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Zenith27

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U.S.S. Flagg
« on: August 17, 2013, 06:01:37 PM »

OH NO!

Someone offered me a near complete Flagg for $500. This was the one ARAH vehicle I had decided early on I didn`t have room for. No box but unapplied stickers, Canadian instructions and Keel Haul with gun & FC.

Someone convince me I don`t need this!
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Re: U.S.S. Flagg
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2013, 06:27:17 PM »

OH NO!

Someone offered me a near complete Flagg for $500. This was the one ARAH vehicle I had decided early on I didn`t have room for. No box but unapplied stickers, Canadian instructions and Keel Haul with gun & FC.

Someone convince me I don`t need this!

The Flagg is a 6 foot long pile of CRAP. You don't need it. Who's offering it to you if I may ask  ;D ? . I swear, it's only so that I can convince him not to sell it to you  ::)
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Re: U.S.S. Flagg
« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2013, 06:59:33 PM »

I saw one on kijiji Montreal. Guy wants 600$ obo. Box is there too ( box looks to be a 6 or 7 on 10 ). Ship is missing 2 out of 6 missles and another small thing...?
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Re: U.S.S. Flagg
« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2013, 07:14:52 PM »

Sounds like it's time to break out the Noooooo! button:

http://nooooooooooooooo.com/
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Re: U.S.S. Flagg
« Reply #4 on: August 17, 2013, 08:22:21 PM »

Sounds like it's time to break out the Noooooo! button:

http://nooooooooooooooo.com/

Didn't know there was one, thanks LOL!
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Re: U.S.S. Flagg
« Reply #5 on: August 17, 2013, 08:57:00 PM »

Take it budy.  i still have regrets about some deals i missed or i declined.  Still looking for one!
« Last Edit: August 17, 2013, 08:59:37 PM by joss789 »
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Re: U.S.S. Flagg
« Reply #6 on: August 17, 2013, 09:04:57 PM »

Back in the day..............you just know you're going to hate a tale that begins with "back in the day"......


When I was first starting to collect, I had a shot at both the FLAGG and the defiant complex, in the box.  This was around......1987, so they were still haunting some retailers, and in the Vancouver BC area too.

The Defiant was interesting because there were several available at the store--a toy liquidator ( whose name I forget) located in a old "Supervalu" or IGA store on east, east Hastings street. in Burnaby, right across from the refinery before Burnaby mountain. They had about a half dozen of these sitting at the back of the show floor..........for $75, each.
Oh, I was tempted.........very tempted, as I was still a couple of years into collecting RAH by that time.  But.......I had no way to get the thing home. A buddy of mine had a car, a Ford Escort, iirc......and, well...........the thing was too small. The BOX for the Defiant was TOO BIG to fit in his car.
I know, we measured both.

So I left those sets there. The price was easily the best I'd ever get on that set, but the circumstances.........just would not allow it.

The Flagg, was not too longer after. I was shopping at a hobby shop on west 10th Avenue, near UBC ( the much-missed Crash Crippletons), and I stopped by a Rexall Drugs pharmacy closing down, its final liquidation sales were that day. Since those stores commonly stock some toys i thought I'd take a peek inside.
And inside was a handful of carded joes for 25 cents each---bought about 5 figures I did not have.  But up on a shelf was the USS Flagg, MIB........unspoken for. I took a long look at that thing........I was riding transit so I had no way to get it home. But here's the killer:  the thing was marked
 with a sheet of paper saying " discount", but there was no price.
I asked a harried staff member, who looked over his shoulder at the thing and didn't even waste a moment, and then told me it wasn't spoken for yet.  The price:


$25.

And again, I had to leave the set there, as the store was closing forever just a couple of hours from then. I can only assume someone else walked out with it.
<sigh>

Oh yeah, these two haunt me..........so close...........soooo close.
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Re: U.S.S. Flagg
« Reply #7 on: August 17, 2013, 09:15:18 PM »

Now that story calls for the "Nooooo!" button!
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Re: U.S.S. Flagg
« Reply #8 on: August 17, 2013, 09:18:16 PM »

Now that story calls for the "Nooooo!" button!

Hell yeah!!! I mean: NOOOOO!!!!!!! Muhahahah! ( Sorry Arrow )
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Re: U.S.S. Flagg
« Reply #9 on: August 17, 2013, 10:18:09 PM »

I dont get it....?

The box is what 3 feet tall..? foot and a half wide maybe....?

Why so much trouble getting it home on transite....? Its obviously carryable ( i only say that because im 6 foot 4, 230 pounds )

I woulda throughn that F**ker over my shoulder and marched @ least, minimum 3 km to get it to transite. What is there a limite on the stuff u can brin gon the train or something..??? LOL ;D
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Re: U.S.S. Flagg
« Reply #10 on: August 17, 2013, 11:58:47 PM »

if you can afford it, buy it.


i had one when I was a kid and gave it away when i turned 20. I bought one loose almost complete for 90$ @ Legends and sold it for 150$ 10 years ago and i bought a third one for 350$ again from Legends and this one i'll never get rid of
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« Reply #11 on: August 18, 2013, 02:05:08 AM »

I dont get it....?

The box is what 3 feet tall..? foot and a half wide maybe....?

Why so much trouble getting it home on transite....? Its obviously carryable ( i only say that because im 6 foot 4, 230 pounds )

I woulda throughn that F**ker over my shoulder and marched @ least, minimum 3 km to get it to transite. What is there a limite on the stuff u can brin gon the train or something..??? LOL ;D

Honestly, I wouldn't have been able to board the transit bus with it. It would not have fit in the front doors of the bus on that route, at that time .  And it was right around the start of rush hour. Was just not do-able.
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