GI Joe:Resolute

[Sailor Steve]

And how many of you are old enough to remember when G.I. Joe was a set of US military action figures, with no TV series to sell them? They were much maligned as "Glorifying war", since it was the middle of the Vietnam era and a vast majority of the target group was anti-war at the time.

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

And how many of you are old enough to remember when G.I. Joe was a set of US military action figures, with no TV series to sell them? They were much maligned as "Glorifying war", since it was the middle of the Vietnam era and a vast majority of the target group was anti-war at the time.

Raises hand, I remember setting up dioramas with tanks and machine gun nests and then blowing it all up with fire crackers. Then we would tie the dolls to a piece of string and drag them behind out bikes till there little heads would fall off.

Woah... Id better be careful or Ill end up on one of those profile lists :rotfl:

[NeonSamurai]

I'm only old enough to remember the first cartoon series..

I have to say though as a kid I always rooted for Cobra, just because the Joes were such goody goody nit wit phoneys and didn't deserve to win all the time. That and they always won in the stupidest most lame ways possible, ususaly prompting me to yell "oh come oooon!" at the tv at the end of each episode.

I felt the same for the Transformers too. Couldn't stand the autobots, and wanted the decepticons to win.

Guess I'm not a goody goody and tend to like the underdog. That or maybe I'm just evil

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

And how many of you are old enough to remember when G.I. Joe was a set of US military action figures, with no TV series to sell them? They were much maligned as "Glorifying war", since it was the middle of the Vietnam era and a vast majority of the target group was anti-war at the time.

That was back when every GI Joe had 12 inches.


Uh I meant every GI Joe was 12 inches high.


Although I have to admit, I was more a Matt Mason kid myself.