>>6316338OP were you around when ARAH Joe was in its heyday? I agree they seem more fun, and that may not just be nostalgia talking. Seemed the people in charge of designing/sculpting those Joes could take more creative liberties then, and it showed in the variety of figure and vehicle sculpts. They didn't yet have the pressure of a disappearing market. The inserts you'd get with the toys were more fun too, they had the thrill of good guys vs. bad guys without all the complexities and grey areas of modern conflict. I don't think the modern cartoon attempts (Resolute, Renegades) really recaptured the excitement either. They were too serious.
http://www.yojoe.com/archive/inserts/ They're here but the scan quality on some seems low and they don't all show the whole contents of the insert. If I still have mine I might scan them. And in some cases old and new Joes can be mixed together in the same scene and they don't look that "off", at least to me.
>>6325437I never saw that Zartan, thanks for posting him. Agree on the ReAction figures; I was a kid in 1984 and even then I didn't like 5 POA figures because they were too stiff and didn't move right. Haven't changed my stance on that, and ARAH Joe is when I really started to enjoy action figures.
