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To: JoeProBono

I recall having at one time six GI Joes, all with the plastic hair (no fuzzie/no Kung-fu Grip), my first GI Joe was actually Black.

Spent many an hour recreating scenes from the TV show Combat. Unfortunately with them being so large I couldn’t get away with digging foxholes or breastworks. Simply used large river stones.... I even had the Mercury -7 spacecraft... what I wouldn’t give to have some of those things back...


9 posted on 09/14/2012 7:19:25 AM PDT by Cliff Dweller (No such thing as a threat... just targets)
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To: Cliff Dweller

EBay is your friend. (Maybe)


15 posted on 09/14/2012 7:25:04 AM PDT by epluribus_2
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To: Cliff Dweller

I too had a spacecraft, but it was sold during the Apollo era, though it could still only fit one astronaut Joe.

“Life-like hair”, but pre-kung-fu-grip.

It came with a (square flexible plastic!) recording of the lunar landing one could play on a record player.

Far and away my favorite toy from that era (five years old).

God only knows how Joe has been re-branded in our present PC milieu.


22 posted on 09/14/2012 7:33:00 AM PDT by jtal (Runnin' a World in Need with White Folks' Greed - since 1492)
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To: Cliff Dweller
OMG the Mercury Capsule!! I recall seeing that toy at McCrory's back in the day. I wanted it in the worst possible way, but alas it cost $19.50, a king's ransom in those days: nineteen dollars more than I had to my name and at least ten dollars over my "wheedle out of grandma with my best sad puppy look" limit. So it stayed ont he shelf.

They reissued it in the late '90s. FAO Schwartz had a couple hidden behind the plushies. I discovered that I still wanted it, but at $199.95 it was in my "if I'm going to spend that much on something it had better shoot real bullets" zone, and I deferred again. I guess I'll never own that darned thing.

23 posted on 09/14/2012 7:39:21 AM PDT by jboot (This isn't your father's America. Stay safe and keep your powder dry.)
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To: Cliff Dweller
I honestly think the reason why many children today are so stupid is because they don't have anything to stimulate their imaginations.

Actual toys (robots, spaceships, GI Joe) are capable of doing that, but many kids is this generation view toys as archaic as they prefer digital things like I-pads and video games.

As today's children become more and more surrounded by digital screens, they will become even more unimaginative and uncreative with each passing day.

33 posted on 09/14/2012 7:53:49 AM PDT by Prole (Please pray for the families of Chris and Channon. May God always watch over them)
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