I've been slowly collecting characters that I've gotten cheap at yard sales or craigslist since May. The only ones I ended up buying in-box for full price were Pit Boss and Ro-Bow (and I was impatient with that one and could've waited a couple weeks to get it half off, but was worried that with the late release there'd be really limited stock. Oh well).
But, only two days until the big day, and the kids get bowled over by 31 characters and 10 creation crystals. Crazy. My little girl will just want to put Imaginators together and accessorize them, and I'll have to tell her that she actually needs to play to get all the parts to unlock.

It's going to be a battle to keep my oldest from just burning through the game as fast as possible. I don't quite know what the younger boy will like the most.
Should be fun.