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View Poll Results: How did you play with your Joes when you were younger? | |||
Play battles | 80 | 76.19% | |
Set scenes | 25 | 23.81% | |
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02-17-2010, 05:58 AM | #1 |
Cobra Soldier
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: london
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Just wondering how, when you were younger, did you play with your GI JOE figures and playsets?
I always liked setting up scenes. Especially when I had the command bases I would set some figures around a jeep like they were fixing them. Guys looking at guns and that sort of thing. Me and my brothers didn't really fight battles between each other. So what didi you do? |
02-17-2010, 06:00 AM | #2 |
IRON GRENADIER
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Mega-City One
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I dug big holes in my backyard and made caves. I had a lot of cave battles.
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02-17-2010, 07:00 AM | #3 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Florida
Posts: 390
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I used to use furniture, houseplants, stairs, and what few playsets I had to constantly create bases and battlefields for each time I played with my toys. Joes were always at the center of my toy wars so it was important that the conclusion to every battle ended with an assault of Cobra's HQ. I really wish I had the room to play with my toys again, I MISS the fun and carefree feelings it brought me!
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02-17-2010, 07:16 AM | #4 |
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Toronto, Ontario
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I did both actually. my bro and I would take a day to set up these MASSIVE scenes and play up every part of it right to the battle. The battle usually lasted 5 mins lol but the setting up and playing out the scenes took hours sometimes a day
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02-17-2010, 07:52 AM | #5 |
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Midway, PA
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There was a creek that had high banks in the woods beside my parents house that I used frequently. I dug caves and made defensive positions out of dirt and twigs, and there was a rope bridge that crossed to the other side. At my cousins' house, there was an area at the top of their yard that had a small stream come up from underground, and there were piles of topsoil and sand that we set up as a pretty sweet base of operations for our Joes. I remember sending a couple into orbit tied to bottle rockets. Good times.
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02-17-2010, 10:03 AM | #6 |
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Ottawa, Canada
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I would often use blankets to build up hills, mountains and trenches for them to fight in.
I sometimes brought them outside, but not too often. After I lost Dusty's awesome rifle doing that, I tended not to.
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02-17-2010, 10:23 AM | #7 |
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Toronto
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Even after I got my Terrordrome I would set up bases out of many things, cardboard boxes after buying a TV or large furniture was paydirt, as you could customize your own base with trap doors, battle damaged walls (when you cut out pieces you can put them right back and poke them out when you play your battles), my dad is an engineer so we would have these long cardboard tubes to make pipes and slides that fit perfectly in the large boxes and joes fit perfectly into. Oh good times. But even without those boxes I remember I would set my Toys up on things like our exercise bike, having Joes defend the handlebars and seats, while Cobra was battling up from the base of the bike riding the peddles up to the next level, people getting crushed in the wheel and wheel strap(its a stap that adjusted the tension/feedback) ect. tons of fun!
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02-17-2010, 10:30 AM | #8 |
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my yard was a jungle, it was a childs playground when it came to joes. my ma would just let plants grow , and grow.
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02-17-2010, 10:49 AM | #9 |
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Liverpool, Pennsylvania
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Back in the day I always set up huge scenes that took hours to do. The battles themselves were usually minimal as compared to the exacting placement of every Joe, with a set purpose throughout the HQ and the vehicles.
Even through it was years ago I can still remember some of the themes - fighting off Cobra from under the bed, rescue missions off the side of the couch and defending the HQ from attack by the Decepticons and Cobras combined might. My younger brother wasn't into Joes so usually I played by myself with them. There was a lot of time spent hanging out with Flint, Scarlett and the crew. As I sit here in my office being all "adult" I wish I could back to my basements and just play some Joes. |
02-17-2010, 10:57 AM | #10 |
The Enemy
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Springfield
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I did both really. I would use things from around the house to make a base out of or on or under. We had this table in my living room that looked like stairs leading up to giant doors (really it was just a cabinet door but it did look cool) this was Cobra Commanders secret base. I would always set this up and that was where he would command the troops. Only a few times did G.I. Joe actually find it. I would use calculators, hand held gfames, an old sony radio and other bits and pieces to make stiars, walls, and computers. Lego was used a bit as well. G.I Joe alays had a hard time fighting Cobra in my games but in the end they would stop Cobra from taking control of the Earth.
I would have friends come play but it was more fun to play the games out myself, that way i controlled the outcome and no one was holding a skystryker saying "boom boom I win" while the skystryker some how hovered over the cobra base and the nose would knock over soldiers.... Weve all been there.
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