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12-13-2009, 11:50 AM | #51 |
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Well, is not the best. The community of (hardcore) collectors is very small, about a dozen people. The newer stuff come to the stores, but at high prices, so I buy mostly on ebay USA. To find the vintage stuff, I need to go to flea markets, garages sales and through other collectors. The online sales are dominated by Mercadolibre, but you don't find usually good stuff in there. We have some conventions, but nothing focused on GIJoe specifically.
When you were growing up, did you collect Joes as well? Was there a lot of Joes on the shelves or were they fairly rare even then?
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12-13-2009, 12:37 PM | #52 |
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I think that the mini vehicles and mini figures from the ARAH line ar some of the rarest, they are hard to track down, I guess since the vehicles were all mail away, and the figures were included on cards, but I think the whole set was only mail order as well.
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12-13-2009, 01:14 PM | #53 |
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I'm not saying these aren't rare - for all I know they are, but it doesn't seem like that many collectors are all that interested in them either. At least, it doesn't seem to be a very big priority for most, anyway. I personally wouldn't mind a set but so far I haven't gone out of my way to get them, either.
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12-13-2009, 01:42 PM | #54 |
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Ya, that is the same thing that goes on with my other collections, Barnyard Commandos, and those small ooze turtles form the 80s.
I guess the newest rarest figure would be the clear Wraith from 25th. |
12-14-2009, 02:14 PM | #55 |
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Yeah, I did collect joes when I was a kid, I still have them. It wasn't very easy at first, all we had was imported, but then Rubiplas started to produce it, and they did a very good job. At that time, you can find a lot of stuff in the stores. Now, the Rubiplas stuff is very scarce.
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12-14-2009, 06:28 PM | #56 |
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Yeah, I did collect joes when I was a kid, I still have them. It wasn't very easy at first, all we had was imported, but then Rubiplas started to produce it, and they did a very good job. At that time, you can find a lot of stuff in the stores. Now, the Rubiplas stuff is very scarce.
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12-16-2009, 02:26 AM | #57 |
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[QUOTE=Dryhawk37;1237204]Rarest figure that I have come across is a Funskool vehicle pack in Gung Ho figure in olive drab green with no chest tattoo, or the all white Storm Shadow v2 (no camo) which was also found in a Funskool vehicle. These are the only 2 of these that I know of that have ever been found:
Rarest accessories? Probably the blue helmet to the Funskool Short Fuse or Blue Hawk: As for the vehicle, I would say the Orange/Yellow MMS from Funskool that the Blue Hawk was packaged with: Drew, Your funskool stuff,is food for the gi joe soul. LOL |
12-29-2009, 10:17 PM | #58 |
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are you willing to sell blue hawk?
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12-31-2009, 08:18 PM | #59 |
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hmm how bout major bludd mail away box ?
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12-31-2009, 08:51 PM | #60 |
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i don't know if these are as rare as the foreign stuff mentioned previously, how about red label afa '83 Hiss and '84 Stinger. Lucky I have both of those
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