G.I. Joe

And in Canada, we didn't have, it wasn't like the UK or Brazil or Argentina where there are all kinds of weird variants.

The only difference we got really was we got individual stickers for the GI Joe vehicle.

So they all said Canada on them.

So if

There's little write-ups where they go, this year's going to be big for turtles, fresh from the sewer.

Those are all the marketing spiel that goes along with it as well.

look for look for the advertising in the comic books and on television and here's some display models that you're going to get um gi joe's a good example so whereas you would get a little you know eight and a half by eleven or an eight and a half by fourteen piece of folded paper in with your your tank um the first two pages is just the it's just the figures and there will be 12 to 16 to 20 pages of pictures of just gi joe and then they move on to transformers and then they move on to the next thing um you know uh the mattel 1987 catalog is a hundred and 191 pages

wow so just looking at the difference that you said that the um the first ones came out with a glued binder and the other ones came out with a spiral i like that and this could be difference between companies but the spiral one from playmates it's actually got little tabs so if i want to go to ninja turtles or exo squad i can just flick right straight to the that tab and just pull the whole page apart the whole book

We appreciate you tuning in to talk G.I. Joe comics with us as we chronicle our way through G.I. Joe special missions by Marvel on this episode.

Next episode, we will return to our coverage of G.I. Joe America's Elite from the mid 2000s.

But for this episode, we are back in the glorious 1980s with G.I. Joe special missions that launched in 1981. put on your parachute pants put on your one diamond studded glove and your aviator sunglasses we're going to the 80s on this episode of gi joe chronicles dj cristados and i are going to rotate in a special ops guest for the show for this episode it is surprise everyone jim the joe junkie welcome back jim welcome back did did i leave shh don't

oh oh i'm sorry i'm sorry

Let's go ahead and debrief Jim with a suggestion that we got last episode in the chat from, I think it was snake Plissken who wants to know what's your three favorite play sets.

So is a play set like big or small? I, you know what? I was, I was thinking about how I wanted to define that.

I'm going to say it's anything that's not a vehicle.

So like, if you want to talk about the little Cobra, there's a GI Joe tower, like a Cobra bunker, right.

I'm here for that.

GI Joe this week, a big week here on the channel with the brand new Snowcat HasLab, which is really the Flint HasLab with bonus Snowcat, as we do know.

But we did see the Thunder Machine.

It is up for order.

So all you got to do is do better than that.

GI Joe Classified Series 244 Dreadnought Thunder Machine is $124.99.

It has an open pre-order window exclusively through Hasbro Pulse.

It's available for the next 40 to 44 days, depending on when you're listening to this.

I bought four more graded books from him and these were about $40 a piece, but they're in slightly, some of them are slightly higher than others.

So this is, that's just the average.

The other four books I got were GI Joe number 12, which is a newsstand.

Here's a GI Joe number eight, which is an 8.0 and is also a new stand.

Like that giant Yakuza kick, big boot, like I – sign me up.

I may do that just to like Yakuza kick Flint because Flint is not the leader of GI Joe and Chono would be Duke's hired muscle.

Exactly.

Now that'd be cool.

Then I found the...

From the G.I. Joe Ninja Turtles crossover, I found Rocksteady.

I still need to get Bebop.

But holy shit, Rocksteady is fucking awesome.

But yeah, overall, I'm not going to be buying... classified figures the now I do want to get Night Viper because I kept saying if I got one I'd want the other

yeah

because I've told you guys before the the day that I got Night Viper as a kid we were watching like we had a family movie night and we were watching Return of the Living Dead and I was playing with my GI Joes and Night Viper was trying to survive a zombie invasion I just had other GI Joes attacking him that were zombified so now I'm like well now I gotta get Night Viper to go with the weird zombie guy

Well, of course.