I'm still gonna get my chance at an Arctic HISS, I've just got to wait until June.

And as cool as it would be (look, an exclusive Clone Trooper pilot and a speeder bike!), there's no way I'm getting a $130 Clone Wars Turbo Tank. It's nice to see that the concept sketches for Empire finally made their way to toy form, but this bad boy is gonna be ( Read more... )

Last month I posted about the G.I. Joe Night Raven toy which led friadoc to leave a very long comment. He then took that comment and posted "Nostalgia - G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero to his own blog.

After a little back-and-forth chatter, which only took a few hours (or was it minutes?), friadoc agreed to expand his post even more for battlegrip.com. The piece ( Read more... )

Gina and I stopped in Hastings this afternoon just to poke around and get out of the house. (I found a copy of the Transformers: Identification and Price Guide which -- despite the questionable quality of many of the photos -- is one of the best Transformers guides I've seen so far ( Read more... )

Gina's dad gave me cash for Christmas. KB is shutting down (read about it) and has everything marked 50 to 70% off.

You do the math.

I just got back with a mound of new toys, many of which I wouldn't have normally bought. G.I. Joe and Transformer toys, mostly, plus some Transformer knockoffs. The store was insane, with piles of toys on the floor ( Read more... )

friadoc took my post yesterday -- and all of the great comments that he left -- and ran, writing a very enjoyable LJ post titled "Nostalgia - G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero." This is a great piece that is sure to spark any fan's memory.

One point that jumped out at me:

"While it might seem out of place, today, to encourage kids to play with war toys, ( Read more... )

Cobra Raven. Cobra Raven. There's no haven from the Cobra Raven.

Man, toy commercials in the eighties were extremely cheesy. Still, I always wanted this bad boy. After all, it has a drop down cockpit!

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I never had any of the larger G.I. Joe toys. I had several smaller ones, and a few of the mid-size pieces, but never any of the giant monstrosities ( Read more... )

Yes, really. When we hit Target today I was going through the toy shelves (I always go through the toy shelves) when I encountered a GI Joe figure that I didn't recognize. You see, Hasbro started releasing the old figures (with tweaks) using the old artwork and packaging design, so spotting a strange figure confused me. I flipped it over and read ( Read more... )