Boys won’t play with female action figures. That’s a familiar refrain to toy collectors. It’s true, to a certain extent. However, in the 80s I think boys changed their minds when they saw the Baroness. Here was a female character who more than held her own against the male heroes and villains, both in the comic and cartoon. The card
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By Past Nastification 1994 was the 30th Anniversary of GI Joe. It was thirtieth year for the overall brand, not our beloved GI Joe: A Real American Hero line. However, GI Joe: ARAH was still around, on its last legs. Hasbro tried to bring the ARAH collectors in on the fun by taking some of the early 12” lineup and
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When GI Joe transitioned to the Adventure Team, Hasbro maintained the basic figures’ breakdown into what previously represented the four main armed services. The army, navy, air force and Marines were reconfigured into a less overtly militaristic organization. In what surely must have been a cost-cutting move, the four main figures retained their original uniforms. The Land Adventurer then would
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The internet never fails to bring up interesting historical tidbits about, well, everything. Basically the whole of human knowledge is at our fingertips. What does that mean for a fellow like me? It means I can search Google for toy patent drawings. Today I managed to dig up the MOBAT. These things can be a bit difficult to locate due
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By KansasBrawler This figure is kind of a tough nut for me to crack. I don’t normally fall in line with parts of the Joe fandom that think X figure is unnecessary and has taken the spot of someone better, but I really don’t know what to make of the Ice Ninja Night Creeper the GIJCC did in FSS 4.
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By Past Nastification The traditional “A Real American Hero” figure format was introduced in 1982. The ARAH format shamelessly mimicked the o-ring design and articulation of Mego’s Buck Rogers and CHIPS lines. With a few exceptions, such as some aliens and mega monsters, the figures generally held to a standard buck in terms of proportions. The proportions of the figures
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By Jason Royalty
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If you think the GI Joe brand only gave rise to ridiculous accessory concepts as recent as the 1990s, you’d be thinking wrong. Check out the Chest Winch, from the Adventure Team era. I covered it once before in its application as part of the Action Man line, but I think this piece of package artwork truly captures the beautiful
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Lanard’s Ultra CORPS! series of twelve inch figures has had something for almost everyone. If you’re into straight military style outfits and accessories, you’re covered. If you like the adventure side of things, that’s an option as well. If the modern army and character vibe of 1980s GI Joe floats your boat, the line includes a variety of them also.
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By KansasBrawler I know some of the choices made in Rise of Cobra were pretty contentious. I didn’t love everything Hasbro and Paramount did either, however, I thought that, on balance, there was more good than bad there. One of the best decisions I think they made was tapping the Cobra Neo-Viper as the primary Cobra foot soldier. I have
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