G.I. Joe is a line of action figures produced by the toy company Hasbro. The initial product offering represented four of the branches of the U.S. armed forces with the Soldier (Army), Action Sailor (Navy), Action Pilot (Air Force) and Action Marine (Marines). The term G.I.
G.I. Joe has been the title of comic strips and comic books in every decade since 1942. As a licensed property by Hasbro, comics were released from 1967 up to this day, with only two interruptions longer than a year (1977–1981, 1997–2000).
Throughout the existence of the G.I. Joe media franchise, there have been several video games released.
An object for a child to play with, typically a model or miniature replica of something
(toy) plaything: an artifact designed to be played with
(toy) a nonfunctional replica of something else (frequently used as a modifier); "a toy stove"
An object, esp. a gadget or machine, regarded as providing amusement for an adult
(toy) dally: behave carelessly or indifferently; "Play about with a young girl's affection"
A person treated by another as a source of pleasure or amusement rather than with due seriousness
An instance of a ship leaning over in such a way
a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics)
include in a list; "Am I listed in your register?"
give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of; "List the states west of the Mississippi"
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I collect Transformers primarily but when I was a kid, I never really played with Transformers. We were mostly really into Lego and Micro Machines and Ninja Turtles.
And GI Joe. Though Joes never landed on the level of those listed above.
Still, I had quite a few. I still have many of the ones that didn't meet death at the hands of the "Upside down bike with a spinning wheel".
I kind of faded out with Joes for a long while, then a few years ago, Hasbro released Spy Troops. These were a subline the way Transformrs has Cybertron and The Movie. They featured more modern sculpts and designs. I started bying the stray Joe here and there back then. Designs I liked. I followed to the Valor vs Venom line.
Then Hasbro released Sigma 6. Larger scaled fancy Joes. I'm pretty sure at the time I heard Hasbro say they would no longer make 3 3/4 scale Joes (ever).
I may have misheard. Or Sigma 6 turned out to be lame and over priced.
Anyway, now they've started releasing smaller Joes again for the 25th Anniversary of small Joes. I picked up Cobra Commander and Storm Shadow. Storm Shadow here is actually a good guy in this variation apparently but I'm too cheap to spring for the boxed set (also I can't find it) so he'll be a bad guy to me.
Cobra Commander also has this awesome fist of fury hand. FOR SHAKING!
YO JOE!!!!
My son, Ethan and I was playing with my GI JOEs today while watching some of the old 80s cartoons... he has never seen them till today and he already thinks the cartoon is so cool.. hehe... then I realized that I never really took photos of my Joes. I am a pretty big fan of GI Joes ever since I was a kid.
So... I decided to make a game with this photo. To see if anyone can actually name all the GI JOE figures in this shot... (Not counting the Destro Mighty Mugg :P) Ethan and I spent awhile setting them all up so for those of you that are up to it, hope you have fun. :)
*Whoever can list all of them first, I will send you a toy. :P
*BTW, KingKong, I still need to send you something. :D