So far in my dio expereriences I have been fortunate to only have a few go MIA which later was labled KIA because they were never found.... Here is my list and last known Location, I am doing this to honor thier sacrifices......

Name (serise or detail) Last known Location
Heavy Duty (dark Green GI Joe VS. Cobra) Neighbors garden
Sgt. Hacker (spytroops) Best friends house when we played GI Joes a long time ago
Snake Eyes (VvsV) Best friends cabin when we played GI Joes a long time ago
Countdown (ARAH) Godfathers Pizza

newest MIA
Big Ben (Road Rebel Driver) Bowling Alley Desert or Ridgewater College
Chuckles (V1) Bowling alley moutain range

What about you guys do you have any Joes or Cobras go MIA?

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No Guts No Glory

Excellent thread idea!

I have a few:

1982 Grunt
1982 Rock & Roll
1982 Breaker
1983 Short-Fuze

These four (along with 1983 Steeler, who I still have, but sans waist piece and with a broken torso screw "port") were my first 5 Joes. The above 4 got lost over the years in and/or around my parent's house. I have since "replaced" those 4.

Thank u for reminding me I replaced the top 4 figures (countdown was replaced by different version of him)

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No Guts No Glory

all my original Joes, Cobras and vehicles I donated to some kid at a halfway house/homeless shelter in San Diego before I joined the Navy in '87.

I'm sure they were well played with. And I'm sure the kid had some Joes/Cobras go MIA on him.

Once, in '85, I lost Roadblock's Ma Deuce at a friend's house in North Hollywood, CA.

Good times, man. Good times.

My original Recondo had his waist piece go MIA/KIA when over at my friend's house. His little brother tossed Recondo into the air, where he struck the ceiling and came down, shall we say, "neutered." Of course that was 1985, so time has passed.


More troubling is the loss of my Snow Cat. I had two, both of them works in progress, and one is completely missing. I had taken some pictures with it and then I have never been able to find it since.


Bummer, on both counts.


Other times I have been happy to have Joes turn up in unusual places after being MIA for a while.


But I have two sons, and a memory that is not as good as it once was...lol. I like to blame my own mind rather than the sons...

I've had a few go missing.......
Quick Kick
82 Scarlett (SA)
and a few others I can't recall....
vehicles.....
Night Raven
Tomahawk
DragonFly
Air Defense Station
Flak

probably all in the very same tote/box...

replaced all the vehicles except the Night Raven

Name: Countdown, Last known location: My grandparents back yard

We were spinning him around on that string on his backpack and he went flying I never saw him again...

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Lifeline: Hey low light did it ever occur to you theres an easier way to handle disputes.

Low Light: Yeah its called a gun

I had about twenty figures as a kid, and never lost any of them. I did lose some weapons and parts, though :

- the green helmet of Hawk v2 : lost in the garden when scrambling to get all my Joes out of a sudden rain (I still hope I'll find it in my parent's garden someday; I once found a marble there I lost years earlier...)

- the gun of Hawk v2 : presumed stolen by a friend who came to play and who asked -only days before it got lost- whether he could have it

- the gun of Alley-Viper : lost in the garden during heated battle; looked for it for hours, combing through the grass, didn't find it; my mother found it by accident a few days later, two meters from the area where I thought I lost it

- the antenna of Desert Fox : snapped and stayed behind when the Desert Fox emerged from the bushes in which it was hiding; never found again between the countless thin brown twigs of those bushes

Odd how someone can still remember stupid little things like that, twenty years later...

I had this sweet die-cast 6-shooter ring cap pistol (cowboy style) and it had great weight to it - felt like a "real" gun, whereas most cap guns felt fake. So one birthday - maybe I was 9 or 10 I had 4 friends over and we went on an "army mission" in the snow and my one friend asked if he could play with that gun for the mission - I said sure and then after we came in and got out of our wet snow-suits (it was February) somehow in the confusion I forgot to get it back from him. Don't know if he stole it or it got lost out in the "field" or if he took it home by mistake or what - I still remember that gun - and here's the kicker - 25 years later, the first house my wife and I bought is 3 houses down from his and his wife's house in a town that neither one of us grew up in - and we haven't really spoke since we were kids......

Talk about odd....

I'm sorry for your loss, but I really did just laugh out loud...