Serious GI joe discussion

[Spazz]

You know we spend to much time talking about angry subjects around here as of late so I thought perhaps those of us around 30 could talk about our favorite toys growing up. We never had air conditioning growing up so in the summer my mom would do a lot of minor shopping. I didnt mind getting dragged around to look at towels and candles and shit cuz if I was good ( and because my mom spoiled the shit out of me) I always got to get a new guy whenever we went somewhere with a toy section. Sometimes i see something that reminds me of all the fun I had and all my old faves. I had tons of guys but i really only got vehicles for christmas and bdays . i would use pop cans and legos jenga bloacks stuffed animas and blankets and anything I could to create epic battle fields. Any way to those of you who played with joes and have fond memories I would like to talk about fave vehicles and fave figures and maybe I can figure out how to post pictures



The rolling thunder was my fave vehicle I ever owned

[Spazz]

Every kid loved snake eyes but this was my favorite version of him



Every kid also liked storm shadow and fights would break out over who got to have him on his team. I liked this version best




Gnawgahyde was sposed to be a cobra guy but I liked him and his pig so i always made him a good guy



Those are some of my faves from back in the days. Im sure ill post more later but thats a start

[Jay]

I was always fascinated with bad guys so my favorites were Destro and Cobra Commander. In Transformers my favorite was Starscream. I had my GI Joes use my transformers as vehicles or theyd use my Deluxe Megazord.

[Spazz]

I was always fascinated with bad guys so my favorites were Destro and Cobra Commander

See I was the opposite I always liked the good guys. The cobra vehicles were always cooler for the most part though.

Speaking on destro and cobra commander My mom made perfect and matching capes for each of those guys for me. She also made one for dr mindbender as well.

[leah]

i don't know why i feel this way but i think starscream is basically the coolest name ever for a character.

[Spazz]

Damnit this is a thread about GI joe and there will be no hijacking. If you want to talk about transformers make your own thread . GI Joes would have kicked the transformers ass.

[Jay]

The best was watching WWF with my cousin then playing GI Joes right after and makin em do WWF moves on each other

[Spazz]

I went one step further and pretended certain joes were wrestlers . I used legos to make tables to go through and built a guardrail around my wcw wring made ladders and shit it was awesome . Good times good times

[Tikker]

We had the gi joe aircraft carrier

We had epic battles of gi joe vs he-man vs M.a.s.k. Vs Lego on that thing



My son now has the aircraft carrier

[Spazz]

I always wanted it. Never got it though.

[10sun]

I went one step further and pretended certain joes were wrestlers . I used legos to make tables to go through and built a guardrail around my wcw wring made ladders and shit it was awesome . Good times good times

I found a Sargent Slaughter GI Joe a couple of weeks ago in the building I'm working in... I put it to the side and it disappeared somewhere by the next day

[Ginzburgh]

disappeared...or walked off...

[Spazz]

Sgt slaughter sucked but his little vehicle was cool .

[Phlegm]

[leah]

pretty much the best youtube video ever.

[10sun]

disappeared...or walked off...

I think my coworker might have pocketed it.

Oh well.

[Drem]

i still have the snake eyes you posted spazz

i'm not as old as you guys but all i ever played with were GI Joe. and beast machines or whatever those little animal warriors with a hologram on their chest were

and squishy head ninja turtles. OG

i feel sorry for kids today

[Tikker]

Visionaries ?

[Drem]

nope they were really squat, like 1 inch tall. i'll figure this out if it doesn't ring any bells. can't remember anything but like a kangaroo in white armor and a rhino in turqoise armor. really small. hologram on the chest

also exo-squad toys were fucking awesome

[Drem]

got it. battle beasts. sleeper toys for sure

[Tikker]

those look pretty gay

[Tossica]

Was a bit too old for GI Joe. I think I got a few things but was getting in to girls around that time. My little brother got He-Man, Transformers, etc. My era was Evel Knievel, Six Million Dollar Man, Micronauts and Star Wars.

[Drem]

love em. getting mad nostalgia thinkin about hiding these in planters like army men. small toys are rad