Thanks, Ender! I'll keep that in mind. I'm always happy to help fellow Joe fans as well. You're right about us "old folks' sticking together. Maybe the over 35's should form a tight little squad to keep the young upstarts in their places! :p And I quote "Just because there's snow on the roof doesn't means there's no fire in the hearth". :D

I think my hearth has crumbled and caved in! LOL!!

Hi I'm new here too. For the record, I just turned 32 in May. I had some ideas for doing Joe fanfiction, but it was hard to get motivated to type a story. Then I came across Operation Rapier by Violent Fix, and saw a new way to tell my stories. It's a lot more fun :D I've posted on JBL and Devil's Due.net. I posted links to my first 2 stories on the site.

As you can probably guess from my avatar, my favorite Joe is Falcon, the first Joe figure I got.

Hi just joined recently. I’m 20 and I’ve been a Joe fan for as long as I can remember. The first G.I. Joe figure I ever played with was one of my older brothers Snake Eyes. After that day he couldn’t keep me away from them.

Weel let us see your Snake Eyes in action. Go for our group projects and let your opinion on our pools.

Hello. I have been a fan of JoeDios since it's inception. I have just recently begun to take digital photos of my collection. I intend to ramp that up a bit. My name is Wes, I am 27 years old, and I live in Colorado Springs. I began collecting Joes in 1987 and have kept it up more or less since then depending on availability and my career.
I enjoy lifting, running, watching football, military dios with 54mm Civil War soldiers, and of course Joes. If I could play a role in a Joeverse, I would definitely be a Crimson Guard. I like the idea of having the red suit in my closet while amassing power and position within society.
I think this is a great Joe site, and I am going to try to make some submissions for the themes.

Hi guys!

Just signed up today - referred by a poster at JoeBattleLines. I am a HUGE fan of the Sigma 6 figure line and have put up a few pics in the photos section. I live in Jackson, GA.

Hi Am A New Bee
 

hi my name rob
i live in the uk and been collecting joes for 3 years
learning how to customizeing the joes
thankyou
rob :eek:

My name is Fisher, I am 30 and reside in southwest Virginia, and have been an avid collector of Joes since 1982. I lost my entire collection in the mid-90's do to a break-in (along with other collectibles as well, but the Joes hurt the worst) and recently began collecting again as of 2003. I have amassed the entire 1982 line once again, most of 83 and 84, have a large amount of everything post 2002, and now I am focusing on reacquiring the 85 and 86 years.

A friend of mine, who is also a fellow collector, introduced me to Justin "General Hawk" Bell's dios earlier this year, and I began reading avidly, and searched for more and more. I decided after reading the General's dios, ViolentFix's, Tim Elf's, Luke Ellision's, and various others that I have ran across (sorry if I didn't name yours by name) that I wish to begin shooting my own dio stories. I found this board recently and have been looking through all the photos and dios, and I am really enjoying what I have found.

As for my own dio stories, I am currently writing a trilogy of sorts, and I intend to begin shooting this fall. I would shoot sooner, but my girlfriend, her son and myself need a larger place to live, as this one is too small and my Joes have been in storage for 3 months. Seeing as how our lease is up the end of September, once we get settled into our new place in October I will begin shooting, and hopefully finish before winter snows arrive. That is my current goal anyway.

So there you have a little intel about me, the community here seems really tight from what I have read. Before the dios arrive, I shall be submitting a few photographs of my own to get a feel of angles and receive any constructive feedback you gentlemen could offer. Thanks for your time, and I look forward to more interaction with the community from here on out.

WELCOME FISHER
i am new here as well

rob :eek:

Hi everyone, I'm Mike and I'm from Wausau, Wisconsin. Well, I had a decent collection of GI Joes back in the 80's, but my mom sold my whole collection for $5 at a garage sale when I was in the Army.

Over the past year I have been slowly buying the ones I had, and the ones I wanted. I am more partial to Cobra, but I have a soft spot for a select few of the Joes.

I am working on getting up to speed with the "Expert" Dio builders here. I am working on a story and some drawings as we speak so hopefully I will have something out by the end of the year...if all goes right.

Thanks to the powers that be for setting up this site and giving us all the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas. :cool:

What a wrong time to be in the army huh brother? At least we all have the ebay to run for. Just come up and show us what your are capable of and for the most have fun here!

Hi new people!

Come join in and don't be shy!

Yeah, you said it. But I will do my best on my Dio and hope that you guys are forgiving on a new guy like me. :D Thanks again.

Hi Mike, I'm Joe in Green Bay, just a little ways East down Hwy 29.

