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deebrisbyfish · 3 months

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This started out as an idea for what a FINDING DEE action figure would look like in the strip, and artistically, the further along I went, the crazier the mock-up packaging became. I am NO Hector Garrido, who did a huge chunk of that amazing G.I.Joe package art, but I tried to match the style as much as possible.

If I get froggy, I might even try mocking up a BACK of the package eventually, and channel my inner Larry Hama with a psudo-file card. lol

#g.i. joe #g.i. jane #action figures #toy #kids toys #80s toys #a real american hero #kung fu grip accessories

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djpain619 · 9 months

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Been binge watching the original GIJoe series.

Need me an Imperium of Man Propaganda Series in the same vein as ciaphas cain. Except with a Regiment of Imperial guard made up entirely of Guardsman representing nearly every uniqe Regiment type in the Guard.

Anyone know what the British Equivalent of "Joe" is?

Till then I Got the working Title "I.G. Joe"

Cobra would be a Genestealer Cult Called "The Cult of the Celestial Serpent."

#gi joe #a real american hero #cobra #40k #warhammer 40k #imperial guard #astra militarum #genestealers #genestealer cults

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 4 months

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SLEEK IN HER SEVERITY -- STRIKING IN HER BEAUTY -- COBRA'S FINEST OPERATIVE.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on assorted pin-ups of the Anastasia DeCobray, a.k.a., "The Baroness," chief intelligence operative for the international terrorist organization, COBRA, artwork by Bruce Timm, various dates.

Sources: www.pinterest.com/pin/538813542894534788, Comic Art Fans, Comic Art Community, various, etc...

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kushblazer666 · 6 months

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#a real american hero

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modularmedia · 6 months

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November 1982 - Saturday Morning Panels #5

@thevacuuminator & @snowburke discuss tons of Takara, Super7 & Hasbro Reveals, another classic issue of RAH and the insane deals going on at liquidation stores recently.

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1980sactionfigures · 9 months

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My Childhood G.I. JOE Collection is now LIVE on Ebay!

If you've been following me, you know I've been putting most everything I have left of my childhood toy and figure collections on Ebay and this massive collection is my latest auction to go live! Check it out if and check out all of my current auctions, which includes items from SECTAURS, MUPPETS, M.U.S.C.L.E., TRANSFORMERS, GARFIELD, DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, REMCO, PEANUTS, SIMPSONS, STARRIORS, DICK TRACY, FLINTSTONES, MICRONAUTS, BATTLE BEASTS and tons more!!!

#g.i. joe #gijoe #hasbro #ebay #arah #a real american hero #vintage toys #toys #action figures #yo joe #cobra la la la la la la la la la la la

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table-cat-games · 9 months

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I have a massive G.I. Joe toy I'm trying to sell. If I could get rid of it I'd have so much more floor space.

EDIT: Someone bought it.

The purchaser was an older woman and her son who was about my age. He has a lung disease that makes life tough and he always wanted one. His mom finally had enough money to buy it for him.

#vintage toys #gi joe #action figures #it's on ebay #local pick up only #a real American hero

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kollectorsrus · 1 year

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asian-heart-92 · 1 year

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A Real American Hero fancast (part 27)

Asa Butterfield as Dickie Sapperstein

Rosabell Laurenti Sellers as Jodie F. Craig/Shooter

Harrison Ford as Cyril Colombani/Skidmark

Tom Welling as Sky Creeper

Emile Hirsch as Lynton N. Felix/Skydive

Alex O'Loughlin as Daniel T. Toner/Skymate

K.J. Apa as Alexander P. Russo/Skystriker

Eddie Cibrian as Guillermo Suarez/Snow Storm

Tom Selleck as Space Shot

Lorenzo Richelmy as Alessandro D. Verdi/Sparks

#g.i. joe #fancast #a real american hero #asa butterfield #rosabell laurenti sellers #harrison ford #tom selleck #lorenzo richelmy

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herosenordem · 1 year

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#giphy #80s #marvel #1980s #cobra #hasbro #gi joe #80s cartoons #toei #80s toys #sunbow #a real american hero #commercial bumper #gi joe will return after these messages

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 1 year

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THE HEADS OF COBRA -- ALL HAIL COBRA COMMAND.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on back cover art to "G.I. Joe Yearbook" Vol. 1 #1 (Forces of Cobra!). March, 1985. Marvel Comics. Artwork by Michael Golden.

Now, for this roll call, starting off with COBRA's dreaded founder and leader, of course:

Cobra Commander, the Baroness, Destro, Major Bludd, Storm Shadow, Zartan, and Firefly. A COBRA trooper of the Crimson Guard is also, but barely visible. And, as always... HAIL COBRA!!

Source: www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=911853.

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hasbr0mniverse · 2 years

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G.I. Joe A Real American Hero! Gallery - Art By S.L. Gallant and Gary Erskine

#g.i. joe #a real american hero

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astropithecus · 7 months

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For my first decade or so, I got a lot of toys second-hand from my cousins (actually fourth-hand in some cases - I was a few years younger than my uncle's youngest son, which meant I was the last stop for their three-boy-household's outgrown toys).

