By KansasBrawler The Kre-O Joe motorpool is nothing short of impressive. It successfully pulls from all eras of Joe history and chooses drivers that make sense. That couldn’t always be said about the modern Joe motorpool. In this Field Report, I’m pairing up two vehicles from different eras of the Joe brand and different Kre-O sets because they work together
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So…um, it’s basically the last Crimson Guard figure cast in black. Any questions?
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By KansasBrawler Oh, Kenny Loggins…“Footloose” is such a great song. It just puts a dumbass grin on my face the moment I hear the opening chords. It may be a cheesy wedding dance staple, but that doesn’t mean it’s not fun. Sorry, my bad…I’m not supposed to be talking about the song “Footloose.” I’m supposed to be talking about the
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Here’s something I never expected to run across. I’ve been aware of Google’s patent search for a while. It’s an interesting thing to check out if you’d like to peek into the weird world of copyright. It all seems very esoteric to me, particularly the fact that many of these patents don’t mention a figure’s name or even a toy
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By KansasBrawler I may have already reviewed this figure twice in a different paint scheme, but Slaughter’s Marauders Low-Light is still a great figure. Even more importantly, Marauders Low-Light also has a special nostalgic place in my collection because he was the only Marauder in the box set that was actually part of my collection growing up. My brother had
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By KansasBrawler I never knew about the Cobra WOLF growing up, but the first time I saw it, I was really impressed. I found Justin Bell’s diostories on the Internet when I was in high school but I never read them until I was in college. I grew up with a relatively slow dial-up connection and the phone line at
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By Acer In 1994, 3.75″ G.I. Joe was on the way out, but Hasbro/Kenner sought to give many of the figure molds purpose in their upcoming lines based on the movie adaptations of Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. In the case of the Street Fighter line, probably because of the then-popularity of the movie’s star Jean-Claude Van Damme, the toymaker
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By KansasBrawler The 30th Anniversary line really did some interesting things in my opinion. While the later waves were focused pretty heavily on the Renegades cartoon, there were some very good vintage homages in there as well, especially early on. The first wave also did something a little unusual for the Joe line. Hasbro rereleased a group of very hard-to-find
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What’s the matter with me? I’ve been writing this blog for over four years, and I haven’t covered the original Beachhead figure until now. We’ve looked at the mold in many of its repainted versions, from Funskool to Club exclusive and even a modern Toys R Us offering. My memories of this version center around my feelings for the 1986
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By KansasBrawler Baroness has always been a big part of the Joe mythos. She was the first named Cobra agent we were introduced to in Issue #1 of the comic and she played a big role in the cartoon. All that exposure has given Baroness a pretty big fan following, so it’s also no surprise that each time the Joe
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