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Sheila (of Ephemera)'s avatar

Aw, I love that you bought the painting and framed it!

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Mike Boody's avatar

Ahhhh yes, the immortal ninja...Cole. How many suburban kids named Cole bought throwing starts at flea markets, I wonder? My point is, there was nothing like a Cannon movie.

I never got into GI Joe either, but I somehow ended up with some of the toys. I think they were left over from my friends coming over and just not caring enough about them anymore to take them home. Or maybe I had used them as a fidget, and by the end of free play I had snapped their rubber band cartlidge, thus making them useless.

Great piece. I'm sitting in the doctor's office right now wishing I had an action figure to relieve the boredom.

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Rob "Flack" O'Hara's avatar

We had that one kid in our neighborhood who wore camouflage pants and plastic dog tags around his neck to school. He had a ton of G.I. Joe toys and was the one kid who always wanted to play "war" instead of hide and seek or tag or literally anything else.

The rubber bands that held the limbs in place on those G.I. Joe figures were always fascinating to us Star Wars kids. I remember puuuuuling them to see how far they would give before they broke... which today might get you on a "you might have yourself a little Jeffrey Dahmer there" list.

Hope the doctor visit goes well. Come to think of it, I think one of the main good guys in the cartoon was named Doc. If that guy walks through the door, he'll fix you right up. Yo, Joe!

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Retroist's avatar

TUPA!

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