by Djali » Sun Sep 08, 2013 5:46 am
Our event was a huge success!
12 separate groups/families and probably 20-30 people during the hour we were at our local TRU. The bulk of the trading took place in like 20 minutes, after that everyone pretty much wandered over to the Infinity section, got in line, went to other departments with their kids, etc. The demographics at our store were overwhelmingly dads with their kids ages 4-10 and then a few adults there to complete their own collections.
Kosh and I brought 20 of our doubles to trade - not looking for anything specific, as we'd finished out collection, but just to help kids complete theirs. We traded 5 lenticulars, traded 15 more, and found that the most requested discs are Mickey's Jalopy, Stitch's Blaster, and Dumbo, and, surprisingly, Pieces of Eight! Which we had so many copies of at home, we figured no one would be looking for them! For the kids we mostly traded 1-1, for in-demand lenticulars at the event we did find traders willing to trade two discs for one lenticular (Mike's Car/Dumbo). To a couple kids who clearly had not bought a lot of packs to even have discs to trade with, we gave away a couple of the discs we were getting tons of.
By the end of the trading session we had 6 Fix-it-Felix, 5 Cinderella's Coach, 4 Canes, 3 Rapunzel textures, 2 Nemo textures, and a few others.
Our event allowed 1 pack per customer/family. Kosh got one and I got one, one packed with a circle and one packed with a hexagonal. Kosh overheard one of the TRU workers at another store earlier in the morning (trying to find a place to buy) say, "They have 170 in the warehouse, hopefully we'll get some." while talking about Disney Infinity discs. We're not sure if that means packs, TRU exclusive packs, or boxes of packs.
At the next trade event hopefully we can help more people complete their sets!