The other night, I dropped by a Dollar Tree. Your typical "Everything's a dollar" store, with the questionable food items, dog toys and Three Stooges DVD's.

My load this time out was:
-2 50/100/150 Watt Sunbeam Light Bulbs
-A pack of 25 glossy photo printer 4 x 6 cards
-Cheesy "MyTunes" speaker set for any audio device, but targetted towards iPods.
-Double pack of Scotch Tape!
-A Spider-Man kite
-Pack of shitty Panasonic AA batteries

I would've bought a box of Lil' Debbie Zebra Cakes, but the printed price on the box was $1.09. Strange, because the printed price of Zebra Cakes at real stores is $1.39. I think it's been about 4 years since the price was $1.09. Unless Lil' Debbie prints up EXCLUSIVE boxes for Dollar Tree! Are these things like Twinkies and last forever? Love me some Zebra Cakes.

But here's the best part of the whole experience: each shopping cart had a nine-foot metal pole attached to it, sticking straight up. Made all the carts look like bumper cars or something. I reasoned that the big-ass poles were a simple way to keep people from taking the carts out of the store and/or stealing them.

I guess there's a pecking order for retail stores. At the top is the Big Three: Target, KMart and Wal-Mart. Next level down is the drug stores. Below that is Big Lots. At the bottom (just above flea-market), are the dollar stores.

Dollar stores are quite awesome at times. Last time I went to the local Dollar Tree, I bought SNL's best of Chris Rock for a buck.

I bought like 8 WWE VHS tapes for $2 each at my Dollar General.

I saw a bunch of old ECW actions figures at the Dollar Tree in my town for a buck each. I think they had the whole set...Scrooge might wanna take note.

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I don't play with wrestling figures!

... Anymore.

You know you've always wanted a Sabu.

It's true... I also need a Mr. Perfect. Thank YOU, Classic Series 14.

I'm still waiting to get my Ballz

(Mahoney....)

He had a figure in the original ECW line of figures, but hasn't been immortalized in plastic since, unfortunately.

On a related note, anyone here ever see those horrible knock-off wrestling figures?

They're so bad I actually bought a set to use as a jobber faction in my action figure wrestling federation.

I have the WCW Mr. Perfect with (crappy and broken!) "spinning chop" action!

Awesome... yeah, I saw those. The "Sting" figure looks more like a member of KISS.

For a goof someone got me a mini-ring with a set of like eight-mini figures.

One of them looked like Sting or Vampiro. And I remember one looked just like a ripped Ron Jeremy with a big handlebar mustache.

When we went to Mexico when I was like 12 I bought like 20 crappy plastic luchadors and a ring that was way too big for the figures for like $10. I still find pieces of them every once in awhile.

I once owned a Lizmark Junior action figure, I bought at a yard sale once.

I used it in his WCW capacity, i.e. a jobber figure. But he was way out of scale- he was actually bigger than The Giant. :D

Awesome... a Giant Mexican!

He had quite the feud with Alex Wright, whose figure I also owned.

In a broomstick on a poll match Lizmark was able to overcome the combined power of Wright and Curtis Hughes.

Yeah...... ;)

Was he one of those plastic ones with no posable body parts? They took the same model for everyone and just changed the color of the mask and tights. My favorite was the Green one with the lightning bolt down the tights. I called him El Lightningbolto.

Your a regular Bill Watts.

Exactly.

In a sixty-man double ring battle royal, Lizmark was also one of the last four men. He was unstoppable dumping The Giant, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, and a couple other big names.

Lizmark was overpushed..... :D