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GI Joe Classified Retro Series: Gung-Ho exclusive review

He blue. And now, some more OAFEry:GI Joe Movie Watch 2: still on track GI Joe - the videogame? GI Joe shoutout on 30 Rock tonight At ease, disease! Sgt. Slaughter has re-enlisted! GI Joe Classified B.A.T addendum

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Recondo Down Unda

When GI Joe was exported from America, it didn't really make sense for them to be "A Real American Hero" anymore, so Action Force took the Joe characters and simply gave them different birthplaces. For example, GI Joe's Flint was … Continue reading

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GI Joe: Outback addendum

Outback may not have appeared on the cartoon, but he did appear in animation: as a way around advertising restrictions, Hasbro produced a handful of commercials for the GI Joe comicbook, including this one for issue #59, "Divergent Paths": Also … Continue reading

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Lampreys, Gyro-Vipers, BATs, Techno-Vipers

One more group to add to the big list of companies trying to rehabilitate their image through a bit of light rainbow-washing: First masks, now this? Cobra may be an evil terrorist organization, but they're not stupid. (via) And now, … Continue reading

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Hasbro Marketing Secrets Revealed

(via) And now, some more OAFEry:GI Joe Classified Shooter addendum One variant cover with every Cobra ever Rustin's Spoils of the Week #66 Bill O'Reilly vs. ISIS The CIA used GI Joe to fight Osama Bin Laden

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GI Joe Classified: Tomax & Xamot addendum

Valentina Remenar's art for Tomax and Xamot was, like the brothers themselves, two halves of a unified whole: And now, some more OAFEry:In defense of Zartan's Swamp Skier When toys could make you immortal GI Joe Retaliation Firefly addendum: the … Continue reading

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Rustin's Spoils of the Week #230

Well, after years dillying, dallying, and dilly-dallying we're getting this ship back on its original course... here are the genuine spoils of my past week! Can you believe it!? No recap, no themes, just what I actually got! Well, I … Continue reading

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A Real American Hero Season 3 opening

The original Sunbow GI Joe cartoon ended after GI Joe: The Movie in 1987, and the rights weren't picked up by DIC Entertainment until 1989. Since the cartoons tended to focus on characters and vehicles that were new, that left … Continue reading

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Action Force: Sgt. Slaughter review

As mentioned, the bio in today's GI Joe Classified Sgt. Slaughter review was not actually about that figure; we took it from the back of this toy's box. Fortunately, that was only the first half; here's the second: And now, … Continue reading

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The original GI Joe Classified Storm Shadow design

As mentioned in today's Storm Shadow review, Hasbro had plans for something new, until they decided to absorb the dumb complaints of a minority who fear change - after all, why do anything to draw in new fans when you … Continue reading

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