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What happened to you childhood collection?
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01-31-2008, 04:34 PM
Croc Master
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Midwestern US
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Amazingly, I still have what's left of my collection. It's down in my parents basement. I plan to sort through it all the next time I visit them now that I've taken up collecting the 25th line and getting back into G.I. Joes. Most of the figures are heavily used, and many ended up getting broken or "customized" over the course of my childhood, as well as my younger brother's. I think a fair amount of them are still intact, though. I think the most common injury among the remaining figures is probably the loss of the thumbs from frequent weapon use.
I always tried to save the cardbacks and packaging for everything I ever purchased, and still do (not just toys, either). Not sure why or where that came from. Unfortunately my mom hated this and was always trying to get me to throw things away. I think at one point before we moved I actually took intact G.I. Joe cardbacks that I had saved over the years and cut the filecards off the bottom and threw the tops away as a compromise. :(
I used to have a lot of vehicles, but unfortunately I think I eventually was forced to sell them all at a garage sale. The coolest one was probably the Phantom X-19.
It sucks to think about the stuff I could have saved, but really I'm lucky that I still have a lot of the figures and toys I grew up with, as other people aren't so fortunate.
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