***The Official "How Old Are You" Thread***

[CornDog_The_Ninja]

I'm 34.

I've been collecting/playing with GI Joes since 1982 and my wife doesn't seem to mind my hobby.

What about the rest of you guys.

[Joebern28]

I'll be thirty in a month. Sigh. Oh well I still love my Joes damnit lol. I may be getting older, but I'll never grow up!

[Snow cat]

Im 36.

I been a die hard colector since 1982. My girl buys me joes and loves i still have all of it.

[Cksport]

I am 27 and my fiance has been great with my joe collecting.. I have also kinda curbed it lately.

[fred V]

i am 32,bummer!!!!:(

[Unclassified]

30 , 31 in 2 months. an if me an my exgirl were still datin when i started to collect these back in feb' an she didnt like it, i geuss it would've sucked for her! girls come an go, very easy to get a new one, but gi joes it will a harder to get when they are all sold out ! gi joe is like the most important thing to me right now lol! sounds weird but, i want these things real bad, im so addicted it aint even funny! all that matters is gi joe!

[Beach_Head]

I'd have to agree with you there. Money's tight right now and I have a lot of expenses that come like clockwork every month, but I always try and squeeze in as many Joes as I possibly can. Not to mention it irritates me when I log on to the Tank and there isn't at least one new news item on the front page.

I may need therapy... :D

30 , 31 in 2 months. an if me an my exgirl were still datin when i started to collect these back in feb' an she didnt like it, i geuss it would've sucked for her! girls come an go, very easy to get a new one, but gi joes it will a harder to get when they are all sold out ! gi joe is like the most important thing to me right now lol! sounds weird but, i want these things real bad, im so addicted it aint even funny! all that matters is gi joe!

[Unclassified]

I'd have to agree with you there. Money's tight right now and I have a lot of expenses that come like clockwork every month, but I always try and squeeze in as many Joes as I possibly can. Not to mention it irritates me when I log on to the Tank and there isn't at least one new news item on the front page.

I may need therapy... :D

i think a few of us do lol! this gi joe phenom got me goin against what i stand for. im always the one tellin pple save your money, quit wastin it! build ya credit! an here i am my whole world went to a hualt for this crap!i jus paind off my 03 durrango so 508 an month was supposed to be saved , lol well thats plan went out the window, its been my plan since i was 25! now its 508 a month on joes lol! but its now or never so i picked now, i will get back on track after this is over!

[HonestAbeJoeHooah]

turned 32 yesterday and, it feels pretty good! I am in overall great shape and have a wonderful Family

I started with the og Joes way back in 1982-83 and, gave them away when I turned around 11 or 12 to my nephews!

Started back up close to the first of 2008. Our Son was given a 25th Joe 5 pack as a gift from one of His Aunts...and since then there has been no looking back! We have picked up a lot of minty v1 Joes which has been awesome...not to mention the 25th and new era stuff we can get at great prices too

The down side is that due to finances I have already had to unload some of the new stuff we have collected this year! It can be claimed again later on though...

;)

[delta]

27.

[Lantern_Lad]

Turned 34 last month... *sigh*

The wife doesn't mind the collecting and actually, for my birthday, bought me the CG 5 pack.

[swafus]

30 years old and I still remember the first joe commercial on t.v.

[Twnbrother]

36. I have liked the Joes since its inception into the 3 3/4" realm. I recently re-acquired the Original 13 and the Cobra counterparts. I enjoy the 25th line, but only purchase those that get my attention... basically anything that is a reproduction of figures from 82-87...

[DarthBrett]

29. Feels like it was just yesterday when I was in the backyard having huge battles with my Joes.

[scarecrow826]

I'm 20 years old, and I was born into a world of neon colors and crazy costumes. But that never prevented me from loving the fundamental green uniform of the average 'Joe more than anything.

[9deadjoes]

37 ....

[9deadjoes]

I just noticed I've been on this site for over a year

[Golobulous]

i am 30

and the 1987 year of joes makes me happy!!!
so please hasbro redoo them all

[TheBaroness]

I'll be 25 on December 31st.


