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This month I'm going to ask a question to those of
you out there that read this article. The question is what was your most memorable
toy that you ever got for the Holidays?
For this month I'm going to go back to Christmas
1988. I'm in the 6th grade, and Santa brings me
the Best GI Joe vehicle I had gotten ever. He
brought me the Phantom X-19 Jet fighter with
Ghostrider pilot. I spent the better part of an
hour listening to the radio and putting it
together. I played with it for a while before it
got put away outside and I totally forgot where it
was. Then about 5 years later I dug it up, since
that was about the time I came up with the
harebrained scheme to open a GI Joe 3.75" museum
dedicated to the line from 1982-1993. I still have
that scheme in the back of my mind and things pop
up from time to time about the cool ideas I could
do to put it into action. In 1995, the Phantom X-19
was stolen from the box where I kept it outside by
a neighbor kid who had no idea what it meant to me. I know it was a toy and all
that, but when your big gift holiday is Christmas,
you consider everything sacred.
I guess I can go out on the Internet now and get
one from an Auction site like E-Bay, but that will
never replace that feeling I had when I got it for
the first time.
Feel free to e-mail me with your favorite Holiday
toy that you got as a kid, and maybe I'll include
it in a future article with proper attribution of
course.
Next month, back to the news.
Happy New Year!
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