Yes, it’s a two-fer tonight. Why? Because I just couldn’t bring myself to cover two incredibly similar figures separately. Some of the decision rests with my feelings on the quality of the figures themselves, and their vehicle. Let’s get to it then, shall we? I promise this won’t hurt–much. First off, which is which? Well, according to the way he
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By KansasBrawler As a Joe fan, I’ve always loved jetpacks. I was a bit too young for the original JUMP, but I remember being very excited when I found the 1991 General Hawk with his brand new jetpack. By and large, the souvenir sets at Joe Con in 2009 weren’t really my cup of tea, but the International JUMP Jet
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By Jason Royalty Here at JAD, we love ninjas. We also love photos of Joes in the wild. It brings back memories of when we played with ours as kids. I may have been too old to play with the Ninja Force figures in the yard, but I still love ’em. Jason’s latest photo shoot is chock full o’ sword-wielding,
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It’s time for the last of our coverage of the 2015 50th Anniversary GI Joe product, and to start things off, we’re looking at the packaging for the Toys R Us exclusive Silent Strike set. I’ve not covered the packaging for the regular store releases, so I thought this final set might be a good chance to take a look
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I’ve been a Croc Master fan since 1987, the year that some say the line went off the rails with Cobra’s preponderance of weird new characters. I’m not so hard on the year’s releases, and I find the colorful variety of villains a plus, along the lines of the great comic book rogues galleries from Batman, Spider-Man and the Flash.
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Another Blowtorch, really? Yep, it’s the seemingly go-to guy when it comes to making up a modern GI Joe figure assortment. Actually, that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but for someone who’s collected the last few series of modern figures, the character has almost become an army builder. I’m beginning to think they might recolor it tan and blue and
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Now this is something interesting. There have been red repaints and black repaints of Cobra Commander over the years, but none quite like this one. The closest I can recall is a black and red version from the early 2000s. No, this one stands out to me as pretty unique, thanks to some interesting placement of colors and a set
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Joes in something other than full combat gear are interesting to me. We’ve all seen Duke, Snake Eyes and many others outfitted in either variations on their usual designs, or at least representations of some kind of field mission gear. Shipwreck has been seen in his classic 80s sailor getup, as well as various other interpretations in the modern era.
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By KansasBrawler Since 1989, Destro has always been my favorite Cobra character. While I’ve never considered myself a completist, my love of Destro means that I have lot of different versions of Destro in my collection. When Destro was shown as a part of the Resolute set, I was very pleased. I liked the design they used in the show
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With the dozens of Storm Shadow figures released over the years, it’s surprising to see that very few have referenced the 1988 version’s geometric camo outfit. More than half of the Stormys out there have released since the modern era began in 2007, and aside from a couple of movie line homages, this is only the second time we’ve seen
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