By KansasBrawler It’s once again KansasBrawler confession time. Hi, I’m KansasBrawler, and I love the 90s era Joe figures. I love everything about them. The sculpts are really solid and I think had they not been saddled with crazy color schemes and underdetailed paint work, they’d be a lot more loved than they are. Hasbro learned that lesson when they
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Here’s my all-time favorite 80s GI Joe catalog page layout. Thanks to my folks, I had all the product on this page by Christmas of ’84. It’s a nuclear nostalgia bomb, for sure. Merry Christmas everybody!
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Continuing from last night’s post. This one’s not entirely Joe, but there are some interesting items nonetheless. From all of us at JAD to you and yours, we hope you get lots of goodies under the tree this year.
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Sears’ 1985 Joe offerings couldn’t be contained within a single page! Stay tuned tomorrow for page two!
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What better way to run-up to Christmas than with some more catalog pages? Here’s the GI Joe page from the 1986 Sears Wishbook, complete with the amazing Terrordrome dominating the scene. Wonderful! Put me down for a case! Even better is a small shot of the ultra-cool Dreadnok exclusives. Oh yeah, the Flagg is way down there on the bottom
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You know how DC Comics’ Flash has Reverse-Flash, a villainous version of a hero character wearing the opposite colors of his antagonist? Well, this isn’t exactly like that, but it’s close. As I was digging through bags of figures to find the latest batch to photograph and write up for the site, I happened upon the Night Watch Officer and
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By KansasBrawler Any time Destro shows up in the Joe line, I get happy. I’ve mentioned my love of Destro quite a few times here, so you should have a pretty good idea of what I think of Destro being part of the M.A.R.S. Invades con set. This version of Destro is far more battle ready than ones we’ve seen
Read moreWell, this is as close as I could come to a Star Wars figure on this evening of the premiere of Episode VII. Digging back into the vaults tonight, so check out Star Brigade’s answer to Han Solo right here.
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I was out of GI Joe collecting by1988, and wasn’t paying attention to catalogs any longer. Too bad, since there were some great toys, and still a decent spread in the Wishbook.
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I was stoked when I first found out about the DTC Cobra Viper Pit set. Here was an army builder pack of Vipers that not only gave us something close to the old color scheme, but also looked to have solved the problem of the funky leg molds that plagued the previous re-release versions. Well, sort of. While the thighs
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