“Dehumanizing horrors of war sold separately!”

Ah yes, the first GI Joe rip off. I remember the figures weren’t too bad but the vehicles were uninspiring. Now if they’d made Nazis and Panzers that would have sold.

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I don’t know. I’d rather have a generation of children playing war, than a generation of men fighting one.

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So realistic, you’ll drink yourself to sleep every night for ten years and STILL wake up screaming!

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I don’t know. I’d rather have a generation of children playing war, than a generation of men fighting one.

When I was a little kid, I used to think that war was cool because–intentionally or not–it had been made to seem glamourous. I eventually wised up, thankfully, but not everybody did. I’m betting that a lot of the people who didn’t probably either joined the armed forces eager to prove themselves as big damn heroes and kill people on the other side of the world, or turned into right-wing hawks.

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The Navarone Battle Set (I’m not sure that was it’s actual name, but that was the idea… German mountain battle fortress with lotsa mounted guns, tons of German and Allied army men and tons of Allied vehicles) was perhaps the greatest “army man” set a kid could ask for. I wasted hours of my childhood on it.

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@ Snap – That was indeed an awesome set. One of my friends had it, I loved when he busted it out. I didn’t even care that he was always the army in the fort….

DC

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