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Post by davidoppo on Jun 20, 2018 12:58:57 GMT -5
Going to Pennsylvania to visit my parents in a couple weeks. Hopefully I can find some old childhood photos with GPK.
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Post by seymourbarf on Jun 20, 2018 13:09:39 GMT -5
Going to Pennsylvania to visit my parents in a couple weeks. Hopefully I can find some old childhood photos with GPK. If you find any, post them! But make sure to draw Joker makeup on your face so we don't know what you look like. |
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Post by davidoppo on Jun 20, 2018 13:20:10 GMT -5
Going to Pennsylvania to visit my parents in a couple weeks. Hopefully I can find some old childhood photos with GPK. If you find any, post them! But make sure to draw Joker makeup on your face so we don't know what you look like. You can never be too careful. If you know what I look like as a kid, one of you might build a time machine and go find me and steal my GPK. I can't take that risk. |
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Post by seymourbarf on Jun 20, 2018 15:17:47 GMT -5
If you find any, post them! But make sure to draw Joker makeup on your face so we don't know what you look like. You can never be too careful. If you know what I look like as a kid, one of you might build a time machine and go find me and steal my GPK. I can't take that risk. But what if current-day you also sends someone back in time to protect your GPKs? |
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Post by seymourbarf on Jun 20, 2018 15:20:42 GMT -5
I don't want to look for any of the old photos of me as a kid with my GPKs. Because I have all of these wonderful memories of collecting GPKs, but what if when I look at the photos it turns out I was wrong and they weren't GPKs at all, but rather something terrible like severed mouse heads? What then?
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Post by creamedkeith on Jun 20, 2018 15:37:06 GMT -5
I don't want to look for any of the old photos of me as a kid with my GPKs. Because I have all of these wonderful memories of collecting GPKs, but what if when I look at the photos it turns out I was wrong and they weren't GPKs at all, but rather something terrible like severed mouse heads? What then? You may re-discover things. I saw a pic of me opening series 6 packs, alongside some dark yellowish packs, which had me stumped. Then I noticed an ALF doll in the background and remembered those must have been ALF packs! |
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Post by seymourbarf on Jun 20, 2018 15:45:00 GMT -5
I don't want to look for any of the old photos of me as a kid with my GPKs. Because I have all of these wonderful memories of collecting GPKs, but what if when I look at the photos it turns out I was wrong and they weren't GPKs at all, but rather something terrible like severed mouse heads? What then? You may re-discover things. I saw a pic of me opening series 6 packs, alongside some dark yellowish packs, which had me stumped. Then I noticed an ALF doll in the background and remembered those must have been ALF packs! I wasn't allowed to watch Alf as a child. Mother said he was subversive. So I played with my mouse head collection instead. Yes mother. I am a good boy mother. |
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Post by davidoppo on Jun 20, 2018 16:21:12 GMT -5
I don't want to look for any of the old photos of me as a kid with my GPKs. Because I have all of these wonderful memories of collecting GPKs, but what if when I look at the photos it turns out I was wrong and they weren't GPKs at all, but rather something terrible like severed mouse heads? What then? Or worse yet...Barbie dolls  |
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Post by seymourbarf on Jun 20, 2018 17:06:55 GMT -5
I don't want to look for any of the old photos of me as a kid with my GPKs. Because I have all of these wonderful memories of collecting GPKs, but what if when I look at the photos it turns out I was wrong and they weren't GPKs at all, but rather something terrible like severed mouse heads? What then? Or worse yet...Barbie dolls But Nasty Nick played with Barbie dolls and he turned out just fine. |
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Post by davidoppo on Jul 25, 2018 16:44:08 GMT -5
I couldn't find any old photos of me with my GPK but I found something better. I found some of my old GPK from my childhood. I haven't seen these in decades. On one of the backs I put A.J. as the class bully. I barely remember who that was but I'll take my younger self's word for it.   |
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Post by Cory on Jul 25, 2018 18:04:41 GMT -5
I couldn't find any old photos of me with my GPK but I found something better. I found some of my old GPK from my childhood. I haven't seen these in decades. On one of the backs I put A.J. as the class bully. I barely remember who that was but I'll take my younger self's word for it. You were so lucky to have OS1 as a kid. I didn't get GPK until OS3 came out. I had no OS1 and like 3 OS2 cards I got from trading.  |
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Post by davidoppo on Jul 25, 2018 18:41:18 GMT -5
Yeah I vividly remember going down to the convenience store, walking up to the counter, and seeing those pink OS 1 packs for the first time. I had to have them. I brought them to school and my friends and I were hooked. We were trading them every day. I remember having a stack about a foot high of just OS1 cards.
