I've been looking high and low for this toy for my niece the last several weeks. It turns out that I've was looking in places that definitely weren't going to have it. Fischer Price finally confirmed on their web site that the "Little Einstein pat pat Rocket" is only available at Target stores so that eliminated the need to search Toy R Us or Wal Mart anymore.
Though I hate to admit it, I did participate in the Black Friday hoopla. I started out at the new local Target where I came up empty handed for the "pat pat Rocket". I decided to continue my quest for this item at other another Target location. While at the second location I found a helpful sales assistant who was kind enough to check their inventory for the item. She told me "it looks like they might have one in the back", ten minutes later she comes out with two of them. Success!, rolling out of bed early Friday morning had paid off.
Later in the day I got online and picked up and Toshiba HD-A3 HD DVD player for my parents. It plays HD DVDs and up converts regular DVD as well.
On Saturday I found myself a 80GB Zune at the local Wal Mart. This was really unexpected since they are in very short supply right now. The Zune 80 is very similar to my current first generation Zune 30 (with the 2.0 firmware upgrade). There are a couple of differences though, first the form factor is about half the size of the Zune 30. secondly the screen on the Zune 80 is bigger, and lastly the Zune 80 has 80gb of storage. Currently my Zune 30 is full so I had no room for movies or pictures. The new Zune 80 gives me plenty of "head room" even with my pictures and movies loaded on the device.