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07-13-2023, 02:32 PM | #1 |
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15 years ago i would have this recurring dream where i and my siblings would go to a store that was kind of like a Kmart store.
i would always head to the action figure aisle and there would be these 3 figures in a card pack of re-releases of certain army building characters or whatever. In the same dreams i would also see re releases of Star Wars Return of the Jedi figures like Bib Fortuna packed in newer cards that had the name Return of the Jedi in big bold letters on the front of the card Even some really odd reworked version of New Hope Luke with skinner head sculpts etc |
07-13-2023, 02:55 PM | #2 |
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Going to a random store and finding a bunch of joes I've never seen before has been a reoccurring dream of mine for about as long as I can remember. Sometimes I'd find a bunch that are opened up and loose at the bottom of a shelf and start stuffing them in my pockets, other times it'd be a full wall of rereleases very similar to what you describe.
For whatever it's worth, those dreams have all but disappeared these past few years as my collection has grown to near-complete (or as complete as I want it to be anyway). It's as if, now that I've more/less acquired my dream collection, the core feeling of longing has been replaced by a small-but-growing what the hell are you going to do with all of these?! dread. Honestly, I kinda preferred the dreams and the longing they represented.
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07-13-2023, 03:21 PM | #3 |
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I’ve dreamed of finding POC figures years later. It was a good dream. I’ve also had recurring dreams of driving to brick and mortar stores searching for a line of gi joe figures that was mysteriously absent from the internet. No one knew about it, and the first time I saw them I didn’t know how rare they were. Then I could never find them again, driving store to store. While those were not vintage or known figures from the past but the experience of discovering figures in the store and not on the internet was a definite blast from the past.
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07-13-2023, 03:55 PM | #4 |
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I have consistent dreams about visiting a mall that is kind of an amalgamation of all the noteworthy malls I've been to in my life that made an impression on me, and those dreams frequently feature me shopping and finding some Joes.
The most common is just I go to the KB-toys type of store near one of the non-anchor entrances and see a brand new wave of figures, and have a hard time deciding which ones to get, because I always only ever seem to have cash for a couple on hand. They're usually like 199X 'new' versions of familiar characters, always O-rings. Other times I go to a Biglots/Ross kind of closeout store in one of the anchors, and find one random old figure while rummaging around the messy toy section. Once, I had a dream mostly focusing on me eating at the food court near Christmas and some other stuff I can't remember any more, but it ended with me passing through the generic department store anchor (sometimes it's a SEARS, sometimes it's a Macy's, etc.) on my way to leave and I saw a holiday display of toys and there was some big set of weird knock-off/bootlegs there. It was a giant 20 figure set of 83-84 looking molds where half of them were in a tan deco and half were in a gray deco. Imagine one of those old big Corps! multipacks but if it was packaged and branded like generic little green plastic army men. I still think about that one often, I should try and sketch it out. Whenever I see some new Black Major figures I'm reminded of it.
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07-13-2023, 04:14 PM | #5 |
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I used to have a recurring dream of discovering an abandoned warehouse that had once belonged to some now-defunct department store chain (like a Zayre or an Ames), that had somehow never been cleared out or scavanged. Inside, I'd find a whole bunch of unopened boxes filled with minty fresh vintage G.I. Joe toys that had never been sent to stores or put on the shelves.
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07-13-2023, 04:45 PM | #6 |
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kind of reminds me of like an old Alco store i went to a few times when i was a little kid during the 1980s.
wonder if there's any actual still old abandoned alco stores around anywhere here in the U.S. to check out when noone else is driving around. that way i dont want to get caught sneaking in the old building or whatever Quote:
I used to have a recurring dream of discovering an abandoned warehouse that had once belonged to some now-defunct department store chain (like a Zayre or an Ames), that had somehow never been cleared out or scavanged. Inside, I'd find a whole bunch of unopened boxes filled with minty fresh vintage G.I. Joe toys that had never been sent to stores or put on the shelves.
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07-13-2023, 04:45 PM | #7 |
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I used to have a recurring dream of discovering an abandoned warehouse that had once belonged to some now-defunct department store chain (like a Zayre or an Ames), that had somehow never been cleared out or scavanged. Inside, I'd find a whole bunch of unopened boxes filled with minty fresh vintage G.I. Joe toys that had never been sent to stores or put on the shelves.
I used to have a series of similar dreams in which I was flipping through pegs of Joes at TRU. But I was my present age and sometimes with my wife.
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07-13-2023, 04:53 PM | #8 |
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I used to have dreams all the time that I had figures and vehicles I didn't actually have and then wake up feeling disappointed.
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07-13-2023, 06:50 PM | #9 |
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I don't remember mine or if they were even Joes or something else in my dreams I found huge stockpiles of but I wonder...what if there's warehouse with cases of Joes put there somewhere lost or misplaced but stored properly to last decades?
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07-13-2023, 08:29 PM | #10 |
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No dreams.
But sometimes I like to wonder what it would be like as an adult, with my own income, to wander into a TRU, or any of those other now defunct stores and have a look around somewhere around the years of 1983-1985.
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