"Joe-verse" refers to the imaginary adventure realm of my G.I.Joe collection. It is a loose fiction that gives these little plastic figures and vehicles more purpose to being here beyond just cool looking things that sit on shelves or stored in bags. Mostly all just for my enjoyment and random stuff put up here for you to hopefully enjoy. For the most part my imagination has taken bits and pieces from various media (comics, cartoons) and from the G.I.JOE toys file cards and then mixed it all up into a big mix of adventures over the years.
Originally starting with a 1983 F.A.N.G. toy when I was young, G.I.Joe was one of the many top toys I grew up with and it slowly evolved into a collector level of interest, of sorts. As a lower level collector, I slowly built a collection toward a large collection with an expansive Joe-verse. At the most voluminous point my collection consisted of a figure command structure, bases, numerous patrols and special ops teams, vehicles big and small, all intended to stop Cobra and any other group of bad guys. At the height of things, I had a very expansive motor pool that had many vehicles that took the battle from the bottom of the sea into the high reaches of space itself.
I even had an unused mini shampoo bottle with Sgt. Slaughter on it that was intended to keep me clean at summer camp. There was a lot of stuff, and stuff can really weigh a person down, so....
More recently after very drastically reducing my collection size by the end of 2012 to what I have today, even doing away with my 1983 HQ in the banner itself, I find myself with the potential for more lean and focused collecting.
(to be continued....check back!!)
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- This is a very random bunch of thoughts based from my collecting of GIJOE: A real American hero figures and vehicles. Contained here are memories, experiences, recent thoughts, completely random thoughts, and other random things on top of that. While one company has made, and makes, our shared interests, we all add into that interest with our own creativity. You, the reader, will find many, many, excellent sites among the links to see what other GIJoe fans are doing, hit them up! For GIJOE stuff that is more random in topic, you'll find it here.