Let’s hear it for new characters! I find it exciting when a new Joe or Cobra shows up on the scene, as it takes me back to the first few years of the RAH line, when every year held the promise of something new and different. I’m glad that the Joe line in the 2000’s wasn’t a slavish tribute to
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By KansasBrawler There are not a lot of figures in my collection that actually make me sad inside. Sometimes, there may be a bad figure, but I can usually find at least one redeeming quality. Unfortunately, 25th Anniversary Lt. Falcon isn’t one of those figures. That’s a big shame because I liked KansasBrother’s 1987 Falcon—so much, in fact, that I
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Tunnel Rat is a character who benefits from the odd proportions of the new sculpt years. Portrayed as a shorter fellow, his figure is appropriately sized, at least in terms of height. Such things weren’t possible in the 80s-90s, with its more standard and consistent builds, Sgt. Slaughter and Big Boa notwithstanding. T-Rat seems even more suited to his MOS
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By KansasBrawler Sometimes, it’s hard to improve on a classic, but other times, a character’s original design isn’t the best. Hawk (then a colonel) was first released in 1982 alongside the rest of his team as the operator of the Mobile Missile System. However, due to a combination of being a vehicle driver and sharing a lot of his look
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It’s always hard to narrow down a choice when one talks about a favorite figure in a series. Most of the brand’s history is filled with multiple figures that I’m really fond of. The new sculpt era of the 2000s isn’t on most fans’ list of great moments in GI Joe history. I take a different view of the time.
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It’s the last day of the last JoeCon, and I thought I’d go out with a bang by covering the greatest convention exclusive vehicle ever produced. Ha! Just kidding, but there is something positive to be said about this version of the Crimson Command Copter. Everybody who was collecting in the early 2000s remembers the first CCC, right? The one
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The Hammer was one of the vehicles I’d missed out on, but always admired from afar. Until I happened upon a large lot of Joe stuff in the early 2000s, I hadn’t had hands-on an example. The mere fact it seated four figures was enough to push it into my favorites. The relaunch era’s remake of the vehicle as the
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This week begins what appears to be the final JoeCon (at least in its current form) and I thought it would be fun to look back on some of my favorite figures from back when. They’re all o-ring era exclusives, since I stopped getting the yearly sets after 2010. The first JoeCon I attended was 2005, and that set is
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By Past Nastification Let’s get the name issue out of the way. Technically, the GI Joe Collectors’ Club named this figure “GI Joe Doc” when they released it in 2007. Tacking on “GI Joe” was probably some legal maneuvering, so I’m simply ignoring it. And this isn’t a retcon or re-imagining of the original Doc- it’s his niece taking his
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I have said it time and again: I get a lot of joy out of the new sculpt era figures. It started when they hit the pegs back in the early 2000s, and it continues to this day. These figures represent the most fun I’ve had as a GI Joe collector. I get the same kind of sense when I
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