This is a revisit to a revisit type of a note.
What's the point where we go from, more or less, kids getting stuff to "collectors" getting stuff?
This "original G.I.Joe team" here is about where I was at. Minus the A.W.E. Strikers in the background, of course. I can't re-snap this photo as most of the figures are long gone, trimmed away for a more simple "edited" A Real American Hero collection that remains today.
The actual year that I "became" more of a "collector" was in late 1990 and into 1991. Tripwire is a substitute for the 1988 Tigerforce Tripwire in the photo as well as 1985 Frostbite sitting in for 1988 Tigerforce Frostbite.
You can see how 1988 (4) has a strong showing with 1986 (5), my "big year" of starting to get G.I.Joe when I was younger.
Even in 1991, my newest figure was the 1989 Snake Eyes figure. That is probably the year I bought the figure, or maybe it was in 1990, back when the HQ was in the middle of nowhere.
