It was 1985 or 86 we had to go on an hour long car trip because my Grandma found a deal on something at a Montgomery Ward (not sure what) I remember seeing them on the shelf, Grandma bought me Snake Eyes Version 2, Flint, Lady J, Shipwreck, Roadblock v. 2, Shipwreck, and Ripper. The next year in second grade I met my friend Tim we had many a battle on the side of his house with all our joes and our friend Rich. Most times we would spend more time setting up than actually playing which is why the dio really reminds me of old times. My cousin Russel also had a pretty impressive collection the Flagg and the Mobile Command Center. I got older and sold/got rid of most of them. Flash forward to 1998 Tim and I are at K-Mart walk down by toys and see some Corps figures we each by a 5 pack and are in his backyard 18 years old playing with them that night. A few months later we went to a store called groovy I bought the v.1 Destro because I never had him as a kid , and it was back on. We bought so many joes in the next few months that we decided to set up at a Toy show just to sell the extras. We ended up doing toy shows for about 7 years and that was when my collection really grew (especially the BATS). Sorry if that was a little long.

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