SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) — G.I. Joe is turning 50. The birthday of what's called the world's first action figure is being celebrated this month by collectors and the toy maker that introduced it ...
They fought for freedom wherever there was trouble—and by god, there were a lot of them. Over 150 soldiers, from common infantry to terrifying cyborgs, made up the GI Joe: A Real American Hero team in ...
Stanley Weston, who created the toys that would become known as G.I. Joe in an attempt to translate the popularity of Barbie to boys and sold it to Hasbro for $100,000 in the 1960s, died last week at ...
The GI Joe franchise is bigger than ever, with plenty of new collectibles to go around. Companies like Hasbro, Super7, and Diamond Select Toys are taking the popular 80s franchises to new heights.
The LCG Auctions Winter Premier is underway, and He-Man toys are prominently featured. One of the rarest toys from the Masters of the Universe franchise - a sealed "Battle for Eternia" - is on sale to ...
In case you missed the big news, the G.I. Joe cartoon recently celebrated its 40th anniversary, and to celebrate, Hasbro has been running a 24/7 livestream of remastered episodes on its YouTube ...
The large post World War II birth rate between 1946 and 1964 became labeled as the baby boomer or “boomer” years. My previous article about dangerous baby boomer toys resulted in a number of readers ...
It was 23 years ago, while glancing through the Recycler, DeSimone saw an ad about a collector searching for GI Joe dolls. So, he called the collector and asked him why. The man explained that the ...
Michael Bay previously had a major concern about the potential GI Joe and Transformers crossover, but the upcoming show in ...
Replete with often indecipherable action sequences, Stephen Sommers’ GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra is a mélange of fight scenes, hackneyed dialogue, and irredeemably soppy or angry flashbacks. Based on ...
This Jan. 31, 2014 photo shows a Gen. George Patton G.I. Joe action figure, right, and other G.I. Joes in a display at the New York State Military Museum in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. A half-century after ...