Black Dragon has been a name to crop up somewhat regularly in the GI Joe mythos within the last 20 years. First, there was the original EXTREME! figure that carried the moniker in in the late 90s. Then the floodgates opened in 2003, with the introduction of a new, evil Black Dragon character within that year’s collectors club convention set.
Read moreYeah, you read right. I don’t know if this thing has a proper name, and I don’t really care. It’s blamed goofy, for sure, no matter the name. Will and I took a look at it, probably for far longer than is needed. I really need to reign myself in when talking during these things. Sorry. Will does a great
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By KansasBrawler The Joe brand can only survive for so long on nostalgia. Sometimes, you need to inject some fresh blood into the line or take characters in a new direction. I think that’s part of why I liked Rise of Cobra so much. Yes, it wasn’t my Joes up there on the screen, but aside from Duke, I did
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Pulling out a lesser known character, who was also the driver of a pricey vehicle was one of the good ideas within the 2003 convention set. Major Storm was a figure I didn’t have in my collection until I began trying to complete a 1982-94 run in the early 2000s. This repaint came along at just the right time for
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Wet-Suit was one of my favorite figures from the 1986 series. Some of the reason goes back to the toy itself and its great accessories, some to the character in the Marvel comic, and some from the package art. Torpedo was one of the first Joes I bought in 1983, and the fact that an underwater Joe looked cool on
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I’ve always been a sucker for Cobra Commander variants. I think the fascination goes back to his hooded mail-in version as well as his battle armored suit. Both were favorites of mine as a kid. As a later adult collector, I picked up the Talking Battle Commanders release, immediately removing the huge backpack, and also quickly snapped up the Battle
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How do you explain away the fact that you made a figure that uses 90% of an existing (and very recognizable) character’s parts? Make up a story that hints at the new guy killing off the old one. That’s pretty cold blooded, even for a Dreadnok. I suppose you can’t blame the club for trying to pull this one off,
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Operation Thunderbolt is yet another in the Find Your Sate series, a Choose Your Own Adventure uh…homage (AKA rip-off) that casts the reader in the midst of the GI Joe team. In this episode, the irascible Shipwreck is apparently piloting the helm of a ship, because the rest of the vehicle is nowhere to be seen according to the cover
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Joelanta is coming March 12-13. It’s a great show, and hopefully in the future JAD will be able to make the trek to cover it. Here’s some info from the site, which can be found at www.joelanta.org: For more than a decade, JoeLanta has been an annual event bringing toy collectors and pop culture enthusiasts from across the country together
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By KansasBrawler Pursuit of Cobra Dusty was a figure that really surprised me. For whatever reason, in my area of Kansas, he never caught on like I thought he would. Though he wasn’t as epic of a pegwarmer as Arctic Threat Destro, he was still pretty likely to be on the pegs right beside him for a while. I thought
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