|
|
G.I. Joe
by Hasbro
|
Read memories from others. |
This memory was added on: December 17, 2006
I remember getting a Talking G.I. Joe for my 8th birthday.It was an action figure that would say 6 different things,depending on how short or long you pulled the cord.I could only get mine to say'Mission accomplished,good work men'
john
1964
This memory was added on: December 7, 2006
I'm hardly the avid GI Joe collector, i.e., the type to go through extreme searches/prices to land one. However, recently I became somewhat intrigued ... literally overnight ... all due to this crazy window display idea I have for a client. basically, the window is a tribute to the troops, especially those not spending the holidays at home. In searching for vintage GI's, the flocked hair guys, I was nearly thrown out the window by the prices. I guess It's all worth it to those with a strong connection, but $700 for a doll!!!!!!!!!!!!?
Vintage or not, anything beyond $19.99 is beyond my understanding, not to mention budget. Till today that is. Moments ago, I made my 1st very own purchase, at killer $300 for me, for this African American GI I just had to have. Uh oh, was that my initial injection to addiction? Ohhh, hope not. Short GI story, going back the one I had as kid, ended somewhat sad. It was 1972, one of my many years as a rough and ready kid. A few days after my prize, I mistook my GI for Gumby by yanking his cords pass their stretch.
Picking up the pieces (in tears), it's my 1st recollection of loss. Though my tears probably only lasted a day, saying goodbye to my GI was serious enough for me to feel the need for a proper burial. Not just any burial, what little me considered a proper one, including a tiny little pin flag my Mother gave me from her pincushion and rock headstone with the letters "RIP," etched by Dad. Yep, as far as I know, my GI still rests where most summer vacations were spent ... out of the muck of the city, a plot just behind a house long gone ... Grandmas backyard. Funny how a simple adult task took me back a day I hadn't remembered since I was too short to drive, better yet, too young to truly understand the LASTING trauma of loss.
Todd
1965
This memory was added on: November 29, 2006
I goy my first G.I.Joe on the Christmas of 1967. Good ole Uncle Roy handed me a red wrapped present. Quickly,I opened it. When I first laid my eyes on it, the toy was already my favorite. My friends,Dave and John,had their own G.I.Joes. We would make up action adventures together. I decided to name mine Kruncher. Cool name. At night,his bed was in my sock drawer. I had never taken off his uniform. My sister,Carol,tried to sometimes get a hold of it so she could use it as her Barbie"s boyfriend. No way! He was my best action figure. Everyday,I said "Yo Joe." That was my call to Kruncher. After about five years, I got kind of tired of playing with him. Though he is still in my memories. I think I still have him up in my attic somewhere...
Adam
1960
This memory was added on: November 27, 2006
I REMEMBER CHRISTMAS 1964 AND ALL I WANTED WAS GI JOE........AND I GOT HIM.........LOTS OF GREAT HOURS PLAYING WITH MY BROTHER AND MY FEMALE COUSIN WHO BROUGHT OVER HER BARBIES........ AND WHATVER HAPPENES IN VEGAS SATYS IN VEGAS...AS THEY SAY .. LETS JUST SAY JOE HAD A GREAT TIME WHEN HE WAS ON LEAVE!!!!!!!!!!ALSO HAD THE BARRACUDA CAR...SORT OF A REMOTE LARGE RED CAR.........JOE DROVE THAT "PARTY BARBIE" ALL OVER OUR HOUSE........MUCH TO THE DISMAY OF OUR MOM...........WELL, LIKE MOST OF US, WHEN WE SOLD THE OLD HOUSE, OUT WENT JOE..........I DID SAY THAT SOME DAY THEY MIGHT BE WORTH SOMETHING.......HAD THE SLPACE CAPSULE AND ALL.....MY JOE AKA GLENN.....HAD A CAST ON HIS RIGHT LEG FOREVER......NOT SURE HOW THAT STARTED .....BUT THAT WAS HOW I FOUND HIM WHEN I TOSSED HIM OUT.............FOOTLOCKER AND ALL.......AND AT 51 I STILL THINK ABOUT THE FUN I HAD FOR SO MANY YEARS.........NOT TO SPEAK OF THE FUN MY COUSINS' BARBIE HAD.......WELL NOW I AM A BARBIE COLLECTOR AND WISH I HAD THE GI JOE IN FULL DRESS BLUES TO ESCORT ONE OF MY BEAUTIES TO THE MARINE BALL..........HARD TO FIND.....HE HAS TO BE BLONDE AS MINE WAS.........I WILL KEEP LOOKING..........AND I AM SURE YOU GUESSED I WILL NEVER GROW UP..HECK WHY SHOULD I........LOVE LIFE AND THOSE INNOCENT YEARS BRING WARM WONDERFUL MEMORIES TO US ALL........HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO YOU GREAT PEOPLE WHO REMEMBER THAT WONDERFUL SAFE AND CAREFREE TIMES OF OUR OUR CHILDHOODS....BRING IT BACK WHENEVER YOU CAN....IT IS A BEAUTIFUL THING..........AGAIN HAPPY HOLIDAYS..BE SAFE AND BE HAPPY....AND GI JOE IN DRESS BLUES I AM COMING FOR YA DUDE...........WATCH OUT!!!!!!!!
