I tried getting over it, but I just can’t. As regular readers will hopefully remember, I’m a big fan of both Gremlins movies. I even watched both of them leading into Christmas again this year. Heck, I watched Gremlins twice because I realized after I finished it the first time that director Joe Dante and company did a commentary track that I had never listened to before, which spawned me to watch the sequel with a similar commentary.

So, when I saw that Mondo would be selling the above, awesome Gremlins poster drawn by Ken Taylor I was pretty excited, I even mentioned it in my increasingly sporadic Casting Internets section last week. In an effort to get my hands on one of the posters–I liked the above basic one better than the variant–I started following Mondo on Twitter and kept my eyes peeled. In fact, I only left my computer for about 10-15 minutes to take a shower. And guess what? That’s when the poster went on sale. Blam, I missed it.

Now, I don’t usually get too excited about these things. The reality of the situation is that I don’t actually have space to put up cool posters like this. I don’t currently have an office and as cool as this poster is, it wouldn’t really fit in our living room. I’ve been cutting way down on the amount of geeky stuff I purchase mostly because of space and financial restrictions, but I figured this poster would be worth it to buy now and hold on to for that fateful day when I actually have an office or man cave.

Alas, it wasn’t meant to be. By the time I got back to my computer it had sold out. It was about 10 minutes. The Gremlins 2 poster was still available, but it just didn’t strike me as much as the other one. I know I should be over it by now. I had a wonderful Christmas with my wife and daughter–her first. I’ve had some great time off with family and friends. And yet, it still gnaws at me a bit. I made the mistake of looking them up on ebay yesterday and they’re going for hundreds of dollars. Ugh. Well hopefully, this post will help get the disappointment out of my system. I mean, there’s way bigger things in this world to worry about than a poster, right?