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Just wanted to wish all my fellow board members a...

Merry Cobra Christmas and a Happy Joe Year!

One of my best childhood Christmas memories is waking up to find a Terror Drome under the tree.

What's your Joe or Cobra Christmas memory?

abner419 · Forum Zombie Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 417

The first Christmas I can remember where I received GI Joe I got a VAMP, a RAM cycle, and the FLAX with several figures! I loved that Christmas 1982 or 83 I believe... good times!

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One of the first Christmas's I can remember, I got a Skystriker, HAL, and VAMP.
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Firefly210 · Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 2:28 pm Post subject:

Merry Christmas to all! GI JOE played a huge part in many of my Christmas mornings over the years, favorite was getting the Cobra Stun. One vivid memory I have as well is asking Santa for the Crimson Guard and opening presents that morning and getting the crimson guard Commanders instead, great figures but I remember my brother throwing a huge fit because it was not the crimson guard!! Laughing

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Viceroy · Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 7:02 pm Post subject:

Merry Christmas, EE!
My fave GI Joe Christmas would be when I got the GI Joe A.W.E. Striker since it was the first GI Joe related toy I wanted to get. Second would be when I got the GI Joe Persuader.
The one time I got a Cobra themed Joe toy during X'Mas was when I got Serpentor's Air Chariot.
The GI Joe toys I wish I did get on X'Mas? The Killer WHALE, GI Joe HQ and the USS Flagg.
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CrazyK · Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 11:00 pm Post subject:

The first Christmas after GI Joe was released, my brother and I got EVERYTHING. All of the carded figures, the VAMP, MOBAT, RAM, HAL, FLAK, MMS and Jump Jet (am I missing anything?). My parents let us keep our toys out in the living room until we had to return to school, so the Joes pretty much ran the house for about a week...

The year I got the Tomahawk and the Night Raven was quite the holiday as well!

Yes, I have kick ass parents! Very Happy

Merry Christmas to all... and a safe, happy and prosperous New Year!
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The Rev · Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 12:57 am Post subject:

Awesome thread!

The first year Santa brought me Joe's was 1983. I remember it fondly. It included a 3 pack including Zap, Short Fuze & Breaker, and Steeler with his MOBAT. Damn that was a great Christmas.

Have a Wonderful Christmas everyone Smile

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Eagleyes · Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 6:12 am Post subject:

Great stories...my little boy is two years old and my newborn boy isn't even two weeks old yet...I can't wait to give GIJoe's to them on Christmas.

Have any of you given Joes and Cobras to your little guys and gals?

The Rev · Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 11:39 am Post subject:

Yep Eagleyes, a couple Christmas' ago Santa left the GI Joe Mobile Headquarters and a few figures for my son. He was ecstatic!

One little pointer though ... unless you like stickering for hours on end, stick to the smaller vehicles. That thing had 6 sheets of teensy tiny stickers 2 years later and we still haven't applied them all.
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ER · Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 12:44 pm Post subject:

Great topic, Eagleyes!

I've had quite a few G.I. Joe dominated Christmases, but if I had to choose one I think I'd go with 1987. I got the Wolf with Ice-Viper (which remains my favorite action figure to this day) and also the Night Raven with Strato-Viper. I'm also pretty sure I got some single figures as well, though I'm not sure who now.

I had also fallen behind in going to the comic store so in Dec '87 I remember buying and reading #67, #68 and Yearbook #4 at the same time and loving them. Hmm, I wonder if reading #68 had anything t odo with my putting the Wolf/Ice-Viper on my Christmas list... Laughing

Merry Christmas everyone!
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shanecdavis · Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 5:11 pm Post subject:

Wishing everyone here a very Merry Christmas!!

Thanks to Eagleyes for this great idea of a thread. I actually only have one Joe-related Christmas. It was early 80s. I want to say 1982 because I'm pretty sure it was the first year G.I. Joe came out. Years before my brothers and I had some of the 12 inch Joes that we used with our Lone Ranger figures, so when we looked through the JC Penney catalog (back in my day......), I saw them and had to get some. Santa brought me the MOBAT with Steeler and the MMS with Hawk. My parents also got me Grunt, COBRA Officer, and COBRA Trooper. It didn't take long before I had broken Grunt's thumb.

From then on though me and my friends got so much Joe stuff by ourselves (mainly through mowing neighbor lawns) that my parents didn't think of adding to it. I remember saving for months and buying the Joe Headquarters. It was sooooo awesome. Brought it home and played with it all day, until my mom found out how much I spent for it. Needless to say it went back shortly after. Happiest and saddest day that was.

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Torpedo · Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2011 3:03 pm Post subject:

Neither my first Joe Christmas nor my last, but for some reason the one that I remember most was when I got the Mobile Command Center and my best friend got the Defiant Space Shuttle Launch Complex. Those things were so damn big--too big! We couldn't bring them to each others' house to combine them.
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