By KansasBrawler I’ve talked about how Destro is my favorite Joe villain on this blog before. All of his figures have been very well-designed and he’s always had an aura of menace to him that you just never saw from Cobra Commander. Personally, I think that it’s because while Destro also wore a mask, his mask still had human features
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I haven’t featured one of these in a while, and I thought it appropriate to bring one back today. Here’s your Joe Moment of Zen…
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In all of Roadblock’s years of release, which sub-team or iteration of GI Joe hasn’t he been a part of? Tiger Force, Battle Corps, Anti-Venom, Heavy Assault Squad, Sound Attack, Resolute, and the movie-verse. As the team’s heavy machine gunner, probably his most “against type” appearance came in 1993, when he became an astronaut. It may not make a whole
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By Jason Royalty Jason returns with another great photo shoot, this time featuring the Techno-Vipers. I’ve always thought these figures were some of the funkiest troop builders Cobra ever came up with. Great stuff as usual, Jason.
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THIFI returns with an item that elicits back to school memories. I remember Mom and Dad taking me to get a new lunch box every year during grade school. My favorite was my original Star Wars box. I obtained this one many years later…
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Having covered Lanard’s offerings from time to time on the blog, I’ve remarked about the modern CORPS! figures and my feelings about their look and function. Since the early 2000s, they’ve been constructed in the same fashion as Hasbro’s new millennium GI Joe relaunch. While I’ve missed the o-ring in both cases, I’ve come to appreciate what Lanard has been
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By YT I will always remember the excitement I had seeing the first pictures of Rock N Roll and Zartan at Sideshow’s SDCC display. I was new to collecting 1/6 figures but even I could see Sideshow was stepping up their game. I still feel those 2 figures were the pinnacle of the Sideshow Joe line. What can I add
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By KansasBrawler The Collectors’ Club’s first foray into modern-style construction came in the form of Dial-Tone, arguably one of the most popular characters that somehow managed to avoid getting updated during the 25th Anniversary line. (Sorry, I don’t count the Crimson Strike Team set since there really wasn’t much done in terms of having to create characters whole cloth—they either
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Sometimes toys are great, when a concept and execution come together to produce a toy that lives on beyond its original purpose. In the 80s and 90s GI Joe lines, there have been more than a handful of them. As vehicles go, the GI Joe Skystriker stands out among its peers as a classic. Alongside the Star Wars X-Wing, it
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The Techno-Viper was for me the last gasp of Cobra Troops in my years of buying Joes as a kid. I liked the unique specialty, the colors and the accessories. What’s not to like about a Cobra who came with a giant wrench? It’s as cool from a combat engineer perspective as Tollbooth’s massive sledge. As much as I wanted
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