Monthly Archives: March 2024

2004 Buzzer (Convention Exclusive)

“Only To find himself, -one year later- transformed into a vexated wanderer” That line from the fourth or fifth revision of the 1985 Buzzer filecard, is amongst the top three lines in filecards that I can remember. The other two … Continue reading

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2020 Desert Snake Eyes (The Black Major)

O-Ring G.I. Joe has been repaint based for the majority of it’s existence, while there was the occasional new part or re-sculpted figure, from 1997 on, it was repaints of figures from the initial vintage line, and to be honest, … Continue reading

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1985 Alpine

One of the keys to G.I. Joe’s success as an action figure toyline, was that it wasn’t entirely dependent on a small core group of characters for the toys to be worthwhile. This is somewhat of a chicken and egg … Continue reading

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2023 Pale Green Steel Brigade (The Black Major)

G.I. Joe, and it’s related lines are littered with concepts that are fairly cool, but quite difficult to work into a collection or one’s grand G.I. Joe internal monologue. I feel a lot of this comes down to two major … Continue reading

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