Time machine

grunt1 · Post by **grunt1** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 11:56 am

Found this site while doing some research. Basically allows you to travel back in time and browse long gone or outdated websites. It's a bit quirky but there were some good treasures out there.

http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

This one was interesting. The old 21st Century Toys website from 2003:

http://web.archive.org/web/200307200445 ... ytoys.com/

Razor17019 · Post by **Razor17019** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 3:02 pm

That is weird! You can click on the site and everything works like it would have in 2003!

Nice find Grunt!

normandy · Post by **normandy** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 3:35 pm

How come I can get to the '03 site faster than I get to 21st's current site?

tmanthegreat · Post by **tmanthegreat** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 4:05 pm

Very cool find

I like the 2003 21c site - that takes me back!

However, if you all really want a throwback to the past, take a look at this:

http://web.archive.org/web/200310032210 ... ndpounders

Its the original GP board

I had forgotten how plain it looked, however P-51 did make this current board look uncannily similar. Too bad one can't read the individual postings, but the titles give us an idea of what we were discussing back in 2003. The was right on the eve of 21c selling their products en masse at Wal Mart, BBI putting out their 1:18 lineup and the real explosion of the 1:18 collecting hobby

There's a bunch of familiar names there as well: GroundPounder01, aferguson, teamski, MrFootball, tderespino, immeww2, WGP Klaus, jericoeagle, MK, Coreyeagle48, ltcbj, markone18 and a bunch of others, including me

The archive is even still intact!!

Razor17019 · Post by **Razor17019** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 5:59 pm

Okay- here is a deal in a half (of course no longer available

)

"I have the following Ultimate soldier 1/18 items for sale as a lot:

Kubelwagen with 3 figures (one is Officer)

Kubelwagen- no figures

MB Jeep with driver, Officer, and Enlisted soldier

MB Jeep (Solido Die-cast) with 3 figures including Officer with map.

Harley WLA Motorcycle (with box).

M4 Sherman (First issue) with box.

Panther (first issue) with Commander figure and AA MG-34.

Tiger with Commander and driver figures (with box).

U.S. Halftrack with two figures (with box).

German Halftrack with figure (with box).

French farmhouse set with some extra furniture. (In box)

Fountain Set (In box).

French Building Ruins set (in box).

Set of Posters, Road and Building signs forFrance, Germany and Bulge scenes on 5 different cards (all 1/18 scale).

U.S. Radio operator with SCR-300 on back.

Build-A-Rama sets of: SCR-300 Radio set, Rubble set, Red Bricks set, Stowage set, Sandbag set, Camo nets sets (2), Litter set, and Drums and tools set.

5 U.S. Paratroops (Mansfield, Jennings, Esquivel, Ruppert, Wilson).

6 German Paratroops (Jaeger (2), Von Schnitzel, Mayer, Keitel, Wenzel)

Bag of 3 G.I.s with tons of extra parts weapons, gear, and arms)

Bag of 9 Germans with tons of parts as above.

2 In-Toyz German Grenadiers in winter gear.

Would like to sell all as a set. Will consider best offer over $325."

(Nice set huh? Too bad it's not 2003...)

tmanthegreat · Post by **tmanthegreat** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 6:36 pm

That is a great lot! I remember in '03 and '04 when you could buy lots of the S1 US, German, and Paratrooper figures for cheap on ebay, and I think there were still some on Amazon.com at the time as well. It was great, especially since they were the only regular ETO figures avaliable in 1:18 at the time

grunt1 · Post by **grunt1** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 4:21 am

Check out this recon report. They were depressed. This stuff is like gold now! lol

Well! nothing terribly exciting to report unfortunately. Between 4 stores I visit pretty much weekly or once every two weeks, we've got the following:

XD
Tons or P-38's..will be checking this weekend for Putt Putt's.
Several Brit Corsairs
Several Korean era Corsairs
Winter Stukas
Snake Stukas
Original Issue Stukas
Bulldogs (1st issue)
Tigers (1st issue)
German halftracks (1st issue)
American halftracks (1st issue)
Scout Cars
SEAL jeeps
Various Playsets (keeping my eye on these as they're
going down in price every other week)
No new BOB figures as of yet!
Not really many Paras still on the pegs.

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12 paras 1:18
6 VN (all Viet Cong) 1:18
Tiger and Bulldog and M48 Main Battle Tank 1:18
Navy Seal Vehicle 1:18
US and German halftracks in 1:32
Stukas, P-38s and Corsairs 1:18
French farmhouse, barn and fountain playsets 1:18

STUKA · Post by **STUKA** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 9:03 am

snake stukas ...
(said in Homer monitone voice)

mikeg · Post by **mikeg** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 11:14 am

There were 8-12 of them at the TRU on cobb parkway in 01-02, I decided I didnt need one since I just got the green stuka, the british corsair and the dday p-38; I believe all in that same week.
But none of that really matters, does it?

tmanthegreat · Post by **tmanthegreat** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 3:44 pm

Always wish I'd bought more of the Vietnam figures, especially the VC and NVA figures, but what was done was done

grunt1 · Post by **grunt1** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 9:20 am

lol.. I remember (prior to the actual first taste of xd crack) standing in a TRU looking at a huge display of s1 germans thinking "hmm.. they even have officers now.. "

doh!

KAMIKAZE · Post by **KAMIKAZE** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 7:08 pm

Brings back some good memories. I wonder what GP is up to these days.

Mark