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What Xmas is all about....MIP !!! ( 4 60K images BTW )
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Lordan
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Post 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.... :D
  

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

thats almost like blasphemy :D

hope they enjoy!


Are we nearly there yet?
  

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Post 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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Post 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.
  

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

EXCELLENT!!!!
  

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

*recovers from heart attack*

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

:D Still great to see though.


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Post 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!
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Post Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 2:25 pm 
 

Two new oldschool gamers?  Let that shrinkwrap FLY! :D

Pretty cool!
  

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Post 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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Post 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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