Re: You know you're getting older when...

**Grunt 70** · 11-08-2007, 03:28 PM

Originally Posted by El_Gringo_Grande

Well, I played with these GI-Joe's. I had that tower!

So you are still relatively young Wiskey.

I'm in the same boat as Gringo...My GI Joe's were old style...

1982-2007-25th anniversery of GI Joe vs. Cobra...heck...I was 17 in 1982 and by that time I was more interested in Barbies....real life Barbie's of course.

Man... I am old.

**Axis of Eeevil** · 11-08-2007, 08:49 PM

Originally Posted by Grunt 70

Man... I am old.

That's ok, you don't have that old man smell yet.

I had all the space lego sets. Sure wish I hadn't gotten rid of them. My kids have inherited all the Lego sets from my brothers in law, man they are nuts about 'em.

**sgt fetterman** · 11-08-2007, 10:31 PM

you guys had it made, I didn't have any cool toys like GI joe, as matter of fact my older brother and I didn't have many toys at all. the closest I got to the cool toys was at the toy store wishing for one. or seeing an ad for one on our little black and white tv. My dad was a church sexton {I was born in '61} and we never had alot of money, my first bicycle was a put togeather from parts from the dump, dad did manage to get me a new banna seat with high rise sissy bar for it from turning in old scrap copper pipes and iron raditiors from the urban renew projects that were going on all around us. heh, my bike had a blue frame, yellow forks and tires so bald they looked like the cheater slicks that came on the new store bought spyder bikes, but I had a new seat and high rise chrome sissy bar and I was happy with it.

**Boot** · 11-09-2007, 12:02 AM

Originally Posted by WhiskeySix

Your expectations will be met: http://www.hasbro.com/gijoe/default....FAEBF95750D7E9

Hasbro's press release was responding to this.

Originally Posted by Article

When the Hasbro Toy Co. called some years back, asking permission to put the retired colonel's face on some kid's doll, Mitchell Paige thought they must be joking. But they weren't. That's his mug, on the little Marine they call "G.I. Joe." At least, it has been up till now.

Mitchell Paige's only condition? That G.I. Joe must always remain a United States Marine.

But don't worry. Far more important for our new movies not to offend anyone in Cairo or Karachi or Paris or Palembang. After all, it's only a toy. It doesn't mean anything.

We're lucky to live in an age where our real heroes are so disposable.

There, grumpy old guy point made.

**Skylark** · 11-09-2007, 12:30 AM

Originally Posted by StevieRay

You know you are getting old when you are in the toy store buying for the kiddies and you start buying the toys that you always wanted...my daughter cant figure out why she has a barbie and a Gi Joe (not ken)...some day that will all make sense to her...

Wasn't there some car commercial where Barbi leaves Ken for a GI Joe in a hummer?

Originally Posted by Axis of Eeevil

I had all the space lego sets. Sure wish I hadn't gotten rid of them. My kids have inherited all the Lego sets from my brothers in law, man they are nuts about 'em.

I remember when I was around 8, I got that leg lander set. It didn't even have lego "people". You had to make a man out of blocks with a clear block for the faceplate. Had some kind of jointed tubs for arms or something. But dang it was nice.

**El_Gringo_Grande** · 11-09-2007, 05:09 PM

Here is one. I just added a Frank Sinatra station to my Pandora, and love it!

Get out the cane and bengay!

**icky** · 11-09-2007, 11:31 PM

Man, this confused me. It is the 25th anniversary of the mini-GI Joes which came out AFTER my time. So I'm older than that, but thankfully younger than the guys who played with the real GI Joe from 1964.

I distinctly remember playing with the little green army men though. What could be better than arguing over who shot who first in a sandbox.

**Dick Blonov** · 11-10-2007, 12:11 AM

Originally Posted by Dirtboy

Hey Whiskey, I though you had Rocky and Bullwinkle growing up

I did, black and white...

DB

**ScratchMonkey** · 11-10-2007, 11:29 AM

Originally Posted by Skylark

Wasn't there some car commercial where Barbi leaves Ken for a GI Joe in a hummer?

[I wondered when someone would mention that.

]

It was a Nissan:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwMG7ifuTjQ[/media]

I played with the old style GI Joes back in the late 60's and early 70's. (I was 8 at the time Armstrong walked on the moon, and got to stay up to watch it.)

**Skyrabbit** · 11-10-2007, 12:14 PM

George Lucas has already urinated all over my childhood. I expect G.I. Joe too as well.

**StevieRay** · 11-10-2007, 12:37 PM

I had the old school gi's with the tower, before the grips and all that...loved em...then, well, Star Wars....nuff said...I am 38, still love it all, just more for my kids now.

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