GI Joe General

[Shockwave]

I'm pretty sure there's a Tailhook joke in there somewhere.

[Tigermegatron]

Ha! Shipwreck has a bad case of the notgays, don't worry buddy, we'll keep your secret.

hopefully the YMCA & the village people don't suspect anything.

[Gomess]

I can't believe I never thought of a GI Joe Village People before. I bet they've got all the members, right??

[Dominic]

Lessee....

-Spirit
-Wildbill
-Tollbooth
-Law (or Widescope)
-Stretcher (or Doc)
-Grunt

Yup. And, if you got with Doc (slightly less appropriate than Stretcher), if can be done with the sacred pre-87 characters.


Dom
-remembers when TF was unambiguously secondary to "GI Joe".

[Gomess]

-Spirit
-Wildbill
-Tollbooth
-Law (or Widescope)
-Stretcher (or Doc)
-Grunt

Pretty much all of these names are completely perfect.

[BWprowl]

Back when I was fully into buying GI Joe right when the 25A line was getting under way, I went in fully intending to build a set of Village People Joes. I know I at least got Spirit and Wild Bill specifically for this reason (Shipwreck I wanted anyway, and I never found Law).

[Dominic]

The never made Tollbooth, Law, Widescope, or Stretcher in 25A style. And, Doc was a mail-away that Hasbro's vendor cocked up whe distributing.

[BWprowl]

The never made Tollbooth, Law, Widescope, or Stretcher in 25A style. And, Doc was a mail-away that Hasbro's vendor cocked up whe distributing.

What? I'm almost certain a 25A Law & Order were released... Wait, no, I think they finally came out around the same time as the Renegades line was sharing space with the 30th Anniversary stuff (they were basically the same line, I think?), the wave with the impossible-to-find Storm Shadow. Yeah, I was looking for it at the time, not because I cared about making Village People anymore (in fact I think I'd sold my Spirit to you by then) but because a friend of mine in the military had just gotten back from the sandbox, and he happened to be an MP, so I thought he might be amused by it.

Reminds me Dom, you ever get that little Law & Order Kre-O set? I think my local TRU still has one around...

[Dominic]

I am actually skipping Joe Kre-O sets. Between trying to cut back on toys, save money and generally not being that in to "GI Joe" any more, I have little reason to be buying them.


I had forgotten about "Renegades" Law and Order. I saw it once or twice, but skipped it for various reasons despite having a fondness for the character.


Dom
-notes how well moulded the dog in that set is.

[Onslaught Six]

I think they finally came out around the same time as the Renegades line was sharing space with the 30th Anniversary stuff (they were basically the same line, I think?)

Yeah, and even all of that was a weird continuation of POC, which was a weird not-extension of the ROC line...

Hasbro (or retailers?) didn't have enough faith in Renegades to sell it as a full-blown toyline, the way they are with Prime. It worked out, because people who didn't like Renegades still wanted the toys!