We’re back again (it’s been too long) with a quick-hitting review of the Karate Chopper box. Yeah, we couldn’t find the actual toy, so this is what you get. I don’t have a whole lot to say about it, so Will saves the day, as usual.
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By KansasBrawler Sometimes, figures you don’t expect to show up in your collection do. The 25th Anniversary Tiger Force Duke is the clearest example of that phenomenon in my collection. I passed on him a lot of times. The 25th Anniversary Duke mold had a lot of problems and Tiger Force Duke really didn’t do much to fix those. However,
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Here’s another excellent book cover from the Marvel storybook series. The Spy Eye gives us some familiar Joes, but also a character and a vehicle that wasn’t part of the toy line. Who is that on the right side of the page? And dig the VTOL carrier they came out of! I enjoy these early efforts, and you see the
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Special Force comes to us from Sungold, a company perhaps best known for the Galaxy Warriors series, a Masters of the Universe knock-off line that is now beloved for collectors of me-too cheapness. These days there’s a cottage industry of custom bootleg art toy offerings that take their cues from what were once the odd castoffs of the past. We live in
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I’ve been expanding my horizons lately when it comes to international GI Joe and related releases. As I’ve learned more about the twelve inch domestic figures, the exclusive overseas product like Action Man and others have proven to be even more interesting. From the UK to Europe to central and South America, Hasbro licensed both its large and small-scaled GI
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I had the usual type of post ready on deck for today, but Will and I hung out in the JAD HQ today and came back with some of the Infantry Division figures. He started putting them in some pretty impressive poses; including getting them to stand firing from one knee. It’s amazing to see the dexterity versus past experiences
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By KansasBrawler I think every Joe fan out there has that one figure that makes them realize the brand is doing something special. I don’t know what that figure would have been for me in the vintage line, but during the relaunch era it was probably Barrel Roll. That figure was the perfect combination of design and character and it
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I wasn’t exposed much to the Condor until I began collecting again in the 90s. I recall seeing it fleetingly in Toys R Us ads at its time of release (yes, I was peeking at the Sunday paper toy adverts in my teens). Later, I discovered the Operation Dragonfire miniseries and found the Condor in a prominent scene featuring Serpentor
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I must confess that as a thirty-something grown-ass man, I woke up early one Saturday morning in 2006 to catch the premiere of the Sigma 6 cartoon on 4KidsTV. To say that it wasn’t aimed at me is a vast understatement. Heck, I felt out of place just turning the channel to 4Kids. At the time, I felt I could
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Keeping with a figure focus on arctic operatives, here’s Cold Front, and he strikes me as one of those Joe figures you only sort of remember. And that’s a shame, as the figure is very interesting. I must confess that my figure is incomplete. That teensy tiny microphone was missing from the version I acquired years ago, and I’ve never
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