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08-13-2009, 12:59 AM | #21 |
Not former tanker Slacker
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They were and are toys - a child's play thing. I had some comics growing up, but not enough of them to get a comprehensive view of the Hama-universe. I rolled out of bed Saturday mornings nice and early to eat a bowl of cereal and watch GI Joe. The cartoon was fun to watch, but even as a kid, I often wondered how bad Cobra and GI Joe where at shooting guns...why didn't they just fight hand to hand all the time. A punch was more effective than a gun. Good times. Anyway, those extras (comics, cartoons, video games, etc.) where all just supplemental to my own GI Joe universe and how I played with my toys. Looking back, I'm very glad I didn't have all the comics, because it allowed my imagination to run wild and I wasn't putting constraints on how I played because a comic said that's the relationship that existed.
So what is GI Joe to me - the single biggest part of my childhood in terms of toys and fun. It's the only thing I played with, and even as a kid I knew how much my parents struggled to put food on the table so getting a $2.00 toy figure was a big deal to me. Probably why I still have my entire collection of figures - minus Alpine. I lost him somewhere in the battles of my dirt pile... I grew up, got all the comics, rewatched the cartoons, and realized how absurd they are, but in a fun, cheesy way. Even Hama's comics where absurd when you think of how many issues where merely advertisements for new toys / characters - zero story just here's a new toy and this is what it can do (GO BUY IT NOW!!!!). I think that's why I was so open about a GI Joe movie, even after reading all the bitching and moaning about how it's going to rape my childhood, blah, blah, blah - I was still giddy to know my childhood backyard battles where in some form going to be shown as a live action movie, with lots of special effects, over the top moments, and cheesy storyline...because that's what the entire 25 years of GI Joe really was in my opinion. My two year old twins love the 80's cartoons, and I'm slowly introducing them to the ARAH and RoC toys. Every time the movie trailer is on the TV, my son stops playing and starts yelling "Daddy, GG Joe! GG Joe! "Bake Eyes" "Bake Eyes". And that's what it's all about... Very niice. |
08-13-2009, 01:01 AM | #22 |
Iron Grenadier
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what comes to mind is lady jaye and snake eyes on my flagg
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08-13-2009, 01:08 AM | #23 |
Metalhead Extreme
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The cartoons and the comics
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08-13-2009, 01:13 AM | #24 |
cobra stonemason
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The toys, that pretty much ingrained the joeverse into my childhood....the cartoons and comics only amplified the creativity.
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08-13-2009, 01:18 AM | #25 |
Cobra P.R. Director
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In this order. Toys '82-'88. Marvel Comics same time period. The Sunbow cartoons. To this day when someone mentions GI Joe it brings back a flood of memories from my childhood. Nostalgia is a powerful thing.
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08-13-2009, 01:21 AM | #26 |
ninja merc
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classic cartoons, and of course...toys!!!!
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08-13-2009, 01:22 AM | #27 |
I Ride with Claymore!!!
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My idea of G.I. Joe is mostly formed/based in the Marvel Comic... however, that imagining has evolved as I've gotten older. Actually, the File Card thread on this forum has probably had the most influence on my Joeverse.
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08-13-2009, 01:35 AM | #28 |
I'm a Leadfarmer!
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GI Joe to me is made up of the original run (1982-88) of filecards, characters, and comics. It is a group of the most highly-trained, superior military personnel ever assembled that fight threats to the world, mainly the threat of Cobra dominance. This has been carried on strongly by the new Modern/25th toys for me, but it's still all about the characters and filecards that represent those character for me. The original comics compliment the filcards so well that they've always been heard in high regard for me.
GI Joe represents the best of the best our country and other countries have to offer (such as Oktober Guard) to keep us civilians safe and to protect human rights and freedoms wherever they are threated. That's what GI Joe is to me.
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Bulkhide's Top-Ten Favorite Joes: Beachhead, Dusty, Roadblock, Flint, Lady Jaye, Ambush, Shockwave, Pathfinder, Rock-n-Roll, & Snake Eyes. <(^.^<)......(>^o^)>......\(^w^)/......\m/(^O^)\m/ Last edited by Bulkhide; 08-13-2009 at 01:37 AM.. |
08-13-2009, 03:14 AM | #29 |
Cobra Soldier
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Cool vehicles, Ninjas and Lady Jayes cleavage. Baroness's S&M gear is pretty sweet too. That is my G.I.Joe.
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08-13-2009, 03:21 AM | #30 |
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So many fun memories as a child and as an adult.
It is the one franchise that has survived and kept me focused for the last 23 years. it is so much fun! Whether the toys, the movies, the comics. I love the fact that it is rooted in reality, yet has some of the gnarliest villains ever. I love the fact that you have military technology, next to villains who look like they are from WW2/robot/sci fi films and I love that it covers everything from ninjas, bikers, cowboys, astronauts, and monsters. |
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