G.I. Joe Christmas Catalog Pages
 

Wow, the nostalgia. Thanks for making me feel old :).

I want an adult size of that shirt the kid with the rattler is wearing!

I like how they have 8 or 9 shipwrecks running around on one of the flaggs and how one has a white patch of gravel for Snow Job to ski on. These are awesome. I remember drooling over the Joe pages in the toy section of the Sears catalog at my grandmother's house.

Back when the Flagg was only $125, good times. I remember X-mas lists having page #s and letter/numbers on it for what we wanted.

Great thread.
 

1) Why Clutch drives a F.A.N.G.!? :)
2) Note that the U.S.S. Flagg prototype was higher then the final one product.

"fortress has kid powered elevator" Im pretty sure some of these are still in operation in china. :D

SO AWESOME! Thanks!

Hey guys, I found 4 more pages:




:)

Great!
 

The tricycle of Fred Savage from "The boy who could fly"!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Could_Fly
P.S.: a lot of G.I.JOE stuff in this movie.

Thanks for the cool tip NJ!

Man, now that Halloween is here today, the Holiday Season has officially started!!

Love looking at these old catalog pics - they truly were the ORIGINAL DIOS that inspired us all to set up equally cool shots of our own I think! :D

Yo Joe!
 

The G.I.JOE's '80s catalogs from Belgium and Holland were AWESOME, search them on google, I have to find theme too.

I remember Fred Savage's character burying his "dead" Joes. How cool would that be, buying a house and finding a Joe graveyard in the back.

love that cobra missile launch base

I tried google-ing those catalogs, but didn't have any success NJ. :(

Is there any way that you could get some scans of them posted up to this thread or maybe somwhere else on this site? Or even a link would be awesome!

Have you seen J_mans' over at JoeCustoms? http://djtoys.muchtobuy.com/cobra_base.html made with the blessing of the guy who designed the one in the ads there.. In fact he got the 2nd one made.

Great pages...I remember my brother and I trying to buy the first small vehicle or playset we could afford to get the mini catalog and see what else we could get for Christmas.

You had to search here, in Hammerfel's pictures:
http://www.joedios.com/dioramas/showimage.php?i=65&c=7
http://www.joedios.com/dioramas/sho...ber&imageuser=3
http://www.joedios.com/dioramas/sho...ber&imageuser=3
http://www.joedios.com/dioramas/sho...ber&imageuser=3
http://www.joedios.com/dioramas/sho...ber&imageuser=3
http://www.joedios.com/dioramas/sho...ber&imageuser=3

And some pics here: http://www.gijoeitalia.com/public/f...hilit=nederland
Translated in Italian (more pics): http://www.gijoeitalia.com/public/f...it%C3%A0#p13342

BREATH-TAKING!

Thank you SO MUCH for linking these NJ!!!!!!!

I am gonna have some fun looking at these!!!!

Wow!

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W :eek: W!!!!

You've done it again NJ!! Those are killer pictures!! - I love how they have a different dio for every imaginable environment - especially Stalker in the arctic sea and deep six in the rain/lake!!

Thank you!!!! :D :D

oh wow talk about be taken back to the good old days. to bad joe cant get back to that. thanks for sharing

The Good Old Days
 

I know :( - I'm afraid nothing will ever quite capture that same type of magic again.

Except maybe looking these old catalog pages over again....or if we could just get her up to 88 mph ;)

Oh man, that takes one back... to the time when I was a ten years old kid, browsing through those catalogs... They did catalogs with big dios like that for five years in a row, and it was those that really got me hooked on the toys. I've still got them all (and often multiple copies too). Good times...

19 days 'till Christmas, and I it's too bad that Sears doesn't sell time machines. ;)

I just watched/skimmed through this movie on Netflix - he sure did have a lot of Joes - like 3 Thunders and 2 Dragonflys! It was cute how he put camo on Max the dog's forehead! :)

I found them!
 

After a month I found the '80s european Hasbro pictures I was writing about:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31408335@N03/page265/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/314083...ith/3780714341/

A lot of pics!

NJ comes through again!!
 

Wow - the first link really makes the Sky Patrol vehicles look cool and the second link is even better showcasing the mean dog & those little single-serve dios with Mercer & Storm Shadow, The IMPs on the bridge, The Hydro-Viper hide-out!

Thank you SOOOOOO much NJ!!! Christmas came a few days early for me - I'll be sifting through these bad boys for hours! Thanks again so much!! - A true rare find these are! :D

There's some scans of stuff like that at this largely unknown Netherlands website...

GI JOE Netherlands

Including the most epic shot ever!

Greatest Hasbro Promo Picture of all Time

:) He can do my taxes anytime!