Aisle Browsing

Aisles and aisles of pictures. Just browse up and down and see if you can find something to rent for the night.

Anybody else miss the whole "Blockbuster Video Experience"? We saw this random movie at Walmart and my friend thought it was the exact type of movie they would have rented. Who cares if it winds up being terrible? It might wind up being awesome, too. Is there something about reading a box that's better than scrolling through menus on a streaming service?

Sorry for the nightmares! These dog plushies are literally turned inside-out. All in the effort to maintain quality control, um.. I think. Sometimes I wonder why I check back here at work. Yeah it seems interesting but also... did I really need to see this? Hey, where else are you going to find inside-out dog plushie heads? That's a picture that needs sharing... um, right?

I watched this show Once Upon a Time and enjoyed it, but that was a few years ago I don't really remember whose car this is. Probably Regina's, since I do remember the main girl Emma had a Volkswagon Beetle, that they never mentioned was probably Herbie the Love Bug. Seems like The Evil Queen would have some loyal fans who would remember this, right?

Woah...! It's little toys of... toys?! Mind blown!

Looks like the Disney Store closed up in Freehold Mall? That's odd. I always liked going in there, because if you looked away from the mall entrance, you can easily imagine yourself in a Disney World Theme Park gift shop. So it was a little vacation-adjacent or whatever.

Saw these Dungeons & Dragons books in a... Walmart? That's weird, right? I mean, good for them, but a little unexpected to see them in a Walmart, I'm not sure why.

Happy T-Rex bubble blower. There's even a diagram on the package telling you where to press, to... y'know... make him happy.

How long has this Mario statue been at the Target? I saw this and thought, surely I would have noticed this before. This is new, right? Eh, let's grab a picture and now everyone will see this and wonder if they've just not been paying attention or not when they see them in Target stores near them.

Got the Jalapeno Pepper with this little squiggle coming off the top of it. Is that the random growth that we eat and get super powers from? Will it let us breath fire, for real? Another Million Dollar Movie Idea from Minty! Pepper Man, Pepper Man, does whatever a pepper can!

Luckity-lucked out and scored some riot-causing Hello Kitty Animal Crossing Amiibo cards. Yeah we missed the release day, where there were some crazy stories, but a few weeks later saw a pack behind the counter and the Target person sold them to us. You can scan these into Animal Crossing and get a ton of Hello Kitty themed content!

Ohhhh... too soon? They actually were about to release these Zombie Black Panther figures right around the time Chadwick Boseman passed away, but rightfully paused on the release. That was a while ago, but still seems a little too soon, right?

This picture is specifically for a friend who we play Call of Duty with. There is a baseball bat you can use in the game, and you can also do some minor artistic painting of the weapons. Well he thought it would be funny to paint the bat bright yellow and put the big word "Wiffle" on the side of it. Of course; it might be a little funny to be whacking enemies with a Wiffle Bat. So we kind of got an extra big smile when we saw these in the store recently.

Massage... GUN? Yikes! The ultimate relaxer. You WILL BE RELAXED. Forever.

This frog was sooo cute but we don't have a lawn or garden to put you in! Still got his picture, though.

Save this picture to your phone, then you can read those flag thing messages. These patterns are supposed to be easy to recognize from very very far away.

Remember that Simpsons episode where Homer eats the hot pepper and has a delusional vision in the desert with the coyote talking to him? That's what I thought of when I saw this coyote thing.

Do I want a Flavor Bomb? That sounds kind of amazing and kind of... NOPE! at the same time.

Something sounded funny when I thought about Big Chewy Nerds. Was it the Star Wars reference? Is Chewbacca a Nerd?

The hill behind our apartment had all these tiny purple flowers one day. You think the squirrels appreciate this little bit of beauty?

When did "Unicorn" become a flavor? It's not really it's own flavor that's consistent because the Unicorn Magic ice cream is the best thing ever, and the Unicorn Magic Shell was not really that good. I think we might even throw away the rest of this bottle, it was that awful. I don't like being negative so I'll say that regular Magic Shell with the Fudge flavor is waaaayyy better and we'll still get that. If you are that one person reading this and are like "What's Magic Shell?" Seriously go get some, the Fudge kind, and prepare to have your mind blown.

One day this squirrel was sitting up there and was visually nervous about leaping down to the ground, so we tossed the treats into the lid where they would slide right down to it. It was pretty cute and we gave a few extra treats because we were having so much fun with it.

I thought the whole Frosty with French Fries thing was supposed to be like, a cool secret (pun intended?) But there it is, right on the menu board of the Wendy's drive thru. I guess if you didn't already know about it, dipping your fries in a Frosty sounds like it would not be good, but turns out it's great.

I glanced over and saw this and thought, woah! Isn't she a little young to have a baby?? I guess she's a caveman er... cave person, but that's a little not-cool for kids to play with, right? Very hard to see the text on the top that mentions "Babysitting" which I saw later and was relieved. I would have been supportive either way, the shock was my fault for jumping to conclusions.

My friend is still playing the Call of Duty with the WW2 theme from a few years ago. He just hit 3000 games played! That's a lot of matches! To give you the breakdown of the statistics shown on this Leaderboard, his current score position puts him at 45,051 which divided by the score position of the person at the bottom: 5,308,332, puts my friend in the top 1% of the players! Which is somewhat misleading since he admits he's not nearly "that good" to deserve that stat. But... math! How can it not be true? Seriously he says, not that good. More stats: between the game's release and when he hit 3000 matches, was 1264 days, which is 2.37 matches each day since it came out in 2017. Obviously he doesn't play it every day, but it still... more fun math data.