Anyone here old enough to remember the 1970's G.I. Joe ??

I had a stick. An oak stick. It was fun.

 

I remember. I had one - I think - he had fuzzy hair. Can't remember if it was a g.i. Joe, or "big Jim". I also had the equivalent of the barbie motor home for him too, except it was all brown & tan & cammo

 

Yeah, Big Jim was the last of the 12" action figures of that era. G.I. Joe (military/world-wide danger/adventure) came first, then the Six Million Dollar Man (sci-fi themed) and then Big Jim (sports-related). Jim didn't have fuzzy hair. I think the 'life-like' hair was strictly Joe. Sadly, even 6MDM's huge Bionic Bigfoot figure was just plastic molded. If there ever was a figure that truly DESERVED hair, that thing was it. LOL. A guy I work with has spent a lot of time (and money) over the past few years recreating his entire 6MDM collection... much to the consternation of his wife. He claims it's for his 2 boys ...but I think we all know better.

 

Didn't the 6mdm have a viewhole through his head so you could see his "bionic vision"?

 

He did

Did anyone have Joe’s helicopter? I remember ordering that off the back of a cereal box and I remember my mom almost having a nervous breakdown assembling the thing.

It was cool. Bright yellow. You pushed a ratcheting button that made the three blade rotor spin.

My favourite joe uniform was volcano explorer.

I miss Joe. He was cool

 

yeah...guilty. Mine always rusted from too many diving missions. Maybe I was salty even as a child?

 

I remember the space capsule and the article dog sled. I think both are still at my moms along with a footlocker.

 

yeah I pulled out the space capsule when my Mom's house sold. I never sold it but think it's 50 bux in good shape. Too many made for big money.

 

I remember the Big Josh on TV commercial about his chopping abilities...?

I had a G.I. Joe & the Evel Knievel action set up with motorcycle.

 

If I remember correctly, Big Jim had a Honda Elsinore avail. Now that would be rare.

 

Yep, and I still have them, the Jeep, and weapons. Plan on keeping them and building a custom rock crawler out of the Jeep for GI Joe.

 

^^^This!^^^
I had the Evil Knievel stunt motorcycle - that kicked ass!

 

Stretch Armstrong was GI Joe’s bitch.

 

You know, just to have a little fun with you...there are some of us on here who predate GI Joe. We were early Viet Nam-era 9-12 years olds, playing outside the house exclusively (because that's where mom said you were going to play, ALL day) our neighborhood crew riding our Bonanza and Rupp minibikes around the neighborhood back in the 60's, our pellet guns underneath us, between our butts and the seat, working on them on the garage floor, and learning, like figuring out how to resprocket the jackshafts to make them go insane speeds that we didn't tell our parents about. And overriding the Tecumseh's governors. Or putting used 2-cycle West Bend racing kart motors in them that we bought second hand from the lawnmower shop guy by pooling our yard-cutting and coke bottle gathering money. Building mini log cabins waaay back in the woods with our dad's chainsaws without him knowing we had them. (We taught ourselves to notch the ends of the logs with a chainsaw so that they fit flat and close. Without using an axe. Sixth grade. Can you do that?) We were our own little trial-and-error self-taught, highly-skilled, middle school-aged covert-ops teams. (We didn't know what that was. We just knew that the more we shouldn't be doing something, the more fun it was.) Long past playing board games and "playing" inside, we'd often stay out all night under the guise of "camping out in the woods" in the little cabins we built, moving through the night, undetected, visiting the girls, anywhere we wanted, then melting back into the night. (Stepped on a water moccasin doing this. Twice. Wanna' see how quick a white boy can move? Step on a water moccasin in the pitch dark.) Nothing vicarious about us: if we weren't out there scaring the shit out of ourselves on a daily/nightly basis, then we weren't doing it right, or having fun. And that's just what being a kid and having fun was all about back in the early to mid-60's. Way before Mattel's plastic extruders started farting out G.I. Joes, et al, out of its vagina. (Ya' think it might have been the same extrusion vagina that farted out Ken dolls? Just a different mold? Pardon the pun, but doesn't that make them...kinfolk?)

 

Anyone remember Major Matt Mason the astronaut action figure ???

 

My GI Joe was a 1960's model.

 

Remember? Hell had them!

Prefer the late 80s+ though.

 

I only know the PSA's

Spoiler: language

https://youtu.be/terB-PBT3c4