In what might be the ultimate betrayal of collector camaraderie, a devoted
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collector called Greg is struggling to come to terms with the fact that his own neighbor, who isn’t even that big of a collector, received two
NECA Donatello’s Lab sets and refuses to give one up, while Greg is still waiting for his...
ToyFarce investigated.
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I mean, what are the odds?!" exclaimed Greg, pacing angrily in his living room, surrounded by shelves of meticulously arranged
TMNT figures. "
It's not just some random collector across the country... it’s literally the guy living next door! NECA sent him two labs by mistake, and he knows I didn’t get one. But instead of doing the neighborly thing or even returning it to them, he just shrugs and says 'Finders keepers!'... FINDERS KEEPERS!?"
The drama began a couple of months ago when
NECA's much-anticipated
Donatello’s Lab started arriving at collectors’ doorsteps. Greg was one of the unlucky few whose order has yet to be fulfilled, while, because of a shipping system error, others received 2, leaving him devastated. But his hopes were briefly rekindled when he saw the delivery truck stop next door, only to discover his neighbor had somehow been sent two. "
At first, I thought it was fate" Greg said. "I figured 'hey, this is perfect. He probably has mine'. He doesn't even really care about TMNT. He only ordered it because I told him it looked cool. I thought for sure he’d just hand one over to me, or return it to NECA."
But Greg’s hopes were dashed when his neighbor decided to keep both sets after receiving emails from
NECA last week, asking him to
kindly return the extra set sent by mistake. “
I had nearly convinced him to give me his extra set, but after he got NECA's email, which he calls 'threats', he did a complete 180 and decided to keep it, to stick it to 'the man' that is NECA..." Greg added.
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He has also become an expert about the law and Federal Trade Commission Act overnight, and even printed the article to show me whenever I ask him to do the right thing and send it back so that a collector who ordered one could get it...". Despite Greg’s repeated attempts to appeal to his neighbor’s sense of decency, including offering to mow his lawn for a month in exchange for the extra lab, his neighbor refused to budge.
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He’s got both labs sitting on his kitchen counter, unopened!" Greg fumed. "
I can see them through his window every time I take the trash out. He doesn’t even display figures! It’s infuriating!" Still, Greg isn’t giving up hope. "
I guess I’ll just have to live with the fact that my Donatello’s Lab is sitting 15 feet away… in the hands of someone who doesn’t even know who Baxter Stockman is."
More news at 11:00... "
Is it considered theft if the extra lab technically belongs to me?"
*ToyFarce News is parody news for laughs and not meant to be taken seriously!