JAMES R.
1955
This memory was added on: November 25, 2006
I am a fanatical collector of the joes and i eveven build steff for em , including a cycle w/sidecar+machine gun. I can still remember the first joes i got. they were the little ones ya know? anyway i played with 'em so hard the first day one of em lost some of his fingers. THEY WERE SO COOL!!! I made basecamps for them in my backyard and had little battles. i dont have any of the origianl ones now they all broke.
crazy bout Joes
1992
This memory was added on: November 21, 2006
wanted !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 40th anniversery gijoe acceries,figures, also timeless aussie sets ............... Top dollar paid send list to addy below
michael254t@yahoo.com
michael
1967
This memory was added on: November 19, 2006
hi i had a gi joe but having two sisters the poor guy had to put up with knitted jumpers and trousers the worst insult he could have got or so i thought till one day after comming home from school i found him to be married to sindy only ten minutes before i arrived home however help came in the form of a german stormtrooper action man who amushed the happy couple on their way home from the service joe some how managed to jump clear as the lighter fluid flame thrower torched poor sindy as her and the jeep melted the flames were far to intense for joe (crocodile tear }never mind he never got knitted yellow trousers or bright blue knitted tops ever again and my sisters never forgave me still got him and great memories all the best steve
steve from scotland
1969
This memory was added on: October 27, 2006
Many a moon ago i had the search for the stolen idol, and a friend of mine had the talking commander and jeep with the spot light and the cannon , we wore thoese joes out draged them through the mud and went so far as to hook up an industral fan inside a clovert pipe under the road to make a wind tunnel, we had some great times with good ole Joe, today at 44 ive managed to recollect most of the milatiry sets and the adventure team sets plus mostly all of the timless collection joes it has brought many memories im glad i found this sight Long Live Joe... i think the should make the Mel Gibson talking Joe now that would be cool
Jackie
1962
This memory was added on: October 18, 2006
In the late sixties, I got my first GI Joe and loved it. I did not have any money so I would write letters to Hasbro asking for stuff and to my surprise they sent me helmets, rifles, cartridge belts, etc. Every week or so a brown package would arrive with GI Joe gear. In 1969, when GI Joes was "dieing". I went to a Discount store where they were clearing out GI Joes for $3.98. They were the French resistance fighter and the Japanese soldier. They had stacks and stacks of them. I bought the Frenchie but later I wished I had the Japanese because then Joe would have an enemy. Conclusion, what happend to my beloved Joes, go ask my mother. One day, I came home and went to open my little suitcase, I was 25 by then, and it was empty.
Simon
1959
This memory was added on: October 17, 2006
WHEN I WAS A KID THAT'S ALL I PLAYED WITH WAS GI JOE . I HAD THE JEEP WITH THE BIG GUN ON THE BACK AND I ALWAYS WANTED EVERYTHING ELSE BUT BEING ON THE POOR SIDE IT WAS TOUGH AT CHRISTMAS , I MAY HAVE GOTTEN AN OUTIFT OR A NEW GI JOE BUT NEVER THE BIG STUFF LIKE THE JET OR THE TANK . I HAD THE SPACE CAPSULE, BUT WHAT I DID HAVE WAS PURE FUN. NOT LIKE THE TOYS OF TODAY. I REMEMBER GETTING THE SNOW OUTFIT ONE YEAR AND TO TOP THINGS OFF IT REALLY SNOWED THAT CHRISTMAS ,GOD I WAS OUTSIDE BEFORE I HAD MY CLOTHS ON PLAYING WITH GI JOE ON A PAIR OF SNOW SHOES AND A WHITE ARMY OUTFIT. BUT ANYWAY IN BETWEEN THE FIGHTING WE WOULD CALL THE GIRLS OVER TO BRING THERE BARBIE DOLLS OUT , THEM BARBIES, THEY COULD NOT RESIST A MAN IN UNIFORM LOL.
