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General Section => General Joe Talk => Topic started by: B on November 30, 2021, 12:18:08 PM
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As the title says I'm interested in what is your most favourite gijoe/cobra playset and why? I never had one growing up, (I mostly made mine from cardboard boxes and vic20 cartridges and tape cassette cases.) but I'd love to hear your stories.
I have managed to purchase a few in the last number of years so I have a favourite now but I want to hear you guys first.
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I love the MCC... It's huge, man!!! I also like the surveillance port, very well designed toy and lots of play action - packed in a very small factor.
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awesome but anything more? what made the design of teh survelliance port special? Was it just the size of the MCC?
I'm looking for some in depth comments and nostalgia here :)
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I did not have any playset growing up, just figures and a few accessories. The MCC was always a favorite of mine since it was huge, lots of play value and also it can function as vehicle. The introduction of the MCC in the comic is awesome! Anyway, I found one online almost complete for a reasonable price which spark again my interest i it.
The surveillance port is more for diorama. I got a lot of vipers (new ones from the viper pit), so they look fantastic together.
How about you?
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Well I got the Flagg for Christmas.......so of course that is my favourite.
Second would be the Defiant. I actually got one about 15 years ago complete and in great condition so it was a joy to......enjoy as an adult.
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Lucky you, I imagine the joy of opening this gigantic box. The defiant is somewhere in my list one day... Good story though! I bought my flagg in the states and took it back to Canada. I had a huge box behind me and the custom officer looked at me very weird when I told I had a aircraft carrier with me (yes I had to declared it ;). Probably my third fav playset.
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Only playsets I had were the Air Defence and Checkpoint Alpha. I wanted the MCC REAL bad, I'd sit and stare at it in the Argos catalogue (like, Sears, I guess?) repeatedly in 1989 or 90 when it came out over here.
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I did not have a lot of playsets growing up, like most kids, I was mixing star wars, gi joe and other lines without any trouble. Bookshelves were my primary playset, with all sorts of pieces. I had the mountain howitzer and I had a lot of fun with it... loading the shell, fake firing, etc. It was a blast. The star wars droid factory ended up being the HQ for everyone. I loved the computer sticker on the side and the ramp on the side. Oh and I got the huge fortress of fang from D&D where a lot of the action was taking place. Those spikes were fun...
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Am I the only kid who didn't mix their toys? I mean, I used AF and GI Joe, and I did use Witterquick from Visionaries in with Joe figures when I was playing using the figures as characters I made up, but I never did Transformers VS Gobots or something...
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I had no playsets growing up. Cardboard boxes and blankets and old vic 20 cartridges with lego furniture were my playsets growing up.
My first playset I bought as an adult was in 2001 headquarters which was cool but the whole tower thing was kind of useless besides the top level. Then I got the original 92 headquarters in a lot buy locally but it has the same issues and worse colours :D.
Then i got ok version of the original mcc which was cool, but I'm missing stuff, and have some some broken parts like the hinge door that closes it up. Also very few vehicles fit in it. Plus the way it was depicted in the comics as being able to actually be opened up to the air was a big detract. I prefer to think of the different layers just how to actually play with it not that it actually seperates into that many layers.
Then i got the 83 hq but I'm missing stickers and possibly missing parts and a few broken parts (jail door) , then I got me a flagg that is mostly complete. Just missing a few things and can't justify the ridiculous replacement costs. (Anyone do 3d prints?)
Picked up an okay terrordrome last year but missing quite a bit of the lower level stuff on it and my firebat is mostly just a shell (luckily i have the re-release one).
So I love playsets. These are the things I wish i had as a kid.
I think my favourite to look at is the flagg for sure when you load it with planes, but the one I like the most is the 83 hq.
Its just got everything right about it. It has a command centre, a better jail then the mcc or the 92 hq, a place to park your vehicles, all the different ways the early vehicles could interact with it. It can handle a decent amount of figures. Its big but because you can take it apart you don't need special large bins. Its just right in all the ways. Plus i love that particular story line in the comics when cobra commander was captured and storm shadow came to break him out. the play value is amazing.
Maybe one day i will try and return all these things to their former glory.
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I used Knob Hill Farm baskets and blankets to make Cobra bases as a kid.
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Who else used old stryrofoam? I had so much fun creating bases out of those. We had to have a lot of imagination back in the days!
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Styrofoam was definitely used but to a much smaller extent then cardboard boxes. Used cutup cereal boxes and pencil crayons to make some of my computer screens and radar monitors then glued them to the cardboard boxes. I remember my mom getting upset with using her good scissors to cut up the cardboard. Really dulled them. so then we started to use steak knives to cut boxes. :D
I also used my desk as mountain and used the desk cabinets as inside the mountains bases.
I never did real water though for the boats. Always a unzipped blue sleeping bag we had.
Jungle was always either a aquarium back drop picture or moms weird house plants in the big planters :)
I also remember using a lot of plastic ice cream pails with openings cut into them as storage sheds for vehicles.
Man i miss those days...I should totally do a cardboard base just for the fun of it.
Anyways I do wonder if my opinion on the 83 hq being the best will change once I actually put some figs on my terrordrome. As a kid that was the one I wanted the most and now that I have it I have yet to actually put a figure on it and i've only had it for a year and only out for a week before it got put in storage.. Maybe during the Christmas break.