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05-30-2008, 09:19 AM | #41 |
Space Herpe
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Some of my fondest childhood memories are of me and friends playing with GI Joes. I had tons of them and played with them constantly outside, in the pool, in my room, wherever.
I also remember getting a beatdown from my mom in People's Drug Store because they had Quick Kick and Snake Eyes on a spinning rack and kept begging her to buy them for me.
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05-30-2008, 09:59 AM | #42 |
Cobra Viper
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It was a great time, even my grandma was scouring for the GI Joes! We used to battle and flood my Mom's flower bed!
We traded GI Joes mjust because and I even kept the GI Joe Battle case and took it to be with me! Couple that with SW and Transformers, ThunderCATS, GOBOTS, Centurions and MASK- my childhood was spectacular! |
05-30-2008, 10:01 AM | #43 |
Cobra Viper
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Yeap. 1.99 a fig at Cheap Charlies in Huntington Beach, Had many MOC SA Snake-Eyes.....Joe Cartoon was awesome...rushed home everyday to watch @ 3:30 pm then at 5:00 pm in 85'....Those were the days. Even made Destro put the smootch on Baroness, saw it in the comix, 1.25 back then ....Yo Joe!
No , sh*t Cheap Charlie's! We used to get all of our Joe's from there! |
05-30-2008, 10:31 AM | #44 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Joint Base Lewis-McChord WA
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What was it like? I'd look forward to birthdays and christmas 'cause the gifts would be toys I didn't have to beg mom and dad for. You were never as enthusiastic about opening presents you saw looked like department store clothing boxes.
Theres was just TOO MUCH cool stuff to get. Star Wars, Masters of the Universe, Transformers, GoBots, Robotech, MASK and Joes were the main stuff me and my brother collected. We'd play with other people's Thundercats and Voltron stuff we never had for ourselves. 1982 Christmas was particularly good as me and my brother got our first Joes - straight arm Flash, Scarlett, Short Fuze, Cobra Enemy and a RAM cycle, a HAL and MOBAT. Imagination was a huge factor. We got a Cobra Officer a year later, and then didn't start buying Cobra Troops until 1984's Scrap Iron. So our Cobra Troops led army of Star Wars Imperials. Brother and I decided that our rules for playing Joes outside or bringing them to friends' house were we could only use weapons from the weapons pack since we didn't care as much about losing them and their weird-ass colors. Last edited by Wylde Weezle; 05-30-2008 at 10:35 AM.. |
05-30-2008, 06:11 PM | #45 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Long Island, NY
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This thread is awesome. makes me want to look up some of my childhood friends to see if they are joe geeks like me.
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05-30-2008, 08:14 PM | #46 |
endlesssummerofthedamned
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Midway, PA
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It was pretty great - there was so much great stuff back then. G.I. Joe were high priority for myself, and my mum seemed enthusiastic about them (she liked the ones that came with animals, like Mutt and Spirit). After Joe was Star Wars, Transformers, Fisher-Price Adventure People, Playmobil, Legos and Construx. I never was into He-Man, but I liked the Thundercats, Voltron and Silverhawks cartoons. My older cousins had a hellacious comic book collection, which was great. I remember when Spidey first got the black uniform and how it became Venom. Of course, most of that is being recycled for the generation of kids nowadays.
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05-30-2008, 11:43 PM | #47 |
Iron Grenadier
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: NC/SC
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You know, I love reading all of these "Joe Experiences." GI Joe was such a phenomenon in the 80's. I can't remember a single boy that didn't play with Joes. We brought them to school with us and played with them pretty much every day.
I was a spoiled kid and was lucky enough to get the Flagg and the Defiant. Those were played with until they pretty much fell apart from so much usage. I remember going into Toys R Us and Lionel Toy Warehouse (right across the street from each other . . . . what you didn't find at one, you'd find at the other) frequently. The GI Joe isle was just that, an entire isle. I think I just took it for granted that that's how it would always be. Now, like the rest of you, I sometimes cry in my beer thinking of what we had! The best parts I can remember, like many others, were the outside battles. One part of the driveway at my parents house ends in a dropoff with a brick retaining wall. My parents had a dump truck come with a whole load of sand and dump it on the other side of the wall. The pile of sand was about 4 - 5 feet high. The whole neighborhood played in that thing. We had battles galore. Hoses created rivers that ran through sand bases and foxholes. Giant Cobra bases built into the side of a "sand cliff" (about 2 feet high) came tumbling down in an avalanche when the Joes attacked. Every single kid came home caked in sand (their parents none to happy about it.) I think everyone's experiences sum it up . . . GI Joe wasn't just a "toy." It was a best friend, an outlet for our imagination, but mostly a strong and common bond that ran through every boy I knew. |
05-31-2008, 01:05 AM | #48 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: Feb 2007
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This is a great thread. I remember getting into joes when i was four. My older brother had lots of them and star wars. We used to have huge battles everywhere. We all used to watch the cartoon on tv. They even had a video game later on for nintendo back then. I never could beat that dang game! The 80's were great times. I remember trading figures with friends at school.The thing I miss most about the 80's was the wide selection of figures. I mean back then you could walk into any number of stores and find very large gi joe sections filled to the max. Heck there were so many stores back then that sold Gi joes. Toys R us, K&k toys,K&B toys,peoples drug, Dart drug, Ames, Jamesway, Zares, Murphy's,Bradleys, Sears, Kmart, Rite Aid, Woolco, woolworth,tons of fun toys,I could keep going on and on. Compare that to now....... Wal mart,sears,Target, Toysrus,K&b...I miss the 1980's!
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06-06-2008, 03:42 AM | #49 |
Hisstank Psychologist
Join Date: May 2008
Location: southern california
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it was great
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