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08-20-2022, 11:03 PM | #1 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: Nov 2021
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I'd just like to say this is the best forum ever for discussing anything GI Joe related. You all are so awesome and full of knowledge.
That aside, how did you become a collector? Like, in what year did you say I want to start collecting GI Joes? |
08-20-2022, 11:06 PM | #2 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: Sep 2007
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I had 12" Joes and Super Joes when I was really little. When I saw the first RAH commercial in 82, I was about nine and thought that the 1/6 figures were coming back.
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08-21-2022, 12:26 AM | #3 |
Cobra Sith Lord
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X-Mas '83 was my very first Joe experience and when I started collecting. I had just turned 5 years old a few months before Xmas and I assume must have seen the cartoon and the comics and TV ads and started asking for them. I got Tripwire, the Cobra Soldier, Cobra Commander, the Cobra Officer, the MOBAT w/Steeler and the HISS w/Driver that Xmas. And the rest as they say is history.
I remember my older brother's 10th bday was a few weeks later and he got Gung-Ho, Destro, Major Bludd, Torpedo and the Skystriker w/Ace. By summer '84 my brother and I had a decent Joe collection.
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08-21-2022, 02:33 AM | #4 |
stretching your O-ring
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I got Shipwreck or Hooded Cobra Commander sometime in 1985, I am not sure at what point either occcured. Shipwreck may have been first. I don't actually remember what happened after that until I got a battle armor CC at K-mart at some point. Then I was really into it.
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08-21-2022, 04:38 AM | #5 |
Iron Grenadier
Join Date: May 2007
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I tell you way back in 97, GIJoe fandom was much different than it is now. Today, Hiss Tank is the leading news source, there's reddit, discord, and facebook groups. Back then, I remember one forum I went to where if you were posting, a mod would approve your posts. I found out about the Toys R Us Joes and bought them, well, I wasn't exactly a 'collector' then per say, more someone trying to reconnect with my love of GI Joe. I didn't really keep or maintain them as I hated the majority. LOL
But I'd say really classified and he-man origins are the points I became a collector of two different lines. So that's pretty much recently. |
08-21-2022, 05:31 AM | #6 |
Saboteur
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: GA
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Got Downtown at kmart with my grandmother at 3yrs old.
After the end of the 50th anniversary stuff I collected mythic legions for a few yrs and friends started to collect classified but I told them I wouldn't get into gijoe again until firefly hit. Then firefly hit and now I'm only missing 00 se and regal coco lol. |
08-21-2022, 05:41 AM | #7 |
Crimson Guard
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I guess I should answer my own question lol.
I believe I started collecting in 1985. It the Shipwreck/Flint/Lady Jaye year and I had them all. I remember being very disappointed that I missed 1984. My step brother had all those and I couldn't find them in stores which irked the hell out of me and there was no eBay. Back in the day GI Joe was very specific as to what was produced each year. If you missed one you were screwed. Eventually through a lot of searching I found most of the 1984 figures and it was thrilling each time I saw one. |
08-21-2022, 05:52 AM | #8 |
Crimson Guard
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I'll just tell my Sears story again because it the best day of collecting ever.
It was maybe 1989 and I was looking at the toy section. There were a few exclusive red Hiss tanks on clearance and a small section of pegged figures. On the pegs were a shitload of 1983 figures. Destro, Cobra, Cobra officer, Cobra Commander. It was unheard of to see them in the wild at that point so I got one of each which was all I could afford. And unfortunately opened them. Had I known what I know now I would have bummed money from mom and bought every one of them and left them MOC. |
08-21-2022, 06:43 AM | #9 |
Dark Lord of the Mods
Join Date: Dec 2021
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1982. I was already a Star Wars collector, but these new G.I. Joe toys had much better articulation and were a lot more fun to play with, so I stopped collecting Star Wars entirely and focused on G.I. Joe. I dabbled in other toy lines throughout the decade (Transformers, MASK, Sectaurs, He-Man, TMNT, etc...), but I easily had about 10 times the amount of G.I. Joe figures as any other toy line (except Star Wars... I still managed to collect most of the OG 96) and by the time I stopped collecting toys initially, G.I. Joe was the only line I hadn't put away in storage.
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08-21-2022, 07:08 AM | #10 |
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For me, it was 1982. My mom would get me and my sister a "Friday Surprise" if we were good all week, and on this particular Friday I came home from kindergarten to a strange new figure named Breaker.
Now this is before the cartoon (and I was too young still to really be into the comics) so I had no idea who this guy was but was instantly fascinated. Out of the package, I was struck by how much more poseable he was than my Star Wars figures, and something about his "Interchangeable Snap On Stay On" accessories had me transfixed. The cross sell on the back of the card got me super excited because the characters looked so cool, even though at that age, I had no idea what infantry, commando, or counter-intelligence meant. But perhaps most important of all was the filecard. Like I said, I had no idea who Breaker was when I first got him, but his filecard told me what I needed about what he did and a little of who he was. Just enough to give me an inkling of how to play with him. Again, no idea what NATO or Warsaw Pact was, but it all sounded pretty important and official, as did the call to "Clip and save for your GI JOE COMMAND FILES"! Needless to say, I was hooked! By Christmas of that year, I had pretty much all of the OG13 as well as the RAM, HAL, MMS, FLAK and MOBAT and the Collector Case (the photography on the back captured my imagination as a kid). From then until about 87-88, I collected as much Joe as I could. |
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