With just two more days in our holiday celebration of posts rigidly based on numbers, we’ve come to a nice even number of ten. Since there are ten of them in all, here are the GI Joe Battle Ribbons. One of the more impressive and most highly referential toy items to the Marvel comic mythos of the Real American Hero
Read moreEight Command Rings! I know I covered the verse about rings three days ago, but this one fits better as an eight reference, I think. You wouldn’t want me to leave out three rings, would you? 1990 sure was a big year for package premiums. We already covered the same year’s Combat Pay inserts just a few days ago. This
Read moreEverybody sing along: Five GI Joe Combat Pay Dollars! Isn’t the five gold rings verse everbody’s favorite part of the 12 Days song? It’s the one everyone knows, to be sure. Some people even belt it out louder than any other. Eddie Izzard thinks so too. Combat Pay was an offer tied to the 1990 series of GI Joe figures.
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My true love gave to me…a Predacon in a pear tree. Okay, maybe not in a pear tree. But it is Predacon. Today at Joe A Day HQ, we started celebrating the holidays with the first of twelve days of fun activities every night until December 25th, and it’s really gotten me in the spirit. Stay tuned tomorrow for the
Read moreOver the years, the small Joe lines just haven’t had enough figures outfitted in some sort of dress uniform. Sure, there was Gung Ho, and later a comic pack General Flagg, but other characters whose look was primarily that of off the battlefield didn’t get their due. General Austin and Colonel Sharp come to mind, as does General Hawk. Hawk,
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Renegades Firefly is in the KansasBrawler spotlight this week. Check it out here.
Read moreCatalog. Pamphlet. Brouchure. You can call the little neatly folded pieces of paper whatever you want. I don’t know that there’s any official term for them within the Joe collecting world. Call them what you will, they were brilliant little insidious marketing tools that wormed their message into impressionable brains like mine. Look at all these cool toys, kid. You
Read moreOn the Flag Points podcast, we often discuss Joe memories with guests and one another. I don’t think I’ve shared too many on the show since my first apprearance almost two years ago. Of course, this blog is also an outlet for me to remember the old days (and sometimes not so old days) of my Joe collecting experiences. I
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The weekend is a time to rest, reflect and reflect. Here’s your Saturday Joe Moment of Zen…
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It’s Friday, and that means another Field Report from KansasBrawler. He’s covering one of the Pursuit of Cobra mechs, the Steel Marauder with Kickstart. Check it out here.
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