Hey, it’s the Big Game today here in the US–not that I really care, since my hometown team, in typical fashion, whizzed it down their leg in their first playoff game. Anyway, I came across the following comic when perusing auctions a while back and was amazed to see a familiar name in the issue of NFL Super Pro. And
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By Jason Royalty
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By KansasBrawler Once again, I find myself talking about a figure that I think is great and is controversial even though it shouldn’t be. This time around, it’s Billy Kessler (sorry, GIJCC, I refuse to use the name “Billy Arboc” for him—it’s just not a good last name). When Billy was announced for FSS 4.0, there were a lot of
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By Past Nastification The Adventure People predated GI Joe’s A Real American Hero 1982 rollout by several years. They provided great “civilian” figures for the Joes to rescue. As best I can find, this figure’s name is Jeff, from the 1977 TV Action Team news van playset. In 2017, it’s unbelievable that a toy company once thought that an action
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By KansasBrawler Every now and then, the folks at Hasbro make a brilliant decision. The last wave of Pursuit of Cobra had some really great army builders, but the whole wave was really hard to find. To rectify this, the army builders from the last wave of the Pursuit of Cobra line were carried over into the first wave of
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Time to get out the crayons and join us for some coloring. Be sure to stay within the lines!
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By KansasBrawler When Hasbro created the Crimson Shadow Guard set during the end of the Valor Vs. Venom era, I was pretty unimpressed. It was just six Crimson Guards decked out in black and carrying ninja weapons for reasons that were never adequately explained in the filecard. I wasn’t really clamoring to see this concept revisited (though I did eventually
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Much more interesting a battle than pirate vs. ninja.
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By KansasBrawler If you’re going to add a buttload of ninjas to the Joe line, you really should give them someone to fight and what’s more appropriate than a bunch of ninjas fighting a samurai? (Well, maybe a gladiator, but that’s only if your mind was warped by SpikeTV’s Deadliest Warrior…) Budo Samurai Warrior is an interesting figure (with a
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I was not one of the kids who didn’t buy female figures. Scarlett, Lady Jaye, Cover Girl and the Baroness were as much a part of my adventures as the male Joes. I didn’t hesitate to pick up Jinx, as she was a ninja dressed in red. The dragon symbol on her uniform was especially intriguing–what did it mean? I
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