Sorry about your mom's mistake. My Mom had our stuff in cardboard boxes and she brought it over to our house when we moved out. I suppose I'm very fortunate in that extent that my Mom's pack rat gene saved my collection from the land of the garage sale.. My wife was less amused, as our house is not that big...

Welcome aboard, and glad to have a fellow collector from Northern Wisconsin!

Same here. Always nice to see a fellow cheesehead. Makes it seem like the world is a little bit smaller. :cool:

OUCH! A five dollar sale. Someone got a deal.
Welcome, and I look forward to seeing your work.

Hello im Typheron the man behind some of the heavy photoshop work done for GI*JOCK's personal amusement and creater of the Joelifter*5000 the most state of the art fishing rod and duct tape GiJoe lifting machine.

expect heavily photoshoped images done in partnership with GI*JOCK.

*pets his skystriker and laughs manically*

Oh, so Dave was getting help... And here I thought it was his dad!

Daddy doesn't know how to use photo shop :-P

catching up
 

aw you guys, i do my best whilst trying not to show you up. anyhow you are learning albeit slowly but surely. :cool:

location manager
 

:cool: you the man pete. this old guy is the one with the wet feet[standing in cold streams],bad back[lugging the gear],but you and dave sure make me laugh! let the good times roll buddy. :cool:

Into
 

I go by the name brine on most boards. I collect mostly the 12" G.I. Joes, like I had as a kid and I also really like the new Sigma 6 stuff. I live in Woodbridge, NJ and do my own action figure comics, here's some:

http://actionheroreviews.com/actionoutingone.html

http://actionheroreviews.com/defenceone.html

I also have a blog:

http://brineb.blogspot.com/

I pretty much am a comic and action figure fan.

hey brineb wheres that 1:18 were wolf figure from in your first diostory link? it looks pretty cool. anyways welcome aboard.

He's a Classic TV Toys reproduction of an old 70s MEGO figure. If you look on eBay in the MEGO section, they usually sell all 4 loose figures for around $20.

Their website is:

Http://www.classictvtoys.com

What's kinda cool is that the MEGO figures are close in size to the Sigma 6 guys ... I plan on mixing them together.

Hi everyone, I love this place! I'm amazed by the wealth of great joe photos here. I've known about it pretty much since it first began but have only now begun to post pictures.

If I can ever get around to making a complete joe dio-story, I promsie to alert you all to it first of all!

:)

Hey do you collect 12"bbi? 21st centry? Sideshow?

My stupid camera is malfunctioning and I have 2 great scenes to take a picture of!

I do have some of each ... I was a Dark Shadows fan as a youth, so I got the Barnabas and Quentin, I love Bond, so I got the Goldfinger Bond and I have dozens of Joes, BBI. Power Team and what not in 1/6th scale. I suppose I love 1/6th scale because it was what I grew up with.

Lets get to know each other!
 

I know there's probably a thread wandering around out there like this one, but I'm too darn Lazy to search for it. Besides, there are probably about 4 pages worth of posts by "fly-by-night" members who dropped in once or twice and left, and with the influx of new members, lets reintroduce ourselves!


I'm Frank. I'm old (39as of 22 Jan) I have a wife and two kids. I'm a Marine (active Duty). I'm originally from Western New York, but I now live at the edge of the Mojave Desert. I Like Martial Arts computers (I do networking for the Corps!)and GI Joes (like, duh!!). I have a TON of money invested in my collection (over 1,800 figures and over 700 vehicles/playsets...plus 3 HUGE military bridges! ) but I don't do it for the money or the bragging rights, I do it because I LOVE my Joes like I love my kids. (but if it came down to my kids or the joes, get ready for a windfall guys!)They're my pals from my childhood and I've had some of them since I was 14.

I'm too old to play with my toys and not get picked up by the guys in white labcoats, so this website gives me an alternative outlet. ("Uh, ...I'm not playing....I'm creating artistic works.....what are you gonna do with that straight jacket and butterfly net?? Guys? Guys???Noooo...noooooooooo!!!" ) :eek: :p

I've been fortunate. I've gotten lots of deals buying stuff, and when I get extra stuff, I don't mind giving it away to people who feel as I do and LOVE their toys! I wish I could find a job selling Joes or Joe like gear (ala Marauder John) but I would never scalp people like some of those vultures on EBay.


If you don't wanna post your real name or where you live, cool.

Ok, nowI went first so....who are you??? :rolleyes:

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As most of you know, I am Fisher. I joined the site last fall, but I don't get to post as much as I would like. I am 30 years old, I have been collecting Joes since I was 6 back in 82. I work for Motorola and I am the evening supervisor for our Virginia call center. My girlfriend Misty and I are expecting a baby due between April 30th and May 5th, so most of my time recently has been devoted to helping her with anything and everything I can. We just moved into a larger place, thankfully, so after a weekend of unpacking, I should be able to spend a little more time out in the yard taking some pics.

