GI Joe

Those little runts ain't GI JOE. I had the real ones in the late 60s/early 70s.They'd be worth some bucks today,but they saw heavy combat...

"Never again!" doesn't even work for me, because I never owned a G.I. Joe. If I had, he wouldn't have lasted very long, as many of my plastic toys can attest to. I had a fairly large army of plastic soldiers and they all perished, or surrendered to slavery status, at the hands of my secret weapon: I would remove the spring-loaded insert from my Daisy BB rifle and load the barrel with glass marbles. There was no defense against this. Ask my sisters.

From the look of the picture above, it appears that he got a make-over of some sort in the 80's and probably a Saturday afternoon cartoon tie-in to help sell more toys. But I think Joe had been around a long time by the dawn of the 1980's. I had one in the 60's who must have served in 'Nam. I think I played more with my cowboy action figure, Johnny West (basically GI Joe's head stuck on a body that was clad in buck skin). The coolest toy for kids my age however was a space themed rubber guy, the type with the internal wire frame so that he could be moved around, called Major Matt Mason. When I was a kid, it was all about going to the moon.

Once again - there is apparently nothing new under the sun OR in your 80's childhood toybox...GI Joes have been around since 1963 - almost 20 years prior to this decade. Even so, my Barbie preferred Ken's better looking friend Alan (who I renamed depending on the movie star I had a crush on at the moment). GI Joes were boring, mean, had ugly permanent expressions, mundane clothes and bad hair cuts.

80's? I remember "playing" (or "pretending") with these "macho" dolls at some point in the late 60's. They all had the same battle-inflicted scar on the cheek, the same stoic expression, and the same lack of genitals (not that my friends and I were paying an inordinate amount of attention to the toy's genitals; maybe we would have been had there been a "GI Jane" doll). Instead of on the fields of battle, they met their valiant ends in the dunes of the backyard sandbox. I think as the decades passed, the doll got smaller, more compact in terms of size. Does the 1980's version still have that same scar on the cheek, I wonder?

G.I JOE! A real American Hero, GO Joe!

blah....but hey i'm a girl... so reasonable understood .... except my brother kept stealing my barbies so his GI joes would have hot dates.... wtf

he was a bad mutha

AS IN...."AND GI JOE GOT STUCK?

an 80's icon! Never got into them tho

GI Joes

another boys thing

I played GI Joe with my bro!

No. Action Man ruled.

better man for barbie than ken

oh yes my bros had lots of these. they alos doubled as my Barbie kids,lol.

Gi joe wait thats me

didn't have any need for them....I had Babs

Cobra was superior.

i had the origanal action figures, they were coll!!

I just remember the boys playing with these.

OHHHH...He's the one Barbie cheated on Ken for

A REAL AMERICAN HERO

awww my barbies boy friend

NEVER LIKED THEM SORRY I WAS A GIRL!

....and now we know...and knowing is half the battle

I am a girl.

My brother loved them!

I'm a chick so I wasn't into this but they get props, better than todays toys.

our gi joes kicked barbies ass.

Fuckin awsome cant wait for the movie, still have the toys and had to rebuy the toys

Chip n Dale's action figures? Who could ask for more?

ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I had a huge collection of them, my favorites were Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow.

Was not a barbie...

It's G.I. Joe...what else can you say?

Didn't care 4 it

The toys were cool, the cartoon was cool, and the public service announcements during the cartoon were even cooler: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ-ckU_D1fg

When I played with my kid's GI Joe that my dad got him for christmas, dad said that he never knew I played with GI Joe...I said that I liked the real version better! I love a man in uniform!

For me... GI Joes... were like 1973.

GI Joe in the 70s, when I was a kid, was a foot tall, had something resembling hair and was way more macho than this little thing.

Liked playing with them more than Barbies

Plastic crap!

GI Joe has been around much longer than the 80's....Sixty's Barbie got bored with Gay Ken so she had an affair with GI Joe.

Knowing is half the battle.

My brothers and I amassed a huge collection of these things which my youngest brother still has.Must be worth something by now.