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12-01-2011, 02:06 PM | #21 |
Mayor of Geek Creek
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Kaboomskie, thanks for posting those photos and giving us a sense of what G.I. Joe meant in your part of the world. Too cool.
Mattymatt, I've seen two Joe figures here in Pakistan of all places! |
12-01-2011, 02:21 PM | #22 |
Welcome2TheSlaughterhouse
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Go Skymate! A real aussie hero
Seriously tho, gi joe is a-ok!
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12-01-2011, 02:27 PM | #23 |
Darth_Henning
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As a Canadian, I admit I never really thought about it growing up. A lot of my vehicles (inherited from an older brother) had Canadian Flags rather than American ones, so I never really thought twice about it. It was only as I got older that I realized they were supposed to be an "all American" force. To be honest, I began to find it a little annoying that it was implied that the US was the only country capable of putting together an anti-terrorist force. Its a little arrogant. |
12-01-2011, 02:48 PM | #24 |
Roboskull Pilot
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In my world, Action Force supercedes GI JOE in every way - I was playing with them in '81 and I never even knew Joe existed until I stumbled across the comic in a store years later. All my original Joes are actually from when they were carded as "AF" figures and they've stayed that way for nearly three decades in my universe: International Heroes. My main source of adventures, the Battle Action Force comics, reinforced that in the best possible way.
In this ever shrinking world it makes perfect sense to me that GI JOE would be culled from the best operatives in the world. Pretty much all modern terrorist organisations don't just target one country and, later in it's life, even the original ARAH line was adding international members. One of my favourite shows! And yes, it's not too much of a stretch to see an ACTION FORCE connection, with the members of CI5 being culled from various branches of the British Armed Forces and police to fight 'threats to national security'.
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12-01-2011, 03:18 PM | #25 |
Tiger Force Lover
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There's still a strong following in Japan. There was even a Joe convention there a few years back. It was really cool. You can routinely see the new stuff imported over there and selling at toy shows.
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12-01-2011, 03:48 PM | #26 |
Cobra Viper
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Here in Poland Joes were introduced somewhere in early 90ies, there is some more info about the comics:
G.I. Joe International Comic Book Archive - Poland For me GIJoe toys were 100% americans special force! In 90ies everything from US was cool and awesome. |
12-02-2011, 02:34 PM | #27 |
Crimson Guard
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Anyone noticed almost all of Cobra's high command are European or Australian, with the exception of CC himself. Just what sort of message were they trying to convey? Well, I'm not complaining or anything. It's nice that us Europeans had someone we could relate to, as well.
Jeez, how had I never noticed this before? Sometimes we are blind to what is staring at us in the face. To the OP - great question and thread all around! I grew up in England and then Norway. I became aware of Action force in the mid to late '80s and bought a few comics, which Amerians know as "European Missions". I don't think I was really aware of G.I.Joe as an American thing. I probably heard of it and just thought it was "what Action Force was called in the USA" rather than understanding it was really the other way around. The idea of a Western international counterterrorism force a ala Rainbow Six appealed to me then, and still does. I moved to Norway in 1989 and found the Norwegian Action Force comics, which was ARAH and ARAH Special Missions mixed together and translated into Norwegian. They would actually put two issues into one (and best of all, in very Norwegian fashion, no advertisements). This is really what introduced me to the ARAH concept and I figured out by now that "Action Force" was really just the European export title of an All American franchise. By now I was buying the toys too, and they went from being called "Action Force" to "G.I.Joe the Action Force" to finally just "G.I.Joe". The All Americanness didn't really bother me at the time. My mother is American and I had come to the States on vacation plenty of times and had fun here. I remember buying Gung Ho in the early '90s, and he came with a Stars and Stripes, which I thought was kind of strange, but it was more of an American cultural peculiarity to me, than anything else. This was also all happening with the Cold War still very fresh in memory and then Gulf War I that really seemed to be a sort of Western alliance of sorts. I think the ideological differences when it comes to foreign policy and such between the US and Norway really only became a big part of Norwegian awareness after 9/11, by which time I had moved to the States and thought I had grown out of G.I.Joe (the lack of any comics back then didn't help much.) By then I had also done my national service in the Norwegian army, and appreciated the franchise for its realism (Hama at his best.) While I haven't always found G.I.Joe to be in line with my own world view, or sense of national identity, I accept that we take different things from what's out there. I have always related to and enjoyed the gritty "grunt's POV", and while I will always regard ARAH as canon, I am absolutely digging a lot of the new IDW books. |
01-29-2012, 08:09 AM | #28 |
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Thanks to everyone for sharing, great responses here!
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01-29-2012, 08:26 AM | #29 |
Silent Killer
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I got my first Action Force figures when i was 5(1991),it was Pathfinder(asian looking),Charbroil(some crazy red guy) and Lightfoot(crazy yellow guy with some robot).
My problem was to get figures,they stopped selling them 1-2 years later there but i found some in in poland where i was born.(even chinese carded). Also got some from netherlands and spain. My figures were very international for me just because of that point, based on a U.S. Special Unit,but recruiting specialists worldwide. Cobra allways was a worldwide operating Terror group. Last edited by composhop; 01-29-2012 at 08:33 AM.. |
01-29-2012, 08:35 AM | #30 |
Spireite till I die
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As I said in another thread and to echo Crimson Rage for me AF is GI Joe. In my Joeverse Flint will always be from Lincoln. I think that's one of the reasons I liked RoC the fact that GI Joe was international.
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