[jmiller]

Fortunately I remember exactly what I had in those 3 years I collected Joes when they first came out.

1982:
Every figure except Steeler
1983
Every figure except glider pilots Grunt & Cobra
1984
Every figure except tan Clutch, Thunder, Deep Six, and Cutter

For that matter, I also had every vehicle & accessory except those that coincide with the figures above, along with the Sears Missile Command Center.

[Josh Z]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Saboteur

What I meant to say was Revco.

I figured it was something like that.

I bought most of my earliest Joes from Fay's Drugs. At the end of the line's run, I got a lot of them at Woolworth's.

[Cobra Agent 66]

To me, Revco is "Revolting Cocks", a band from the 90's lol

[steve2477]

I think i was lucky. I got something every week. There was a 7 years gap from my brothers birth to mine, so i was a kid when they were out of toys. So i got all the goodies to myself.

My first year of Action Force, 1987, i was 10, over that year i started reading the Action got Flint, Lady Jaye, Airtight, Barbecue, Shipwreck, Bazooka, Quick Kick, Snake Eyes v2 Alpine, Dusty Footloose, Crankcase and Awe Striker, Frostbite and Snowcat, Breaker, Grunt, Duke, Cutter and Whale, Wild Bill and Dragonfly, Armadillo, Checkpoint Alpha, Silver Mirage, Transportable Tactical Battle Platform, Snow Serpent, Crimson Guard, Eel, Tele Viper, Tomax, Xamot, Ferret, Cobra Bunker, Lamprey and Moray, Buzzer, Ripper, Cobra Night Landing, Air Defense, Zartan and Swamp Skier, Copperhead and Mocassin, Cobra Driver and Stinger, Storm Shadow, Cobra Commander, Baroness, Destro.

The second year 1988 i was again very lucky through the year i got Beach Head, Hawk v2, Leatherneck, Mainframe, Lifeline, Sci Fi, Dial Tone, Iceberg, Roadblock v2, Wet Suit, Lift Ticket with Tomahawk, Devil Fish, Sgt Slaughter with Triple T, Cross Country and Havoc, Slipstream and Conquest, Dr Mindbender, Serpentor and Air Chariot, Monkeywrench, Zandar, Zarana, Thrasher with Thunder Machine Hyro Sled.

Like i said i was very spoilt, lol with toys.

[DarthBrett]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cobra Agent 66

To me, Revco is "Revolting Cocks", a band from the 90's lol

Used to love them and 'Linger Ficken Good' back then!

[GoodGuy9]

I'm only going to post the figure that I grew up with when Joes were heavily used toys, not figures I got post-1995 when I started collecting in 2004...I think that's the purpose here:

Muskrat
Voltar
DeepSix v2
Downtown
Gnawgahyde
Stalker v2
Dogfight (lost in the 90's somewhere)
Sgt. Slaughter v4
Spirit v2
Ambush
Sub-Zero
Big-Ben
Tracker
Red Star
Dodger v2
Skymate v2
Interrogator
General Flagg
DeepSix v3
Nunchuk
Roadpig v2
Rock 'n Roll v3
General Hawk v2 (lost in the 90's somewhere)
Duke v4
Law v3
Mace
Outback v4
Snow Storm v2
Nitro-Viper
Clutch v3
Payload v3
Countdown v2
Lifeline v4

[GI FLINT]

82 - the only year with questions:

I know i had:

Flash
Grunt
Rock n Roll
Snake Eyes
Stalker
Zap
Clutch
Steeler
Cobra trooper
Cobra officer

I'm pretty sure I had
Short Fuze
Hawk

I just can't remember if I had breaker.

I know I did not have scarlett or grand slam.

83

Gung ho
Snow job
Torpedo
Duke mail in
Destro
Cobra commander
Zartan
Cutter

84
Storm shadow
Spirit

85
Flint
Dusty
SE v2
Ripper
Torch
Buzzer
Crimson guard

86

Low light
BAT

[Frank]

Some of you really had awesome collections as kids. I'm retro-jealous haha!

My first memory of them was in '84 after my family moved to a new house and I had a really great friend who had an older brother with drawers full of Joes and Star Wars, and another good friend who had a Flagg set up in his garage, but it took a few years before I actually owned any myself. That changed with the Rattler as a Christmas present from my grandfather in '86. Random memory alert: I remember putting the plane together while watching Enemy Mine on TV. After that, I sporadically accumulated through 1988 to another huge birthday with a Defiant from my dad (spent his bonus money that year). This was also around the time I could start buying toys for myself but alas, just when the line started to lose steam. The last 4 I remember picking up at a local CVS. Last one was Recoil. Thanks for the memory trip, I had forgotten some of those.

Childhood most played Joes
Beachhead
Flint
Quick Kick

Most played Cobra:
BAT
Mindbender
Road Pig

Runner-ups:
Hardball
Recoil
Zanzibar
Battle Armor CC
Crimson Twins
Voltar
Crystal Ball
HEAT Viper
Hydro Viper

Drivers:
Wild Weasel
Ice Viper
Payload
Hardtop

[CapBritain]

Quote:

Originally Posted by steve2477

I think i was lucky. I got something every week. There was a 7 years gap from my brothers birth to mine, so i was a kid when they were out of toys. So i got all the goodies to myself.

My first year of Action Force, 1987, i was 10, over that year i started reading the Action got Flint, Lady Jaye, Airtight, Barbecue, Shipwreck, Bazooka, Quick Kick, Snake Eyes v2 Alpine, Dusty Footloose, Crankcase and Awe Striker, Frostbite and Snowcat, Breaker, Grunt, Duke, Cutter and Whale, Wild Bill and Dragonfly, Armadillo, Checkpoint Alpha, Silver Mirage, Transportable Tactical Battle Platform, Snow Serpent, Crimson Guard, Eel, Tele Viper, Tomax, Xamot, Ferret, Cobra Bunker, Lamprey and Moray, Buzzer, Ripper, Cobra Night Landing, Air Defense, Zartan and Swamp Skier, Copperhead and Mocassin, Cobra Driver and Stinger, Storm Shadow, Cobra Commander, Baroness, Destro.

The second year 1988 i was again very lucky through the year i got Beach Head, Hawk v2, Leatherneck, Mainframe, Lifeline, Sci Fi, Dial Tone, Iceberg, Roadblock v2, Wet Suit, Lift Ticket with Tomahawk, Devil Fish, Sgt Slaughter with Triple T, Cross Country and Havoc, Slipstream and Conquest, Dr Mindbender, Serpentor and Air Chariot, Monkeywrench, Zandar, Zarana, Thrasher with Thunder Machine Hyro Sled.

Like i said i was very spoilt, lol with toys.

were you getting stuff from America? Tomax and Xamot didn't come out over here until '88 and the Tomahawk and Conquest weren't until '89.

I'm also confused how you got some stuff from UK '85 releases 2 years later. Like Breaker, Baroness and Duke and how you got the Grunt mail away figure in '87...

[hardcorps]

I can't remember all that I had, but my first two were straight arm Grunt and RnR. Next came Snake Eyes or Flash, can't remember which. My last one was Topside, my little brother bought it for me when I was at the academy.