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Originally Posted by RalofTyr
The GI Joe Space Station set. It was the one that mimiced the space shuttle with a crawler/launch paid, booster/station and shuttle.
I still remember the day my step-dad took me to get it. My friends were with me. It was a warm day, I think Wenesday, the week after Christmas, 1990. It was warm (70F) and sunny out. We had to search severl Toys R Us to find it. We found one at the one near South Coast Plaza mall. About nine months later, after we moved, I gave it to the younger neigbor kids.
I also liked StarCom and Air Raiders. Watching StarCom cartoons on Youtube, I didn't know how much science was sneaked in, such as life on Europa etc.
The StarCom base did have an encounter with an "Alien". Few survived.
When we were kids, my friend asked me once why our toys are fighting, I couldn't think of a reason other than to fight, now, I can think of many reasons to have a military conflict.
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i also had that GI Joe shuttle set- it was called the Defiant- it was really cool and detailed. but my favorite part of launching the shuttle was when i had it land on the 7.5 foot long deck of the USS Flagg aircraft carrier that took up 1/2 of my room.
both of them are listed
here. and, no, the Flagg didn't float like the linked page says it did- it didn't even have a real bottom.
i might have grown up poor, but i got the coolest Christmas and birthday presents from my grandpa. i think i had every major GI Joe play set ever made- from the original GI Joe headquarters to the COBRA
Terror Drome (which was way cool)to the oil rig looking platform thing. my room was full of lovely plastic toys that encouraged violence and posed choking hazards to small children..