Tag Archives: GI Joe

Our first look at post-tariff pricing

Posted on May 10, 2025 by OAFE

Big Bad Toy Store and Entertainment Earth briefly removed all their Hasbro preorders from their sites, but they're back up now with prices matching those GameStop showed. Thirty-two dollars for a 6" action figure, and going up from there. Never … Continue reading →

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Suddenly, knowing is only a quarter

Posted on April 11, 2025 by OAFE

<i>And now, some more OAFEry:</i>What’s on JOE Mind? podcast A tour of Toys R Us in 1991 GI Joe: Re-Stallion-ation GI Joe: The Plague The Realest American Hero

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Rustin's Spoils of the Week #235

Posted on April 10, 2025 by Rustin Parr

Here's another "flashback" spoils to late 2020/early 2021, where I tried to kickstart using all the lockdown time productively only to fall back in to the constant and bottomless pit of personal, social and global despair. A couple years on, … Continue reading →

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Fascists used to know how to dress

Posted on March 28, 2025 by OAFE

From someone on Reddit, here's what you get when you put Red Skull's head on the Iron Grenadier body: <i>And now, some more OAFEry:</i>The complex history of Mantis Rustin's Spoils of the Week #124 Kickstarter CHAOS yo - if we … Continue reading →

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What's the less likely GI Joe Classified release?

Posted on March 1, 2025 by OAFE

The polar bear, or Crystal Ball? (via) <i>And now, some more OAFEry:</i>Cocktails at the Cantina GI Joe Movie Watch: More costumes Rustin's Spoils of the Week #143 GI Joe Movie Watch: A wrap-up. Rustin's Spoils of the Week #38

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Soon Forget: GI Joe Alpine Trooper

Posted on January 31, 2025 by OAFE

In today's review, yo said Alpine really lucked out by being released in 1985 and therefore getting to feature prominently in the cartoon. But in some alternate world, that didn't happen. <i>And now, some more OAFEry:</i>GI Joe Movie Watch: First … Continue reading →

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Never buy from Kapow Toys

Posted on January 28, 2025 by OAFE

Kapow Toys is a UK-based online toystore that sells Transformers, Figuarts, etc. And here's the man in charge of the company getting defensive because someone called him out for posting pro-white-supremacy material on LinkedIn: That initial "don't post Nazis to … Continue reading →

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GI Joe Action Marine addendum

Posted on January 3, 2025 by OAFE

As mentioned in today's review, here's the 1994 message from Hasbro's CEO about GI Joe's 30th anniversary: It's been another 30 years, Al, so it looks like you got your wish! <i>And now, some more OAFEry:</i>GI Joe Storm Shadow addendum … Continue reading →

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GI Joe Classified's original duty roster

Posted on December 20, 2024 by OAFE

We keep mentioning, in these GI Joe Classified reviews, that you can tell which characters were planned from the beginning of the line and which weren't by virtue of who was given a profile on the old website before penny-pinching … Continue reading →

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What do you do with a deadbeat sailor?

Posted on December 14, 2024 by OAFE

As yo said in today's review, "Elderly Shipwreck": (via) <i>And now, some more OAFEry:</i>Flippin' Through Previews - October '07 Illusion is the ultimate weapon What to get Snake-Eyes More toys shilling for Honda Carry me home again

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