The ARAH Regrets thread got me thinking:

What if you hopped aboard a time machine headed for 1964, and you saw Don Levine and told him about Gi Joe as it is today, what do you think he would say?

"What the F#@k is a Sigma 6?"
"300 bucks for a Joe?"
etc...

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"pull up yer pants boy, i can see yer shorts!"

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Screw that, would go to the 80's and start collecting. I would then travel forward and kick Hasbro in the nads for canceling the line. i would also go to 1995 and make out with my ex girlfriend...but that's another story...

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Phft... If I had a time machine, I'm going back & buying up tons of gold & silver cheap so I can sell it now. Toys nothing...

For real.

I'd Marty McFly/Biff Tannen that motherlover.

I'd buy up as much AT& T, IBM and Exxon that I could. When AT&T gets broken up during the 80's I'll make a ton on the baby bells.

It'd be nice to travel back in time and buy Joes or buy stocks or buy gold cheap. Only problem is you'd have to somehow lay your hands on currency that was usable in that time. Can't head back to 85 and load up on Joes, head to the checkout and whip out your Debit/ATM for an account that doesn't exist yet. And you try and hand over one of our current Euro style monopoly money bills and the police would be busting you fast.

So before you time hop....track down some currency for the timeframe you head to. Paper money earlier than the mid 90's is harder and harder to find. Maybe try a coin dealer or something and pay inflated prices for paper money from the 60's, 70's or 80's.

Quarters are a good choice though. A lot of them are in circulation from the last 40 years.

Me, I'm going back to 86 and buying as many Vipers as possible and paying in pennies just to tick off the checkout clerk.

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We're not going by Terminator rules are we? The whole arrive in the past buck assed naked?

For past cash, you could always hit up garage sales and flea markets for junk from the past to sell at pawnshops. VCR's, 80's style Camcorders,Walkmans and Cordless Brick Phones would be best. You would run the high risk of creating paradoxes from items existing twice in the same timeplane though and time it's self might fold together.

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Destroy the whole space time continuum for the sake of some Joes.



You could always slip back with some modern technology and jumpstart the development of Cell phones a decade or more earlier than they really hit.

Print out and take back scripts from popular 90's movies and sell them to hollywood studios in the 80's. Point Break starring Rutger Hauer and Mathew Broderick. The Matrix done with stop motion effects and miniatures.

Print out and take back the lyrics of hit songs from the 90's and this decade and sell them to singers in the 80's. Quiet Riot singing Creed songs. Michael Bolton belting out R. Kelly songs or Clay Aiken tunes. How great would that be?

Ahhh the possibilities.

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