Man–it’s hard to believe I’ve been chronicling the amazing toy line that is Large James for almost eight years! As you know if you follow this blog regularly, I hold a special place in my heart for the weirder corners of the BJ mythos. Whether it’s the mid-70s P,A.C.K. (featuring package artwork by none other than Jack “King” Kirby) or
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Here’s a double your displeasure ad if you’re a toy collector. An ad from an almost defunct department store for a brand that’s in hibernation. Yay! Sorry I didn’t get this one out on Black Friday, but I didn’t want anyone to run to their local non-existent K-Mart looking for GI Joes fighting Yetis or Sound Attack Choppers.
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I have become smitten by the incredible twelve inch Estrela Falcon figures. This advertisement gives us a good sampling of the most interesting figures in their sci-fi oriented sets. “To face Torak, Falcon has new equipment and a bionic ally: Condor.” There’s so much design that hits all the right spots for me, it’s almost hard to put it into
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Attendees of this year’s final JoeCon had a chance to pick up a USB drive chock full of Joe-related pics, video and other information courtesy of Joe Declassified. While perusing the content, I couldn’t help but get excited over this DIC animation promo. Not only because I’m an unabashed fan of the DIC ‘toon, but also because the promo was
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Become a GI Joe expert! How many of you had the first GI Joe Yearbook (or pined for it) back in the day? I was lucky enough to find it at the local newsstand, and devoured it. Along with a reprint of the first issue, we got some unique peeks behind the scenes and at the future of the storylines.
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Sorry to make everyone sad, but here’s a classic TRU ad.
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Here’s another example of Action Force in an Argos catalog, although this time sharing a page with the A-Team and Masters of the Universe. He-Man and company appear to be a couple years behind their US release schedule. So my question to UK readers this time: were Hannibal, B.A., Murdock and Face as popular overseas as they were here in
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Well, here are two things you won’t see again. A giant playset and a toy store. Adieu, TRU!
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The Defiant is one of the great trinity of ultra-mega-huge GI Joe vehicles/playsets alongside the Flagg and Terrordrome. To say the toy is large is an understatement. I had mine displayed in a room for a time, and it is a behemoth. Unfortunately, I stepped on the front section of the crawler and snapped off a corner. Yeah, not good.
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I remember this time of year as a kid being filled with excitement and possibility. Fall meant a return to school, as well as the arrival of a new round of Christmas catalogs. In the days before collectors’ magazines and the internet, they were the best source from which to get a sampling of the year’s top toy lines. The
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