I remember that in the mid 80s I saw my favorite figure (Crimson Guard) was available and I had to get him. I hit as many toy stores as my mom would drive me to to let me look to buy it at (back when they were like around $3). There was one TRU in particular that I got really fed up with and started to go through a whole freshly stocked section of GI Joes to find the CG while it was still being stocked. When it wasnt found I started to practically interrogate the poor stocker as to why I cant find my favorite figure anywhere. I think I was arguing for a while and ended up just getting a matchbox police car and an Interrogator figure that day. Ironically about 2 decades later I still never got one. I have a bunch of the modern era ones though to make up for it. Thats the most complete memory I have left, and I use to have the Flagg, Terrordrome, Rolling Thunder and Defiant and lots more growing up that I barely remember just owning. Oh to still have any of those left. I think I really only have less than 10 original figures from when I was a kid before I started slowly collecting again as a older teen+. So sad.

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Klink: Schultz! Where is that radio?
Schultz: They didn't tell me!
Klink: Find it at once!
Schultz: Jawohl, Herr Kommandant.
Klink: Hogan! Where does that voice come from?
Hogan: From the accent, I'd say England.
Hogan's Heroes" (1965)