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Title: Hello from Florida!
Post by: turner on April 04, 2010, 03:20:38 PM

Hey guys, I've been lurking around here for a little bit, read all the newsletters, excited about the convention, hoping I can go this year.  I've been a joe fan since my cousin showed me the fold out pack-in catalog in '82.  Got back into collecting about a year ago with the 25th line and some vintage.  Recently got the HATE set, very cool!  Hoping to get those trading cards... 

Title: Re: Hello from Florida!
Post by: morgardee on April 04, 2010, 05:29:03 PM

Welcome to the board. Glad you found us.

How did you manage to get a HATE set? Ebay?

Title: Re: Hello from Florida!
Post by: turner on April 04, 2010, 06:48:33 PM

Actually, got the set from a guy over at Hisstank.com.  He got the set from ebay... 

Title: Re: Hello from Florida!
Post by: morgardee on April 04, 2010, 07:00:53 PM

Good for you. Those bad boys are hard to come by and certainly turned a lot of heads this way.  :wink:

Title: Re: Hello from Florida!
Post by: turner on April 04, 2010, 08:12:43 PM

Understandably so.  Coolest hisstank ever in the history of G.I. Joe.  But the set is great in all the other areas, too.  The characters, filecards, stickers, comic, even the box.  I enjoyed getting familiar with the other canadian exclusives through the comic.

Title: Re: Hello from Florida!
Post by: bandonov on April 04, 2010, 10:19:21 PM

Welcome to the board!

Title: Re: Hello from Florida!
Post by: B on April 06, 2010, 04:27:25 PM

welcome friend, hope you keep active in posting here.

Title: Re: Hello from Florida!
Post by: grunt 4 mvp on April 07, 2010, 05:36:51 PM

The HATE set is a rare treasure - especially for someone who just got back into collecting a year ago!
Congrats and welcome.

Title: Re: Hello from Florida!
Post by: turner on April 07, 2010, 09:41:13 PM

Thanks for the welcome guys.  Last summer, my wife calls me from a pawn shop and says the guy will sell "all his gi joe stuff for a hundred dollars."  Ended up, I got a Flagg that was missing about 17 smaller pieces mostly, a stripped defiant and gantry, and a couple big boxes of broken and/or missing parts vehicles like the skystriker, night raven, mauler, stun, mobat.  Like I said, broken...  Got a mobile command center missing nearly all the outside parts and a couple inside.  Ended up paying 150 for all the stuff.  And I still have my collection from my childhood including a terror drome.  :)

Title: Re: Hello from Florida!
Post by: CF on April 07, 2010, 10:29:11 PM

hello and welcome  :)

CF