[ScottyTRitz]

Hi everyone,

A real newbie here to both GI Joe forum and the hobby/collection space overall, so please excuse any naivety in observation or opinion!

As a young kid, I never had the GI Joe 3 3/4" scale figures, but I remember playing at friends and cousins homes who did have them, and was always amazed at the articulation and pose ability, that the O-Ring style of figure, enabled a GI joe figure to create. As predominantly a pro wrestling fan, the 6" figures I would collect weren't bad, but they didn't have that extra bit of articulation that afforded the additional pose potential. Plus the compact size of the 3 3/4" offer enabled family and friends to have a large collection, displayed or stored, in a small space (such as a Detolf, cabinet shelf or baseball bat display cabinet).

As i begin to dabble in this space, I notice Super 7 have created a ReAction Figure line (that looks to have less articulation than the A Real American Hero initial run) but spans across many IP's, entertainment forms and personalities. So i have to ask, for many of you;
- is it purely a love of GI Joe that drew you to collect?
- do you have a preference to the 3 & 3/4" O-Ring style of figure than to other more modern forms, and,
- does your love of this style of figure expand into other ReAction releases or is the scale of 3 3/4" too intrinsically linked to GI Joe for you to branch out.

Just something that's been on my mind as I reminisce and consdier jumping back into the collecting hobby - Appreciate everyone's thoughts and insights!

[CapBritain]

I got into GI Joe via the UK Action Force line, which I had a load of the SAS Force and Z-Force toys of, but the only fiction I had for that was the audio adventure tape "The Baron's Revenge" as I didn't read the Battle Action Force comic - I didn't even know it existed at the time. I got into the Hasbro stuff when "Action Force" was relaunched in 1987 over here, thanks to the UK Transformers comic running a reprint of one of the US stories as a back-up before they launched the weekly AF stand-alone comic. I got all bar 3 issues (missed the first 2 and #31) and all bar one of AF Monthly. I didn't have a massive amount of Joe toys as a kid, but in 2009 when the movie was coming, I used my meagre wages to buy both Joe and AF stuff I never had as a kid from eBay.

I have no truck with anything post O-ring.

[Sataninjaku]

O-ring guy here. Always figures, rarely fiction. I was literally too busy playing outside with my Joes or idooors with my NES and SNES) to find much time for the comics or cartoons.

Of note, Super 7 has begun to transisition the Joe portion of their ReAction line to "ReAction+", with new Joe figures featuring the classic articulation:
https://www.hisstank.com/forum/g-i-j...-new-post.html

Never touched a ReAction figure before these (although I did try both modern G.I. Joe and 6" Classified to see if they fit- they did not), and I find what's on offer so far to be a mixed bag- what they get right, they definitely get right, but they still need to iron a few things out, IMHO.

[Diablogunner]

I was both. Started when I found the figures in store, then after seeing the first episode, I was 100% on both. And I was reading the comic too, so I had it going from all sides. I still love GI JOE, am really enjoying the new SKYBOUND ENERGON take on it all and wish there was a new cartoon.

[IzzyTipsy]

Honestly can't remember.

My first Joe was the AWE Striker and Crankcase and my dad bought my brother the STUN and Moray. So it was usually stories we made up where Crankcase fought Motor Viper and Lampreys for control of the Sesame Street playset and Get Along Gang Caboose. Then my brother walked on the Stun and broke it and then walked on my AWE Striker and broke it and that was it for GI Joe.

-later I watched the end of the first cartoon and got into GI Joe again. But it was mostly old Joes through flea market boxes so I had no idea who many were.

-First in store ones I remember getting were Crystal Ball and Raptor, who became favorites.

-My dad started buying me the comics when we couldn't find a random X-men comic to buy, but by then it was mostly the issues after CC "died".

So honestly most of my Joe knowledge was made up early on (I had some brown haired (Zap maybe?) Joe who stood in for me who went on adventures with my "wife" Baroness).

[Josh Z]

For me, it was everything. All of it. Growing up in the '80s, G.I. Joe was inescapable. The toys, the cartoon, the comic, I was all-in.

Like most kids, I eventually (mostly) gave up on toys around middle school, but I'd still pick up an item now and again if one caught my fancy.

I'm came back to collecting after college, and made a concerted effort to complete the 1982-1994 run of figures. I also bought into the A Real American Hero Collection relaunch in 1997, and dutifully continued collecting the Joe vs. Cobra and Valor vs. Venom figures in the early '00s, but soon came to realize that I didn't care for the "New Sculpt" figure designs of that era. Some of them were okay, but most left me underwhelmed.

I dropped out of collecting again for a while with the "Modern Era" redesign in 2007. I still don't like those 4" figures at all.

My focus today is on classic-style 3.75" o-ring figures. To that end, I'm not exclusively G.I. Joe, but anything in the same style. I'm a big fan of Delta-17 and Strike Force Alpha, and have backed many of the other similar Kickstarters. I'm excited for Super 7's ReAction+ line.

I don't collect Classified or any other G.I. Joe figures in different scales. I don't have anything against them; they're just not for me.

[Sataninjaku]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Josh Z

For me, it was everything. All of it. Growing up in the '80s, G.I. Joe was inescapable. The toys, the cartoon, the comic, I was all-in.

Like most kids, I eventually (mostly) gave up on toys around middle school, but I'd still pick up an item now and again if one caught my fancy.

I'm came back to collecting after college, and made a concerted effort to complete the 1982-1994 run of figures. I also bought into the A Real American Hero Collection relaunch in 1997, and dutifully continued collecting the Joe vs. Cobra and Valor vs. Venom figures in the early '00s, but soon came to realize that I didn't care for the "New Sculpt" figure designs of that era. Some of them were okay, but most left me underwhelmed.

I dropped out of collecting again for a while with the "Modern Era" redesign in 2007. I still don't like those 4" figures at all.

My focus today is on classic-style 3.75" o-ring figures. To that end, I'm not exclusively G.I. Joe, but anything in the same style. I'm a big fan of Delta-17 and Strike Force Alpha, and have backed many of the other similar Kickstarters. I'm excited for Super 7's ReAction+ line.

I don't collect Classified or any other G.I. Joe figures in different scales. I don't have anything against them; they're just not for me.

That pretty much sums up my NS experience as well-"dutifully" is a perfect way to put it. I bought all that I saw, which was a lot, but I realized near the tail end of VvV that they just didn't resonate with me at all.

[SpottedEagleSvn]

Welcome to the 'tank

Quote:

Originally Posted by ScottyTRitz

- is it purely a love of GI Joe that drew you to collect?
- do you have a preference to the 3 & 3/4" O-Ring style of figure than to other more modern forms, and,
- does your love of this style of figure expand into other ReAction releases or is the scale of 3 3/4" too intrinsically linked to GI Joe for you to branch out.

- Liked the way they looked the first time I saw them and the extra articulation compared to Star Wars but didn't really "collect," or the kid version of prioritizing GI Joe when you got to pick something out or tell someone what you want for Christmas, until after I got into the comic a little later so I'd call myself fiction-first.