The 2002 relaunch of GI Joe afforded collectors with the opportunity to build their forces in two different scales. Among small scale Joe fans, the redesigned line often gets short shrift. I am still a fan of the period, not only due to the memories of collecting a new line at its beginning, but also for the interesting redesigns of
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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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Last time I looked, this mold was known as the Range Viper. What happened–did the Hasbro group just have a brain fart, or did they not care? Whatever the case, it’s not too much of a surprise, considering that the Real American Hero Collection would end up playing fast and loose with names and parts choices within a year. Maybe
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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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Here’s a Firefly of a different color. Hailing from a Toys R Us multi-pack that also included a set of modern “greenshirt” GI Joes, Firefly got into the variant game by changing up his costume from grey to blue. He even painted his gear to match. Quite fashionable. I have to say that I get a kick out of having
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Check out Stormy in all his rubber-vested glory.
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Does the world need another HISS Tank, and another red one at that? It’s an odd shade of red for Cobra, much like its matching drivers. The effect is akin to the Hazard Vipers of a few years ago. And to belabor a joke first made years ago, an orange HISS looks like it belongs with Cobra’s Hazzard County Viper
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Yes, it’s a two-fer tonight. Why? Because I just couldn’t bring myself to cover two incredibly similar figures separately. Some of the decision rests with my feelings on the quality of the figures themselves, and their vehicle. Let’s get to it then, shall we? I promise this won’t hurt–much. First off, which is which? Well, according to the way he
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By Jason Royalty Here at JAD, we love ninjas. We also love photos of Joes in the wild. It brings back memories of when we played with ours as kids. I may have been too old to play with the Ninja Force figures in the yard, but I still love ’em. Jason’s latest photo shoot is chock full o’ sword-wielding,
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I’ve been a Croc Master fan since 1987, the year that some say the line went off the rails with Cobra’s preponderance of weird new characters. I’m not so hard on the year’s releases, and I find the colorful variety of villains a plus, along the lines of the great comic book rogues galleries from Batman, Spider-Man and the Flash.
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