No coverage of GI Joe’s history of hair would be complete without mentioning the fuzz-head. A novel concept, to be sure, the flocked hair look was an ingenious upgrade to the original 12 inch painted hair figures. It’s both tactile and toyetic, lending a unique look to the toys that would be forever associated with the brand, even those of
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We’re going back to the 70s tonight, a time of…interesting grooming habits. In this entry, there’s no Joe fuzz to be found, only paint. Now this is how you do a beard on the cheap. Remember those infomercials from the 90s that peddled spray-on hair for guys who were balding? It comes to my mind when I see this figure’s
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Now this is an interesting variation on an earlier facial hair design. The original Roadblock rocked a mustache and soul patch, the first Joe to do so. This update, based on the Resolute animation, gives us a meaner looking Roadblock. He’s also grown out his chin warmer into an impressively thick Fu Manchu and soul patch combo. I dig it.This
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The GI Joe toy line has had a long history of impressive facial follicles ever since the dawn of the 1970s and the fuzzy-headed Adventure Team figures. We’ll be celebrating the finest examples of action figure grooming over the next several days. Be they stupendous ‘staches, glorious goatees, bountiful beards or vituoso VanDykes, we’ll cover them. First up is a
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Some figures hold such a sway that just one entry can’t satisfy my need to talk about them. Recondo is one such figure. Going into this daily blog project, I realized fairly early on that I would need to pace myself as far as covering my favorites, especially if I were in it for the long run. After all, I’d
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By KansasBrawler I’ve mentioned before how much I love it when new characters are added to the Joe line. I enjoy getting to meet a new character for the first time and learn his or her story far more than I like getting new interpretations on characters I already know. Sometimes new versions of old characters are necessary, but my
Read more2015 has been an interesting year for the blog. At times, it’s been a slog to keep up with daily posts (as evidenced by the lack of one yesterday) but for the most part I’m still having fun with the project. While things started out four and a half years ago as coverage of mostly GI Joe figures, I’ve branched
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There were cardbacks that I used to stare at over and over again as a kid collector. If there was one subject to which my eyeballs were often affixed, it was the Cobra Officer. I preferred the figure itself to the Cobra Trooper, and its more ornate details piqued my interest. Not to be too simplistic, but the Officer just
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Lanard’s CORPS! line, which has been around since 1986, surprisingly didn’t add any clearly labeled antagonist group until the late 2000’s. Although cats like Whispering Willie and Crowbar were Mad Max-esque types, they didn’t seem to belong to a named group. I guess they were meant to meander into your Cobra forces and blend in with the Dreadnoks. Anyway, the
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It’s been a while since I’ve covered a Snake Eyes figure. I think. It’s so hard to tell really, considering there have been a metric crapload of versions of the guy. His myriad releases don’t bother me at all, as he remains one of my favorites to come out of the 80s mythos. What’s not to like about a sometimes
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