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View Poll Results: How did you feel about having to assemble your vehicles/playsets back in the day? | |||
Didn't like it | 4 | 5.00% | |
Liked it | 21 | 26.25% | |
Loved it so much I wish all new stuff came that way | 55 | 68.75% | |
Voters: 80. You may not vote on this poll |
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08-06-2011, 02:04 PM | #31 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Tennessee Tri Cities
Posts: 108
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Yeah I remember my dad building a good deal of mine like the A.W.E. Striker, Triple T, Thunder Clap, Mauler, etc. Somtimes cursing was involed somthing about the A.W.E. Striker's rollcage lol.
Then one christmas came and my Grandmother got me the G.I. Joe General HQ. A day or 2 passed and I asked dad to help me. He just looked at that big ol box turn to me said son your 8 years old now you have at it. Now don't get me wrong while it might seem cruel to have said first time builder eh? here take the biggest building. It was more to me at the time I get to do it myself really? YAY! For what could have been easily the nest 6 hours I built that thing piece by piece till it was finish and now looking back in a way the term "Assembly Required" was all part growing up. |
08-06-2011, 02:21 PM | #32 |
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Join Date: Oct 2008
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Not to be a "thread jacker" but the assembly fun was one of my inspirations for this display.....
http://www.hisstank.com/forum/g-i-jo...o-display.html I've always enjoyed building my toys...Action Figure Vehicles, Playsets, LEGo, Micronauts, Etc.......Great Stuff! *****
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08-06-2011, 05:26 PM | #33 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Hurst, Tx
Posts: 437
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Same here. I would just assemble the smaller vehicles and such, but larger vehicles and playsets I would pretend was being built by the Joes. Man, if I woulda had a Flagg, it would have taken me weeks to complete it, since I would have been pretending it was being constructed in a shipyard by the Joes.
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08-06-2011, 07:04 PM | #34 |
Banned
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Boston, MA
Posts: 19,093
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Best part of the vintage toys!
Wish they kept that feature. |
08-06-2011, 08:25 PM | #35 |
Domesticated Arms Dealer
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Brownsville, TX (Home of Iceberg!)
Posts: 1,970
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Absolutely loved assembling and putting the stickers on the
I was a modeler, built WW2 Tamiya tanks, cannons and soldiers prior to getting Joes. The pinnacle was the USS Flagg and the Terrordrome.
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09-12-2011, 10:59 AM | #36 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Des Moines, IA
Posts: 1,612
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I loved getting the boxed vehicles and reeling from the excitement and anticipation as my dad put them together. Half the fun was staring at the box art and playing with the figures until they were assembled.
I have a brother that's only a few years younger, so my parents often bought doubles of the vehicles so we wouldn't fight. My poor dad not only had to put together one Phantom X-19, but two Phantom's. He was always a trooper about it, and seemed to enjoy the process. He once told me that he was up until 3 AM on X-mas morning putting together the Defiant, It took him like four hours. It was the only Joe toy I ever got already assembled by "Santa Claus". Christmas has never been the same since '93/'94. |
09-12-2011, 12:08 PM | #37 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Posts: 100
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-what an awesome dad! I remember not being able to sleep on the night of xmas '92 as I knew I had a Cobra BUGG waiting under the tree. I woke up and started assembling it in the darkness at 5am until my mother caught me and told me to go back to bed. Good thing too, I couldn't figure out which way was front on that beast.
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09-12-2011, 12:32 PM | #38 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Des Moines, IA
Posts: 1,612
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-what an awesome dad! I remember not being able to sleep on the night of xmas '92 as I knew I had a Cobra BUGG waiting under the tree. I woke up and started assembling it in the darkness at 5am until my mother caught me and told me to go back to bed. Good thing too, I couldn't figure out which way was front on that beast.
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