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| - Super dissapointed with this store. I'm a big comic book fan, and have been a fan of Spawn/ the Mcfarlane line of comics, and collectible toys ever since the mid 90's when Todd started Image Comics. Anyhow, i always heard about this place, and its quite the distance from southeast Gilbert, but the wife and I were on the west side of town and decided to stop by.
When i think of this being his only store, my assumption is that it would have many hard to find comics, collectibles, and figurines; making it a "one-off" kind of store where avid fans can go and find rare items.
Nope.
Walking in was a little underwhelming, the majority of collectibles/ figurines were items i could find at department stores like Wal Mart or Target. Whats even worse is the selection IMO was terrible. The entire 3/4 of the back wall is dedicated to NFL, MLB, NHL, and NBA figurines. While thats great in theory, they ONLY HAVE maybe 6-8 different players for the entire league. You would think being in Arizona, maybe, just maybe there would be a Larry Fitzgerald, hell ANY Cardinals figurines, nope (im not even a cards fan', just saying). They have maybe 50 Tim Tebow figurines, 50 Jeremy Lin figurines, and just a paltry selection of players that are overhyped on ESPN.
A bunch of Halo toys, some Star Wars toys, and a few custom figurines. Nothing ground breaking. Ill give the store some credit, it is nicely organized, but thats about it. I want to like this store so bad because i like the products that Mcfarlane toys has put out over the years, but this place just doesnt have anything special, nothing i cant find anywhere else or get on the internet. No exclusivety, so i wouldnt recommend going out of your way to go there. Maybe if youre at Westgate walking around, stop by, but you will probably feel the same way.
This place has so much potential, they just need to bring in better selection, and hard to find items so people feel that its worth their time to even go there, otherwise, whats the point?
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