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What is GI Joe to you?
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09-22-2017, 10:07 PM
HitandRun
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Like pretty much everyone else I feel the obvious connection between GI Joe and happy childhood memories. My dad was in the Army - my brothers and I grew up in an army family and GI Joes were the main toy we were all into together and shared with each other.
GI Joe was pretty much a constant in my life from as far back as I can remember through my teens years, off and on in college and my life after college. I can tie so many childhood memories to GI Joe - trading Joes with friends, getting them for Christmas, Birthdays and the annual trips to my grandparents house when my dad would take me and my little brother to toys r us and we would get to pick 4 figures each, playing with them for hours on end. Being a military kid I had some tough times with the moving and they were always around to offer me an escape or distraction when I was isolated or alone into my teen years. With all the moves I made until the one when I was a freshman in high school my tupperware container of joes always came with me and was not boxed up and thrown in the moving van - it also came with me on all my trips.
Outside of the obvious nostalgic connection I also was always into all things military and I have always equated GI Joe as the perfect combination of realism and imagination for action figures. Nothing else comes close. I was never into comics or any other action figures to the degree I was into GI Joe because of the realistic military aspect. To this day I still think GI Joe represents that best balance.
I am not the avid collector many of you are and have none of the talent many of you guys do with your amazing customs but I still feel that we all share that common interest that brings us all here. Whatever the future of GI Joe (and I hope there is one in the 3 3/4" universe) it is good to have this place to share our love of a fantastic toy line.
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