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Hasbro G.I. Jane Scuba Diver
G.I. Jane sporting G.I. Joe wet suit and scuba gear. A hit in the bathtub! These where made by Hasbro in the mid 90s. I praise these actionfigures for being very robust. Garage sales are your friend to find these for low prices. Don’t fall for collector prizes on Ebay.
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Since the Simpsons met Family Guy last night, no one has been able to talk about anything else. But it’s not like this is earth-shattering stuff - the cartoon crossover has been happening for decades. Just remember some of these classics (well, classics for us).
• Hercules meets Aladdin. Hades didn’t have a chance against Aladdin, sending only Pain and Panic, while Jafar couldn’t hold a candle to Hercules. These two may have thought they could pit these heroes against one another, but good always triumphs over evil.
• Transformers meet G.I. Joe. Cobra found the buried Ark with the Transformers inside, turning them into war machines. Fortunately, they’re able to break free of his control, but that’s when things really get crazy. This crossover happened a few times.
• Lilo and Stitch meet Kim Possible. Stitch is kidnapped by Dr. Drakken, so Pleakley gets Kim Possible to help rescue him. She and Lilo both want the other to get out of the way, while Jumba thinks Rufus is a dangerous experiment that escaped.
• Rugrats meet The Wild Thornberrys. Who knew Tommy was so crazy about Nigel Thornberry? Or that Angelica and Debbie would hit it off so well? These families all work together to save the day, but we know that it’s always the kids who earn most of the credit.
• Futurama meets Adventure Time. This crossover didn’t get too much coverage considering everything else, so you may not have heard about it. Bender meets Jake and Finn in 3013, in Mom’s flying castle, where Mom conducts genetic experiments.
G.I. Joe Extreme: Iron Claw
Toy’s from my childhood and from the 90′s. I’ll be honest. I got this toy in the 3rd grade but would you believe that I just recently found out that these were actually G.I. Joe figures?. All of the kids in my 3rd grade class had these. I remember it as clear as day. They were cool yet no one could ever tell me the names of these toys. Not that I cared at the time because my father would later buy me the only 2 that would ever own. The 2 that I got came in a 2pack. The other toy was a soldier which I no longer have. As a matter of fact, I lost the toy very early on. So “The Skull” as I and many of the kids in my class used to call him, is the only physical memory I have that these things ever existed.
2 years ago I decided to do some research and I discovered that these were from a short lived line called “G.I. Joe Extreme” The name was correct. Most of the toys I had seen were just that. They were cool, big and looked very intimidating for the time. They had cool weapons and their face were always pissed off. Apparently G.I. Joe Extreme also featured comic books and a cartoon that ran for 2 seasons!. Again, no one I ever knew had seen or heard of the cartoon nor were they aware that comic books existed. The toy in the photos is actually a character called “Iron Claw” who supposedly, was brutal and quite the bad ass as well. In other words he was the main villain of the series. The soldier I mentioned earlier was actually a character named “Stone”who looked a lot like Duke but was much bigger physically which brings me to my next point. These things were 5 inches and some were even bigger. They also maxed out with 3 points of articulation which is nothing compared to their smaller G.I. Joe counter parts and down right pathetic for 2016.
The photos don’t lie. He’s beat up. This is one of the oldest toys to survive my childhood. Although I didn’t know it at the time, he was my top villain. Playing with him against some of my other toys would often result in tough battles which explains his now deformed appearance. I guess subconsciously I knew that he was a villain and his boots always reminded me of the wrestler Triple H when he was “Hunter Hearst Helmsly” in 1996. I even gave him the pedigree move to. The missing fingers that came from all of the pokes to the eyes of my other toys. The fist, which has been caved in and filed down from all of the constant punches thrown looks like an ugly tumor. Did I mention that the fist once had claw like features as well? Look closely enough and you’ll see traces of it still. The rope on his left hand used to have a loop that dangled down is gone from all of the illegal chokes that was associated with it. I could go on and on but he survived which is something I can’t say for today’s figures as they wouldn’t last 5 minutes in a child’s hands today.
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G.I. Joe Extreme: Iron Claw
Toy’s from my childhood and from the 90′s. I’ll be honest. I got this toy in the 3rd grade but would you believe that I just recently found out that these were actually G.I. Joe figures?. All of the kids in my 3rd grade class had these. I remember it as clear as day. They were cool yet no one could ever tell me the names of these toys. Not that I cared at the time because my father would later buy me the only 2 that would ever own. The 2 that I got came in a 2pack. The other toy was a soldier which I no longer have. As a matter of fact, I lost the toy very early on. So “The Skull” as I and many of the kids in my class used to call him, is the only physical memory I have that these things ever existed.
2 years ago I decided to do some research and I discovered that these were from a short lived line called “G.I. Joe Extreme” The name was correct. Most of the toys I had seen were just that. They were cool, big and looked very intimidating for the time. They had cool weapons and their face were always pissed off. Apparently G.I. Joe Extreme also featured comic books and a cartoon that ran for 2 seasons!. Again, no one I ever knew had seen or heard of the cartoon nor were they aware that comic books existed. The toy in the photos is actually a character called “Iron Claw” who supposedly, was brutal and quite the bad ass as well. In other words he was the main villain of the series. The soldier I mentioned earlier was actually a character named “Stone”who looked a lot like Duke but was much bigger physically which brings me to my next point. These things were 5 inches and some were even bigger. They also maxed out with 3 points of articulation which is nothing compared to their smaller G.I. Joe counter parts and down right pathetic for 2016.
The photos don’t lie. He’s beat up. This is one of the oldest toys to survive my childhood. Although I didn’t know it at the time, he was my top villain. Playing with him against some of my other toys would often result in tough battles which explains his now deformed appearance. I guess subconsciously I knew that he was a villain and his boots always reminded me of the wrestler Triple H when he was “Hunter Hearst Helmsly” in 1996. I even gave him the pedigree move to. The missing fingers that came from all of the pokes to the eyes of my other toys. The fist, which has been caved in and filed down from all of the constant punches thrown looks like an ugly tumor. Did I mention that the fist once had claw like features as well? Look closely enough and you’ll see traces of it still. The rope on his left hand used to have a loop that dangled down is gone from all of the illegal chokes that was associated with it. I could go on and on but he survived which is something I can’t say for today’s figures as they wouldn’t last 5 minutes in a child’s hands today.
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It was a generation that grew up on, “Pork Chop Sandwiches”, “Hey kid, I’m a computer” and “Who wants a body massage?”. What we mean to say is that it was the generation that didn’t grow up properly — that later enjoyed being adult-sized children watching the many Fensler/G.I.Joe films that invaded the internet around 2003.
This icon and many other classic internet memes can be found on the Chop Shop t-shirt design, “The Internets”. Our very first iconic collection design.
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Some new stuff I’ve been working on. Cobra Commander in Chief. Cobra Commander reading Trump’s tweets. Voiced by the amazing Brock Powell and produced by me.
Storm Shadow after I watched GI Joe: Retaliation! I can consider myself a fan of the movies now and am planning to pick up the movies on DVD at some point :)
Snake-eyes from GI Joe. I only recently watched GI Joe: Retaliation and got inspired to do fan art. I enjoyed it a lot actually, didn’t think I would!
I painted Zarana for Yesteryear Comics’ variant for G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #249 by IDW Publishing This was very much inspired by those old pulp covers.
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Destro & The Baroness.
This has been sitting on my computer for at least a couple years now, haha.
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