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Post by seymourbarf on Jul 25, 2018 18:49:26 GMT -5
Yeah I vividly remember going down to the convenience store, walking up to the counter, and seeing those pink OS 1 packs for the first time. I had to have them. I brought them to school and my friends and I were hooked. We were trading them every day. I remember having a stack about a foot high of just OS1 cards.  |
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Post by seymourbarf on Jul 25, 2018 20:47:58 GMT -5
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Post by seymourbarf on Jul 25, 2018 20:58:20 GMT -5
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Post by Cory on Jul 26, 2018 11:25:34 GMT -5
 Wow, I’m old
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Post by LuCypher on Jul 26, 2018 13:02:21 GMT -5
I couldn't find any old photos of me with my GPK but I found something better. I found some of my old GPK from my childhood. I haven't seen these in decades. On one of the backs I put A.J. as the class bully. I barely remember who that was but I'll take my younger self's word for it. You were so lucky to have OS1 as a kid. I didn't get GPK until OS3 came out. I had no OS1 and like 3 OS2 cards I got from trading. Haha. Same here! First packs I found in stores were OS3. I remember being disappointed at first, but then all the kids who only had OS1 and OS2 wanted OS3 cards so I traded my doubles for those to the older kids on the school bus, along with baseball cards which i didn’t collect. In 2012 when I started collecting GPK again I had about 3 OS1 and maybe 20 OS2 in my collection. |
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Post by seymourbarf on Jul 26, 2018 13:04:50 GMT -5
You were so lucky to have OS1 as a kid. I didn't get GPK until OS3 came out. I had no OS1 and like 3 OS2 cards I got from trading. :( Haha. Same here! First packs I found in stores were OS3. I remember being disappointed at first, but then all the kids who only had OS1 and OS2 wanted OS3 cards so I traded my doubles for those to the older kids on the school bus, along with baseball cards which i didn’t collect. In 2012 when I started collecting GPK again I had about 3 OS1 and maybe 20 OS2 in my collection. Has everyone kept the GPKs they had as kids? I found about 700 that were mine from childhood, but they weren't in great condition so I sold them and bought better ones. |
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Post by creamedkeith on Jul 26, 2018 13:15:51 GMT -5
Haha. Same here! First packs I found in stores were OS3. I remember being disappointed at first, but then all the kids who only had OS1 and OS2 wanted OS3 cards so I traded my doubles for those to the older kids on the school bus, along with baseball cards which i didn’t collect. In 2012 when I started collecting GPK again I had about 3 OS1 and maybe 20 OS2 in my collection. Has everyone kept the GPKs they had as kids? I found about 700 that were mine from childhood, but they weren't in great condition so I sold them and bought better ones. My OS1 and OS2 were in rough shape so I sold those, and upgraded to mint (okay, near mint for OS1). I also had OS3-11 complete which were in much better shape so I kept those. A small part of me wishes I kept my OS1. I didn't realize until becoming an adult collector how rare those were. Growing up in NY, we were lucky enough to all get series 1. Now, hearing some of your stories, makes me wish I kept my originals from 85. |
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Post by LuCypher on Jul 26, 2018 13:22:51 GMT -5
Haha. Same here! First packs I found in stores were OS3. I remember being disappointed at first, but then all the kids who only had OS1 and OS2 wanted OS3 cards so I traded my doubles for those to the older kids on the school bus, along with baseball cards which i didn’t collect. In 2012 when I started collecting GPK again I had about 3 OS1 and maybe 20 OS2 in my collection. Has everyone kept the GPKs they had as kids? I found about 700 that were mine from childhood, but they weren't in great condition so I sold them and bought better ones. Yup. I kept them all. Had about half of the big 1240 when I started back. Had cards from every series too, some complete others just a couple. It was fun filling those holes and so much easier with the inter web! |
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Post by seymourbarf on Jul 26, 2018 13:52:22 GMT -5
Has everyone kept the GPKs they had as kids? I found about 700 that were mine from childhood, but they weren't in great condition so I sold them and bought better ones. My OS1 and OS2 were in rough shape so I sold those, and upgraded to mint (okay, near mint for OS1). I also had OS3-11 complete which were in much better shape so I kept those. A small part of me wishes I kept my OS1. I didn't realize until becoming an adult collector how rare those were. Growing up in NY, we were lucky enough to all get series 1. Now, hearing some of your stories, makes me wish I kept my originals from 85. At least you have your OS3-11 cards. All I have left from my childhood is an OS3 promo poster. I will have to hold onto that. |
