I believe its still for sale for the same price as last year! I've seen it on other sites, but for much more!
Like how much more?! O_O Even though I'm not too surprised, seeing as her character has recently seen some new heights in popularity. Or, at least, she's gotten more popular in most of the places I spend time in both in reality and online. Even I've fallen victim to it.
(Off-topic, sort of: When I was a little girl, all I knew was The Wizard of Oz, when it came to that story series. I grew up always on Dorothy's side, hating The Wicked Witch of The West for reasons I really wasn't sure of- I just knew I liked Dorothy and it seemed like the Witch was upset at her for no real reason. But then, when I was 19, my mother paid for our first tickets to Wicked in NYC during summer vacation. I wasn't happy. My mother was going to force-feed me the idea that the Wicked Witch was actually a good person and let me find out that maybe she was just framed. This was going to wreck my childhood. So, we went, and surprisingly, I was ENJOYING the story and the music! I loved how Elphie was more than just a "do-good" type character- that she was more complex than that. But I sensed something was missing, and I was not going to find out what until a few months later. But as the musical went on, I got really absorbed in it until the very last half. Then came a shocking blow I never expected to my childhood that has since been extremely bad nightmare fuel. As Bach's heart shrunk, dipping him into harsh pain and agony, I went on unblinking, watching Elphie cast a spell that she announced would make him "better" and save his life. I was horrified when I thought of the pain he must have gone through while his body was turning to metal right after he lost his physical heart. I was just barely recovering from this when the blow just got worse. The next to "die" was my FAVORITE character from Oz!!! I didn't know what to do!!! I couldn't imagine the sight of his skin turning to burlap and the anguish he must have felt when everything under his skin slowly turned to straw!!! I can watch most horror films and still have fun, but I can't stand whacks taken at characters I loved since I was just a small girl. When I was really tiny, The Wizard of Oz actually kind of frightened me, but Scarecrow always made me smile. My mother and grandmother had no idea how much inner pain I was going through while Elphie was casting his transformation spell to save him... Ultimately, it was too much and I went into a little bit of a shock and then a slight break-down. So my boyfriend took me out to the lobby to talk to me and comfort me. As soon as I was about ready to go back inside to finish watching the musical, my grandmother stormed out and yelled at me, making a much bigger scene than she THOUGHT I had made. In all reality, my reaction didn't catch the attention of anyone else, so she was making it a bigger issue than it had to be. But the issue was soon resolved and we finished watching Wicked. I think the nightmare fuel I got from that memory traumatized me a bit, but not enough to where I couldn't still find ways to enjoy Wicked. I later went and bought the first book in the series at a local book store and am now almost finished reading it since loads of things got in the way of my reading time. Now that I've read the book, Elphie is even more awesome than before and we, all four of us, just went to go see Wicked again today and this time, at the beginning and during the intermission, I still had a few small nervous spells and some anxiety, but I handled it and successfully got those ugly images of Scarecrow and Tin Man out of my head. I might have this issue every time I see Wicked, though, which sucks. But the music and story are well worth fighting it. And Galinda/Glinda helped me out with that a lot today. The girl playing her was real energetic, bouncy, and fun-loving like Pinkie Pie in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, not to mention she wore pink the entire time and had curled hair.)
So, thats the short version of how I've fallen into the Elphie fandom. Filled with a lot of emotions and memories. lol
