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Ryan Maxwell
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Posted: 08 May 2009 at 6:45am | IP Logged | 1 post reply

Edit, I removed my email address so none you lurking troll bastards fill up my inbox, which is reserved for the ladies.  Any of you a-holes even think of emailing me...and I'll kill you.

Better?
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Jeremy Boyd
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Posted: 08 May 2009 at 7:13am | IP Logged | 2 post reply

The G.I. Joe file cards were different here in Canada -- had to appease
French Canada.....

I think the english portions were smaller so we got edited versions...
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Marc Baptiste
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Posted: 08 May 2009 at 9:41am | IP Logged | 3 post reply

Ryan,

...."reserved for the ladies" --- you're married!  GOTCHA!
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Jesse Garcia
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Posted: 08 May 2009 at 11:27am | IP Logged | 4 post reply

Not to mention delussional.

 

 

hehehehe - Sorry Ryan .. you left the door open. :)



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Ryan Maxwell
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Ha!  I only did it for Kevin's benefit and the promise of girth.
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Andy Mokler
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Man, I used to love collecting G.I.Joe's.  My first one ever was Flash.  I remember all of my buddies, when I came home from summer vacation with my grandparents, had "found" He-Man and didn't know what G.I. Joe was.  I converted them and they all quickly had much better collections than me.

I remember I got the snow-mobile for my snow guy(can't remember his name now but he had an orange beard) and thinking I was gonna be the cock of the walk.  I was so excited to show them this great vehicle I had begged and cajoled my dad to buy me for my birthday(I think I was 12 so I was much too old for that stuff<sarcasm>).  I come struttin' into our usual get-together and they've got the tank, the jet, the helicopter all the figures, etc.  Another lesson in parents who encourage a child's interests vs. those who don't.

I still remember the episode while the others have probably long forgotten.  Anyone got a tissue?  My snowmobile was still better dammit and none of them ever got one, so nyah!
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Ryan Maxwell
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My Star Wars collection didn't get much bigger once I discovered the Joes.  They are still my all-time favorite line of toys.  Perfect size, perfect articulation, really good attention to detail (having Larry Hama work on the file cards was genius), awesome vehicles...The first 4 or 5 years are unreal. 

And yeah, I was one of the guys with most of the early stuff, too.  Getting the first headquarters for Christmas was one of the best moments of my early life.  And you're thinking of Snow Job and the Battle Bear.

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Ryan Maxwell
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I'm heading over to eBay, who's with me??

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Lars Sandmark
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Hey!
I had that snow mobile thingie!
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jose alicea
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I have a Night Raven with box and driver with the little plane as well.


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jose alicea
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my first 3 3/4 Joe was Airborne.




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Ceasar Alvarez
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G.I. Joe my favorite toy ever!  While I don't remember my first figure I remeber Stalker being my first swivel arm figure.  In fact, I remeber going to school and talking about the new figures I had just gotten with my friends and mentioned that my Stalker could hold his gun with two hands.  Nobody believed me, so after school all my friends came over to my house and were AMAZED!  It was  the coolest thing ever. 

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