Wednesday, March 31, 2010

HANDS AGAINST AMERIKA




Cobra supports socialized medicine. What the fuck is this commie pinko shit?

This is inspired by our dear friend and #1 fan (in this case #1 means my favorite!) and his recent bout with tuberculosis, FIREFLYED you r NEVAR ALONE

Monday, March 29, 2010

A Brief Trip Through My Adolescence

Late fall nineteen hundred and eighty three.

It was a Saturday afternoon, I was nine years old and it was a different world then it is now. Our parents thought nothing of booting us out of the house with a packpack of action figures and telling us to go to the playground till the street lights come on. We didn't really have video games yet, and watching some weird old 70's cop movie on TV didn't become a popular practice for a few more years (we discovered pot) so off I went to the park to meet up with the rest of the neighborhood kids to play with toys and sing rhymes about how girls smell bad.

I met up with my usual bunch of jerks, Jimmy Figs, Ian, Juan and this weird kid who was hanging around with Ian named Bobby R. Watts. I had known Bobby from school, he was a trouble maker and his legal name on his birth certificate was Bobby Robert Watts, so you could either call him Bobby Robert Watts, Robert Bobby Watts, Bobby Bobby Watts or Robert Robert Watts. He was a fucking spacecase, even back then.

When we got to the park we picked sides on who was gonna be who, I got to be Cobra that was pretty rad I liked being the bad guys because I would always kidnap one of the other kids Joe figures and not give them back till "You gave me 25 cents or did the chump shuffle". I took out all the figures I had brought: Cobra Solider, Cobra Commander, Destro and Breaker. Ian griefed me into giving him and Bobby "Bob Seger radio guy" (Breaker) because they were the good guys and would be out numbered if they didn't have Bob Seger Radio guy. I told Ian not to give his weird friend my toys but I also knew I had to be nice to Ian because he had a really cool BMX bike I might get to ride and he had a pool so playground politics took over and I let them use Bob Seger Radio Guy.

The battle went as expected, me and Jimmy Figs rushed there base head on and flipped over the Vamp, Juan tripped over a stick and scrapped his knee and ran back home, and in the heat of a firefight, Bobby R. Watts picked up Breaker and made a single man rush at the Cobra front lines. Only he grabbed him too hard and broke his arm right below the straight arm joint.

Oh hell no, I said.

I turned to Jimmy Figs, Jimmy was my muscle in these situations but Jimmy didn't want a confrontation because he was too busy with a juice box or something so I went up to Bobby and asked him "Dude what the hell". All he did was laugh and start singing A Mamas And The Papas song to me. So I grabbed my broken toy and walked back to the big dirt mound. It was time for action.

I found the biggest, most rock filled dirt clod I could find and held it behind my back. I yelled out "HEY BOBBY, CHECK THIS OUT, THERES LIKE, A DEAD RABBIT OVER HERE!". Bobby was never one to skip seeing a dead animal and he took off towards me like a goddamned rocket. So I held up the dirt clod, cocked my arm back like fucking Tom Seaver and let that fucker go right at his big ass head. It beaned him right in the eye and he dropped like the 100 pounds of jerk he was. I yelled out "YEAH THATS RIGHT DON'T BREAK MY TOYS!" and grabbed Jimmy Figs by the arm and dumped my toys into my backpack and hopped on my bike and headed back to my house.

The next time I saw Ian he said Bobby R. Watts went around the playground yelling really mean curse words like "SHITJERK" and "ASSCLOUD" at people and then took a shit ontop of the slide. I got to ride Ians BMX bike later that Spring and even went in his pool a few times. I didn't see Bobby R. Watts again till middle school, where he once got suspended for yelling "SATAN IS EVERYWHERE" into the school PA.

A few years back when I was selling my collection, I found Bob Seger Radio guy in a junk bin with his broken arm, I thought of that afternoon and how dirt clod justice was dolled out. Then I plopped a not broken arm onto straight arm breaker from another Junk box and then sold him for like 20 bucks. Aces.

Smash The State Never Loses.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Stealer




Dr. Henry E. Miller has been on about this since like 2005, he was all "Hey Turk, in the 80's I had a Steeler with a Doc Head. His codename was "Stealer" because he was black and black people steal"


This is finally a dream come true

Mental illness, missing parts and hillbilly ski-do's!

You know who's surprisingly popular despite looking like a homosexual, has a lot of easily lost parts and was more science fiction than Serpentor (and Serpentor was made up of the DNA of History's greatest monsters and a pro wrestler). Zartan

Zartan turns blue for some reason, I do not know what the reasoning was other than it was fucking goofy. One time in 2009 I was in a grocery store and I was walking down some aisle looking for toothpicks, which are always somewhere really fucking inconvenient, but I saw this dude who's skin was like navy fucking blue. He had like white hair and dark blue skin, and judging by his facial features he was a white dude. Anyways I guess that proves Zartan's super power isn't too far fetched.

