Ok -- who here had a G.I. Joe?

[CatWoman]

with or without the "kung fu" grip? :D

[KDLarsen]

1. I'm ashamed to say this..

.. but I had both G.I. Joe - I think it's the same one you're talking about - complete with his partner (avec very large hat) and their boat

*breaks down and cries* I was so young, didn't know what I was getting in to... :silly:

[XNASA]

2. Not I. My brother had one, but not me. I had one of these....

I thought that an Illya Kuryakin action figure was much cooler myself.

[ronnykmarshall]

3. I had a G.I.,

but I didn't catch his name.

[CatWoman]

5. hahahahahahahahahaha

Ronny!!!

You devil!!!!

:*

[commander bunnypants]

4. yea I did

and I would burn them at the stake. I was a real screwed up kid. Butlook at me now.


DDQM

[GOPisEvil]

6. Heh...I had GI Joe with the RV, complete with campfire,

pots and pans and a little grill. Joe's RV had TV, stereo, bed, the works. I guess after leaving the Army, Joe didn't want to rough it anymore.

Plus, my GI Joe talked, if you pulled his string. Sort of like *, but different. :D

[CatWoman]

9. *sing around the campfire*

Hi David :hi:

Hey -- was Joe like Ken???

You know, castrated? :D

[GOPisEvil]

11. Hi Midori!

:hi:

Can't say whether Joe was castrated, but I can report that he and I are equipped differently. :D

[wtmusic]

7. I had one when I was very young

And the realization that physically I had an appendage where it should have read "Hasbro Inc." has traumatized me to this day

[ewagner]

8. My youngest brother had one...

he used to put it in a shoe box in the closet every night. My immediately youngest brother started taking GI Joe out of the box late at night and placing him next to the youngest brothers pillow. We all denied knowledge of it and said that maybe GI Joe was really "alive". My youngest brother started tying GI Joe up with string everynight but that didn't stop my other brother. He continued to untie Joe and place him next to the pillow. In desperation my youngest brother starting tying GI up and hanging him upside down from a hanger! When that didn't work, he gave Joe away to another friend, who, strangely enough, didn't have any trouble with him.


ehehehehehehehehehehe

[qb]

10. I had the original model

I found out it didn't hold up too well after being thrown 20 ft. in the air a dozen or so times.

[TrogL]

20. You can fix them

with a 1/2" elastic.

[einsteins stein]

12. GI Joe, both models

and my friends would use our GI Joes to attack my sister's Ken, then steal her Barbies to be Nurses, and heal Ken.

It was a weird cycle of destruction and healing, repeated over and over..

Sometimes, we would rescue Barbie from the "evil" Ken.

Ken was never the good guy. He never got a break.

[LosinIt]

14. My Barbies used to date my bro's Joe when Ken & Alan got boring

Ken was a wounded vet, his foot got stuck in his boot so we left it there. I had a million barbies and never enough guys to go around. One of my Barbies came with 3 wigs so we ended up with a new guy we called 'Wigstand'. He was the quiet intellectual type. It was a piece of plastic with three round 'heads' sticking out of it. Hey, you gotta improvise.

[prolesunited]

13. I put my G.I. Joe

in my Easy-Bake oven. :silly:

[FlashHarry]

15. G.I. Joe and Action Man

One of the benefits of an Anglo/American upbringing. (I just saw on some Action Man site the other day that my old "Colditz Castle" Action Man is going for several hundred pounds now! And my old "Coldstream Guards" edition is much sought-after, too! Too bad I blew 'em up with firecrackers, eh?)

[Wickerman]

16. I had a GI Joe

he and his friend, the Red haired troll used to attack my big sisters Barbies and Ken. Once, GI joe kidnapped Skipper and troll had to ride in the back of the tonka jeep.

PS - Ken was a worthless Repuke - he would run and hide when GI Joe and troll came "pirating" - and all this on a GI Joe with NO Kung Fu grip.

[Dogmudgeon]

17. mine went Gay and was court-martialed by Gen. (Milton) Bradley

The injustice of it all it shook me up so much as a child that I've been sympathetic to the Gay rights movement ever since.

--bkl

[MiddleRiverRefugee]

18. I had the Japanese GI Joe..

...and this was the 12" tall action figure circa 1966, NOT the Village People look alikes which pass for GI Joe nowadays. I had the German soldier too.

My Mom claims to have kept all my original GI Joe collection from when I was a kid. Someday I'll take her up on her offer to inventory it and see what eBay can use.

[Iris]

19. Here's my GI Joe story. . .

My brother had a GI Joe. I thought he was cuter than Ken, but Ken's body went better with Barbie, so I tried to take GI Joe's head off and put it on Ken's body, but he had this weird bulbous plastic neck and his head just broke off completely.

I destroyed 2 or 3 GI Joe's that way.

[TrogL]

21. To piss my mother off

I'd leave them in sexually suggestive positions.

On hindsight, maybe I was sending a message to myself.

[mac56]

22. I had the original GI Joe Fighting Sailor.

Dad was a Navy reservist.

What I really wanted, though, was "Captain Action", who had costumes for all the major DC and Marvel heroes.

[SoCalDem]

23. I actually have 3 or 4 of the originals

complete with clothes & accessories and 2 of them talk..:)

[CBHagman]

24. What's kung fu grip?

:-) We didn't have that when I had my GI Joe. Of course, I walked MILES to school, too.

At any rate, to answer your question, I had the sailor and my brother had the Marine. They lasted for years.