I have the greatest birth date ever.

[sharke]

25, wasn't there just a thread like this.....

[ZARTAN]

28 My first joe was torpedo 84-88 was a great time for joes !

[polyphenus]

30 years old today... :)

Fan of G.I. Joe since Short Fuze started my collection as a birthday present when I was just a little ankle biter... :)

[Johnnyakiba]

I forgot....

maybe I'm 20ish?

[Ewokhunter92]

I'm 34. But seriously, why are we posting our real ages when most of us act like kids on here? :)

[lister]

34 in January and a Joe fan since '82. My girlfriend is super cool about my collecting. She bought me Joes for Valentine's Day.

[Dealer Destro]

I'm 26 and my first encounter with the Joes was watching the Mass Device mini series. My pops recorded it and I remember watching it over and over. Snake was my favortie back then.

[Dealer Destro]

34 in January and a Joe fan since '82. My girlfriend is super cool about my collecting. She bought me Joes for Valentine's Day.

Damn.... lucky, does she have any single friends? lol.

[dawg99]

32 been collecting toys since i was a kid

[SNAKE EYES]

33 and been collecting Joe's since 82'

[ZARTAN]

30 years old today... :)

Fan of G.I. Joe since Short Fuze started my collection as a birthday present when I was just a little ankle biter... :)

happy birthday bet your getting some joes huh? lol


my girl helps me collect too she's just sick of all the blah blah blah joes blah blah blah cobra blah blah hisstank

[Dunklar]

i'm 30

[LtDom]

26...27 in December. I was just thinkin' about this earlier and how funny it is that here I am and still want the same things for my birthday that I did over 20 years ago, lol . Footloose had to have been my first. I only willing to recognize G.I. Joes made up until 1986. The good years...the Sunbow years :) Don't get me wrong, there's a couple from '87...but still not the same.

[polyphenus]

happy birthday bet your getting some joes huh? lol


my girl helps me collect too she's just sick of all the blah blah blah joes blah blah blah cobra blah blah hisstank

Thanks for the recognition. I wasn't going to do my own shameless plug but I couldn't resist posting an honest answer in this thread...

Actually my wife gives me heck about always checking this site. She also gave me a Wal Mart gift card to open this morning and it was of course an "in joke" to reference my collecting... Good times... :)

[ZARTAN]

no prob enjoy the hunt at wal-mart hope you find what you have tryin to find!

[crankcase]

50...
Started collecting in '64 when the first Joes came out. Loved the military stuff, still have bunches of it.
Liked and got some Adventure Team stuff, didn't care for most of it, hated Mike Powers and Bulletman and the Intruders, didn't buy any of them.
Really didn't like Super Joe and didn't buy any.
Picked up GI Joe (Marvel) #1, got excited. Saw the ad. Couldn't wait! Buddy from the Jet Engine shop (stationed in Arkansas at the time) called me, said they got the new Joes I was looking for in at Big K (a chain of stores later bought out by Wal-Mart).
Went down, looked at those tiny figures in their Star Wars sized packaging, and said...well, can't say what I said, cause this is a family forum and I was military (retired Air Force, btw). Anyway, kept buying the comic, didn't buy the toys.
About 3 ot 4 years later, I was walking through a Hill's in Indiana, there was a Joe dropped on the floor. Picked it up to put it back on the rack, and noticed the file card. It was Flint. Fell in love with the file card when I read it, started buying the little guys then and there.
What do you mean they just stop making the old stuff when the new stuff comes out? That can't be right. It's just not the way things are done!
Got rid of the small guys in the early '90's when all my new guys started looking like the paint jobs were designed by the same people that work on Barbie. And I know what Barbie looks like, my wife has a collection of about 300 that go back to the '60's. Plus, I was already wondering what the advantage is to having grenades shaped like footballs with the addition of a handle?
Owned a comic shop for a few years (what a way to make a living!) Lots of Joes came and went through the shop. Replaced a lot of my old collection during that time. Didn't touch the newer stuff. It was all repaints, anyway.
Then they sucked me back in with a $5 Snake-Eyes that came with a DVD. You just can't bet a deal like that.
So, by now, I own all the stuff I want from the '60's, still need a few pieces from the Secret of the Mummy's Tomb from the '70's (my mom sold off my collection when I went to basic training, cause I was a man now, and didn't need toys anymore), I own every 25th item that has come out (except for a BAT and a Snake-Eyes with Arctic Gear, but I will track them down, they will not escape me!) And I work on filling in the gaps from '86 through '94 (figures only, pretty much complete, but if a $4 figure is missing a $30 microphone, I buy the $4 figure and he just has to shout loud to get his message across!) I don't buy the older vehicles and even traded off my Defiant, Terror Drome and Flagg cause they just take up too much room.
And my wife doesn't mind my collecting cause we have been married for about three decades or so, and it beats what the other guys were doing that ended in divorce. Plus, with all those Barbies and her Heroes figures, she can't exactly throw stones!
Oh, and lest I forget, I am old so I ramble :)

