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Posted: Feb 06 2014 09:51 am

I may not be a hugely obsessive collector or anything, but I have some pretty fond memories of playing G.I. Joes with a neighborhood friend back in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade. Mostly because he had a Defiant Shuttle Complex and I had a Terror Drome. Since I was a Cobra fan (motherfuckin' Zartan and shit!) and he was a Joes fan, we had some epic battles.

Then one day I hit him in the face with my Trubble Bubble and we weren't allowed to hang out anymore. Funny enough, he went into the military and I become something of a criminal. Go fig.

Anyhow, anybody else a borderline Joe/Cobra fan (or a big one)?

Posted: Feb 10 2014 02:14 am

I went Cobra, all the way. They were so much cooler looking than the good guys. The only Joe I had was Mutt & Junkyard because he had a net-launcher and a dog.

I still have most of them in a box, but when I went through them recently to see about rotating them with the Ninja Turtles figures on my desk, I found almost all of the rubber bands that hold them together have gone brittle. A few had crumbled away completely... Crying

Yet another reason the Turtles were superior, besides size, price, unique sculpts, etc.

But the vehicles were awesome:

Posted: Feb 11 2014 12:44 am

The rubber bands were a pain in the ass, yeah, I have to give you that one. Of course, so were the pizza disks from the Pizza Launcher for the turtles. Those things got lost like mo-fos.

Good times!