Forgotten Figures

Tunnel Rat remains a fan favorite.  It's due to both the incredible quality of his figure and the fact that his likeness was based on La...

The Wolf has an argument as the best Cobra vehicle ever created.  I'll explore that statement sometime next winter when I profile my chi...

1987 was the apex of my childhood Joe collection.  I had found the first figures of the year in the weeks before Christmas in 1986.  Falcon ...

Crazylegs is not a figure that mattered to me during my childhood.  In fact, I kind of hated the figure because, before I saw the figure in ...

Taurus is a boring figure.  He's the least popular of the Renegades and is the one you least often see in action.  The only really inter...

The 1987 Outback is one of those figures in the G.I. Joe that, on its own, probably wouldn't merit the unrequited love it gets in the co...

On of the most ignored facets of the worldwide Joe line is that a huge number of vehicles that were released in Europe actually feature some...

The 1987 Cobras were terrible.  The Joe design team took a bizarre turn that year.  And, even the figures who turned out to be good were sti...

Back in 1987, I picked up 2 BattleForce 2000 figures: Blaster and Knockdown.  My brothers got Maverick and Dodger.  I always wanted to pick ...

When I first saw the 1987 catalog, it was full of toys I wanted.  Two oddball items stuck out to me, though.  The first, obviously, was Cobr...

The weather's been crappy and  I've been busy with real life things, lately.  So, I had no profile to go today.  (I've got a rea...

This profile is a little different.  It's not about a figure.  It's not about any particular release of G.I. Joe ephemera.  It is, i...