Shipwreck went from traditional sailor to combat diver in the Battle Corps era, and Hasbro was happy to keep him in that role for his next few iterations. I can’t help but remember the mold being used to create the character Stinky Diver in Action League Now. The Real American Hero Collection paired him up with Sidetrack, and was available
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*With apologies to Metallica. It’s Flag Day in the USA, and I can never resist an opportunity to tie a holiday in with both a post and a lame pun. Here are two modern interpretations of the famous GI Joe aircraft carrier that unfortunatley won’t see the light of day. First up is the Flagg that was shown during the
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By YT Storm Shadow was the fourth figure Sideshow released in their GI Joe line. Like a lot of us, Storm Shadow was a favorite of mine as a kid. Overall he is a very faithful reproduction of the ARAH original. Although they did give him long sleeves, I believe to cover the very unattractive arms of their Prometheus body.
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By KansasBrawler Felix “Mercenary” Stratton has always been, hands down, my favorite Renegade. As a kid, I was really captivated by the idea of a guy who defected from Cobra and fought for the Joes instead. That was a unique angle and I liked it from the moment Sergeant Slaughter first introduced use to Mercer during G.I. Joe: The Movie.
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Wow, that’s a pretty horrific sounding name for a kids’ toy, eh? Then again, this was GI Joe Extreme. No namby pamby names like HISS or VAMP here–it’s the 90s, man!!! We’ve got extreme nomenclature!!! The Bone Splitter comes to us with a couple of fun play features. Ultra SLAM firepower is the most obvious, with its big foam missile.
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Thanks to the wondrous Internet Archive, we can all play hundreds of emulated classic video games online. We can even embed them on goofy blogs like mine–oh, and into tweets too! We’re living in an age of an embarrassment of riches when it comes to on-demand time wasting. Isn’t it glorious? GI Joe saw a game released for the Atari
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It’s the debut of a new video feature for the site: That’s How I Found It. In this series, I’ll be focusing on toys and other miscellanea in their natural state. No clean-up or restorations, just used stuff as it’s been found. For the first edition, it’s the GI Joe Night Striker, part of the Night Force series of vehicles.
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The Collectors’ Club offered up several environmental themed figure sets in 2006-2007. That first year was a sort of odd in-between for the GI Joe figures based on the Real American Hero era, with the end of the online DTC experiment, the continuation of Sigma 6 at retail, and just before the explosion of the 25th Anniversary nostalgia bomb. These
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The original Tripwire actually got a lot of play on my Joe team back in the 80s. It seemed that for a while, no matter what sort of mission I cooked up for my squad, they came across a situation demanding Mr. Skoog’s unique specialty. Now that I think about it, navigating a group of toy soldiers through a minefield
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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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