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Post by seymourbarf on Jul 26, 2018 13:59:08 GMT -5
Has everyone kept the GPKs they had as kids? I found about 700 that were mine from childhood, but they weren't in great condition so I sold them and bought better ones. Yup. I kept them all. Had about half of the big 1240 when I started back. Had cards from every series too, some complete others just a couple. It was fun filling those holes and so much easier with the inter web! s**t. Yeah, maybe I should have kept mine. I could have put them in an 800-count box and kept them separate from my NM/MT collection. But when I first got back into collecting last summer, I wasn't planning to go apeshit like I have ended up doing. I was planning only to complete a NM/MT collection of OS2-9 sets. I wasn't even planning to buy OS1. I wanted to max out at no more than $200 in spending. So I sold my old ones. Flash forward to today, and I've spent *thousands* on sets, boxes, posters, proofs, original art, etc. And now I'm thinking it would have been nice to hold onto those original 700 cards from when I was a kid. Oh well. At least I still have my M.U.S.C.L.E. figures! |
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Post by creamedkeith on Jul 26, 2018 15:23:26 GMT -5
Yup. I kept them all. Had about half of the big 1240 when I started back. Had cards from every series too, some complete others just a couple. It was fun filling those holes and so much easier with the inter web! s**t. Yeah, maybe I should have kept mine. I could have put them in an 800-count box and kept them separate from my NM/MT collection. But when I first got back into collecting last summer, I wasn't planning to go apeshit like I have ended up doing. I was planning only to complete a NM/MT collection of OS2-9 sets. I wasn't even planning to buy OS1. I wanted to max out at no more than $200 in spending. So I sold my old ones. Flash forward to today, and I've spent *thousands* on sets, boxes, posters, proofs, original art, etc. And now I'm thinking it would have been nice to hold onto those original 700 cards from when I was a kid. Oh well. At least I still have my M.U.S.C.L.E. figures! YES! I still have all my MUSCLE men, a whole shoe box full. My kids have pretty much broken all my He-Man and GI Joes, but I still got 'em. |
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Post by davidoppo on Jul 26, 2018 15:52:22 GMT -5
s**t. Yeah, maybe I should have kept mine. I could have put them in an 800-count box and kept them separate from my NM/MT collection. But when I first got back into collecting last summer, I wasn't planning to go apeshit like I have ended up doing. I was planning only to complete a NM/MT collection of OS2-9 sets. I wasn't even planning to buy OS1. I wanted to max out at no more than $200 in spending. So I sold my old ones. Flash forward to today, and I've spent *thousands* on sets, boxes, posters, proofs, original art, etc. And now I'm thinking it would have been nice to hold onto those original 700 cards from when I was a kid. Oh well. At least I still have my M.U.S.C.L.E. figures! YES! I still have all my MUSCLE men, a whole shoe box full. My kids have pretty much broken all my He-Man and GI Joes, but I still got 'em. Oh yeah. I still got my M.U.S.C.L.E. men too. I got a giant freezer bag full of them that my kids play with. |
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Post by Cory on Jul 26, 2018 17:06:16 GMT -5
Haha. Same here! First packs I found in stores were OS3. I remember being disappointed at first, but then all the kids who only had OS1 and OS2 wanted OS3 cards so I traded my doubles for those to the older kids on the school bus, along with baseball cards which i didn’t collect. In 2012 when I started collecting GPK again I had about 3 OS1 and maybe 20 OS2 in my collection. Has everyone kept the GPKs they had as kids? I found about 700 that were mine from childhood, but they weren't in great condition so I sold them and bought better ones. I stuck all of my GPK on stuff when I decided I didn’t need them anymore. Really regret not keeping them |
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Post by Steve on Jul 27, 2018 8:12:25 GMT -5
Soooooooooo that’s why you wanted Cory’s home address, ssn, dob, and drivers license number. It’s all coming together. Luckily I didn’t give you his ssn.. |
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Post by seymourbarf on Jul 27, 2018 9:27:37 GMT -5
Soooooooooo that’s why you wanted Cory’s home address, ssn, dob, and drivers license number. It’s all coming together. Luckily I didn’t give you his ssn.. I just wanted to hide outside his house until nighttime and then eat out of his trash. |
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Wow, I’m old 
Really cool box. I wish they had the Nasty Nick box too though 
Really cool box. I wish they had the Nasty Nick box too though 