By Past Nastification Finishing up the figures that could have been generated from the iconic first GI Joe animated mini-series. There are some great ones in this group. Stay tuned for playsets coming soon! Cobra Space Trooper: Lazy Sunbow gave Star Wars’ Stormtroopers new helmets and slightly different colors and hoped no one would notice. I noticed, but I’d be
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By KansasBrawler While I had strong childhood ties to both parts of the Joe half of the Danger at the Docks set, everything on the Cobra side was basically new to me. I didn’t have either the Eel or the Night Landing Craft growing up. I was pretty excited to get my hands on these pieces for the first time.
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1994 was the end of the Real American Hero run as well as the 30th anniversary of the GI Joe brand. It was a fun year in the sense of revisiting the original Joes, but a bummer to see the little guys going away. Though Joes weren’t as plentiful as in previous years’ Christmas catalogs, they did appear that year.
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This catalog page from the Canadian Simpsons department store may not have much in the way of GI Joe content, but it more than makes up for it by including a group shot of some of my favorite 70s toy baddies. Imagine a world where Bionic Bigfoot, Stretch Monster, Terron and Darkon joined forces! It’s a 70s supergroup of bad
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If you peruse the Christmas catalogs of the early to mid 80s, you’ll get a good picture of the extent of the GI Joe brand’s popularity at the time. Unfortunately, Joe’s golden years were fading in the eyes of catalog distributors as the 90s rolled around. Check out this page from JC Penney’s 1991 book. GI Joe is represented by
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This spread from the 1976 JC Penney Christmas catalog is chock full of mid-70s action figure goodness. The final Joes before the advent of Super Joe (including Bullet Man and the Intruders) are offered alongside Big Jim’s foray into the world of super adventure. It was a year of transition, to be sure. Just a while later, a galaxy far,
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By Past Nastification We’re back with more figures that could have been based on Sunbow’s MASS Device mini-series. Let’s get right to it! Arena Wranger: Speaking of suits from the last entry, this P90X enthusiast didn’t wear a jacket or a shirt, but check out those casual slacks- what else would one wear with a black leather hood? Cold Weather
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By KansasBrawler The first wave of 25th Anniversary comic packs relied pretty heavily on repeated characters. As such, I wasn’t super into them since I had most of the figures in better color schemes thanks to the box sets. However, since I wanted 25th Anniversary Colonel Hawk, that meant I also wound up with another 25th Anniversary Scarlett. This is
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And don’t forget the Raw Umber–it’s retired, ya know!
Read moreThe Cobra Strike Team Urban Division was one of the more problematic of the Toys R Us multipacks. The illustrations of the characters on the front of the package did not match the contents, at least in terms of their uniform’s coloring. All were colorful and resembled some previous version of their figures. Alley Viper looked to be based on
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