Coins! Coins! What is a Coins? Why are you always falling out of butts into couches? Why do coins make my tummy hurt when they taste so good? Can I have your coins? All this and more today in the... Boins! Whether it be that Chuck E Cheese token you lost into your race car bed, or the dime you dropped on the gas station in Florida didn't want to pick up because there's oh so achy and sticky! Why isn't anybody mopping? Who's? What is that? Because that's your real borrow sale. The hypercoins is so astronomically high at Lego VIP or more accurately, Lego's reward system decided they would get in on a coin would be released on a monthly cycle. Why are any of us surprised this one poorly? That you could redeem with VIP points. Tickling the nostalgia bonus for some classic IPs there would be Castle Pirate City and then space but don't forget the most important IP of them all. Lego! Each coin was 1200-ish points times five plus another 500. You're spending about a thousand dollars worth of VIP points which is not an insignificant amount. That's like seven printable coloring pages. This wasn't a good decision. There was a lot of money on the line and I'm sure a multi-billion-dollar mega corporation such as Lego could get a few extra medallions off the assembly line no prob. Darn it is! So many shortages! How hard is it to mess up something people have been doing for over two thousand years? How could they know producing something mundane to the average consumer change the palette at a few more with a gold line of collecting them all driving the demand skyrocketing through the roof with an artificial limit of how many they made possibly backfire? This is foreshadowing for something later. The goal is clear. Collect all the coins and make my VIP points disappear. The first obstacle was easy enough. I had plenty of points banked up to get the first castle coin as well as the case. And that was it. There was no way I could get the remaining medallions with what was left of my powerful points. Sure I could redeem some points and get some screen savers for my desktop background but that doesn't really fit into the gauntlet. Not all is lost. I could I could get a job. Ha! Are you serious? Die could always hit the street corner. That market's always looking for new talent. There's still one more act I can do that requires me to get on my hands and knees. Hey buddy how are you doing? Thank you. I guess there's always the route of e-begging. If only there were someone out there that could help me. Are you serious? I'll just get him. Really? Yeah one to stop whining. But how can you afford them? I have a job and I spend the money. Yeah I think I can never afford to think of. Fellas we were back in business with heavy dose of TPA getting us to the coins would be a burn freeze January faded into February February and March March into April and April went into May. Because of my own reliance on the TPA collecting coins on my behalf I became far too lax. It also didn't help that the that there were scalpers turned into the mix. Scalpers scientifically known as homo douchebagus and tithesis. It's a root evil for all collectors in the Western world. If there's a buck to me bade that's where we will find them. This isn't even mentioning the shift in release it went from midnight on the first of the month to the 19th at 6 a.m. With it makes a buyer seller's poor time management and he untalked about solo enthusiasts the coins were sold out by nine o'clock. They were gone in three hours. I had messages coming in from a lower telling you it was sold out three hours two hours an hour 20 minutes. One even said and this is my favorite it took 15 minutes. I had lost five months of build up all for not. Fifth slot forever left to be unfilled and it wouldn't be sensible to pay secondhand prices. Maybe in some way this is a good thing. A lesson that needed to be learned. If I would have been more engaged there'd be no need for me to be here now. For the first time a hole has a meaning. Or not take this gift to meet this. There are no other ones in the life. All things are meaningless. I know scalpers who would have thought. What? Scalpers? Got my mouth.