 | | Re: Lose the Plastic Thingies (tm) —Steve Bliss
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| | | (...) Hey, GI Joe was great! Sure, when I got my first one, I had him pegged as a weak-minded pawn of the military-industrial complex[1] (probably because of the booklet showing how to pose him in various boot-camp situations; calisthenics, (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: Lose the Plastic Thingies (tm) —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | (...) Hm, I got into GI Joe just as they introduced the Swivel-Arm Battle Grip™. I loved the things--after a couple of years where fingers broke off, they changed plastic formulation for the forearms and solved that problem. I finally liquidated my (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Lose the Plastic Thingies (tm) —Eli Fleming
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| | | | In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes (...) I kind of spaced on the busted finger thing. I remember Zap ("bazooka expert" or something), my first GI Joe, hade some serious finger problems. Not only was the hand's plastic (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Lose the Plastic Thingies (tm) —Eric Lind
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| | | | (...) It wasn't the loss of fingers that was so troubling, it was the loss of the groin region! Very very bad. 8-0 (24 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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