JOHN P
1959
This memory was added on: September 21, 2006
Right before my eighth grade Graduation in 1982 I had a idea with my buddies I was going have one of the fuzzy head G.I. Joes circa 1972 and I was going put Lighter fluid on him from head to toe then set him on fire and spin him around in the air watching to see if he would end up in a tree and watch him explode
scott
1968
This memory was added on: September 3, 2006
I had a GI Joe in the early 70's. He came with some stick-on hair that you couuld put on his head or on for mustaches or beards. I put mine on his chest!!!!!!!!!!!
Julie Livingood
1963
This memory was added on: August 24, 2006
Unwanted GI Joe
I was in an old toy shop south of Seattle back in 1992 when I noticed a USMC GI Joe sitting in a basket. He was in his dressed blues and was on sale for about $12.00. I picked him up and discovered why, his arm had been broken off at the shoulder and no replacement parts would have helped. I bought him anyway, took him home and super glued his arm & shoulder back on.
The GI Joe was one of the original ones with the shaved head and moustache, sort of looking like Brian Donlevy from the movie "Beau Geste". Anyway, he stood proudly in my front window for years holding an American Flag at Shouldered Arms.
Unfortunately the sunshine was not so respectful to him as his uniform & cap have faded. Joe is still proud and is in need of a new set of dressed blues. Hopefully I will be asble to find some somewhere.
Patrick D
1952
This memory was added on: August 7, 2006
My friend had a huge collection of GI Joe stuff that kept us busy for hours.My fave accessories were the large Jeeps one tan and a olive drab one.The green one came with a large cannon that shot silver shells about the size of a .50 caliber bullet.Man that thing must have shot 20-30 feet!It would never be allowed today because of product liability and nimrods who would shoot each other in the eye.Sure was fun!
Phil
1964
This memory was added on: July 27, 2006
By the late sixties, my brother and I established a squad of Joes. Mysteriously the entire squad went AWOL the very day mom held a yard sale.
During my freshman year of collage, I wandered through the toy section of the local “five and dime” and noticed about a dozen boxes of something called “GI Nurse”. Well I passed on them mainly because of a disposable cash issue. Years passed, my cash issues improved. Shortly before graduation, I again passed through the same toy section…yes those very same GI Nurses remained on the shelf, but at a greatly reduced price. I had the money, but couldn’t convince myself to buy five units for all of $10. So again I passed, this time because they would not fit in trunk of my 72 Duster.
GI VRO
1958
This memory was added on: July 12, 2006
I need all of your help...I don't have any GI Joe memories but my boyfriend does...
He also 2 of 3 G.I. Joe and Harley Motorcycle box sets...he has the WWII Army Courier with the 45 Harley Davidson Motorcycle and he has the G.I. JOe Police Officer with the Electra Glide Harley Davidson Motorcycle, however there was a third on e ...WWII Army MP with Police Motorcycle with side car... I NEED that one...Anybody out there have one or know where I can get one. Contact me at lesa12361@Yahoo.com
Lesa Smith
1961
This memory was added on: July 4, 2006
I am in high school but collect vintage G.I. Joes both 60s and 70s. Every once in a while a vintage Joe accessory will surface at my grandad's house. I love it when that happens because he always lets me keep it even though it was probally part of my uncle's old collection. Recently I have saved a flipper and a Danger of the Depths sea sled motor(in working condition!) from being thrown away at grandad's house.
-There's nothing better that finding an almost complete training center for $20 at a junk sale! Great finds still happen.
Attic Searcher
This memory was added on: June 18, 2006
I'm a 1964 like joe. I had several then and have a few now.The originals are all gone for various reasons like, an older brother,missing at sea (a 4'deep water filled hole in the backyard that I had to fill in after the little girl across the street fell in), garage sales :( etc....but began collecting again with Duke in 1992. This was a gift and so have the ones that have followed been. I don't pass up a gift giving occasion without asking for a new Joe. Of course it must meet with my approval to insure that it's not some lameoh wannahbe action figure. My mom passed away in 2000 and one of my special memories of her is when she used Joe to star in a reinactment of a bible story for Vacation Bible School. It was a stretch for Joe to portray this role but he handled it with great dignity!
