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GI Joe and Me

My relationship with GI Joe began around 1974 when I was a whopping four years old (just like the fuzzheads). All I got for Christmas that year was GI Joe because I had been bugging my parents about them since my best friend had gotten one. So, there I was, a young toddler with four or five Joes, a footlocker full of gear that I ripped out of all the bright packages, and a helicopter (still one of the coolest AT pieces). I was in heaven. Unfortunately, all of my original Joes, which had grown to over a dozen at their high point, are somewhere in the Caroline County, VA landfill about 20 years down. Oh well, other peoples' toys are filling that void now.

I rediscovered Joe around Christmas of 1996 soon after graduating from college. My wife and I were at Sam's Club and I saw one of the new Masterpiece Edition GI Joe Soldiers. I picked it up for $15.99 and took it home to play with it. It was a weird GI Joe with a bald head, but it had that certain familiarity about it. I jumped on the web and found out that not only were there these new Joes, but the Classic Collection was new, and there were still tons of folks out there collecting and playing with their Joes. I rushed back to Sam's Club and picked up about a dozen assorted ME Joes which were then down to $9.99 (I have since traded away all but a set of four in the boxes because they are just kinda neat shelf items).

More searching on the internet resulted in discovery of alt.toys.gi-joe newsgroup, affectionately known as the "Sandbox". This is a open forum discussion group about GI Joe (and his modern clones) and is inhabited by a generally great bunch of folks. I spend more time reading the "box" than I do my own email. I even got my first original Joe from a trade in the Sandbox.

Now, Joe has taken over a good portion of my life and a big portion of my house. I have over 100 Adventure Team figures, a handful of helicopters, jeeps, and other sundry vehicles and play sets. Most of them are pieced together sets and Joes that I managed to buy or trade for over the last few years. What can I say, Joe is Joe and there is nothing else out there like him. He stands for all those things that are so rare in our society now, like honesty, duty, sacrifice, and commitment. Anyway, enough of that babbling, that is where Joe and I stand.

My Collection My collection started with the Masterpiece Edition GI Joes I talked about a moment ago. Then, I collected all of the Classic Collection releases for 1996, 1997 and 1998. At that point, my AT collection had grown to be rather sizable (about 20 figures) and I was running out of space and money. I knew that I couldn't have it all, so I liquidated my Classic Collection Joes through trades mostly, some sales (usually for a loss). I got rid of the last of it by giving half away to my younger cousins who still "play" with their Joes, and I sold the rest dirt cheap at our pre-moving yard sale. So, since about the beginning of 1999, I have been about 95% Adventure Team pure in my collection which has grown to be a little over 100 figures. Click on the My Collection link above to see more about my Joes.

Vintage AT Box Art
This link has pictures I've come across of some of the excellent box art of the Adventure Team.

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