Aside from Joes, other interests of mine include reading, whether it be in comic form or novel, if it's in print I will read it. I also enjoy writing, mainly short stories, but I also have a couple of dios planned (soon as spring hits I am going to start shooting, if all goes well). I am a huge movie junkie, my dvd collection now requires another dvd shelf, as I have over 300 titles at last count. I also collect edged weapons, axes, daggers, knives, swords, but a lot of those are put in storage now with the baby on the way. I also have a samll comic collection (nowhere near what I used to have) and collect Transformers as well, mainly Alternators and Classics.

I love to travel, when I was younger I travelled as much as possible. I have lived in 11 different states over the years as a result. For some reason though, I always ended back up in Virginia.

I am addicted to ink, I have 10 tattoos and crave more. I have designs for my next 5 planned out.

I also keep an iguana, to me, greatest pet ever.

Just a few things that I can think of in my insomnia filled early morning hours...

I'm Skot, 25, and I live in NE Ohio in a little town called Geneva. It's about an hour east of Cleveland. I work in Mentor as a Purchasing Agent for a machine and tool company. Oooh, I drive a Honda Element and I love my big, orange toaster!!! :) I'm engaged to the most wonderful woman in the universe! My Konstantine, Bonnie Jean. :) I had such a crush on her all throughout high school and I never got the guts up to ask her out. 6 years later, I came across her on my friend's MySpace page of all places and it started there! Now, almost 2 years later, we have a house together and we're planning on starting a family. She's very supportive of my hobby and loves that I take such an interest in something that I'm so passionate about. I'm into Joes, obviously, but I also love movies and certain tv shows. Fave movies = Fight Club, The Usual Suspects, Boondock Saints, LotR trilogy, Star Wars movies, Batman Begins, Spiderman 2, X2, The Departed. Fave tv shows = 24, Prison Break, Heroes, House, Bones, The Office, Scrubs, Shark. I also LOVE comics and I collected them HARDCORE for about 12 years. Now, I just pick up graphic novels and trade paperbacks. "Y: The Last Man" and "Fables" are now among my faves! I also love outdoor things, like camping, hiking, canoeing, swimming, cornhole!!, biking, playing catch.

I've been an avid GIJoe collector since I was 5-6. Roadblock v2, Falcon and the Road Toad were my first Joe items. As a kid, I had a huge collection, but unfortunately, they all disappeared as I got older. I never stopped collecting, though. GIJoe, TFs, TMNT, MOTU, Marvel toys, Legends. When GIJoe came back with JvC in 2002, I started all over again and bought everything I saw. I never got the chance to army build as a kid, but I got really into it in the past few years. I built up quite a Cobra army! Ebay was a good friend to me!! I bought many toys I wanted as a kid! I started to explore the web and I found different websites involving Joes. General's Joes REALLY got me back into the hobby hardcore (thanks Justin!!). I sought out different dio sites and became addicted to checking them every day! I even began work on my own 3.75" diostory called "The Thirteen Agenda" and those of you that read it gave me some pretty positive feedback, so I shall continue it this spring.

When I heard about Sigma 6, I was skeptical, but I had an open mind and had collected many various lines over the years. The pics that first surfaced piqued my interest, and months later when I saw Spirit on the shelves, I picked him up and have been hooked ever since. Army building isn't nearly as easy seeing as how there's only 2 figures that can be army built (without customizing or inventing any new characters or factions, i.e. using Shouri Crossbow Storm Shadow as a Nitecreeper, etc.). Plus, at $10 a figure...it gets pricey. I don't mind paying $10-$15 a figure, because they're just packed with lots of awesome and useful gear and weaponry (for the most part). I own all but a couple (which I'll probably never get due to the figures lacking any kind of redeeming qualities in my eyes) and I am nearing the finishing stages of putting out the first episode of my ongoing dio-universe entitled AVALANCHE. I know a lot of the posters that frequent JoeDios are not into S6, but for me, it's just a refreshing and awesome new look at my favorite toyline of all time.

That's it!

Hi!

My name is Luís Galileu Gall Tonelli, but you can call me Tone, or TG, like most of my pals here. And I really like the TG think :D. I'm 26, (makin' 27 in April 23) and I live in Brazil, but in the very south, that we call the backyard from Brazil. I'm trying to adopt a child that already live with me and my wife, I'm a high school teacher (physics).

I always was a G.I. Joe fan, but just after June '05 I could start buying them due to get some extra money and I heard about eBay. Nowdays my hobby isn't just G.I. Joe, but I'm trying to get more 3 3/4 toys. Elite Force, CORPS, Star Wars, Chap Mei, etc. I'm working hard on my SW collection, but I'm focused on the Clone Wars time line.

