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10-25-2008, 10:09 PM | #11 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: Oct 2007
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I start to play with Gijoes in 1982. I has a few StarWars figures but Gijoes looks better. At christmas and my birthday, i received Snake Eyes, Flash & Hal, Cobra Officer and Clutch & Vamp.
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10-25-2008, 10:16 PM | #12 |
Strato Viper
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Location: Va.
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The imagination of it just grabbed me as a kid.
The idea of a motor cycle with a vulcan cannon being ridden by a solider chewing bubble gum was cool. I loved that first toy commercial! |
10-25-2008, 10:21 PM | #13 |
Flint's Boss.
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Location: Iowa
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Not omly looked better but had better accessories and articulation. Kenner may have popularized the 3-3/4 Figure with Star Wars but GI Joe owned it.
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10-25-2008, 10:30 PM | #14 |
Cobra P.R. Director
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It was Nov of 82 I got several figures for my 10th birthday. I had a big collection of Star Wars figures but these to me were so much better. I was all out from there until 1989 when G.I. Joe started to head in a different direction.
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10-25-2008, 10:37 PM | #15 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Rhode Island
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I remember I got a few figures in my kindergarten class, (one of them was cold front). I really liked the figures a lot cause of the originality and articulation. There's nothing I like more in a figure than decent articulation. Other than the selective few figures I had I didn't really seriously start collecting joes until 2002. I was mainly collecting star wars figures until GI Joes took over.
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10-25-2008, 10:41 PM | #16 |
Joe Chopper Pilot
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Iowa
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My mom bought me Grunt when they first came out at the drugstore in '82. I used to run home after grade school to catch the Cartoon in the afternoon. It was inevitable that this would be my favorite toy. Now that I'm grown up I have a chance to collect all the Joes I can get my hands on!
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10-25-2008, 11:25 PM | #17 |
G.I. Joe Infantry
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Location: Lewiston, Maine
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My uncle was the one who got me into G.I. Joes, and alot of the toys and cartoons of the 80s, when I was a young kid. He'd let me play with his G.I. Joes, Transformers, Star Wars, and all the other great toys of that decade.
I think he as well as my mother bought me some of my own. Sometime in the 90s I fell out of G.I. Joes, only getting the occasional figure at a thrift store or yard sale. In 2001 my uncle once more got me back into G.I. Joes with the Devils Dew Publishing G.I. Joe comic. I picked up some of the early G.I. Joe vs Cobra toys, and the VvV figures but stuck mostly to the comics till I found out about the 25th Anniversary Collection.
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10-25-2008, 11:34 PM | #18 |
Operations Officer
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Location: Highland NY
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I was not allowed to play with guns or military toys.
So my grandma took me shopping and I saw Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow on the shelf and convinced her they were ninjas, not military. 20 + years later I've got a huge Joe collection and I'm a 9 year army vet. Thanks, Mom.
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10-26-2008, 12:02 AM | #19 |
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Corpus Christi Texas
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I remember going to school at the age of 7. I was only collecting star wars and brought 2 or 3 figures to school. A friend of mind saw what I had and said star wars suck and I saw what he was playing with and it was an army figure that I didn't know what it was. The very same day after school, my mom and dad went grocery shopping and yes it was at the infamous HEB where I got all wave 10 from, I finally saw what it was and it was G.I.Joe so I grabbed couple figure which I remember what it was still as the first joes as snow job and snake eyes with timber. Ever since then, I had tons of fun that I was actually begging my older brother, sister, mom, dad and basiclly everyone in the family to get me joes everyday. I remember I had tons of joes by the beginning of summer. As I got older, my mom divorced my dad and we had to move in the middle of night leaving all my joes behind. I remember the maggot was the last thing I brought cuz the next day I moved leaving everything behind. 2 or 3 years later I finally came back to the house where my aunt was living then had threw out all my joes. It was a sad day for me. As I reached to the age of 29, I was buying mocs and misb off ebay till I came across a site on the internet that a 25th anniversary was coing out which excited me. The very 1st day it was released, I scored everything and to this day, I have and still am buying vintage and modern era joes. Will probably contintue to collect G.I.Joe, Thundercats, MOTU, Star Wars, Spawn, Hot Wheels, Battle Beast, Robotech, and many other as it became a hobby for me to collect em moc and misb.
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10-26-2008, 12:34 AM | #20 |
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WOW I'm impressed.
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