Forgotten Figures

Short Fuse is my least used member of the original 13 Joes.  He never resonated with me as a character or a figure.  His 1997 update, though...

The 1997 Toys R Us G.I. Joe releases were a mess.  The extent to which they were botched is really difficult to comprehend.  Hasbro's p...

In 2003, Hasbro continued their successful partnership with Toys R Us in regards to the G.I. Joe line.  TRU had been the savior for the 15th...

After Christmas of 1982 , I owned four G.I. Joe figures.  But, between Snake Eyes , Clutch , Hawk and Breaker , I had just one gun.  Three ...

When the Joe line launched in 1982 , catalog sales were still a dominant retail force.  For a toy line to maximize sales, it had to offer so...

We all know about the black skinned 1997 Rock and Roll variant .  But, the set that included the most famous variant in the repaint era also...

 A swing and a miss!  That’s the best way to sum up the 2005 Short-Fuze , a comic pack figure.  It’s one of Hasbro’s re-animated uses of the...

Some characters just get short changed.  Short Fuse is one such Joe character for me.  In 20 years, I've looked at one Short Fuse figure...

Originally, the 1997 series of figures was planned to include a repainted Breaker and a repainted 1983 Rock and Roll figure.  Handpainted...

The original 13 G.I. Joe figures had a lot of common parts. As such, to an outside eye, many of the figures appeared to be very similar or t...