GI Joe. Oh boy. I think that everybody that grew up during the 80's almost had to be fond of GI Joe in one way or another. I know I was, ever since I bought my Crimson Guard. There was something about GI Joe that just rocked. I remember reading, well it was more looking at the pictures really, at that age, through the toybooks I got from the toystore and being fascinated by every page. There was this swampy terrain out of which crept a horde of Hydro-Vipers, a line up of dozens of Siegies and some GI Joe's infiltrating in some remote Cobra base. And the figures themselves were superbly detailed and highly durable. What kid wouldn't want to play his own GI Joe adventures?
I know that the cartoon was definatly aired here, but unfortunatly I didn't had the chance to watch it that much. My nanny had two sons, and they always watched it, but I had to take supper at that time. There want my GI Joe watching time. To he honest, I don't remember much of the cartoons. My attention went to the toys, and I've only recently (beginning of 2001) rediscovered GI Joe after a long period of demise caused by the demon of demons; school.
The Joes, the good guys, never really interested me that much. Cobra totally got my attention. The troopers looked cooler then anyhting when you were just 5 year old, and like you probabely guessed by now, the Crimson Guard holds a very special place in my heart. During kindergarden, he was the only GI I had. The Joes themselves looked too usual in my eyes. They didn't have the cool outfit and vehicles that Cobra had, and some of them wore a hat. A hat. From my little-five-year-old point of vieuw, Cobra was the next best thing to live in.
Because I was so young when GI Joe was popular here, I sadly missed out on most of it. When elementary school came along, I still was into it alot tho, all my friends also had GI Joe and wa regulary came together to play with them. But then the late nineties came rolling along and I had to start handling things like highschool and the icky things that came with them. *shudders*. Result was that I totally forgot GI Joe, they more or less retreated to my big red toybox. Just before I stopped playing with them, I took horrible casulties. My Viper, Annihilator, Steel Brigade and Crimson Guard all broke. Their rubber o-ring laid down the flag. All my vehicles went lost too, together with the larger part of my figure collection.
It hasn't been so long since my interest in GI Joe got rewoken, so I'm still in the process in gaining back my collection and tapes - bear with me.
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