Unfortunately, there aren't a lot of (if any) pictures of me with my various action figures. Also, many didn't survive intact, not because I was destructive but just because they would wear out from constant play. I do have some old figures and such hanging around but they're not in "collectable" condition. Somewhere, I do have some Polaroid photos of some "sets" I built for my Star Wars and other 3 3/4 inch figures. I only photographed the early versions though, not the later, more elaborate one where I used a lot of Legos and found/ repurposed items like parts from other toys and such.
Weirdly enough, I never replaced my first two GI Joes from childhood with similar-vintage figures nor did I try to rebuild them from the parts I still have on hand. However, a few years ago, Hasbro released a pretty decent set of reproductions that I thought fit the bill quite nicely. Even better, they were based on the 1974-era Joes that still had the vintage style body but used the Kung Fu Grip hands. My first two both had the earlier hard hands and my later one had the revised "muscle body", leaving only my Atomic Man with the vintage body-KFG combo that I always wanted as a kid. Anyway, these two aren't my originals but they are pretty good replacements.
Oh, and this time, I bought spares, just in case!
