What year did you stop collecting Joes as a kid?

DarthBrett · 11-19-2008, 03:58 PM

1988. I had a lot of the '87 and '88 figures and then just lost interest in GI Joe all of a sudden (I think because there was no cartoon anymore). I was about 9, almost 10 back then and started to collect baseball cards, comics and really got into video games that year. At that point I started spending more time playing sports or riding my bike with my friends, too. I remember a few of my friends were still collecting the Joes in '89 and I remember thinking how different, but cool they looked, but not enough to buy them (I had a few from '89 that friends gave or traded to me (Payload, Countdown, TARGAT, Darklon, HEAT Viper, Gnawgahyde, Snake Eyes). I can't remember exactly, but I think the last Joe I actually bought for myself was either Lightfoot, Budo or Blizzard in very early '89.

bradforj · 11-19-2008, 04:01 PM

Irid70 · 11-19-2008, 04:07 PM

I suppose it was 1990, and I didn't have nearly all of what came out that year. Last stuff I remember were some Sky Patrol figures. Just sort of got older, moved on to computer games, I suppose. And girls, of course, not that I did anything about that for the next couple of years.

cobrasnake · 11-19-2008, 04:29 PM

Stopped around 1990ish and started back in 1997 and haven't stopped since...

Robowang · 11-19-2008, 04:30 PM

I think I was in 6th grade when GIJoe first ended. I had figures here and there through my entire life, starting with a Crimson Guard and Skystriker with Ace in pre-school, and getting the occasional figure until about 3rd grade in 1990 when I really started to get into them. I got "old" Joe stuff from cousins and garage sales and whatnot, and a decent amount of new stuff. I mastered the art of convincing friends to sell me their "old stuff" for cheap without telling them I now had a goldmine. Childhood was awesome. As for cartoons, I loved the Sunbow cartoon when I was little, and I dug the DIC stuff enough before school started when that was on. None of it is exactly high art, but I liked it nonetheless. Never read the comic as a kid, though. Now that I've gone through them all, I'd have to say they're not a bad read at all, really.

Not into the 25th stuff at all, though.

Robowang

umanumanamo · 11-19-2008, 04:31 PM

1993. Star Brigade killed it for me. I couldn't understand how they had the missile launcher in place of their arm... where did their arms go!?

darth_henning · 11-19-2008, 04:41 PM

I was born in 90, so by the time I was 4 and interested in Joe, the line had just ended. I had most of my brothers form 82-88/89 but hit a drought. I had Savage and Extreme (hardly joe, even to a 7 year old) but it wasn't until the re-issues in 2000 that I really hit the jackpot. Having missed out during the years Joe was most important to me, I grabbed all I could find (only about half of Joe vs. Cobra). When VvV St and the other 3.57 figures came out, I was thrilled and started collecting (or playing, kinda grey for 2001-2004).

When the line went DTC, I couldn't get a hold of the Joes, so I was out with many regrets for a couple years. But then I happened across Flint, Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow from Wave 1 at a local hobby shop. I thought they were just re-issues of the old 80s ones, so I passed on the hooded CC and someone else (forgot who). When I realized what the 25th was, I was hooked. THe rest, as they say is history.

AMERICAN_Hero7 · 11-19-2008, 04:55 PM

Probably late 1992 when I got into basketball cards and collecting Shaq/Orlando Magic and NBA memorabilia...

Blaster'spunchingbagg · 11-19-2008, 05:07 PM

1989 for me. I found "mary jane" and a girl named Mary Jane.

satanshollow · 11-19-2008, 05:27 PM

I collected from 82' to 85' or so. I remember the Tele Viper being one of the last I got, which I didn't like then, and I don't like it now.

I think I first got a Commodore 64 in 84, maybe 85 so that help end the Joe collection. Plus my friends were all getting C64's too. I used the C64 for at least 6-7 years, got good use out of it.