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Who Had One Of These?
Tags: GI Joe
I didn’t get one and I’m still bitter about it.
Me too
Ditto. I did have that Joe though – complete with the Duck Hunter cammies…
Couldn’t afford G.I. Joe stuff when I was a kid. I got Major Matt Mason instead.
I had one when I was 4 years old, played with it until it broke. My mom talked me into her taking it to “be repaired”, then was distracted with the 6 Million Dollar Man…
I did! Mt Father was a big military guy, so I had every military like toy you can think of…I even had Special Forces Trading Cards while the other kids had baseball cards…
Anyone else ever notice that Adventure Teams logo is the same as the Appalachian Trail (AT)? I bought one of the moral patches for the AT and that’s when I notices it.
You mean the Appalachian Trail logo is the same as the Adventure Team logo?
At least, the position of A and T together is the same, but it’s a kind of common way to combine it in logos and symbols. There is even ancient Cyrillic letter “yus” that looks almost similar.
I just moved to Tennessee and noticed that
I’ve still got mine.
No. But I had a talking Duke in woodland camo with an M9 (both pistol and bayonet) and one of those prototype Colt flechette rifles plus an under slung grenade launcher that really fired.
Big GI joes were awesome!
Did anyone else notice that Joe had an aerial drone! I had tons of the 12″ Joe stuff and still have all of the comic, story books, Hasbro catalogs and even my GI Joe Adventure Team membership card and life size dog tags!
I would imagine that stuff is fairly valuable now. There’s at least one good, comprehensive GI Joe Price Guide available at a good large book store. Found that one day years ago while waiting for a buddy to be done working that day, and was amazed at how money that stuff was worth. “I had that…and that…and that…yeah, had a couple of those…damn…”
I had one that was similar, but memories are fuzzy. I also had a helicopter with some 45 records that had some story about a a GI Joe op in Somalia. GI Joes were awesome. I wish I never found the fascination of fireworks and BB guns at 9 or 10 because all the GI Joe stuff would be great for my son now. If I could go back in time and see my youthful self, I would slap the little dumbass in the head.
Just the GI Joe. But I also had the Six Million Dollar Man with the bionic arm and telescopic eye!
Looks like Joe’s Natick had funds to develop the cool aerial drone, but none for the not-so-cool CBRN suit… 🙂
That was for the rich kids. I had Joe rolling in a Tonka truck!
1970’s?? A bunch of youngsters in here, I had plastic Army men in the 1950’s :)!
the good old days of crewing on lead based paint sniffing zylene based ‘ MAGIC’ markers… no helmets are car seats… good times!
It apparently had no effect on you whatsoever!
the good old days of chewing on lead based paint sniffing zylene based ‘ MAGIC’ markers… no helmets are car seats… good times!
No seat belt or open container enforcement either.
I remember playing in the back of our station wagon while traveling.
Not that set but I was fortunate enough to talk my mom into the deep sea diving set. Worked great with my hand-me-down Joe.
M.T. – I had the plastic army men too and so do my kids. Exact same figures. Those never go out of style.
I never had this, but I did buy a similar toy a couple of weeks ago; an Alvis Saracen Mk 5 APC. I guess some kids never grow up… 🙂
Total nostalgic nosebleed! I was lucky enough to have this, but mine was green. My bearded JOE had a pull cord that made him talk. I remember all the great action artwork on the box covers and standing in SEARS toy section just drooling.