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G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero through the eyes of South African fanboys.
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Saturday Dec 08, 2012
Saturday Dec 08, 2012
With the absence of new GI Joe product hitting us all rather hard, the GIJoburg boys return to an earlier time when G.I. Joe toys had disappeared indefinitely. What does the self-respecting fan of the ultimate 3'3/4 inch fighting man do with no new Joes? Throw in the towel? Save some bob? Or do our attentions turn elsewhere? Rob, Paul and Steve do a retrospective on toy collecting post 1994 and draw some comparisons with this current drought. Also in this episode, two new segments dealing with the best the vintage line had to offer. And Steve sucks at remembering lyrics. Bigtime.
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Oh and Destro V10 and 11 were good. They gave us alternate costumes for Destro in our scale.
Tuesday Apr 23, 2019
Have you guys done a podcast on the best of the new sculpt era? (2002-2004ish). I agree with you guys that they weren't as good as the vintage or 25th onward, but I have several of them that are what I think as good as vintage and some close to 25th level articulation. As for the articulation ones, I'm thinking Recondo V3 and Barrel Roll V2. The Recondo having swivel wrists and ankles and fairly decent paint and sculpt it's almost as good as the vintage Joe's. Almost. It lacks the soul of the vintage ones. Barrel Roll has swivel wrists too but he has elbows that allow a further bend than the other figures. It's almost the same range of a double hinge. He's also a decent sculpt and the paint is okay, could be better of course. And the Night Creepers may have had scrawny proportions, but having the wrist and ankle articulation was a good step. Plus I used them as Jedi training droids for Vader. There are some of the basic articulation that I still like too. Torpedo, Alpine, Sgt hacker, grunt, wild Bill, Burnout, Ripper, and some more I can't think of their name. But I don't see any of them as their vintage characters. They're all new joe characters in my eyes. And I'm glad I bought so many of them because that kept the Joe love going at Hasbro. Thank God they got past that phase though. I hope for a Joe revival in our near future. If they'd just re-release all the old vehicles and playsets with a slight retool to cockpits and any weak points( like that spring attachment on the defiant complex) and then give us the 25th-50th style bodies of all the vintage line and anyone they never made from the comics and show, we'd be happy. 😄
Tuesday Apr 23, 2019
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