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02-08-2023, 02:32 PM | #101 |
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02-08-2023, 02:39 PM | #102 |
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Damn. I was like 5, 6, when I first got Joes. So I just shoved the weapons in the hands and I remember thumbs breaking like it was an action feature!
Crotches broke less, but still broke. Still amazed that with all the rough play Baroness and Firefly got (more than any other figure) their thumbs and crotches never broke even to this day.
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02-08-2023, 02:42 PM | #103 |
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02-08-2023, 04:31 PM | #104 |
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He-Man was huge from '82-'85 (was probably the #2 or #3 toyline in the US in '83 and '84), but had steeply fallen off by 1986.
Shockingly I never had any broken thumbs on any of my Joes as a kid (and none have happened on my Joes as an adult, knock on wood!). I think I had one broken crotch that was on my Baroness as a kid.
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02-08-2023, 08:12 PM | #105 |
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Sure, we all remember (or have seen photos of) the endless aisles of Joe product at Toys R Us circa 1987, but do you all ever think about just how big this shit was back in the day?
I have clear memories of '84 joes hanging alongside the chewing gum and tabloids at grocery store check out lanes. In 1985 I bought my Crimson Guard figure at a local sporting goods store (they didn't even carry toys, but they had GI Joe figures). The mom and pop video rental place in our neighborhood (this was well before Blockbuster) had a poster for for the "Revenge of Cobra" mini-series on VHS hanging on its wall (until they took it down and gave it to me). Like, seriously, from '84 to '87ish, GI Joe was EVERYWHERE! It was bizarre. Moreover, it was the product of a wildly complex confluence of time and place and product that may never be recreated. Whenever I see people post about how Hasbro just doesn't know how to market their product or that the industry is too afraid of appearing pro-America or pro-military or some such bullshit, I think of just how anomalous ARAH's heyday was. There's just no recreating that moment in time.
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02-08-2023, 10:54 PM | #106 |
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I definitely went through phases where I became singularly focused on different toylines for a while: Transformers, MASK, He-Man, Wheeled Warriors, I think even Robotix for a very short patch. But G.I. Joe never entirely left my mind, and was the one I always came back to.
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02-08-2023, 11:04 PM | #107 |
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I remember those turtle mania christmases, but I don't think we (my younger brother and I) ever had one of them. We got TMNT mostly through the year as rewards for doing well in school or what not.
I think the zaniness of the TMNT toys started to wear on me pretty quickly as Playmates ran out of ideas, and my brother just kind of followed along. Christmas of 1987 was the last year I got Transformers, as that was the last gasp of things being good for that line. In 1988 we kind of doubled down on Lego and Joe, and that continued until the end of 1992. We would pick up Joe figures at the store after that but the 1993-94 neon years made big wants kind of impossible, certainly nothing to form a Christmas list out of. Most of the 1992-94 figures I have are barely played with, and I still have a few MOC from that era. I think only '92 Firefly ever made it out of the package. He was probably the last RAH figure I was really excited to get. |
02-08-2023, 11:27 PM | #108 |
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02-09-2023, 10:11 AM | #109 |
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Cannon should have stuck to what they were good at, great 80's action movies like Bloodsport, Invasion USA, Delta Force, Breakin', American Ninja and Missing in Action. MOTU and Superman 4 helped ruin them. Stick to what you know!
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02-09-2023, 10:22 AM | #110 |
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Their 90s counterpart was Nu Image.
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