;)
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Re: Creating a Roman Century circa 150AD - how?
« Reply #88 on: September 12, 2008, 07:01:10 »
Quote from: Justindo on September 12, 2008, 06:40:36
I stopped by my local Toys 'R Us today and while they had a entire aisle of Playmobil sets, probably the most I've ever seen at Toys 'R Us, the only blister packs they had were a few of the old gladiators.  It looked like the rack had been stripped clean.  Maybe Gepetto was there?   ;)

Ha, ha. Nope not me! I have never seen a Roman blister at TRU, the local TRU here just has gladiators too!


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Re: Creating a Roman Century circa 150AD - how?
« Reply #89 on: September 13, 2008, 02:03:09 »
Quote from: Martin Milner on September 10, 2008, 10:23:37
It's kind of odd that I've got 25 Roman Blisters

Uh, under any other context, the above would sound very gross.

A tromp through Italy in badly-fitting shoes...
A tramp from Italy with body-fitting tools...
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