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If you could make your ultimate nostalgia purchase, what would it be and why?
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I'm lucky enough to be living that dream.

Back in the early 70s no way would my pocket money stretch to a pack of the Les Higgins 20mm Marlburian range. Needless to say the company was long gone by the time I had a bit of spare cash.

I couldn't believe my luck when I discovered the range was back in production and now I have a modest collection of the little beauties.

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My bucket overfloweth with nostalgia, but I still have a strange hankering for doing soething with Minifigs. But they’d need to be delivered in boxes stuffed with sawdust like they used to be back in the 70s.
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Last time I bought anything from Minifigs directly, back in the early 2000's when they were still in Southampton, my order came with a handwritten invoice from a duplicate book, which looked to be around 20 years old at that point.
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Essex Boy wrote: Sat Nov 04, 2017 11:16 pm I'm lucky enough to be living that dream.

Back in the early 70s no way would my pocket money stretch to a pack of the Les Higgins 20mm Marlburian range. Needless to say the company was long gone by the time I had a bit of spare cash.

I couldn't believe my luck when I discovered the range was back in production and now I have a modest collection of the little beauties.

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I would buy 15mm figures in singles to make up a unit to 24 as Minifigs cavalry command came in 3s and the troopers in 4
so there's be 23 minifigs and a single Jacobite or tabletop or other manufacturer because I felt figures were so expensive I could never have any left overs by buying an extra pack
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At some point, Minifigs added an extra trooper into the command pack, so that it was four figures instead of three.

My "nostalgia" buy would be everything I still want from the 2nd Generation 15mm Minifigs Renaissance and ECW/TYW ranges.
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Fantasy armies using the Minifigs D&D range esp the orcs, hobgoblins, gnolls, goblins and kobolds. Caliver have frustratingly re-released a tiny smattering of items from this range but not enough to build an army.
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Citadel original spacefarers range. Pretty rare on ebay
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It's just not what it used to be......
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