My turn now I see

As some of you already know, my name's Wojciech [no ease - try to pronounce it right by yourselves ], had my 21st birthday on the 6th of February (so, one of the youngest here...) and I live in Poland, in Cracow (or Kraków of you want polish spelling ). Yeah, second oldest city in my country, fortunately NOT a capital, great place for anything - from studying to making films. We've been celebrating the 750th annivarsary of our city's location this year, so you know why it's so climatic place to live

I'm now on the second year at International School of Journalism at Jagiellonian University (jeeez... that's typical - "International" is only on the english plates, on polish it just Journalism Institute... guess it's to make a better impression ).

I'm collecting Jos since I was 4 years old and got my TF Tripwire, which is with me 'till this day. Well, as other Joes I got as a child. To me - they are part of my life, the best toy ever (and I had a lot of them. It'a real shame that LEGO introduced Vikings and Exo-Force series recently, because I was soooo dreaming of such playsets in my childhood... that's why LEGO is my no 2 toy).
My collection is now approx. 130 figures and about 30 vechicles - yep, not a big one, but nowadays the only way to get new things is ebay, and shipping to PL is quite a lot...
I love making my diostories - it relaxes me and I still develop my photo skills and imagination.

Beside Joes I'm a modeller - mostly 1/72nd scale and recently I switched onto the 1/72nd figure painting and such. I also like fantasy, horror and all GOOD literature (currently going through the S.King's "Dark Tower" like a hot knife through butter) and I like to play on peoples' nerves by listening to Metal. Genre depends on my mood
Yes, with such interests it's rather hard to be with anyone But at least I know a few girls, who have the "he's a little crazy, but as long as not dangerous - it's okay" attitude

Ok, who's next?

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My weekly TOP5:


The sacrifice of innocence the hailing of the gun
My way was death and madness, now let the Tower come

The Dark Tower series is one of the best storylines I have ever read. Enjoy.

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I Am Pilot Error...
I Am Fetal Distress...
I Am The Random Chromosome...
I Am Complete And Total Madness...

I Am Fear!

I'll carry on with the international replies...

My name's Andrew, I turned 27 a couple of months ago and I'm from just outside the city of Bath in South-West England. After tomorrow I'll be unemployed once again (temp job ending) and I'm hoping that I'll be able to find something in the editorial side of publishing (magazines) instead of another "because I need the money" job that involves 'phoning people all day.

I got a BA degree in American Studies because the course included a year at SUNY New Paltz and since I graduated in 2003 I've managed to do 2 Manhattan-based internships as well as visit friends a few times. I really, REALLY want to get back to the US to live but getting residency & work permits is incredibly difficult. I'm smart (picked out & tested with a 147 IQ when I was 8...) and highly adaptable, so if any of you guys know of ANY businesses that'd employ a foreigner like me please let me know...!

I got into GI Joe back in 1986 when it was still called Action Force in the UK. Palitoy stopped producing them and Hasbro did it themselves, with packaging in the same style as the US Joes and a marketing blitz of commercials, cartoon videos, comics... They appealed to me, then when I was given Zartan v1 I was hooked -- a highly-detailed, well-articulated action figure with accessories including a disguise, a personal vehicle and a colour-change feature that didn't involve water -- how could any 6-year-old boy not find that the coolest action figure ever? My love of the line never waned (I still have that Zartan...) and when it came back in '02 my collecting exploded.

Besides Joes I'm a HUGE comics fan, mainly Marvel Universe but I'd love to have the time & money to read everything. My Marvel Legends collection is the only other toy line I'm really dedicated to. I also like SF/Fantasy TV & movies, particularly Star Wars AND Star Trek, and am trying to read more books than just Terry Pratchett and Star Wars novels... I'm a fan of animation, mainly 80s-90s action-adventure stuff and comedy from Animaniacs to Family Guy -- another dream of mine is to do voice acting. I own quite a lot of Warhammer 40,000 miniatures but I've not had anyone to game with for about 8-9 years.

I love to travel when I can afford to, and there's a bunch of things I'm trying to develop with varying levels of commitment including writing, juggling, playing the bass guitar I bought 5 years ago, cooking, personal fitness and general self-motivation!

