I got my first Joe in 1964, he was the Action Pilot, I played with him all the time and eventually got about a dozen Joes and various 1/6th scale figures. I remember having the Mercury capsule and having "splashdowns" in our pool. I was always a comic book/strip fan and used to make my own elaborate stories with my Joes. Somewhere around 1971, my Mom gave away all my Joes to a cousin. In 1973, I started doing stop-motion animation and bought a bunch of Mego figures (8" tall as opposed to 12" tall). Most of these guys survived and i still have some. In the 90s when the 12" Joes were reintroduced, I got a few and some Action Man as well as Captain Action reissues. I really started to go crazy about a year ago and have been all out G.I. Joe insane. I started to get some of the sets I had as a kid and also started doing photo-stories with them. I never got into the 3.75" Joe, too busy doing all that fun bad stuff we all do in our 20s and somehow I kept that up into my 30s. When Sigma 6 came out, I fell in love with the cartoony Joes and have been collecting them.

So, why do I like Joe? He let's me feel young and creative again. He inspires me to be a 48 year old kid!!!

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