By YT As I stated in my Hot Toys Storm Shadow review, when Hot Toys announced their Retaliation figure line, I was thrilled. For those who may not know, Hot Toys is an Asian company that is known for their outstanding 12″ figures based on pop culture and movie proprieties. Their realistic sculpt, cut & sew and paint apps are
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By Jason Royalty Jason is back with another great photo feature of Joes in the wild. This one brings back memories of backyard adventures.
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By Past Nastification The Sunbow GI Joe cartoon feels as if it were aimed at 9 or 10 year olds, but watching it decades later it still holds up, at least in terms of spirit. Having outgrown the toy line, I never had any exposure to the DiC successor when it premiered in 1989. After re-watching all of the Sunbow
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By KansasBrawler When it came to choosing figures to get the 25th Anniversary treatment, Wild Bill was really a no-brainer. He was always pretty popular because he came with the Dragonfly and Wild Bill got a lot of screen time in the cartoon and quite a bit of page time in the comic book. Unfortunately, Hasbro made poor Wild Bill
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By Jason Royalty Joe fan Jason returns with another impressive series of dio shots. This time he’s incorporated practical effects. I’m digging the smoke. Great stuff, Jason!
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By KansasBrawler I’ve always had a weird affinity for the Skyhawk. It’s a neat Joe vehicle and I’ve always thought it was a little more iconic in the cartoon that even the Skystriker. While that may have just been a function of me having a Skyhawk as a kid and noticing it more than the Skystriker because that came out
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By KansasBrawler Sometimes an action figure really just captures your imagination. I don’t know why, but I’ve always really loved jetpacks, and the crazier-looking the better. At Joe Con in 2009, the Hasbro team found a way to make me buy another movie Ripcord figure—by making him into the Desert Battle jetpack trooper. While I wasn’t wild about Marlon Wayans’s
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By YT The Sideshow Arashikage Temple will go down as the largest 1/6 GI Joe figure environment they produced. It is gigantic! The shipping box is similar to a USS Flag box in size. I would rate it as the second most “Joe Centric” item behind the excellent Cobra throne. A lot of their other environments were much more generic.
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By KansasBrawler The Original 13 Joes have always had something of a mythical standing in the Joe collecting community. It’s not really a surprise since they were the ones that started it all. However, it’s always kind of baffled me that with as much as people criticized the 25th Anniversary Joe line for parts reuse that the Original 13 are
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By Hit & Run Dynamite was a magazine for children published by Scholastic from 1974 until 1992. The magazine became the most successful publication for Scholastic. The first issue, Dynamite #1, was dated March 1974 and the final issue, Dynamite#165, was dated March 1992. The magazine really seemed to catch its stride during the 80’s with the plethora of cartoons, toys and comics. For me,
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