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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The 2009 con set has a reputation among some collectors as a weak remake of a previous set. I can understand that concern, but then again, it did serve to accomplish couple of things. First, it gave folks a second chance at a very popular theme that was quite difficult to obtain at the time. It also served as an
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Just thought I’d throw out a little bonus flashback coverage, since the real Toy Fair was a pretty sad experience for those expecting some Joe news out of Hasbro. But hey, there’s always some new product at Comic-con and JoeCon. For now, pretend for just one more day that you’re really pumped to see something new, like say…this. Pumped–get it?
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Our look back at 1993’s Toy Fair catalog continues with one of the flagship offerings of the year. Hasbro even gave it an amazing two-page spread to showcase it. The Ghoststriker certainly deserved the attention, and was an impressive jet for a late line release. It’s feature-laden yet maintains a nicely scaled silhouette. Of course, none of the Joe vehicles
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Twelve inch GI Joes are making a comeback! In 1993, that is. Of special interest here are the weapons in the hands of the mission gear equipped figures. It’s too bad we didn’t actually get some of these in the final product. I think Duke is wielding a 1/6 scale version of the original Dusty’s rifle. Pretty cool.
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It’s Toy Fair time again, and unfortunately there’s no GI Joe news to share from Hasbro. So why not take a trip in the wayback machine to February of 1993 to check out all the new Battle Corps series? Enjoy these scans from the 1993 Hasbro dealer catalog. It’s just like being there–sort of.
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By KansasBrawler Sometimes, Hasbro makes controversial decisions when it comes to deciding what characters get figures and what characters don’t. Those that don’t like the figure believe that the “bad” character in question took the mythical slot of someone “more deserving.” There were a couple of figures like that in the 25th Anniversary line and Wraith is probably the biggest
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From the ridiculous to the sublime. Yesterday’s convention exclusive was an odd concept with a crazed color palette. Tonight, it’s a prime example of the effective repainting of an originally disappointing figure. To me, the first version of Gristle holds a certain distinction for being an example of the end of the first generation Real American Hero years. 1993 and
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