My mom gives me $200 in gifts foe my list. what are the absolute essentials i need to get?

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RoboJoe
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Uh, what era of GI Joe were you thinking of? 2002+? ARAH? Sigma6? heh heh

It depends on what you already have and what you want. Vehicles, figures?

Nice problem to have, though.

Yeah, no kidding! Personally, I wouldn't be thinking Joes. I'd be thinking, "Hey, I can finally build my dio set for Chapter3." Then I'd be thinking beer, mp3 player for wife and saving up for Stone and Zartan. And it's in that order too. lol.

I think it really does depend more on what you want to get. There's a lot of cool stuff out there but if your in the States at least you can order directly from Hasbro to get your hands on some of the joes there.

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This list shows what a sick sense of humor you have...lol!!!!
It was funny to read though...

I can tell you from personel experience, get the DragonHawk, It is really cool (once modified to fit 3.75 guys).

If you are open to varied generations of Joe, Sonneilon I would trust to recommend the best stuff...

I am all for 3.75 Joes... Ebay gets me what I broke or missed during the 80's and 90's... Just depends if you are collecting or making Dios...

What exactly did you do to modify the DragonHawk to fit 3.75 figures?

I was joking. My best days of Joes were '83-86. Sure, I started in 1982 but man that 2nd series was just awesome and really got away from that standardized look.

My own faves as a kid up until I quit were;

Falcon
Tunnel Rat
Muskrat
Repeater
and well, the 5th would have been a mix of Tripwire, Flash, Torpedo, Hawk, etc.

the dragonhawk is very expesnsive.