By KansasBrawler I never knew about the Cobra WOLF growing up, but the first time I saw it, I was really impressed. I found Justin Bell’s diostories on the Internet when I was in high school but I never read them until I was in college. I grew up with a relatively slow dial-up connection and the phone line at
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By Jason Royalty
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We’re going into the Halloween season full throttle here at JAD, and for the next two weeks we’ll be throwing our spotlight on the spookiest and scariest of subjects. The first two nights will feature Jason Royalty’s Backyard Battles in a celebration of fall and Halloween. Enjoy!
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By Acer In 1994, 3.75″ G.I. Joe was on the way out, but Hasbro/Kenner sought to give many of the figure molds purpose in their upcoming lines based on the movie adaptations of Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. In the case of the Street Fighter line, probably because of the then-popularity of the movie’s star Jean-Claude Van Damme, the toymaker
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By KansasBrawler The 30th Anniversary line really did some interesting things in my opinion. While the later waves were focused pretty heavily on the Renegades cartoon, there were some very good vintage homages in there as well, especially early on. The first wave also did something a little unusual for the Joe line. Hasbro rereleased a group of very hard-to-find
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By KansasBrawler Baroness has always been a big part of the Joe mythos. She was the first named Cobra agent we were introduced to in Issue #1 of the comic and she played a big role in the cartoon. All that exposure has given Baroness a pretty big fan following, so it’s also no surprise that each time the Joe
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By KansasBrawler For my money, the story of the Stall siblings was probably my favorite part of the Joe Vs. Cobra era of figures. It only played out in its entirety in the filecards, but it was still a neat concept. Barrel Roll and Black Out were released within a year of each other and their filecards talked not only
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By KansasBrawler I’ve mentioned before that I think the Joe line needs to inject new characters into the mythos every now and then or the brand will stagnate. That’s what was so great about some of the later waves of Rise of Cobra figures. There were some modern remakes of less appreciated Joes like Charbroil and Kamakura but there were
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By KansasBrawler As a Joe fan, I’ve always loved jetpacks. I was a bit too young for the original JUMP, but I remember being very excited when I found the 1991 General Hawk with his brand new jetpack. By and large, the souvenir sets at Joe Con in 2009 weren’t really my cup of tea, but the International JUMP Jet
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By Jason Royalty Here at JAD, we love ninjas. We also love photos of Joes in the wild. It brings back memories of when we played with ours as kids. I may have been too old to play with the Ninja Force figures in the yard, but I still love ’em. Jason’s latest photo shoot is chock full o’ sword-wielding,
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