When I was about 17 or so, I loaned my entire ARAH collection, 1982-1990, to my little cousin. After a while, I decided to be charitable and tell him he could keep it. He was pretty excited and I'm sure he got a lot of play out of it, so I guess it was worth it.

Naturally, when I got into collecting toys a few decades later, I winced a bit. After searching through a few bins of my old toys, all I came up with was a Captain Gridiron helmet, one of Darklon's lower legs, and a few assorted missiles. I do still have the Joe HQ and my MOBAT, which I think were already in storage by the time I gave my Joes away.

I have since replaced a handful of my old favorites and picked up ME versions of a lot of the others, but I still kind of wish some of them were the Joes I had actually played with as a kid. Still, though, the hunt for the replacements has been fun, so I'm come to terms with it.

(Oh, I do still have one figure, who in some ways is one of the most important: my very first custom figure, Imp. Imp was the result of a horrific Cobra experiment in teleportation gone wrong. Horribly disfigured and driven mad by Cobra's nefarious experiments, Imp escaped and became a quixotic ally to the Joes with an uncanny knack of teleporting in to the rescue just when their backs were against the wall. I have since restored Imp to his former glory and I've been contemplating tracking down the parts to do a ME version as well!)

Good story, dude.
Good luck in putting together an updated version of Imp.
Post some before/after pics when you're done.

@Savage - This IS a really good thread, man.

Thank u I am supprised no one else started this topic lol

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I've had more go MIA than i could think of.I've had over a 100 ARAH joes when i was a kid....i have none now.The creek and woods were my #1 killer.

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100 M.I.A.s!? You were a bad General!

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http://www.joedios.com/dioramas/bro...r&imageuser=444

@vadr 9900 - still got some to sell? i'd like to see what you got.

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My entire collection was in an army ammo cache in my front yard (I know I was a Kid) and when I came back from school BAM!!! gone

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I had to think on this a while, I know I've had figs disappear but I can usually track them back down where I left them. I can't think of one time I had a perminat MIA on my hands. My one exception might be when I was younger and some kid broke into my house and grabbed some random figs, but I was able to replace them in a few short years, so nothing terrible there.

Guns, that's a different story.

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Just sold my last 4 last week. I now own 0.

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