Tales from my trip to Blockbuster

POSTED BY: Early
UPDATED: Saturday, December 31, 2005 01:09
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EARLY

Thursday, December 29, 2005 5:49 PM

So I just got back from Blockbuster where I went to rent West Wing season 5. While I was there I swung by to see how many copies of Serenity were there. There were about twenty and all rented (keep in mind its Thursday at noon here not the weekend). I asked the young man behind the counter if they had Brothers Grimm, for which he replied no they're all rented, because they didn't buy that many. I asked about Serenity and he said:
We can't keep it on the shelves. We had to start renting the ones we bought to sell.

He said he not yet seen it, and I told him it was great and his fellow cashier goes "It's really good?" I said yes and said that I was a big fan of the TV show too. To which one replied "Serenity was a TV show?" I told them it was Firefly and they both seemed highly interested. One of them then said "We've gotten a lot of requests for Firefly." Then as I was leaving I heard the guy behind me ask "So Serenity is really good?"

Victory is mine!

RIVERGODDESS

Thursday, December 29, 2005 5:55 PM

Muahaha! Mine is an evil laugh!

Great job! I'm gonna have to do that ay my local Blockbuster. Anyone I meet is suseptable to hearing my "Serenity is the greatest movie" speech. Glad to hear rentals are doing fantabulous!

*~*~
Summer's response to Nathan getting his very own action figure:
"I tried to pull his head off."

UNREGISTEREDCOMPANION

Thursday, December 29, 2005 5:59 PM

More converts! Keep spreading the word :)

I have made a SUPREME sacrifice and loaned out my copy of Serenity. I have also loaned out disk 1 of my box set.

Now I know these people very well and I will get them back. Just to make sure, I used my best Zoe voice and said "If you don't bring these back, I can hurt you."

~~~~~
"Funny and sexy. You have no idea. And you never will."

EARLY

Thursday, December 29, 2005 8:11 PM

I've loaned out the entire boxed set before, but I do have a back-up copy, unopened, just in case.

CALLMESERENITY

Thursday, December 29, 2005 8:50 PM

yay for you!

The last time I went to the video store I checked, too. There were about 10 copies (this is a small video store so 10's actually pretty good) and they were all checked out, but one.

Serenity, First Officer of Destiny
President of the Juggled Gosling Chatroom

I have a live journal: http://www.livejournal.com/users/callmeserenity/

IMALEAF

Thursday, December 29, 2005 9:00 PM

Yay to Early spreading the word everyday! even thursdays at noon

~~River: Bible's broken. Contradictions, false logics. Doesn't make sense.~~

PSYCHICRIVER

Thursday, December 29, 2005 10:39 PM

I LOVE hearing these stories.

Its so heartwarming! I hope to have similar experiences here in the UK in Feb!

PsychicRiver

"Two by two, hands of blue."
"We'll take care of each other. I'll knit!"
"I swallowed a bug."

DOYOUFLIP

Thursday, December 29, 2005 10:58 PM

I was a bit upset after seeing 1 row of Serenity at my BB compared to 5 rows for Into The Blue. WTF? Well, at least you said something about it. Good for you!

Hopefully it's a strong rental for a long time. Or that it dies in rentals, but flies off the shelves in sales. Whatever's better that's what I hope for :)

EARLY

Friday, December 30, 2005 3:37 AM

I'd personally rather have the sales...but whatever it takes to get a sequel I'm down for. Anyway this seems to indicate that there are (or will be) a lot of new fans I'm sure and I think a BDM II would do better at the box office than the first. Seriously is Underworld gets a sequel, Serenity damn sure better.

CHINDI

Friday, December 30, 2005 3:42 AM

Ok Ok call me delusional (Hi Delusional, nice to meetcha) .. but I suspect that MANY rentals will turn into sales.. when the renter sees how GOOD Serenity is.. they will want to own their own copy...
so yes.. laugh evilly all you want.. our plan is working!!!

Chindi

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