2015 has been an interesting year for the blog. At times, it’s been a slog to keep up with daily posts (as evidenced by the lack of one yesterday) but for the most part I’m still having fun with the project. While things started out four and a half years ago as coverage of mostly GI Joe figures, I’ve branched
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There were cardbacks that I used to stare at over and over again as a kid collector. If there was one subject to which my eyeballs were often affixed, it was the Cobra Officer. I preferred the figure itself to the Cobra Trooper, and its more ornate details piqued my interest. Not to be too simplistic, but the Officer just
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Lanard’s CORPS! line, which has been around since 1986, surprisingly didn’t add any clearly labeled antagonist group until the late 2000’s. Although cats like Whispering Willie and Crowbar were Mad Max-esque types, they didn’t seem to belong to a named group. I guess they were meant to meander into your Cobra forces and blend in with the Dreadnoks. Anyway, the
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It’s been a while since I’ve covered a Snake Eyes figure. I think. It’s so hard to tell really, considering there have been a metric crapload of versions of the guy. His myriad releases don’t bother me at all, as he remains one of my favorites to come out of the 80s mythos. What’s not to like about a sometimes
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By KansasBrawler It’s once again KansasBrawler confession time. Hi, I’m KansasBrawler, and I love the 90s era Joe figures. I love everything about them. The sculpts are really solid and I think had they not been saddled with crazy color schemes and underdetailed paint work, they’d be a lot more loved than they are. Hasbro learned that lesson when they
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Here’s my all-time favorite 80s GI Joe catalog page layout. Thanks to my folks, I had all the product on this page by Christmas of ’84. It’s a nuclear nostalgia bomb, for sure. Merry Christmas everybody!
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Continuing from last night’s post. This one’s not entirely Joe, but there are some interesting items nonetheless. From all of us at JAD to you and yours, we hope you get lots of goodies under the tree this year.
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Sears’ 1985 Joe offerings couldn’t be contained within a single page! Stay tuned tomorrow for page two!
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What better way to run-up to Christmas than with some more catalog pages? Here’s the GI Joe page from the 1986 Sears Wishbook, complete with the amazing Terrordrome dominating the scene. Wonderful! Put me down for a case! Even better is a small shot of the ultra-cool Dreadnok exclusives. Oh yeah, the Flagg is way down there on the bottom
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You know how DC Comics’ Flash has Reverse-Flash, a villainous version of a hero character wearing the opposite colors of his antagonist? Well, this isn’t exactly like that, but it’s close. As I was digging through bags of figures to find the latest batch to photograph and write up for the site, I happened upon the Night Watch Officer and
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