Eric
64
This memory was added on: June 1, 2006
How old were we Mike? Well I had one and I think he had two of them. We played with em for about a year, maybe two. By the time got them we were just a copuple years from growing out of them. I had one that had the fuzzy hair and beard. 72-73(?) My sister punched a neighbow kid in the gut (he and she were older than I) and I laughed. A few days later he caught me and my friend Mike playing Joes while we were off somewhere else for a few minutes and cut off my Joe's nose for revenge.... :( ...it took me years to get over it. Long live G.I.Joe!!
Eric Johnson
1963
This memory was added on: April 19, 2006
I used to absolutely love Flint, then they took him away :) My first favorite tv character and first taste of the reality of tv, every character i like is doomed. But I love Flint, and one of the older girls, Lady Jane I believe.
Kiary
1982
This memory was added on: April 15, 2006
The box said "With Real Hair" sooooooo..., I shaved his head and waited... I'm still waiting.
George
1966
This memory was added on: April 6, 2006
GI Joe is the best action figure ever made. Eagle Eye and Talking Joe served our country well.Tragically Eagle Eye had a "Horrific" Skydiving accident and laid to rest with honors.Talking Joe was honorably discharged after a "Failed"Sea Wolf Pacific Mission.Salt water and Joe proved to be very incompatable! Talking Joe went "MIA" after a late Seventies Garage Sale. Rumer has it that he is a secret consultant working overseas.
Ted
1968
This memory was added on: March 24, 2006
When all the hair fell off in patches on Joe, I'd act like he had radiation poisoning from an A-bomb.
rcm
1962
This memory was added on: March 22, 2006
My first Joe's were an Action Sailor and Marine...I received them in '64 at the tender age of two years, seven months. On Christmas morning, I had the bayonet from the Beachead Assault Rifle set confiscated barely 10 minutes after removing it from the card. Why? Because in my youthful enthusiasm for this nifty toy, I promptly affixed the bayonet to the muzzle of the M-1 and proceeded to stab my older brother in the hand, causing a rather deep puncture wound. I remember it well...good times, good, good times. When I started collecting Joes a few years ago, my brother surprised me by presenting me with the very same bayonet I had injured him with. Apparently, my father had intended to return it to me but forgot about it, and it stayed in a small wooden box in which he kept various odds and ends. When he died, my brother took the box, but never got around to examining the contents until, coincidentally, I began collecting. I am proud to say that my Marine is once more comlete.
P.S. As a joke and apology to my brother, I recently awarded him with a miniature Purple Heart medal from Cotswold Collectible.
Kent
1962
This memory was added on: March 12, 2006
G.I.joe-3 brothers all a year apart- we loved our g.i.joe's. one problem, they could not hold the guns very well.My joe had both his hands broken off-with the help of my father,I had an old broken jonny west- we fastened the hands of jonny to joe. It wasn't a year later, the new g.i.joe-with kung-fu grip was out-man was I pissed-but I had the first!
ANDY CHEV
1963
This memory was added on: March 6, 2006
since I had the only dirt mound big enough to hold a lot of GI JOS every kid in the neighbor hood played with GIJOES at my house. and yes I still have them
bill harris
1964
This memory was added on: February 24, 2006
Hi again...I have another memory I thought of...It was the late 70's..After the Joe craze had died down...my family and I went on a trip somewhere and I remember going to this store and out front they had this table set up...on the table were all these brand new GI Joe AT sets that were being discounted to get rid of them...Making way for the Star Wars craze...Lord, if I had only known then what I know now...I would have snatched up every set I could find...I also attended my first GI Joe Convention in '04 at Disney World...What an incredible fun time that is...Would recommend any Joe fan go at least once...Thanks again Hasbro...
