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View Poll Results: When did you become a joe fan? | |||
70's with the originals | 2 | 2.53% | |
80's at the start of the 3.75 joe craze | 66 | 83.54% | |
90's good stuff but this is when the good stuff was over | 4 | 5.06% | |
2000's- The eh nice to have joe but eh wasn't that great | 4 | 5.06% | |
Classified stuff brought back in. | 0 | 0% | |
I collect toys and really have no idea of the joe fanbase. | 3 | 3.80% | |
Voters: 79. You may not vote on this poll |
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08-18-2021, 09:09 PM | #11 |
Cobra Shill
Join Date: Nov 2020
Location: Cobra Mansion
Posts: 15
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Rise of Cobra introduced me to the franchise, although it wasn't until I watched Renegades on a whim in 2019 and then followed the launch of the Classified line that I really went all in on the figures and fiction.
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08-18-2021, 09:39 PM | #12 |
Joe Gramps aka Mr H
Join Date: May 2012
Location: NJ ▬▬ι═══════ﺤ
Posts: 16,571
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Straight arm Joes in '82 followed by the ARAH comic (issue #4).
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08-19-2021, 05:15 AM | #13 |
Red Shadow
Join Date: Feb 2020
Location: AFHQUK
Posts: 738
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I was in it from the start. I did have the 12 inch figures (Action Man over here) but it wasn't until the 3.75 figures came out that I was really hooked. I played with all the early years figures (up until 1986 in US terms) and then I stopped as I was getting too old. I started collecting them again when the noughties figures came out.
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08-19-2021, 08:31 AM | #14 |
Just a fan
Join Date: Feb 2021
Location: NY
Posts: 8,585
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None of the options apply to me. Earliest thing I remember was playing with the Armadillo mini-tank and seeing the cartoon, so about '85-ish.
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08-19-2021, 08:43 AM | #15 |
US military family
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fort Campbell, Kentucky
Posts: 2,218
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I'm one of the old school dudes, who started playing with and collecting G.I. Joe in the early 70's with Action Soldier and Action Sailor (yard sale purchases), and my last action figures of the G.I. Joe line were Bullet Man and the Intruders. Super Joe was where I drew the line as a child, refusing to own or even play with one, and just couldn't stomach what Hasbro was doing to my favorite toy line.
Convinced that G.I. Joe was dead forever, I was amazed and delighted in 1982 by the comic book and the subsequent action figures. My little brother started collecting them, but I think I was always more interested in ARAH than he was. I was working my first job at retail in 1984, and would purchase some of the new products for him at a slight employee discount, fresh off the pallets. I had asked him to keep them when we was starting to outgrow toys, but he instead sold everything to some collector. Years later, I became one of those collectors, and am still as amazed today by ARAH as I first was in 1982.
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08-19-2021, 08:54 AM | #16 |
Saboteur
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: GA
Posts: 1,292
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My first gijoe was downtown, so DIC was what I watched. Wore out the Pharoah vhs (which I think came with a toy?).
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08-19-2021, 09:28 AM | #17 |
LNC Commander
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Sbartek's Guest Room
Posts: 24,578
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You old geezer.
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08-19-2021, 11:13 AM | #18 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: SK, Canada
Posts: 408
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I was not quite 6 years old in 1982 when I first saw the comic book/figure commercials and was completely hooked. Shortly after, bought Breaker as my first Joe, and started reading the comics shortly after that.
What's interesting to me is that while I was also pretty big into Star Wars, Transformers, MOTU, MASK, G.I. Joe is the one that has still kept my interest when I became an adult, and look back on more fondly than any of the others. |
08-19-2021, 11:17 AM | #19 |
Mindbender's favourite
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: in a house
Posts: 33
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1986/1987 was about the time frame I started becoming aware of the joes. Watched the Sunbow cartoon after school. I think I was also watching the DIC series before I discovered the Marvel comics, and to which I was lucky enough to find back issues of. Good stuff.
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08-19-2021, 01:02 PM | #20 |
Banned
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: A little town called Springfield
Posts: 318
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Old, white, male.
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