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What Xmas is all about....MIP !!! ( 4 60K images BTW )
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Lordan
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Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 4:35 pm

WARNING !!!! If you are faint at heart or a stickler for keeping things sealed do not proceed ( or if you have a dial-up...4 images 60K each ) :D

This is what my boys got for Xmas today...well one of a gazillion things but this was mine...err...their favorite:

The opener: Having survived the past 25 years MIP.....

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The prize: Original sealed sets......

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The beginning of a new generation of role-players....

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The left overs......

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I hope I didn't give amyone to much of a heart attack but honestly, it's worth much more to me watching them open them then it is sitting on my shelf being oogled. For my oldests B-day he'll be getting 4 or 5 of the B series in shrink plus some X's. Hope you enjoyed this as much as I did...felt like 1981 all over again....

killjoy32
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Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 4:38 pm

thats almost like blasphemy

hope they enjoy!

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Prufrock
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Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 5:56 pm

The loss of Shrinkwrap to the young is no loss at all. Looks like a very merry xmas.

Martin

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Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 7:11 pm

Good for you and the kids. It's deja vu all over again.
Shrinkwrap is so highly overrated. I have a lot of items in the shrink because I bought them that way and never bothered to read them. I can't imagine paying such a high premium for them today.

Zippanthropus
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Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 7:23 pm

EXCELLENT!!!!

Winterwords
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Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 7:34 am

*recovers from heart attack*

They'll kill you for that when they're older :p

Still great to see though.

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deimos3428
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Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 10:37 am

That is absolutely beautiful! (Trying not to tear up :oops: ). I think almost all of our gaming experiences must have started something like that...though for me it was a bright red box, and my brother got the expert set. Finally a use for shrinkwrap!

DungeonDelver
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Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 2:25 pm

Two new oldschool gamers? Let that shrinkwrap FLY!

Pretty cool!

MrFilthyIke
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Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 6:47 pm

Sweet presents.

Since I started on Mentzer, my kids won't be as hard to find for...I hope. 8O

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bombadil
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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 5:45 pm

Man, that is just the coolest. I hope your sons look back upon that with fond memories when they're grown men. Maybe you've set them on THE trajectory.

Well done!

-Stephen

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