Cullen was this thirteen-year-old brat that had a brief stint here on the forums to milk us for merchandising information. His mommy and daddy are filthy rich and bought him pretty much anything he wanted, including pretty much any and all Oddworld merchandise that appeared on eBay, regardless of price or shipping method.
If you browse the older pages of the Oddworld Buy thread you'll probably find a few of his posts and all the disappointed remarks we made in losing to him. I mean, this kid would set his first bid at some ridiculous number so no one could outbid him - fucking prick. At first I found it admirable that he would be willing to spend so much for the sake of fandom, but then I looked at his eBay history and saw that he just threw money away on all kinds of stupid shit just for the sake of having it. He spent like two grand on some vintage Madonna poster.
As FG mentioned, he also bought up this life-sized, fiberglass, promotional statue of Abe and Munch. The sculpture was off-model and ugly as sin, but he just had to have it because it was Oddworld. If I remember correctly, the shipping was pick-up only, and even though it was nowhere near where he lived his daddy flew out and picked it up for him anyway.
There was a brief wave of Oddworld merchandise popping up on eBay, and I say he bought 95% of it. Mat, however, gave him his just desserts. Cullen payed him tons of money for Mat's massive collection of OW gear, Mat took the money and ran and Cullen saw not one piece of it. I'd like to think it bugs him to this day, but his parents probably reembersed him in full and bought him his own rodeo clown to cheer him up. The clown was promptly slaughtered after Cullen got bored with it and was made into multi-colored glue sticks.
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