By KansasBrawler The first wave of 25th Anniversary comic packs relied pretty heavily on repeated characters. As such, I wasn’t super into them since I had most of the figures in better color schemes thanks to the box sets. However, since I wanted 25th Anniversary Colonel Hawk, that meant I also wound up with another 25th Anniversary Scarlett. This is
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And don’t forget the Raw Umber–it’s retired, ya know!
Read moreThe Cobra Strike Team Urban Division was one of the more problematic of the Toys R Us multipacks. The illustrations of the characters on the front of the package did not match the contents, at least in terms of their uniform’s coloring. All were colorful and resembled some previous version of their figures. Alley Viper looked to be based on
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What more can be said about the original first assortment of 80s Joes? Many of these guys (and gal) went on to become the all-time greats in the brand, and continue to be big players in the modern comics and other media tie-ins. Stalker to me was the team’s no-nonsense field leader, a role he’s often fulfilled in the Joe
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By Past Nastification This week I continue looking at Sunbow’s MASS Device mini-series as a source for toys. Last week I talked about the vehicles Hasbro could make, now I’ll talk about potential action figures. If you’ve seen the customs I’ve made based on many of these characters, my apologies in advance for repeating my thoughts. The MASS Device series
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I covered the variant (or is this the variant?) version of this figure in a haiku post a long while ago. I think he deserves a more standard entry this time around. After all, he’s somewhat of a legend. For me, the mystery of Big Brawler only deepened with the Toys R Us Tiger Force exclusive release. His initial figure
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By KansasBrawler Sometimes, a Joe figure really catches fire in the collecting community. I got to witness this first hand at Joe Con in 2009 with Pursuit of Cobra Zartan. Everyone (myself included) was very interested in this new direction for the brand, building off the good parts of the movie, but leaving the bad parts behind. However, the figure
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I still remember reading issue #2 of the GI Joe comic, when the team first ran afoul of Kwinn, who would go on to become an early favorite character in the comic–wait, oh this the second issue of the DC GI Joe series. Oops, sorry for the mix-up. Once again, we’re treated to wonderful Joe Kubert art, and who else
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Pathfinder found his path to the modern GI Joe releases twice in the early 2000s. he was included first with the 2001 AWE Striker sans weapons. I assume he was chosen due to his uniform, as its nicely nondescript when given a subdued paint job. I do miss the orange and green camp however. No nice pants this time around.
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Oh, to return to the days of an incorrect facial hair color being the biggest problem in collecting new GI Joes. The presence of blond and brown haired Gung Ho figures was my most most vivid memory of this figure from its time on the pegs. Well, that and its weird proportions. His top and bottom halves appear as if
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