You could say that GI Joe is a descendant of the little green army men from days of yore. One of my favorite memories of playing with the little green guys were the paratroopers. A simple plastic parachute and string turned the regular troopers into death defying airborne attackers. At the time of its release, the Skystriker was the Cadillac
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If you needed an all-around, useful anywhere trooper follow-up to Grunt, Airborne was your man. This cat could jump out of a perfectly good Dragonfly and pound the ground with the best of them. What’s not to love about the accessories, color and specialty here? Just compare that backpack and rifle to what came just one year before. Sleekly designed
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By KansasBrawler It may be hard to beat the look of the vintage Alley Viper, but man did Hasbro come close with the Resolute Alley Viper Cobra set. I don’t recall seeing Alley Vipers in the Resolute cartoon. However, it’s also been a really long time since I’ve watched it, so I may just have missed them when I first
Read moreIt’s time to blast back to one of the first figures I covered when I started this craziness back in 2011. Back then, I was just grabbing whatever figure struck my fancy and setting up photos in front of my old Missile Command HQ. Such an innocent time. Nowadays of course I have a much more sophisticated method, wherein I
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Ace is one of those Joe characters you can almost always expect to show up in a new line. The team usually has a fighter aircraft of some sort, and who else can function as well as this guy as a pilot figure? Of course the original version is iconic, but the new sculpt and modern eras also featured Mr.
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Is this not the boldest of the bold among GI Joe card art? He’s coming right at you! Airborne is also one of the unique subjects to get just a little bit of environment in his card art thanks to a bit of line presumably coming from a helicopter. It’s a small but powerful piece of business that really places
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By KansasBrawler I think I’ve made it clear over the years that I’m a fan of the later years of Joes. My love of figures from 1993 and 1994 is usually fairly controversial, but my love of those great figures from 1990 leaves me in pretty good company. Looking over the figure listing from YoJoe, KansasBrother and I had almost
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By Past Nastification If James Bond and David Beckham (you know, the husband of Posh Spice) had a baby, it would be Action Man. Handsome AND extreme, Action Man of the 90’s/00’s was a secret agent/non-traditional sports enthusiast. There were cartoons and 1:6 scale figures, but I don’t really know much about them. Action Man has popped up twice directly
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Some figures are so crazy you just have to revisit them. I covered this Action Man back in 2014, and hadn’t opened the package. He’s soon to leave my collection, and I’ve released him from his plastic prison. I wish I had done so sooner, because not only does the Action feature live up to the hype, but the figure
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Posting the 25th anniversary Airborne last week got me to thinking about the original again, and how much I like the figure and character. There’s something timeless about the 1983 figures; they’re slimmer, more muted color-wise and accessorized with some of the most unique weapons and equipment in the line. I wouldn’t describe Mr. Talltree’s uniform as plain; he’s instantly
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