As a toy collector, I’m not the biggest fan of the concept of “chase” items, especially when they’re planned and advertised as such. For me, there’s no thrill of the hunt when it comes to spending disposable income on toys. I don’t want to go through a bunch of hoops to collect them all. If others do, that’s cool. It’s
Read more
By KansasBrawler While I have been able to afford a Homefront Hero package the last few years, last year I was actually able to attend Joe Con again. Heck, I even covered the convention for the site here. However, not being able to attend the last few conventions meant I not only missed out on souvenirs the last few years
Read more
By KansasBrawler I didn’t start reading G.I. Joe comics until I was in high school, so when I say Kwinn is a figure I’ve been waiting to get since I first met him back in Issue #2 of the original comic series, we’re only talking about waiting a little over a decade by the time he finally came out. I
Read more
By KansasBrawler Every now and then, the G.I. Joe Collectors’ Club really surprises me and 2014’s membership figure was a perfect example of that. Cross Country is somebody I’ve always kind of liked but since he was so closely affiliated with his vehicle, it didn’t surprise me that Hasbro never made a modern version of him. However, that didn’t preclude
Read more
By KansasBrawler I’ve mentioned before that I’m not huge on international Joe variants. For some reason, they never really appealed to me. As such, I wasn’t expecting a lot from Calvin “Jammer” Mondale. I thought he’d be an interesting diversion, but at his core, he’s not the much different than the classic Stalker figure. I wasn’t mad or disappointed at
Read more
By KansasBrawler After the incredibly weak sauce that was FSS 2.0 Red Pads Grand Slam, the mystery figure that was a repaint of something that was already released in FSS 2.0, the GIJCC had a lot to make up for. Fans were absolutely livid about his inclusion, especially after how great the mystery thirteenth figure was in the first Figure
Read more
By KansasBrawler Everything the GIJCC did during 2016 pointed to the fact that they were sure they weren’t going to be in business next year. People had been asking for a Sky Patrol con set for years and the membership figure, Pythona, was a similarly constantly-requested figure. If they weren’t going to be back, they did a great job of
Read more
By KansasBrawler I’ll admit, I was kind of torn on the Silent Strike set. I really liked the HISS, but I felt a little bored by the Skystriker. I already have the 30th Anniversary version and I really only need one Skystriker in my collection. The Wolf Squad concept has made it grow on me, but I’m still just a
Read more
By KansasBrawler Sometimes as a toy collector, you find you have to set rules for your collection so you don’t wind up breaking the bank in pursuit of your passion. However, as Joe Con taught me in 2009 (and again in 2016), sometimes those rules need to be bent. Once in a great while, the GIJCC winds up making something
Read more
This mini-HISS tank and book set appeared suddenly a while back without a whole lot of fanfare, which is unusual these days. That’s not a complaint at all, in fact I’d like to see more miniature Joe product offered in this way. If you haven’t picked up this set, the scale will really surprise you. I figured it would be
Read more