I also kind of hate the choice of guns. The rifle is bizarre. I'm not a gun expert by any means (although I know a bit), but why does this thing have side-by-side barrels? What is going on? Take that away and the design is pretty good so I just.. don't get it.
Based off of this thing
It's real, but totally a range toy. I figured they used in that it's 100% real world, but straddles that line of oddball/bizarre that the Joeverse is known for.
Thanks, I hate it.
OMG, this talk about readers. I'm a 47 year old writer, had to get readers, and then got double vision out of nowhere for distance, but need contacts for regular sight, so now I have three sets of lenses that are incompatible (the prisms for double vision can't be used in bifocals) and I swear there are days I give up and just Matt Murdock my way around the house and hope for the best.
Onto Classifieds... I saw Sarge while I was tabling in artist alley at a comic con this weekend and now I want the Maruaders version of him. That is a perfectly reasonable reaction to walking by the man, right? I didn't talk with him but it was funny just running from my booth to get coffee and seeing the legend himself.
I also, at the same con, saw the VAMP going for $250 and it moved at that price. I got back to my booth and texted my girlfriend a reminder of how to sell all my toys and collectibles if I drop dead suddenly so she can pay off bills and take herself on a long vacation somewhere nice when I'm gone.
This is why I love the Fwoosh so much. So far everyone here that has listed their age is older than me. Compared to Reddit where it feels like I am surrounded by children.
Son of a ….
It’s like some Orwellian reconditioning torture posting on the Fwoosh.
Iwas just posting how I love reading well thought out posts and it resets before I type five to six sentences.
I really hate the short form formats like Discord. It’s like reading stream of consciousness.
Arggh!
I agree. I hate the guns for Action Soldier other than big gun I gave Amazon Roadblock.
Thwipp!
This is why I love the Fwoosh so much. So far everyone here that has listed their age is older than me. Compared to Reddit where it feels like I am surrounded by children.
Reddit really is for babies. At least the figure collectors all seem to be babies. Everything is new to them.
39..... stop shaking your old man canes at me
I’m ‘77 also, class of ‘95. We are THE target market. Action figures are imprinted on our brains.
'73 here. Around five years old for the first Star Wars, nine for Joes and MotU, and eleven for Transformers. Then Nintendo is mass released in '86 and is under the Tree that year.
Back in the very early 2000s some of the old guys were posting on message boards like alt.gi-joe about their switch from miniature soldiers to 1/6 scale. Their old eyes were making it difficult to paint mini's and more realistic 12" military figures were just releasing at the time.
@normdapito you too? Awesome!
And yes, "collect them all" was programmed into us from the start.
1978 baby here. Every memory of my life involves action figures one way or the other, and the first time I got to pick one off the shelf for myself was 1983, and it was down to Cobra Commander and Snake-Eyes: I went home with Snake-Eyes. It was Toys R Us and I was with my dad only: my mom HATED GI Joe at first (“war toys bad” which, looking back, was a a very fair point, mom) so I only had SE and then Zartan with his swamp skier and also Vamp mk2 with Clutch, both given to me for holiday gifts by folks outside my nuclear family. It took a couple years to start figuring out how to get Joes on my own, and 1987’s Cobra roster was the first real “wave” I got mostly in full, by doing math worksheets for school in exchange for one figure per worksheet per a deal with my mom. I never got Snake-Eyes v2 until we found him in a Paris gift shop in, like, 1988 on one of my dad’s work trips. Same with the Viper, although I definitely talked my way into BAT, Mindbender and Serpentor as they were released. So a lot of my real favorites are later in the line, when I had more autonomy to choose my figures. 88, 89, 90 and onward where my biggest collecting years. And I somehow wound up with the Defiant! Wish I still had that. Although I don’t know where I would put it. It was a centerpiece of my room well into my teens.
Yeah, that mid- to late 70s age range is the sweet spot for action figures, isn't it. My earliest memories are Star Wars, He-Man, and GI Joe. Add in some Secret Wars Marvel figures and Super Powers DC figures, a few bizarre, pure-'80s cartoons, and boom. My entire childhood.
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