Now the blue skin part is annoying, it means you need a boxcutter to open the fucking jerk, which is an awful lot of work to change an O-ring, but it's not even the worst thing about the fucking guy, I guess because he's an Extreme Paranoid he doesn't wear a shirt but rather he puts on a belly shirt with saran wrap over the nipples and it falls off all the fucking time. He also has those on his thighs, hey Zartan, fuck you!

Also he had a goddamn thing on his head that might've been a rag or a hair. You could take it out and replace it with Buzzer's hair, Spirit's hair, Baroness' hair or Raptor's bird thing. You couldn't however replace it with 1993 Zartan's mohawk. The world mourns the lack of squeegee kid Zartan customs.

He also had a Swamp Skier. It looks like a hunk a junk. So rather than fire some dummy in design they just said "these small vehicles fall apart all the time, look at the Silver Mirage! just make some box to throw busted thing into!" So you could put your swamp skier into a box and then put Zartan's backpack face on him and be all "Look at that old feeb with the box a junk, if this was 'Nam we could kill him and score some smack"

Here are some photos the only friend of Smash The State was commissioned to do:





LEAVE ME ALONE I AM AN OLD MAN

Friday, February 26, 2010

The cold cruel world of Bootleg Cobra Soldiers

The G.I. Joe fan community is a pretty fucked up place, it's full of creeps, jerks, people who dislike reading as much as they like spousal abuse, and capitalists! I'm a guy who knows a lot about these for some reason, and no one else will talk about them (and no one will read this, the lack of knowledge spreads!)

In 2008 some enterprising guy decided "Hey, I know how to make money!" and really late in the year fake Cobra Soldiers (and later Viper Pilots) appeared. These were pretty terrible, the rivets were put in incorrectly, the legs were looser than whatever whore little girl inspired the Warren Zevon song "Tenderness on the Block" and the cobra logo was a weird ass red. No one really cared except people who bought them, the only mention of them prior to 2009 was on some Yojoe! thread buried in the variant section.

I once talked to the first noted seller and asked about them, I was told something about how "They might be Hasbro Factory Errors who knows!" Either they were confused or con artists (I couldn't tell)

So that was the first batch, no one knows much about it and it's not really an issue at this point, but it says there are atleast 2 (probably 3) fake Cobra Soldier molds out there!

The second batch of them showed up from China. Murmurs I've heard about them is some dude has a secret production run (How very G.I. Joe fan like!) made, it explains the fanwank Desert Trooper using a vert obscure vehicle sticker for the logo. These first showed up publicly at a convention hosted by enemy of Smash The State, Joe Canuck. There were a few eBay auctions where these motherfuckers wound up going for like $500. Q. Who would pay that? A. Idiots. You can still find the Desert one on eBay but it's $150. It's not worth that (I paid $35)

Presumed list of figures from this batch:
Crimson Guard Soldier
Black Soldier (This one has smoke gray straps and a gold/bronze logo)
Tan Soldier (Desert Scorpion logo, 1983 Grunt colour)
Stinger Driver Soldier
Snow Serpent Solider

The plastic quality of these is really poor. Tight knee joints, really stiff arms. However they look more professional (stained rivets) and the foot holes regular G.I. Joe size.

The most common, and from a quality standpoint the best are made by The Black Major, apparently made in the USA. These showed up in the summer of 2009, and were constantly re-deco'd until January. The figures have the highest quality plastic (About 1997/1998 G.I. Joe) and most useful versions. Three figures had very intricate paint applications; Urban, Jungle and Desert. The Jungle was the most popular and unavailable the earliest. Was also retired earlier than any other ones.

List of Figures from this batch

Arctic
Crimson Guard
Black (Light grey straps silver logo)
Jungle
Urban
Desert Camo (Red and Black logos)
Red Shadows
Tan (Red logo, brown webgear/facemask)
Tan (Scorpion logo)
Canadian (Arctic with Maple Leaf Cobra Symbol)
Black (Grey face mask/webgear. Skull Cobra logo)

There were also going to be a Dreadnok Trooper and some other logo I didn't recognize, judging by some eBay auctions.

A lot of people have talked about these figures and some people think they're cool but some are just fucking morons. One guy once asked me "Hey y u buy them. they not real gi joes" I wish I remembered his E-mail so I could post it here. Also the yojoe.com admin once complained about how it's not fair for someone to make these figures affordable because he spent years buying Cobra Soldiers at $20 each.

In conclusion, G.I. Joe fans are secretive jerks and complain about prices of everything.

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

RIDING THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE

We were going to make this post on New Years but then some stuff happened involving a state owned building in Livingston Montana so we are making it now jerks!

Ten years ago in GI Joe fan communities you could debate about weather or not Cuba Gooding JR would make a good roadblock in a live action GI Joe movie, flame each other and talk about slapping each other around with a trout and saying I REPRESENT THAT COMMENT a lot because it was a cool thing to say or something. Also a bunch of halfassed action figures in weird packaging under the name GI Joe came out, they were the last good action figures called that to come out during the decade. They had a bunch of silly code names like BLASTFACE or REGARD THE RULES I don't remember much from that long ago I did a lot of drugs.

