Blaster is by far my favorite of the Battle Force 2000 figures. Faint praise I know considering my previous opinions of the group, but I’ve really come around to these guys. Well, maybe not to Knockdown, that poor guy is still an unfortunate mess. The more basic looking uniform coupled with some subdued color sets it apart from the more
Read moreIs it bad marketing to create a character with a name that’s unpronounceable for most westerners? It’s almost as crazy as something from a Star Wars novel. Anyway, I can’t figure out how to say the name, so I’ll just call him TJ from here on out. Sounds cool, and it reminds of TJ Hooker. Man, that was a great
Read moreThis year at JoeCon, Hasbro displayed a group of conceptual figures, some of which were modern versions of classic designs, and others were new concepts. One of my favorites, which also made an appearance in the customizing class, was the Lawn Viper. What’s that got to do with a jungle specialist like Pathfinder? Well, I would like to posit that
Read moreSo you want to put together a comic pack and include a couple of Joes that are featured prominently in the issue? How about including one Joe who played a fairly big part in the story, and one who showed up in a Mess Hall scene? That’s what happened to Rock ‘N Roll. Deep Six, who was also included in
Read moreGung Ho was one of the first GI Joe figures I obtained, not from buying in a store, but from a trade with a school friend. I had made many such trades over the first few years of my childhood Joe collecting, and I’m pretty sure I had to trade more than one Star Wars figure for him. In our
Read moreAh, Funskool. Someone at the company must have known what joy they would give to GI Joe collectors. After all, they put the word fun right in the name! I certainly find their figures to be fun, especially when pack-ins were added, like Grunt’s first aid case/stamper, Law’s Cracker Jackish decoder, or Windmill’s…uh…windmill. Most of the Funskool Joes were straight
Read moreLast year, I spent a week celebrating some figures who sported some of the most interesting trousers in Joe history. I think it’s about time to break out the concept again, and so here we are. The Discovery Channel has Shark Week, and now Joe A Day has Nice Pants Week. Hopefully it will become a tradition, with parties and
Read moreHow about a really non-descript Hawk that sort of harks back to his original 1982 figure? Released as part of the more miss than hit series of Toys R Us three packs titled Senior Ranking Officers, Hawk is an oddly plain mish-mash that just sort of…exists. That’s about all I can say for it. That and he’s wearing green and
Read moreSo apparently Roadblock is associated with the Arashikage ninja clan in the GI Joe sequel. I’m not sure how I feel about that, especially since we don’t know the extent to which he’s involved with them. Is he a ninja from the get-go, or does he fall in with them throughout the course of the film and becomes an honorary
Read moreI enjoy environment specific figures. Not just in GI Joe, but in all the toy lines I’ve collected over the years. I’ve even bought a few from lines I don’t collect. For instance, whenever there’s a new Batman toy series, I always check through the pegs to see if there’s an arctic or desert figure this time around. Yes, it’s
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