I was still busy with He-Man & Star Wars for the first 2 years of Joe, but it was 1984 when I got my first G.I. Joe toys (Steeler & The M.O.B.A.T., Cobra Commander, Grunt, Rock N' Roll, Short-Fuze, Breaker, and two Machine Gun Defense Units).

I hold that 1984 was the best year for Cobra figures and vehicles. (BTW my vote for Joe figures would be 1985 and Joe vehicles 1983). Plus we got the awesome Weather Dominator mini-series on TV!!!!

WHAT DO YOU THINK WAS THE BEST THING(S) TO COME OUT OF 1984?

The WHALE. My favorite vehicle.

Close second was my brother's favorite, the Rattler and Wild Weasel.

third, the mail away for the hooded commander.

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1984 is one of my favorite Joe years though. Firefly is a favorite figure, but the whole lot was pretty good for Joe and Cobra.

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'84 was an awesome year for the single carded figures, especially Firefly, Baroness, Recondo, Stormshadow and Scrap-Iron. Duke was the weak link that year, I remember him being the only peg-warmer. Also the Rattler was one of the coolest vehicles ever made. Never had one until the 25A.

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I was the opposite, after loving Joe in 82 and part of 83, I was almost completey out of the GI JOE thing in 1984 (the fickleness of youth, distracted by MOTU and others ), but my brother was still major into it.

I have a soft spot for the one item I did get myself that year, Zartan and his Chameleon. The swamp skier is crap that broke too easy even when it was new. But the idea of it all was cool. Plus it was something I had that my older brother didn't (He got all the other 1984 items except the Vamp MK2).

Also, the COBRA CLAW brings memories, not because I liked it, but when my brother got it was the first 84 thing we'd seen. We had no idea what was new, and it included the 1984 catalog/folder. Seeing those for the first time was the best kid "high" ever.

I'd get back into GI JOE in '85 after a major birthday haul, getting older stuff, like Recondo then, too (he became my favorite 84 Joe because of that). My older brother outgrew toys by mid-1986, so after that I carried the Torch (and Buzzer and Ripper, too ).

The best thing, though? The WHALE was a great thing, it started a new trend of assault vehicle with crew positions and mini-vehicles that would go on and on (with mixed results). That was a true team vehicle.

85 or 87 for me. I just have more memories playing with the figures from those years.

Firefly and Recondo were my highlights from 1984.

Also, around that time, my brother and I would try to find a small vehicle or playset we could buy to get the new catalog insert and start dreaming about larger vehicles.

And since we could not afford to collect one of each figure each, we would agree who would buy which figures. I still remember agreeing to pick Firefly and letting him snag Storm Shadow. Sometimes we would play together, and other times he would let me use his figures, and vice versa.

On a shopping trip with a special Aunt, she bought us each a Zartan. She even helped us take him in and out of the sunlight and then she popped him in the freezer to see if he would change a different color. It was a fun day!