Swords and Spaceships

Here's what Hasbro is doing with the GI Joe line this year. I know that if you roll through this blog, you have a little extra cash for luxury, so go ahead a buy a couple of these (or something else) and put them in a drop box. Even if you're buying Joes for yourself, Hasbro still donates something, so it's a win for everybody. I took advantage of Wal-Mart's current $5 price and threw a Duke and Destro in one of the boxes I found at Toys 'R Us, and I know you can swing that too. Help those kids out- they'd probably love to have a fraction of what us collectors have.

Holy shit, have I neglected this blog or what. It wasn't intentional, it just happened. Anyway, I've really put aside the Star Wars collecting in favor of GI Joe. After picking up the recent Return of the Jedi wave, I was left very underwhelmed. I think it had more to do with buyer's remorse than anything. I figured if I hadn't bought a few of those figures, I might have been happier. So I ended up returning half of the figures I bought, and took that money and picked up a set of Joes I had my eye on, the Rescue Mission set that is exclusive to Target. (pics from Generalsjoes!) Yeah, this set rocks. It was $20, and included two Neo-Vipers (didn't have any of those!), a Duke in regular battle fatigues (the Dukes so far in this line all have some kind of specialized armor), and most awesome, a unique version of Snake Eyes. This SE uses the Resolute/City Strike mold with the Paris Pursuit SE head. Since I have yet to find a City Strike SE (very, very, very popular figu