Thanks guys! I'm really excited to have won this drawing. This is actually especially good for me because I was laid off two weeks ago, and I wouldn't have been able to get these guys otherwise.
Congrats, Rapitrone.
Thanks to everyone who posted, there is some great responses here. As for the winner of the set of HOH figures, the name drawn was Rapitrone. Congrats to him and thanks for everyone who entered.
Congratulations Rapitrone!! Getting free G.I.Joes is always a good thing. #US1#
Thanks to everyone who posted, there is some great responses here. As for the winner of the set of HOH figures, the name drawn was Rapitrone. Congrats to him and thanks for everyone who entered.
GI JOE means to me
child hood memories a time of innocence I grew up in a bad side of town aka " the wrong side of the tracks " i remember going on a family vacation to mexico because our apartments were getting broken into a lot , my old man decided to take a trip to try n get our minds off of it .Before our trip my parents stopped off at Mervins
G.I.Joe saved my life....I know it sound crazy to say but reading the new comics and becoming so involved with the characters opened a world that I had only dabbled in before. My love for comics (particularly G.I.Joe) got me a job at a store as a teenager way back in 1989. Life took a turn for the worst but G.I.Joe was always there; it opened a world of opportunity to me and was the the saving grace of my childhood. I will always remember moments of my childhood fondly because of the memories G.I.Joe comics, toys and cartoons provided me with.
Simply put I have a debt that can never be repaid to those responsible for the characters and stories that provided me with hope and enjoyment during my youth.
In an age when being a child meant to be innocent, although aware of the world that surrounded you, in a much clearer, true nature comprenhesion between right & wrong of the world, G.I.Joe cartoon represented my dreams of righteous adventurer man I wished to be.
Raised in a very humble home in Argentina, in 1985, with national economics going down the pipe and my parents getting split, every week day at 6 o'clock in the afternoon, while drinking milk & coffe, I tuned my mom's Zenith B&W TV in Channel 9 and I was stuck there in front of the screen for an hour dazzled with the stories of a group of men & women fighting to save the day. And I was happy.
It was like having a daily epic proportions Stars Wars show in your living room, when VHS rent videos was quite a baby in diapers and DVD players were just Sci-Fi then.
In 1986 I used to assist my uncle in repairing refrigerators, and he paid me around 5 Australes (our National coin at the moment) every time I helped him with tools and carrying fridge motors. Whenever I saved 20, I asked a friend of mine to go with me to a toystore that used to sell Hasbro's G.I.Joes, which my friend looked childish since we were 10 year old boys already and his "favorite toy" was his Commodore 64, but then he was quite amazed as well with these wonderful toys. My first Joe was Bazooka, and with work sacrifice at young age, I managed to collect 12 figures (even though, I was not able to get Snake Eyes which was and still is my favorite).
Growing up gave me a different perpective of the world, but the foundations of the man that I'm right now relies in the experience of not being a spoiled child, and doing my best with sacrifice and hard work to achieve or obtain what I desired, and part of that is thanks to G.I.Joe.
GI JOE means to me...
I spent my childhood in a place that had almost no toys (in Mexico), no brothers and a baby sister. My closest friends were my cousins and they lived 3 hours away. But I managed to get The upper torso, head and left arm of a Tomax figure. I grew up with that... er... figure playing with other SW toys but it was my favorite (It had more articulations!). When I was in High school, I met a friend who also liked GI JOE and he explained to me who my Tomax figure was. Kind of late but I tried to get as many as I could, but I was still trapped in a small town with no access to any Joes so I had to make some calls and finally found a guy selling used action figures in a flee market. he often brought pieces of GI Joes so I started buying my figure collection back in 1987. I managed to get many in great shape and some legs for y Tomax. I even ordered many Joes from Mail order stores, so many of them got lost in the mail and never arrived, but it was worth it. When Internet finally arrived, I completed my collection and I bought a new Tomax I still have my old Tomax, after many years, I put it all together from parts and the only thing missing now is its lower torso. I never really played with them, except for Tomax. But every figure has a history of its own.
i dint read anyones post so as not to copy anything.
what g'i' joe means to me is i get to become a kid again. i get the excitement of opening a new figure and putting all his accessories on and posing him in cool poses. i, as an adult collectoram able to get the things i couldnt have as a child. i stand and look at the display of toys i have and it instantly takes me back to my parents backyard with my childhood friends werethe valient g.i. joe forces fought the evil tyranny of cobra for hours. it is a connection to who i was as a kid and who i am today as an adult.
I look at my collection remembering my childhood and the fun with I had with toys. But why GI Joe, why was it my favorite as a child and why do I collect it now as opposed to other toys? The truth is that GI Joe has always been to me about somwehat normal people being heroes. I still get goose bumps when I hear the GI Joe theme song. Other toy lines were about "super powers", magic, or future tech, but GI Joe was about heroes being the best they can with technology that was somewhat true to realism (well at least up until about 87).
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