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Do people really appreciate how big GI Joe was?
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02-04-2023, 09:32 PM
captain mal
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This whole thread is a captivating read. Great trip down memory lane. I have tons of fond memories from GIJoe - but I came into it backwards. My story:
I'm on the older end of the ARAH age bracket. I was already 13 in 1985. Starting to get 'too old' for toys. I grew up on Star Wars. When Star Wars was ending, GIJoe was taking over. My younger brother was getting into GIJoe - so we would play together... but I was still into Star Wars mostly. Even up until Power of the Force, I was collecting Star Wars - even though I had begun to read the GIJoe comic.
Through most of my teen years - I was deeply into the Marvel comic. I didn't really buy any figures though. (I do remember buying Storm Shadow v2) After I graduated High School in 1990, I met a friend who had a similar love for the GIJoe comic - and we stared bonding over the GIJoe figures. So many great figures we missed from the mid-to-late 80's. We started searching garage sales. We went to discount retailers looking for old product. We made fliers and put them up at our local comic shop. Soon we had a huge tub full of figures that we had never known of.
The 90's era of GIJoe was extremely special to me. So many great second versions of classic characters. I would search for them between classes at College. I worked on a truck dock and we shipped for Hasbro... so whenever I saw a GIJoe pallet I would 'accidentally' have the tape fall off a box so I could peak inside. I saw so many 90's figures this way - a couple weeks before they hit the pegs.
I can tell you when I bought most of my 90's figures. From road trips, to local shops, to hunting trips to Children's Palace in a blizzard.
Then, in 1994 everything ended. I got married. GIJoe comic ended. The ARAH line ended. Life changed.
It was truly a magical time growing up in the 80's. I really believe we had the best childhood experience of any generation. Little League, Riding Bikes for hours, Playing 'War', Touch Football, Shooting Guns. Then when we were indoors we had GIJoe, Knight Rider, A-Team, Nintendo, Comic Books, The Absolute hands-down Best Music ever.
I guess to an extent I never really appreciated just how great of a time it was. No other time like it...
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