Forgotten Figures

There's not a ton of content featuring this Comic Pack Thrasher.  Mostly, because he's not a good figure.  The original Thrasher is ...

It's pretty non-controversial to say that Torch is the least popular of the original 3 Dreadnoks.  And, you'll see that played out i...

The Comic Packs were an inspired idea.  The offered promise of spectacular new figures, long desired repaints and new characters who had bee...

Yes, had the 1995 line seen production, Road Pig would have become a Ninja.  We don't know how this happened.  But, it would have occu...

I don't really know what to think about Thrasher.  He was among the first 1986 figures I acquired.  And, he was terrible.  His design, h...

Dreadnoks are not my favorite theme in the Joe line.  And, after the 1985 series, the Dreadnoks took a drop in design.  But, for some reason...

In the early 2000's, Funskool was churning out G.I. Joe figures.  The series was very popular in India.  And, American dealers had foun...

Zandar is a product of his time.  He was a figure who was designed to be some sort of underground rocker.  The fact that he was designed by ...

In early 1986 , a kid in my younger brother's class brought a bag of newly found G.I. Joe figures to the playground.  It contained ...

I was never a huge Zarana fan.  While I found a use for Zandar for a short while, Zarana never had that occur with her.  Her lack of firing ...

My dad was a Sears junkie.  He would go to the store and browse the various aisles like I peruse toy web sites today.  He had no real intent...

Light blue plastic sucks.  It sucks because, while it can be a useful color to represent things like jeans, it tends to fade, discolor or tu...

Some Joe figures have help up pretty well over the 20 or 30 years.  Others, have not.  There are several Joe figures that were designed in t...