Wow... it's comforting to see that not all Europeans look down on the US.

It's also wild that the average age here seems to be in the mid-20's! I'm used to sites full of 14-year-olds... no wonder the atmosphere seems so much more friendly here.

I'm with Fisher on the Dark Tower series; I am a huge King fan, and once you've read the Dark Tower books, a great many things in his other novels will make more sense.

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dude you live in southwest va? which part, I'm in norton.

my real name is jordan and i'm 19 yrs old.

i love joes more than anything, except for my mom and dad, and bro.

sorry fisher, i missed this before. i live in eastern, not far away. i might know some of them, do they fight for gladiator, warrior fc or which one? whats their names?

Wow, pretty close, I live in Wise, just 5 minutes away.



I know Adam Mays and Chico Yeary, they both fight for Gladiator and Adam is challenging for Chico's lightweight title next month.

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I Am Pilot Error...
I Am Fetal Distress...
I Am The Random Chromosome...
I Am Complete And Total Madness...

I Am Fear!

All right, I'm a little late, but here I am.

My name is Matt, and I live in sunny California. I work at Wells Fargo bank, currently as a Lead Teller.

I've never been as into G.I. Joe as a lot of people on this site. I only owned a handful of Joes when I was young, because I was more interested in He-Man and the Transformers, then later the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I really got into Joes when I was "too old" to play with toys. A friend of my younger brother gave him Tracker for his birthday, and then my brother decided to pick up a few more. That same night he got the red-masked Cobra Commander and Snake-Eyes v4 at the drug store, and on my next trip to the comic shop I picked up G.I. Joe #120 for him. I read it first, though, and really liked it. So my brother and I both started buying Joes, and we chanced into a windfall when a friend of mine was told by his parents to unload his collection. We paid him $100.00 and wound up with nearly every figure from 1986-1989, and many vehicles including the Conquest, HAVOC, Night Raven... and a Terrordrome! To this day I feel a little guilty about buying all that stuff for so little, knowing now what they're worth. But I'm still friends with the guy, so I guess he doesn't mind.

Anyway, like I said, Joes weren't (and still aren't) my first love. I like them a lot, but I only buy what interests me. I also collect Marvel Legends and (surprise, surprise) Transformers-- Though mainly just Alternators and the new Classics, plus the occasional Armada/Energon/Cybertron figure that catches my eye. I also collected the Masters of the Universe revival from a few years ago until Mattel's own blundering killed it. Above all that, though, is my first love, Marvel Comics. I buy and read several titles a month. I do collect a few things from other companies, but it's mostly all Marvel. However, a lot of what they've been producing lately seems sub-standard when compared with the stuff I grew up on, so my monthly reading list has been dwindling as I've been picking up their trades of older material to enjoy. I just finished Champions Classics vols. 1 and 2, am currently reading Fantastic Four Visionaries: John Byrne vol. 7, and have Excalibur Classics vol. 3 lined up next.

I used to read a lot of novels, mainly based on licensed properties like Star Wars and Star Trek, but haven't picked one up in a few years. I love Sherlock Holmes, and every so often get the itch to read some of those stories. Also, I'm addicted to television. My current "must watch" shows include 24, Prison Break, Heroes, Lost, Battlestar Galactica, all of NBC's Thursday night comedies, Family Guy, and American Dad. My favorite TV show of all time is Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, which is the only Trek series I bought in its entirety on DVD. I also love animation, and since there haven't been any outstanding American animated shows for a while (with the exception of Justice League), I've dabbled in some anime. Some of it I love, but some of it seems pretty bad.

Other than that, I just like to hang out with friends and have fun. We go to a lot of movies, even though the prices of admission have gotten insanely high. Oh, and I almost forgot, I'm a die-hard San Francisco Giants fan.

I only came across this site when I had made my G.I. Joe background music files, and needed a place to post them. Hammerfel came to my rescue on the JoeCustoms board by offering to host them here, and I readily agreed. It's kind of cool to have been a "founding member" as it were, and see everyone who passes through post their pictures.

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is on indefinite hiatus...

which part, anywhere near big stone gap?