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Ontario / Re: 80s Toy Expo in Burlington
« on: March 17, 2008, 11:30:45 AM »
ok good to know, so we just meet and talk trade as the day progresses?  I just want to know if I should be walking around with a shopping bag full of goods for the majority of the day or head back to my car and pull em from the trunk when the time is right.

Also vendor etiquette: are we allowed to trade with vendors for items they are selling or is that a no no?

Apologies for going off-topic, maybe I should start a Joe-Meet-101 thread for first timer questions.

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Ontario / Re: 80s Toy Expo in Burlington
« on: March 17, 2008, 11:01:21 AM »
the price discrepancies were pretty tough to ignore.  Some vendors who had 25A product had Firefly for $18, Shipwreck for $13, etc.  while this guy had CGs, Snow Jobs, Hooded CCs, Officers, Soldiers for $6 MOC - just couldn't beat that.

And I suspect the early birds that came in scooped up the Battle Armor CCs and Torpedos because all he was left with besides the army builders were some Rock N Rolls.

Looking forward to the vendor bins at the Canadian Joe meet though - this time I'm coming with a list so I don't get distracted.

By the way, this is also going to be my first meet and I wanted to bring some extra MOC 25A and some loose ones to trade - how does that work?  Is it part of the agenda for the day, like a trading table or something?

Also I might as well ask - am I allowed to bring my MOC Bazooka for Hama to sign the filecard?  Could I do that for my MOC Shipwreck & Dusty?  Is there a limit?  Never met a celeb before.

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Ontario / Re: 80s Toy Expo in Burlington
« on: March 17, 2008, 08:02:47 AM »
Actually as I was digging through his loose 25A box another guy was talking to the Ohio vendor about the Joecanuck Meet in April.  So I chimed in - "yeah, Larry Hama is going to be there" to which he gave a grand no-response (gasp!) but he admitted that he really didn't know much about the 3 3/4" Joes and was more into the 12" which he has a lot of stock of apparently. 

Anyways, he was given this website so he might or might not sign up.  Nice guy by the looks of it, I'm regretting giving up that 3rd Stinger driver nor looking more carefully through the box for the Cobra soliders with red cobra symbols.  Just saw all those joes and got overwhelmed.

As for vintage MOC, one dealer had a lot of the 90s joes and I only saw 1 MOC Chuckles from '87 for $60.

Loved checking out all the he-man stuff, there was a complete Greyskull and a ton of the characters, even saw Webster (my first and only He-Man figure).

Pete I think you're more after those foriegn exclusives to fill out your collection right?  They didn't have much if any at all of that.  But if you wanted to build your 25A Cobra solider army (officers, Air Troopers, comic soliders) there was a bucket load of that. 

Hopefully next year we'll see more vipers, tele-vipers, and bats in those bins.

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Ontario / Re: 80s Toy Expo in Burlington
« on: March 16, 2008, 06:49:37 PM »
Just got back from the 80s Toy Expo in Burlington.  It was pretty nice and the kids loved the Darth Vader, Jedi, and Storm Troopers in costume.  All I can say is that Transformers were very well represented but I'm so glad I dont collect 'em - G1 Wheeljack loose = $125!!!  And someone had a blotchy '84 storm shadow for $75!!!!

One guy had the World Title signed by Edge and Mysterio for I think $500 ~ only if it was Ric Flair's signature...*sigh*

There were lots of 25A Joes on hand too, but everyone was sold out of Battle Armor CC (I needed one loose) and only one vendor from Ohio had reasonable prices ($6 MOC, $5 loose) when everyone else had $10-$20 depending on the character - insane!

Snagged 2 loose Stinger Drivers - would have taken all 3 in the box but these other two dudes were looking so I was kind enough to give them my third grrrr, a MOC Snowjob to open, and the Cobra logo from the legion pack.  Honestly there were a ton of army builders of all kinds - would have been a 25A army builder's dream.

$18 in total.  Not much but I'm saving for the Canadian Joe Meet on April 19th!

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Ontario / 80s Toy Expo in Burlington
« on: March 14, 2008, 12:56:26 PM »
Hey guys, anyone going to the 80s Toy Expo  in Burlington this weekend?

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Introductions / sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name
« on: February 15, 2008, 03:15:15 PM »
Hey Guys,

Who woulda thunk-it, El Bandalero just created an account :wink:  - and if all went well, I think I've successfully registered myself and my buddy for the 2008 Joecanuck Meet in April.

Been out of touch for a long time, not sure who's signed up or not but I'm really looking forward to seeing Jon, Pete the Greek, Charles 'Raptor's' in charge, Mike, and the Loopinator again, also glad to finally meet Scramble and all the other Joe canucks possibly! 

Big thanks for extending the invitation Mike...the force is great within Darth-Hama.

Now I have to go buy me a vintage G.I. Joe T-shirt and dork out for that weekend!

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