Photo Feature: Toxo-Vipers
By Jason Royalty Joe fan Jason returns with another impressive series of dio shots. This time he’s incorporated practical effects. I’m digging the smoke. Great stuff, Jason!
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Sky Hawk and Arctic Snake Eyes
By KansasBrawler I’ve always had a weird affinity for the Skyhawk. It’s a neat Joe vehicle and I’ve always thought it was a little more iconic in the cartoon that even the Skystriker. While that may have just been a function of me having a Skyhawk as a kid and noticing it more than the Skystriker because that came out
Read moreHot Toys Joe Colton (2013)
By YT Like most 1/6 scale fans, I was stoked when news of a Hot Toys Joe Colton broke. A licensed Bruce Willis had never been produced in the scale before. This figure did not disappoint when it came to the outstanding sculpt resemblance and paint quality of Hot Toys. The cut and sew and accessories also live up to
Read moreJungle Assault Skydive
By KansasBrawler Sometimes an action figure really just captures your imagination. I don’t know why, but I’ve always really loved jetpacks, and the crazier-looking the better. At Joe Con in 2009, the Hasbro team found a way to make me buy another movie Ripcord figure—by making him into the Desert Battle jetpack trooper. While I wasn’t wild about Marlon Wayans’s
Read moreSideshow Storm Shadow (2009)
By YT Storm Shadow was the fourth figure Sideshow released in their GI Joe line. Like a lot of us, Storm Shadow was a favorite of mine as a kid. Overall he is a very faithful reproduction of the ARAH original. Although they did give him long sleeves, I believe to cover the very unattractive arms of their Prometheus body.
Read moreSlaughter’s Marauders Mercer
By KansasBrawler Felix “Mercenary” Stratton has always been, hands down, my favorite Renegade. As a kid, I was really captivated by the idea of a guy who defected from Cobra and fought for the Joes instead. That was a unique angle and I liked it from the moment Sergeant Slaughter first introduced use to Mercer during G.I. Joe: The Movie.
Read more25th Anniversary Flash
By KansasBrawler The Original 13 Joes have always had something of a mythical standing in the Joe collecting community. It’s not really a surprise since they were the ones that started it all. However, it’s always kind of baffled me that with as much as people criticized the 25th Anniversary Joe line for parts reuse that the Original 13 are
Read moreSnow Job (25th Anniversary)
By KansasBrawler The 25th Anniversary line really impressed me at the time. While some of the figures look horribly dated compared to what came later, I’m still rather impressed at how faithfully Hasbro was able to recreate some of the classic figures in this new style. One of the figures I found really impressive was Snow Job. I didn’t really
Read morePhoto Feature: Cobra Base
By Jason Royalty and Michael Sherrow
Read moreGI Joe: The Movie (1987)
By Hit & Run G.I. Joe: The Movie was first released in 1987, while intended to hit theaters in 1986, production errors held the movie up and due to poor tickets sales of Transformers: The Movie and My Little Pony: The Movie, the film was sent direct to video and first appeared as a TV movie special. Channel 11 WPIX
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