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Who was your final figure?
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07-15-2018, 12:39 AM
Commando73
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Hmm, good question. Brings up alot of memories, too...
I distinctly remember feeling the need to back-off from G.I. Joe during the summer of 1989. I was leaving middle school and heading on to high school, therefore I was becoming "too old" for G.I. Joe toys. And I had just purchased Deep Six (Version 2)...it was truly the end of an era for me. I basically moth-balled my entire collection, and back then I thought I'd never look back. So I guess that was the last figure I bought from the RAH era. I knew I had moved-on about a year later when I visited the local Walmart that had just been built, and I wandered over to the toy aisle...which back then was near the front of the store, which seems odd, now that I look back on it. In reminiscing, I remember scanning the action figure section and seeing all those new Joes...Capt. Grid Iron, Bullhorn, Rampart, and now it seems so surreal, to think about those new Joes...they're still so new to me and unfamiliar, all those brand-new characters that I should have excitedly added to my ranks...and I left every single on of them hanging on the racks, and walked away, never looking back. Now that I look back on it from where I'm at now, it seems so sad that I had given up something so cherished and familiar to me so easily. Some years later, before my dad passed-away, my mom had told me at some point it was sad when I came back home as a married man and I loaded-up all of my old G.I. Joe figures and vehicles and took them to my new home, the apartment I shared with my new wife when I moved-out. She later told me that it had made my dad sad to see it all go...he made the comment to her that with all of my old G.I. Joe stuff gone, it was as if I was never there at all, like it was a nice little reminder to him as well of my fun memories collecting and playing with it all. And of course I stupidly sold most of my old stuff off when I discovered eBay, making those memories even sadder for me...
So nowadays I guess part of the reason I collect and hang on to stuff is because I don't want to lose or turn my back on cherished memories any more, and I want preserve that old feeling I used to get when I would have all of my stuff set up in my bedroom floor, and my dad would pop his head into the door and just grin, seeing how I was enjoying all that stuff so much. Or maybe I want to remember what it was like when I got that latest issue of the comic and read it over and over again, wondering if they were gonna come out with any of the characters I had read about (of course they were), and...I can remember how excited I used to get when my big brother would come home from a trip to town with my dad, and he'd tell me about all of the new G.I. Joe figures he had seen at the store, and when he got a little older and began working, every now and then he'd even buy me one or two figures and bring them home to me... *sigh*
I didn't mean to take all of those feelings and memories and just throw them all away on a whim, but I did. You know how kids can be...so maybe now I'm making-up for temporarily giving-up on something that meant so much to me and sparked my imagination in such a big way. Heck, I used to think someday I'd even join the military...I wanted to join the Marines just like my uncle did, and G.I. Joe played a big part in that notion for me. I wouldn't make it because of a health issue I discovered in high school, but...G.I. Joe represents alot of what makes me who I am today and dwells in alot of great memories I have to this day. So I guess Deep Six was just the last figure I bought before a temporary lull in my collecting and appreciation of all things Joe.
Sorry, guys...I didn't mean for this to turn into some kind of therapy session. (lol)
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