Next year I'll start to work on my Master degree and in some other real life projects, like a photoshop class and probably an english class too. As you could see I've some problems in english :p.

I love to play soccer and I'm really good at it. I love to watch some cartoons. I can't sleep before 1 AM, but when in vacation just after 5 AM. I love the noght time, is when my brains are in full motion.

My name is Eric, but most of my friends (including my woman) call me Phu. It's a nick that's been around since middle school (I'm 25, 26 on April 18). Being called Eric is actually pretty strange at this point, unless I'm talking to my parents! They live in MN and I live in FL. I plan on moving back up north in a couple years; Florida sucks.

I love to program; I'm now running IT for a timeshare phone room. Systems administration was never something I was interested in, but it's not so bad now that I've switched the office over to Linux. I graduated from Iowa State U in '03 with a useless degree in computer science. I also run a bunch of forums and own way too many domains (over a dozen now, I think).

I adore movies, though I can't stand TV (commercials make me want to break things). Lately my girlfriend and I have been watching Star Trek: TNG; we're almost done, and I've started watching Enterprise. Sci fi RULES!

I loved Joes when I was a kid; I got back into them not too long ago when I realized they had been releasing new ones. When I started posing them on my desk and making up humorous little stories with them, I figured someone else had to be doing something similar -- I had no idea how many people were, though! I enjoy building sets; my first was a dojo, the second was a public restroom, and now I'm working (VERY slowly) on an industrial facility that promises to be pretty darn cool.

My main interest at this point is molding and casting custom figures; it's tough, and I have not gotten the results I want yet, but I'm still working on it. I have a couple customs (an alley viper and a Star Trek redshirt) that I'm hoping to produce in reasonable quantity once I acquire an injection molding machine. :)

Okay, for those of you who don't already know, my name is Craig, and I live in Melbourne, which is on the southern coast of Australia. I am in my early forties (yeah, I know, probably the site "elder") and very happily married to the beautiful Deanne, and we've been together twenty years this year. I work as a laboratory technician in the plastics industry (no, I don't make Joes!) and it's a pretty demanding job, as a large part of it involves quality assurance on our high speed production lines, so I'm always on the go. And that's a good thing, because I'm a fitness fanatic, so I enjoy being active. No desk job for me!
My first Joes were the old Adventure Team 12" flock haired figures (a hairstyle I now happily endorse :) ), and every Christmas and birthday that rolled around would add to my collection. My friends and I would stage great adventures in our back yards after school, but there weren't that many battles, as Cobra was non-existent in those days! I got into 3 3/4" Joes when they first came out here in '87. I bought one for the memories, and got hooked from there to a collection today similar in size to Frank's.
Outside of Joes, I have a large collection of relics from the US Civil war, which is another of my passions, and has led me to a couple of trips to the States in the past, with hopefully more to come. I also have a huge collection of Nascar 1/64 diecast, and love watching the Chevy teams dominate the competition (especially Hendrick Motor Sports, go Jeff, go Jimmie!) My wife and I also used to be avid trading card collectors (mainly Marvel/DC stuff), and have around 18,000 cards, including some real rarities. Don't even get me started on my wife's Beanie Baby collection, they eat up valuable Joe storage space!
Well, that's about it guys; happily married, busy job, keeping fit, and Joes. Nice and simple, just how I like it. :)

I'm Jay, it's not my real name but it does the job. I'm 22, which I guess means I'm one of the "babies" of this site.
Unless you want to hear about Aspie diagnostics and boring, pointless childhood memories, that's pretty much all there is to say about me.

lehsreh, what part of ky you lve in? I am in SW VA, not 20 minutes from KY and I have a couple friends that fight MMA around here, they actually face each other April 20th for this area's 175lb. title.

hi everyone, as some of you know my name is Nick(since I have at the end of almost everything I post :rolleyes: ) I'm 18 (the big 1 9 on march 21st) I have collected joes off and on since I was real little, starting with the 12" ones, I didn't collect joes much for awhile cause I was collecting the british action man figures, I basicly just got the bad guys since there really only was one good guy(exept for a few other members I haven't gotten yet) I have a small collection of lego galidor figures, I just recently started collecting the sigma 6 figures, they are really cool to have :D . I love watching sci-fi movies and tv shows, my favorite tv shows are: prison break, lost, heroes, the dresden files, eureka, kyle xy, and doctor who. I have too many favorite movies, ranging from comedy, horror and drama etc..etc..ect.. so enough about me what are some of you noobs like/interested in?

Nick