In my quest to reacquire pieces of my collection when I was a kid back in the 80's, I quickly discovered that one of the most awesome robots in the Gobots universe (IMO), while easy to find loose, was nearly impossible to find complete in box. Checking online on a daily basis for the better part of a year proved fruitless. Even the numerous toy and collectors conventions I hit up within this past year turned up nothing, let alone hardly any Gobots in general.
When I decided to track down a Rogun Cap Rifle Robot in it's original box, I had no idea it would be one of the hardest toys I'd have to hunt down. Hell, even doing a google search of this sucker proved to me how hard my hunt would be. I believe there's maybe 1 or 2 images online of this guy complete in box. So if it wasn't for those images, I would have not even known what the original packaging would have looked like. In any case, I shockingly found one on eBay about a month ago in Very Good condition. It was funny too. While I make it a habit of looking daily for specific items, with this being one of them, I had actually forgotten to do so for a few days, or even a week. And one day when I was getting ready to leave work, it hit me, and I did a quick search and holy shit! There it was. Complete, never opened, in great condition. While I suppose I should have tried to haggle with the seller a bit, or even read the entire description, I impulsively bought the thing, all within the span of under a minute. I was that excited. So this beauty sits on my shelf, a testament to patience and dedication to looking for that one piece that you just have to have.
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