flyingducky's Dumpster diving adventures.

flyingducky · February 2010

I went out to my favorite dumpster late last night and I found all this.

-4 Ghost re con collector tins ( only 3000 of them were ever made, inside each one was a hat, shirt, bag, and a belt.)

-6 Xbox cases some with cover art and manuals inside

- 1 wii case for rock band with manual

-6 PS2 cases some with cover art and manuals

-2 ds cover arts and manuals for soccer 2008, and some cooking game

- 1 sun block sceen poster for Bio shock 2 (its about 2 feet by 5 feet)

-8 DSI display boxes(4 of the mario one and 4 of the brain age one)

-4 XBox 360 display boxes (2 for arcade and 2 for elite)

-2 Wii display boxes

-and a bunch of advertisement pamphlets

unfortunately no games though

AllYourBass · February 2010

Holy shizz! Nice finds man!

My local game shop shares a dumpster with a meat company and a barbershop... Needless to day, nothing in that bin is worth touching.

Silverspoon · February 2010

I see everything before it hits the dumpster at my store. I find some pretty good stuff here and there. Good finds Ducky.

Dain · February 2010

Nice finds! I've love to haggle one of those Ghost Recon tins from you since my brother worked on that game.

dr.robbie · February 2010

man, we need some of those dumpsters out here. nice finds buddy.

flyingducky · February 2010

dangevin · February 2010

All the best dumpsters around me are fed by enclosed steel chutes, no luck by me

It like...they know?!

superNESman · February 2010

Very cool, did you find any delicious half-eaten food? Also, how good did it taste?

flyingducky · February 2010

Originally posted by: superNESman

Very cool, did you find any delicious half-eaten food? Also, how good did it taste?

the food was very tasty. Gaming stuff and a free meal. It was a little bit of heaven right here on Earth.

Nintendoholic · February 2010

Wow, cool finds..... Hmmm... I never considered searching my local gaming store dumpsters....might be yet another late night activity for me to engage in soon LOL

carthuntr21 · February 2010

i love going through the gamestop dumpster here and they know i do it and every other weekend they get new promo stuff so they toss a ton of stuff out i have a box FILLED with inserts for all sorts of stuff

flyingducky · February 2010

Originally posted by: carthuntr21

i love going through the gamestop dumpster here and they know i do it and every other weekend they get new promo stuff so they toss a ton of stuff out i have a box FILLED with inserts for all sorts of stuff

its too bad they just don't give you the stuff, if they know you go into their dumpster and get it afterwards anyways.

carthuntr21 · February 2010

well they usually will hold certain things for me if i ask them to and the person i asked is hte one working that day but i have gotten some uber cool stuff last month i pulled there tony hawks xbox 360 display with the skateboard controller still on it i dont think its a real one but still my kids enjoy playing around with it all i got this sunday night was a few controllers that they pulled out of hte new packaging and masacured with a scissors

what a waste oh and some primaguides that they cut the fronts off of. secing as im moving to nebraska (hopefully) the beginning of next month i will ong get 2 maybe 3 good hauls as its only everyother weekend they throw out alot of stuff i meen ive got a stack of like 40 of the oversize display boxes damn near a thousand inserts for stuff the little "poster" type things they put on the shelves and the wall window and ceiling hangers if we truely do end up moving i may be selling just about all of it to cut hte cost of hte move but im not sure who the heck would buy it

NESHomebrew · February 2010

I remember reading somewhere that someone once found 150-200 genesis sports games in a dumpster behind a game store. Not really worth much, but hey, a free game is a free game!

Herbalist · February 2010

Originally posted by: WhatULive4

I remember reading somewhere that someone once found 150-200 genesis sports games in a dumpster behind a game store. Not really worth much, but hey, a free game is a free game!

I dont doubt this for an instant

nullending · February 2010

Brian, call me up if you do...I'm a bit smaller than you (no offense of course), so maybe you can hoist me up or something, LOL.

ihavethatpma · February 2010

I have a friend that dumpster dives up in Everett and sometimes in the Seattle area, and he said that one night he got a cargo van completely FULL with books, dvds, cds and video games. Last time I talked to him about six weeks ago, he told me that he had something like 600 Nintendo games to give me.

I probably haven't heard from him in 6 weeks because he was killed by bums for invading their turf.

Trade-N-Games · February 2010

I destroy everything worth destroying as it goes into trash or divers pull it out and try and sell it back to me. Or better yet I get dead controllers and cut cords off then next weekend they are at flea market as "Wireless" that work great.