The location and date of the 2009 Canadian G.I. Joe Convention is announced in this issue! Also, Point Vs Counterpoint: Heavy Duty, a new EE, reviews and more!

Check it out here:

http://67.212.190.228/JoeCanuck/NOV08.pdf


Previous issues can be found here:

http://www.joecanuck.com/miva/merchant.mvc

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Great article on completist tendancys that mirrors some of the things I have been going through in the past few years.

However on the retailer remark in the article I do point to Lanard and the corps line, which has enjoyed a large retail presence for quite a long time, who only changes once or twice a decade. No one ever tries to address that part of the retailer question, and that often causes me to question the vaidity of the "Retailers make us do it this way" arguement.

Nevermind the fact that originally this year there was only supposed to be 5 waves and the number kept upping, that is all Hasbro, no one forced them to do that.

Sorry some venting about overabundance.

EDIT: Nevermind. I just downloaded the file rather than open it in my browser. All better now.

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I had firefox crap out on me bypassing the download too. Lets hope that you think that it's worth the extra bandwidth.

- R

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man. you guys do a newsletter right!

stealth, great article. mike, nice story. raps, great article. scramble vs. viperlord, great article.
raps, great dio-story, plus -- sgt. savage -- now i now the rest of the story.

BUT!

my favorite two words in the entire piece?
"tech detail" by raptor

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Oh it's totally worth it. That's why I went to all the extra trouble to download it and stuff. A great read as always.

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