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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: How long has that damned RS been down?
« on: August 17, 2005, 09:59 AM »
Quote from: CorranHorn on August 17, 2005, 01:50 AM
Quote from: JohnH on August 17, 2005, 12:36 AM
Quote from: BillCable on August 17, 2005, 12:05 AM
This keeps up and the Vintage community may not have a choice but to relocate... 

I can only hope.  :)

John

Well I'm sure the JD staff would love to see the vintage community hop on by here. I think it would be great to expand the vintage conversations here, and the big plus is no riff-raff!  ;D Pretty much everyone I have seen post in the vintage section here has been collecting for quite some time and/or isn't looking for the quick payoff, but real insight into the toys of yesteryear.

 >:( Is this the same RS Vinty community I’m thinking about here? Cause most of them started collecting in the 90’s- newbies. I can tell you if there was a migration of those pompous, magnificent liars to JD there would be one less member here (after getting skewered in the anus, I have zero tolerance for most of them, though certainly there’s still many decent collectors there as well) but I suppose the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few… or the one.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Gas Prices
« on: August 16, 2005, 09:15 PM »
Today I saw a couple of dudes actually standing beside a gas station, holding signs protesting the high cost of gas. I wanted to stop and yell, “hey, this peaceful demonstration crap won’t get you anywhere, better to march down to city hall and burn some briefcases!” benevolent schmucks…

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Daily Comics
« on: August 16, 2005, 01:46 PM »

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Funny Pictures
« on: August 16, 2005, 01:37 PM »

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Greatest Album of All Time?
« on: August 13, 2005, 01:23 PM »


Oh, Pizza Man, if you are late,

You will give it to me for free

OK Pizza Man, here's your tip:

A bullet to the head.


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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Gas Prices
« on: August 13, 2005, 12:11 AM »
LMAO, someone should have listened to Tesla.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Everything eBay! Scams, questions, etc...
« on: August 10, 2005, 02:35 PM »
I recently sold this on ebay, now the buyer is complaining that the bubble is “very yellow”




WTF!!! >:(

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Vintage Kenner / Re: Vintage ebaY auction wins!
« on: August 6, 2005, 12:59 AM »
Quote from: John J. Alvarez on August  5, 2005, 12:56 PM
Quote from: Morgbug on August  5, 2005, 10:35 AM
Quote from: Bob Crane on August  4, 2005, 01:26 PM
A lady posted about a number of 12 backs in the middle of the night with insanely low buy-it-now, it was a shark feeding frenzy but I was able to snag a couple, I upgraded my Luke and finally bought a D.S. Commander… only two more to go to complete the first twelve.

Is this recently?  I'm flashing back to the same sort of fiasco about a year ago?

I remember that. Derk Ho (Uncle Gundy on RS) posted about them and everybody jumped on them. Some of the sore losers offered out more on the lots and one loser even emailed the winner instead of the seller. That pretty much turned into a HUGE ordeal and is one of the main reasons so many hate "auction outting". It's a shame so many fellow forum members turn out to be cutthroats.

John

Nobody outted any auctions, Uncle Gundy posted about them AFTER they had ended, since he recognized a few of the winners’ names from the RS “vinty community” and wanted to congratulate them. Then some dick- master-collector (or dealer, we’re not quite sure of that one, all we know is that he is a high standing, well-respected member of the vintage community) emailed the seller and bought her out, leaving the rightful winners (myself included) with a nice big- bitter-ass- pie to munch on… that nincompoop Bryan Simmons jumped on me saying I was disgracing his online-home, what a knothead- didn’t even realize I was the same person when I called him a simpleton for dissing Kubrick, Shane was like, “hey man, chill it’s only a movie”- LOL, neuro surgeons, the lot of em’ I tells ya.
  If I recall, you were nice enough to make mockery of the ordeal… always being the cute one, eh, Alvarez?

BOB

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Vintage Kenner / Re: Vintage ebaY auction wins!
« on: August 5, 2005, 11:30 AM »
Quote from: Morgbug on August  5, 2005, 10:35 AM
Quote from: Bob Crane on August  4, 2005, 01:26 PM
A lady posted about a number of 12 backs in the middle of the night with insanely low buy-it-now, it was a shark feeding frenzy but I was able to snag a couple, I upgraded my Luke and finally bought a D.S. Commander… only two more to go to complete the first twelve.

Is this recently?  I'm flashing back to the same sort of fiasco about a year ago?

Naw, I was actually one of the sore losers in that sordid affair… unscrupulous rat-bastards!
This was just like a month ago or so. It’s funny; most of the really great auctions I’ve scored over the years have come from ladies selling off stuff they found laying around or whathaveyah, it’s other collectors trying to pass off their damaged goods you have to worry about- why, if I had nickel for everytime some joker sent me a jiffy-marker special… ::)

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Vintage Kenner / Re: Latest vintage acquisition
« on: August 4, 2005, 02:09 PM »
Very cool, Snow Job was one of my favorite little Joes, he’s long lost and I don’t collect G.I.Joe anymore, but I do have this dude who might be considered his 70’s ancestor:


mmmmmmm, proto-joe

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Vintage Kenner / Re: VINTAGE BOBBA FETT PROTOTYPE ROCKET FIRING
« on: August 4, 2005, 01:47 PM »
I think if I was to get a rocket firing Fett custom, I’d go for one based on the version that appears on the cardback offers and the collector’s case insert, it’s just a lot more interesting than the pre-production piece.

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Vintage Kenner / Re: How many Stormtroopers do you have in your collection?
« on: August 4, 2005, 01:40 PM »
This is my only one, package is really nice. Acquired from Ian2 a few years back.



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Vintage Kenner / Re: What Vintage Do You Still Have From Your Childhood?
« on: August 4, 2005, 01:31 PM »
When we was kids we used to take Stormtroopers (which we had plenty of) and stick them between the chain wheel and the chain of our bikes, then we’d rev-up the pedal and the figures would come out looking all elephantitis like… sometimes their chests would break off not unlike that Luke.

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Vintage Kenner / Re: Vintage ebaY auction wins!
« on: August 4, 2005, 01:26 PM »
A lady posted about a number of 12 backs in the middle of the night with insanely low buy-it-now, it was a shark feeding frenzy but I was able to snag a couple, I upgraded my Luke and finally bought a D.S. Commander… only two more to go to complete the first twelve.

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Vintage Kenner / Re: My vintage collection
« on: August 4, 2005, 01:17 PM »
Congratulation on your recent finds magillafett! It’s certainly fun to find items locally in flea markets and such… I think the last thing I actually found in the city (and not had to get flown in) was a Boba Fett cake pan found at a thrift store for $3.

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