Matt
1968
This memory was added on: February 23, 2006
GiJoes by far was my favorite! I remember my first were back in the mid sixties. Probably the second re-issue. I had all the service branch ones, the talkies, the beards later on. I had the mercury capsule, jeep & spot light trailer, Japanese motorcycle. I wish I still had my Japanese soldier & motorcycle now, their cost today is 3 figures now! My favorite was the diving outfit, astronaut outfit, and scuba diver set. I had a full foot locker and was a member of the GI Joe Club. Remember the shirt transfer and the dog tags? I probably had at the time well over 300 dollars of GiJoes & equipment. It is all gone! What happened? I'd be rich now if I had all that. It makes me ill! I have started recollecting on ebay! I wish I could only find my old GI Joe Club certificate. I had framed on the wall for along time! They have some pretty neat action figure and gear on the market for kids, but nothing will surpase the Original GiJoes! A classic!
Dan
1959
This memory was added on: February 21, 2006
I wanted a GiJoe for my fifth birthday so bad. My Dad did everything he could to make me happy but the stores in Aberdeen, South Dakota were all out of Joes. So, what I opened on my birthday was a Ken doll dressed in GiJoe clothing that must have come from an accessory set. They were like dress blues or something. I was still happy to play with my "Joe" as I didn't know what I was missing. Later that year, I did get a talking Joe for Christmas. Although, I don't remember ever playing with him after Christmas. I have no idea what happened to him. I later had a Kung Fu grip Joe in the mid seventies that had a more flimsy rubber type connection system that just didn't hold poses or seem as durable as older ones. He came on a card instead of boxed and had little to no accessories.
Brian
1967
This memory was added on: February 17, 2006
There was a day when my Dad convinced me to let him "borrow" my GI Joes. I had two good ones at the time and both were decked out in full regalia. I loved those two Joe's...He took them to the beach and tied them both to the end of a kite and told me he was going to send them out on a "recon mission". I still trusted him at that point in my childhood so I stood there and watched as they sailed up into a stiff wind. The kite took off, pulling the string off the spool like it was a reel hooked into a Marlin. My Dad couldn't control it and it quickly pulled all the string off the spool. The Joe's were so heavy that the string snapped and the kite, trailing about 300 feet of cheap ass cotton twine and my two beloved GI Joe's soared off over the bay and vanished forever. I was crushed. I stormed off in tears. That was the beginning of the end. My Mom divorced him that summer...
vinny
1965
This memory was added on: February 10, 2006
My first GI Joe was a Talking Adventurer. Then I had a whole slew of the Adventure Series with the hair and Kung Fu Grip, which would always break. I had the jeep, the Headquarters with working search light. I have purchased many of the reissued GI Joes- my fave is the Arlington Cemetery Honor Guard.
Last year my mother in law was cleaning up the attic and found a 1960's GI Joe Sailor in perfect condition, and gave it to me. Love it.
DW
1967
This memory was added on: January 31, 2006
I remember my best friend and I used to put Joe through all kinds of hell, we would hang him in trees, underwater, bury him in the dirt, put him in vehicles and blow them up with model rocket engine powder. He usually lasted until the next christmas, so I guess Hasbro knew how to make em' LOL Lots of good memories
EdF
1966
This memory was added on: January 20, 2006
thats funny reading zai goats memory,because i use to set things ablaze too!g.i.joes,hot wheels,plastic army men-you name it!only i used rubbing alcohol which would burn out pretty quick-leaving minimal damage.anyway-yeah;g.i.joes were great,but i liked big jim better.
steve
1962
This memory was added on: January 20, 2006
When I was three, my uncle Tom bought me a real GI Joe doll with the fuzzy hair and beard. I held the figure and as soon as I felt its fuzzy head, I ran screaming. I did not want anything to do with it! My mom tells me that I screamed 'No Joe! No Joe!" over and over until my uncle threw it away. I think I was freaked out because the fuzz felt like my Dad and grandpa's stubble.
Arkonbey
1968
This memory was added on: January 6, 2006
...This had to be around '72 or '73,..my brother and I were playing outside and I(the eldest) had the great idea to "spice" things up,and found my father's can of bar-b-que lighter fluid and proceeded to douse the personnel carrier and G.I.Joe in an attempt to simulate a direct hit from a tank's gun. I guess I thought that I could extinguish the fire in time to save GI Joe,and pull him to safety,...well, I was wrong,and not only lost both my brother's as well as my own GI Joe,but succeeded in setting a fairly large patch of woods and shrubbery ablaze which resulted in my mother calling the Fire Dept. and us having to answer alot of questions...I got a good whoopin' for that stunt..
zai goat
1963
|
|