[MAJOR BLOOD]

Dirty 30.

[CyberBishop]

I am 37.. Will be 38 in December..

[CharIJoe]

im 22. i hear im a youngin.

[goosetuber]

Turned 36 yesterday!

My first joe was a stright armed grunt, followed by stalker and SE.
Left the fold when the Toxic avengers and star brigade came out. I hated that it left its military roots. when I saw the 5 pack commemorative editions I thought "cool" but until my older brother gave me a Hooded CC last Christmas with a gift card ( he knows I love my joes still) I didnt have any of the 25th. Well he started the ball rolling and its all downhill from there!!
Been on the Tank a few months and appreciate the fans here. The official site should be so lucky as to have this kind of following!!!

[toolrocks302]

I'm 30 and I get laughed at by most of my friends and my wife says I'm a nerd, but I could care less.

[Viper6]

im 31 married a man of rank and station i work with the gov and military have a wonderful home a sports car and an entire room of joes i plan to make into the most massive dio ever when i retire until then its shelves and floor space which is getting tight!

[CyberBishop]

im 22. i hear im a youngin.


Yeah, lots of 30 somethings.

And the cool thing is that my wife is also a HUGE Gi Joe fan..
My 4 year old daughter also likes the Joe toon.
My 15 year old is a fan but not as big as her little sister.

[MachineGunEtiquette]

old enough to know better.
too young to care.

[Troynos]

34

Girlfriend supports my habit. I had collected from '82 to 90ish and just started back up at my girlfriends urging.

She's even encouraging me to start customizing and making dios.

She calls me a "dork" all the time, but it's with love, lol.

[popsicleviper]

20
G.I. Joe (and other action figures) will always be a part of my life.
This world sucks sometimes man... toys in general let me create my own. So I say to hell with it whenever I feel I'm too old.

[Snake-Eyes01]

I'm 35, will be 36 in April. Man time flies, especially if you have kids!

[TheBaroness]

Wow, it's so weird being the one to say "my husband could are less about GI Joe". It's usually the chicks who can't stand things like that. He usually tells me "grow up, you're an adult", lol. I just tell him "no thanks, I'd rather be young at heart forever than an old bitter bastard like you".

[fred v]

Wow, it's so weird being the one to say "my husband could are less about GI Joe". It's usually the chicks who can't stand things like that. He usually tells me "grow up, you're an adult", lol. I just tell him "no thanks, I'd rather be young at heart forever than an old bitter bastard like you".

yo go girl...lol

[solo0525]

33 will be 34 next month.. wife cut me off only allowed 200 month ..... the insanity

[captain99]

36 going on 37 in Jan. Been a loyal supporter of GI Joe Comics (Marvel) and the toys since 1982. I remember the very first commercial for the comics and toys. Thought I was gonna crap my pants when I first saw it. Glad they're doing the 25th!!
Oh my wife doesn't care that I still buy AND play with them.