Current Events > You are a contestant on Nickelodeon's Super Toy Run in 1994. What do you grab?

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You open your eyes and suddenly you are your 13 year old self. A man with a microphone is saying congratulations, you are the grand prize contestant for this first ever Nickelodeon's Super Toy Run! You have 5 minutes to fill up as many shopping carts as you can with as many toys as you want and you get to keep them! Once the 5 minutes is up, you and as many carts filled with toys in the cart return are teleported back to where you are right now.

Suddenly your stomach drops. This. was. your. dream. You planned for this for years but that was decades ago.

The carts are smaller child sized carts, not the typical full sized retail carts. Figure 2' long, 18" deep, 18" wide, or 4.5 cubic feet. Figure each cart, if games are put in carefully, could handle 120 video games. If put in haphazardly, 60 video games. That would just be "inside" the cart. You can have it over flowing, but that will slow down your return unless you want stuff spilling out.

Attached is rough diagram of the store. Basic rule is small, expensive items are further back, small cheap stuff near the registers, large items on the sides, girls stuff close to entrance, then just organized in ways that make sense. If you have questions where something is located let me know.



The distance between cart and cart return would take ~20 seconds.
Carts to back of video game entrance would take maybe 30 seconds, and then 20 seconds to cart return from entrance.

A reasonably number of trips might be:
2 trips to video games careful stacking.
Or 1 careful stacking + 1 action figures + 1 board games.
2 trips action figures plus 1 front of store (legos/girls/board games, bikes)
Or 4 trips front store (legos, girls, board games, bikes)

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You put way more effort into this than anyone else will.

But, its an excuse to mention some toys I saw the other day...

Mario Kart Hot Wheels
Mario playsets, like a ghost house with figurines.
An Eevee that turns its head and replies when you talk to it.

That's all I remember actually but man; didn't have video game toys when I was growing up. So... They wouldn't be in this game show I reckon. Like If I could make stuff up Id just say a bunch of Nintendo action figures, especially Zelda.

Playing with your map... I wanna say take a cart full of legos straight to the goal. Grab some pokemon cards on the way back to the carts. Probably cant carry many but saves time right? Then if I get half a cart of action figures and half games... Grab more cards on the way back and... Should have just enough time for one more cart full of games?

I think PS1 was fairly new when I was 13, I wonder if they would still have SNES games; either way squaresoft is a priority... If I can't have video game/anime action figures then Im looking for Ninja Turtles and Pokemon. For the legos I would prefer medieval themed.

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The trick is to literally dump everything you can from sections of what you want into your cart and repeat as many times as you can. Forgot getting specific shit.

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As a kid, my strategy would have been to go straight to the video game section and dump everything into my cart, because even as a kid I realized that if I really got to keep whatever I grabbed, a cart full of electronics was going to be worth WAY more than anything else I would grab and by selling the excess I could get anything else I would have grabbed and had cash to spare.

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As many games, consoles and models as I can

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Lego and video games and trading cards

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