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05-29-2008, 04:00 PM | #1 |
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Hey everone, this is my first post here on hisstank, I'm new.
Anyway I've always been curious, I'm too young to have really experienced G.I. Joe at it's peak in the 80s. So what I would like to know is what was playing with G.I. Joe for you like in the 80s? How did parents feel about it? Were your friends into it too? |
05-29-2008, 04:05 PM | #2 |
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welcome aboard. man i love it my parents were cool with it. my friends were in to them to. we used to have big battles in the back yard. it was a great time to be a kid.
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05-29-2008, 04:25 PM | #3 |
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My parents had already been though 4 years of Star Wars at that point, so they were already well broken in for buying action figures.
As far as my friends were concerned, we were ALL into it. There were quite a few GI Joe and the Rebel Alliance vs Cobra and the Empire battles as I remember it. As I got older though, it was more GI Joe than SW as I remember it, mainly b/c we were pretty much done with SW after '84 or so after ROTJ came out in '83, and then w/ GI Joe being all new in '82, that held us for a few years or so until we discovered computers, girls and then cars. I think I quit Joes somewhere around '85 or so altogether. Part of the reason I was so happy to see the 25th line was b/c I have twin 3 year old boys now myself, and I figure by the time the movie comes out they'll be 5 and just about the same age as I was when my dad took me to see SW in '77. They've already got Sigma Six scuba divers for the tub and pool. I was lucky enough to get a deal on both seasons of the cartoons on DVD earlier this year, so now we have 16 discs full of GI Joe DVDs to watch and enjoy together(and trust me, if you've got kids you can appreciate 16 DIFFERENT DVDs to have to watch with you kids . .
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05-29-2008, 04:38 PM | #4 |
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Ya know, I don't think there were ANY boys who didn't like Joes back in the day!
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05-29-2008, 04:48 PM | #5 |
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Girls to me and my sister had some she had the figs.... like 3-4 i remember which ones she had to he-man - she had "stinkor" (i tried to steal it like 3 times) lol g i joe. - she had "ice berg" the first one. thundercats.. i had hitchaci man i freaking wanted the "real" thundercats but i didn't have em i think beCause by the time i found out about them they were all sold out |
05-29-2008, 04:48 PM | #6 |
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Man I just remember playing gi joe nonstop. At my friends basement, his pool, my pool, my basement, my upstairs, my front lawn, in the snow, at church, at school. I was always playing with GI Joe. I will always be a joe fanatic! I want them all. I remember in 4th like 1992 or 93 finding the chinese cobra commander and dial tone on chinese cards at 1/2 price store. Man $2 each. what a steal. Same as the original versions 2. those were the days.
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05-29-2008, 04:58 PM | #7 |
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It rocked! Kids were always bringing New Joes to school. You walked into the dep. store and the pegs were full of joes, several to choose from not just 6 or 7 and plenty of vehicles. No shortages, not that I remember.
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05-29-2008, 05:03 PM | #8 |
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Oh and they cost around $2 per figure.
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05-29-2008, 05:35 PM | #9 |
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The 80's were a great time to be a kid. The cartoons to the toys were a lot different then they are now(cost less too!). Thinking about it now, I rarely see kids playing with action figure together. I was fortunate to have four neighbors roughly around the same age as me who were joe fanatics. We would have great battles going from house to house. Everyone would haul out their collection(Everyone had a good size collection) and have at it. I miss my neighborhood battles, so Craig, Mike, Billy, and Greg if you reading this, we should all battle again!! Brings back a lot of fun memories.
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05-29-2008, 05:39 PM | #10 |
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