During the ten years between the year 2000 (the new Willennium) and now 2010 (the era of scary black men running the country) we had

A lot of really really stupid action figures that moved less and had worse paint aps then figures you could buy at a Kroger in 1986.

A really stupid comic that got canceled and rebooted like 8 times

The Baddest Men on E-Bay ran rampant on a news group nobody even reads anymore for like 8 months then disappeared.

Thomas Wheeler continuing to try and make himself sound important on message boards

Corey Stintson got mad about some stuff I think.

Mike T. took some really awkward photos and ranted about stuff nobody cares about

The steep decline of Yojoe.coms relevancy

Hisstank doing what Sgt Savage, Joecustoms and a bunch of other sites couldn't do, Monopolize news about meaningless pieces of plastic made for children.

The golden error of photos of plastic men fighting international terror in tail grass (dio stories) in 2003.

Hasbro listened to a bunch of jerkass fanboy opinions and we ended up with some embarrassingly bad figures because of it.

Ripcord became a black guy and a bunch of whitebread motherfuckers got all mad because he now had a romantic relationship with a white girl in some movie I forgot to go see.

GIVE ME A V FOR TEX-ASS\

Customizing got lamer and lamer and lamer as time went on.

The greatest Tripwire recolor was released in a foreign land.

Geocities died, taking a lot of fanpages with them (COBRA CABANA REST IN PIECES)

A look back at posters we have lost this decade:

Mike Fountain. (Traded to Ottawa)

As we enter whatever you are gonna call this decade I hope that jerks don't stop being jerks because then we will run out of material.

Friday, December 4, 2009

Stupid Shit Said By Jerks's triumphant return!

Let's start off with the personal favorite of all 0 readers, personal attacks!

Yeah she's big alright: "Might have to add this to the list of places I need to take Amanda. She's a big TNG fan and likes places like this that have ties to the series and films. We keep talking about heading over to the Huntington Gardens where Starfleet Academy was shot (in TNG). Not sure this would be enough to coax her back to Arizona but it might be a fun trip."

Might be a stupid question when you realize it's not intended for children: "Might be a silly question, but with its rich universe, I always wondered why there never was a James Bond action figure line".

If you had to make a post that made no sense, you succeeded: "If you had to adopt a witty and/or cool new G.I. Joe (good or bad character)
codename (that hasn't been featured in the toy line, animated series or
the comic), what name would you call yourself and please say why."

BLACK RIPCORD, that nubian god totally nailed that redheaded bitch, sry sn8ke I'z: "Some figures just scream sexy, which one is your favorite? Does that chrome dome on Destro turn you on? I have to say it's Outback, my god, look at him! The 90s treated him well."

I'm sure all those 12 year olds who think that real life is all "DARK FUCKIN' RAINY ALLEYS" and "LOTS O KILLING" who don't collect G.I. Joe'll love it: "I'm currently working on a more "gritty" Joe-Verse. I'm kinda doing this for fun, but I want some opinions on it. Nothing is what it seems to be in this setting. Some things will come back, but they want be the same."

FUCK THOSE GUYS IN OTHER COUNTRIES! WHAT'S WITH ALL THESE GUYS IN JAPAN SPEAKING JAPANESE!: "I know that there's a lot of gripe about ROC being international now instead of American (and in my opinion, deservedly so)"

Wow, this is the most awkward post I've read on a Joe board in a longtime. Expect a news report about "FAT MAN IN COBRA/DECEPTICON T-SHIRT FOUND ON 3 MEATHOOKS": "Hey guys, just curious if any of you are in or around Savannah, GA.
I'm not necessarily looking for someone to hang out with or anything, just to share my findings with..
I find a lot of cool toys around here that I can't afford to buy but I don't know any other collectors to pass the info on to.
(found the walmart playsets last night and wave 5 SS) Anyway, just curious.."

Mike T talking points still exist!: "I've read that it's a misnomer, like the 7th was released a different year...or something. I can't recall off the top of my head who or where I read it, so consider this a bump. I think it caught on because it rhymes kind of. It's certainly a fun description."

Needless? The less psychopathic honky's on the joe team the better you fucking putz!: "Good news for those of you out there who were upset at Repeater’s needless race change. As it turns out, it’s a very easy fix to make him true-to-form, and give us a simple but effective LBC Hardball as a bonus"

I come from Canada so I don't know what "Urban Outfitters" is, but if Joe fans shop there it's probably a bad place: "was in an Urban Outfitters today, and they had some very cool retro Cobra shirts on sale. It was a faded blue logo on a faded red shirt. The sale tag on the shirt was $10, but they were on a rack that said $5, so it seemed to be either a good deal or a great one."

That's all, thanks for staying dumb Joe Fans!