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Greetings and salutations. Welcome back Collins last stand knockback my name is

Colin Moriarty as always I'm joined by my brother Dagen Moriarty who's scruffy

looking who's scruffy what I am shishish. Shish. Now, Degan, this is the last of the first batch of

episodes we're going to record together. Yes. And I put this one

intentionally at the end because, well actually I wanted to start with one in the beginning

Empire Strikes back and then one at the end of the first wave which is GI Joe

because these are two things that you and I have bonded over very significantly

actually we've really bonded over all

of this stuff but these are two things that we can talk forever about yeah and let's do that yeah so let's

just talk forever G.I. Joe is really important to me, really special to me as a property and I'm not specifically talking about and this podcast won't specifically be about the 12 inch doll toy line that was you know

that predates G.I. Joe the real American Hero which is what we're really going to be talking about

the 1982 to 1994 toy line and everything that kind of encapsulates it. about the more army-centric dolls that were kind of derivative of really the barbies and the kind of the more it was weird actually when those dolls get the you know the G. I. Joe kind of toys came out. Yeah. That boys would play with what looked like dolls. That was a revolutionary toy. Yeah. So I'm not discounting and it's just that I don't have any expertise in that and I'm not really interested in it at all. But I am interested in what when that toy line went away towards the late 70s and early 80s, and actually there's a really great Netflix documentary about this, that you can learn a lot about that particular toy line. But when that kind of went away and they wanted to bring it back, they were inspired a great deal by obviously what Kenner was doing with Star Wars and obviously Hasbro at the time was the company that was doing G. I think Hasbro eventually bought

Kenner. So, you know, Star Wars Toys and G. I. Joes were all be made

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