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What was the Best Year for GI Joe?

07-19-2007, 03:09 PM	#1
Captain Max Banned Offline --> Posts: 773 --> Join Date: Jul 2007	What was the Best Year for GI Joe? Okay,now I'd like to get your opinions on what was the Best Year for GI Joe ARAH? For me-it's 1985.Why? Some of my favorite characters and figures made their debut this year:Lady Jaye,Flint,Dusty,Shipwreck,The Dreadnoks,Eels,Lamprey,Crimson Guard,Snow Serpent,and the Team Supreme:Alpine & Bazooka! Also-we got some of the all-time best vehicles-the A.W.E. Striker,Mauler,Transportable Tactical Battle Platform,Cobra Moray Hydrofoil,and the one I wanted and never got-the U.S.S. Flagg! So what is YOUR favorite year?

07-19-2007, 06:14 PM	#2
General Scarlett Hell hath no fury.... Offline --> Posts: 7,646 --> Join Date: Dec 2006	Ummmmmm....................... 1982-Present __________________ Non illigitamus carborundum~Vos mos non effrego mihi Coming soon: 'JoeSpecialOps'

07-19-2007, 06:26 PM	#3
lehsreh G.I. Smurf Offline --> Posts: 3,446 --> Join Date: Jan 2006	it is very close between 85 and 86. i like characters like lifeline, sepentor, beach head and the new noks. but i have to agree that 85 was the best year ever, cant say every year because i saw some years where they really, i mean really sucked, i was ashamed to be a collector.

07-19-2007, 06:29 PM	#4
Captain Max Banned Offline --> Posts: 773 --> Join Date: Jul 2007	1986 was an excellent year,as well-probably my 2nd favorite,overall!

07-19-2007, 07:21 PM	#5
Flint Lady 'J's #1 Man!! Offline --> Posts: 7,849 --> Join Date: Dec 2006	Man this is tough, I gotta go with my wingwoman Scarlett, here and say 82- present!!! But if I had to go with one year, It would have to be 1985 in my opinion some of the COOLEST STUFF came out that year!!!!

07-19-2007, 07:23 PM	#6
bravo Veteran Offline --> Posts: 942 --> Join Date: Feb 2006	1986 this is when we got Sgt. Slaughter,Serpentor,Low-Light,& Claymore, there were lots of great things in 86, pulse we got the The Fridge, and i remember this one christmas of 86 i got the Cobra Terrordrome.

07-19-2007, 08:53 PM	#7
Self-Modifier Crossover King Emeritus Offline --> Posts: 1,472 --> Join Date: Feb 2005	It's split between two years for me-- 1983, the year the first mini-series debuted, and the year Duke was released (albeit as a mail-away), was a great one. But 1985 was sort of THE year for G.I. Joe. The comic was the best-selling comic book in America (if Larry Hama is to be believed), the TV show was on every single weekday in syndication, and, as noted previously, several great figures were released that year. The G.I. Joe team was still at a manageable 50 or so members, and Cobra had just about all their top command structure in place. If the toy line had ceased to exist after 1985, we would have had pretty much all the main characters we know and love already established, and I think that says a lot about what a strong year '85 was. __________________ is on indefinite hiatus...

07-19-2007, 10:38 PM	#8
Outrider It's been a great ride! Offline --> Posts: 14,302 --> Join Date: Jun 2005	1985.....'nuff said! __________________ "The future's uncertain and the end is always near." - The Doors "Roadhouse Blues".

07-20-2007, 10:24 AM	#9
Sonneilon aka 'Paul WS Anderson' ;) Offline --> Posts: 7,751 --> Join Date: Jul 2005	I think it's 1987. When Falcon, Muskrat, Repeater and Tunnel Rat showed up. Otherwise, I'm a big fan of 1983 or whenever Torpedo, Tripwire and Gung Ho showed up.

07-21-2007, 06:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Sonneilon

I think it's 1987. When Falcon, Muskrat, Repeater and Tunnel Rat showed up. Otherwise, I'm a big fan of 1983 or whenever Torpedo, Tripwire and Gung Ho showed up.

hay Sonneilon, Muskrat,& Repeater are 1988 , falcon & tunnelrat are 87,& the rest is 83,