An interesting effect is that my "nostalgic toy era" stretches haphazardly all the way back into the late 70's, well before I was born. I didn't usually get the really good stuff, e.g. no 1980 Kenner AT-AT, but in 1989 I got the "Dagobah Action Playset," sans any figurines, or moving parts, but including rapidly-deteriorating quicksand foam.*

These toys came in bags or bins, not cardboard boxes or blister packages. I was five and I'd never seen Empire Strikes Back. Consequently, I had no idea what this tree stump with a crumbly hole even was.² I loved it, though. Sometimes over the years it was a secret lair for a villain. Other times it was strategic cover for a retreating force. Often it was a garage for Hot Wheels cars. I crumbled a fair bit of foam sinking Hot Wheels cars in the quicksand. It didn't really matter what it was supposed to be, consequently it was a lot of different things, and I enjoyed all of them.

Similarly, the G.I. Joe cartoon was cancelled before my episodic memory begins, but I had a ton of early-to-mid 80s G.I. Joes by the time I was 8 or so. I had some that I'd gotten new in the late 80's or early 90s, too, after the tie-in cartoon had been cancelled, and for those I usually at least sort-of-remembered some details about them from the packaging. But the ones I'd inherited, they were blank slates. I made up my own names and gimmicks and personalities for them.

Sometimes when I got new ones and I'd clip the "G.I. Joe Command File" off the cardback, I'd get a kind of pang that I'd never know who those hand-me-downs were supposed to be. This was well before anything we'd recognize as "the internet" now, so those cardbacks seemed like the only available source of information in the entire world. I wasn't any better at keeping up with G.I. Joe Command Files than I was homework so it's not like I wanted to complete the set or anything, it was more that something intangible had been lost - they'd come with an identity a long time ago, but that part didn't make it to me, and now I'd never know. My cousins were useless in this regard, the oldest had already left home and the youngest, as the third-hand owner, usually didn't know any more than I did.

Thanks to the internet, I could now go look up all the G.I. Joes I ever had if I wanted to, but I usually don't. I have to admit, now it doesn't really matter to me who they were supposed to be, really I just wish I remembered more about who I decided they were. There is one I'll never forget, though.

I decided this guy was Vincent Price.

With adult eyes, "Crystal Ball" (apparently that's his name, do his friends call him "Crystal" or "Ball"?) could plausibly be a rip-off of the crystal-ball-toting warlock from crappy 80s Scrappy Doo cartoons (voiced by and modeled after - you guessed it - Vincent Price). I remember connecting "Vincent Van Ghoul" to the guy in the movies we watched at Halloween, and that guy to the Muppet "Vincent Twice, Vincent Twice" - so animated Vincent Price to live-action Vincent Price to Muppet Vincent Price - and after that I guess it wasn't much of a leap to then decide he was a G.I. Joe, too.³ And even without a G.I. Joe Command File, the purpose of that swirly lenticular shield was unmistakable to my 8-year-old mind - G.I. Joe Vincent Price was a hypnotist.

So, while I usually don't care to peruse the bounty of G.I. Joe-related information available on the world wide web, I was curious about the real story behind this one figure that grown-up logic tells me couldn't have actually been Vincent Price. So I turned to an apparently highly-regarded source of G.I. Joe information, "Joepedia":

Crystal Ball is almost universally considered the most disliked figure. Fans hate this guy.

Oh.

I'm not posting the actual cardback, because it turns out his official backstory is basically just some tired anti-Romani tropes that feel tonedeaf now. But here's the thing, in my lived experience, for a brief time before I understood how plagarism works, Vincent Price was a G.I. Joe with a shield that hypnotizes people (and apparently also a gun, if that doesn't work). That's so much better than what that little plastic guy was supposed to be.

If there needs to be a moral to this story, I think it's that focusing too much on what you're supposed to be prevents you from coming up with something even better instead.

* There is actually a cottage industry for replacement quicksand foam for Dagobah Action Playsets, because apparently the foam insert it was produced with just sort of dry rotted in crumbly clumps after a few years. This is actually why this example came to mind, because Empire Strikes Back came out four years before I was even born (let alone playing with officially-licensed sci-fi movie tie-in action playsets), so the shared experience of crumbly Dagobah quicksand is something more the purveyance of Gen-Xers than my Millennial cohort.

² While I later spent a few awkward adolescent years as an encyclopedic Star Wars nerd, I was raised in a Trek household, TOS specifically. Perhaps ironically, by the time I got into Star Wars, the Dagobah Action Playset had long-since been discarded, I never made the connection that I'd had (what was left of) an original Kenner playset from ~1981 and threw it away - I might have wept. Luckily I was in my 20s before I had the realization that hadn't been just any slimy mudhole.

³ It might be this sort of conflation is what Hasbro was banking on in the first place, but Vincent Price seems like a weird celebrity for G.I. Joe to try and cash in on specifically. Adult me suspects more that Hasbro's inspiration was Doctor Strange (who was also modeled after Vincent Price), comic book characters seeming a more plausible source for a toy company to rip off for action figures. I didn't know anything about Doctor Strange back then, though - I wasn't ever big into superhero comics, and the few I had over the years were almost all DC.

#long reads #personal life #80s toys #nostalgia #idiot sage #kenner toys #gi joe #plagarism #indoctrination by the military industrial complex #a real american hero #star wars

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recursive360 · 1 year

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🇺🇸 A Great American