How many G.I. Joes did you have...?

[Guest benoitrulz4life]

I can honestly say if none of mine had been broken or lost, I would have close to two hundred, although, I never had any more than eighty at a time.

 

Now it's sad to look in that box in the attic and see the 25 or so survivors of my once mighty army.

 

Although coming from a kid who use to drop rocks on them and throw them off porches with his little brother I'm not too terribly surprised.

[Guest Lil Naitch]

I had a ton. As years went buy, I'd use paint pens, glue, cotton, and toothpicks to turn them into either custom guys or X-men.

I made Psylock, which turned into Dark Phoenix. I made Wolverine, Cyclops, Iceman (in uniform, not Iced up) Magneto, Prof. X, and many more.

Incidently, I just saw a new G.I. Joe DVD released, containing two mini-series from the old cartoon, that comes with an exclusive Snake Eyes figure.

[Guest kkktookmybabyaway]

Never had any -- I was a Star Wars kid...

[Rendclaw 0]

I think at one point I had like 40-50.... but my thing was making a wrestling fed out of them.... The Stormshadows were always warring with the Snake-Eyes for the tag team titles, with Quick Kick doing run-ins....

 

Zartan's Group (I cannot remember the name of them) were the Road Warrior types.... Hawk and Duke were always a tag team, RoadBlock was the Hoss of the Day.... Destro always used his beryllium mask to win matches... Cobra Commander was always interfering in matches.... there was a good ladies division with Lady J, Scarlett, and the Baroness.... oh I could go on and on and on.......

[Guest MaxPower27]

A few. Mine didn't tend to last too long, so I had to replace arms, legs and heads where they didn't belong on a lot of my toys.

 

Most of them weren't even real GIJoes, they were the generic equivalent bought for half the price.

[Guest bps "The Truth" 21]

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[Rendclaw 0]

huh?

[Guest bps "The Truth" 21]

I had 0

[Guest Blue Bacchus]

Too many to count. I was spoiled as a kid.

[Guest tank_abbott]

6 figures, 3/4 vehicles

[Guest KingOfOldSchool]

At most, 5.

 

Ninja Turtles were my true vice. And later, it was X-Men and the like.

[Guest Lil Naitch]

I got most of my GI Joes from Walgrees using my 5-fingered discount. Funny that my parents never noticed when suddenly I got a new toy.

And I always switched the boddies- heads, arms, legs, torsos.... and when the rubber band broke, I'd either put a regular rubber band in, duct tape the figure, or glue the waist to the torso-forget how the legs stayed in, though.

 

And as a funny note, I made Phoenix out of the one Joe I though was a lady, ntill years later I found out it was a guy.

Sandstorm I think the name was. Hell, he LOOKED like a girl...

[Guest Bannable Offense]

I only had Snake Eyes since my collection was all over the cartoon spectrum when I was a kid. G.I. Joe, TMNT, Voltron, M.A.S.K., He-Man, Transformers...you name a non-girl oriented cartoon and I had at least one figure representing that show.

[Guest Black Lushus]

I hated how their penises always broke off, cheap plastic...the rubber bands breaking sucked too, especially when you were in the middle of a wrestling match and it happened to your heavyweight champion!

[Guest Vyce]

What do you mean, as a kid? I have them NOW. AND I collect the new ones they've been producing for the past 3 years. We're on wave 6 by now, I think.