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08-13-2008, 06:50 PM | #1 |
Snake Eyes' Daddy
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Ok so I am actually fairly young compared to most gijoe enthusiast. I am 19 and I have been playing since I was very young. I was brought up playing gijoes with my brother who was 5 years older than me. He "taught" me "how to play" and gave me access to his Joes(later he gave them to me). We would sit on the bed, sit our box full of joes next to the bed, and he would create a storyline from his head. We never grabbed joes before playing he would just grab one or two and start that way and then grab different guys when we needed them for a role. We basically played Joes like it was a movie. We also did all our fights and scenes in real time. We never chose sides, like me playing cobra or anything like that. We just played with both to create a good story line. If one of us had a good idea for a cobra character who was already in play we would just let it out, same with the joes.
Also he created a very particular way of holding and playing with a joe. We held a joe with both hands, right hand is laid out like this....index at top of head to control where he looks, thumb in middle of chest/waist to control left and right movement,thumb and index can also drop those roles and control left arm then return to there stock position,We also bring our thumb up to help the right index control the head, we use our third finger behind knee and pinky on shin right above the foot, these two fingers control the motion of the leg. Now for the left hand.... We use our index and thumb to move the right arm(this is appropriate esp. b/c we did a lot of punching and gun aiming. for the movement and control of the right leg we just drop out thumb and combined it with the middle finger behind the leg. This gives me total control of my gijoe. this is prob why I dont like the 25th style characters, without the o ring it doesnt work nearly as well. Does anyone play like this at all? Can anyone relate to this style of holding a joe? Anyone ever play like its a movie with a story line? anyone play real time or do yall just pose em? Let me know, we always wondered if anyone played Joes like us. Guess now Ill know.
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08-13-2008, 11:32 PM | #2 |
Snake Eyes' Daddy
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P.S. Anyone else around my age? maybe 21 or less?
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08-14-2008, 01:33 PM | #3 |
Snake Eyes' Daddy
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should I take the silence as no one plays, just collects and poses?
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08-14-2008, 02:06 PM | #4 |
YO JOE!
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over 21, dont really play like that anymore, i just take some out from time to time, and do short scenes
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08-14-2008, 02:09 PM | #5 |
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to old to play with them let mey son play with them though still set up displays though
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08-14-2008, 02:16 PM | #6 |
Future Coil Dictator
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If you mean that i have to wait till my fiance falls asleep so i can go to my "computer room" (the joe den) so i can have ridiculous battles while supplying my own sound effects....then yes i do play with my figs..(silly man i buy two of each so i can display them in my "wall of joes").. :-D good thread!
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08-14-2008, 02:19 PM | #7 |
Cobra Viper
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Awesome thread, man. I'm a bit older now (29) and I don't play with them in the same way, but instead do still photography and like to set up storylines with the figures.
Right now I'm working on a large scale Joe base made from foamcore, which I will use as the basis of an upcoming photo storyboard with my figs... (shhh! it's supposed to be a surprise!) |
08-14-2008, 02:34 PM | #8 |
Darth_Henning
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Actually, I'm 18. I also grew up after inheriting the Joes from my older brother (11 years). He had a large portion of the line from 82-88 and while he lost interest in his teens (early 90s), I have come to collect them.
As for the point of this thread, I will play with them occasionally. Hey thats what they're meant for, but for the most part I find creative ways to display the armies. I suspect I won't recreate the world wars that took place in the basement until after I have kids of my own. |
08-14-2008, 04:07 PM | #9 |
Snake Eyes' Daddy
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Woot for the people who still play!! I mean, Im in college, got tons of friends, got a wonderful girlfriend who is gorgeous and a genius, i have solid values, and most of my friends are in there upper 20's because throughout my life I have always thought people my age were immature.... Yet I still own hundreds of Joes and I play with em all the time! I dont think its wierd or immature at all, its the most creative fun I have. Even more than when I do art. Anyways thanks for the responses, another quesion to tag on to the end of the first slew of em, whats the longest battle you have played?
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08-14-2008, 04:27 PM | #10 |
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Hey fierce krypton!
I just turned 20 this week and yes I still PLAY with my G.I. Joes. I've been doing it the same way since I was young, I have what I call a "show", where I'll write down a storyline, play it out with the figures for about an hour or so and call it an episode. It's very similar to what you and your brother call a "movie". Your very lucky to have an older brother,I only have an older sister. Back in the day when I was just starting to play with action figures, I had just moved to a new neigborhood and to my surprise BOTH of the neighbors closest to me had boys around my age who loved action figures. I can't begin to tell you all the memories from thoes days. Now I have a younger brother and we both play G.I. Joes together, and we aren't on sides. We're both bad and good. As for holding G.I. Joes, I pretty much do it like you. |
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