1985. This is the pinnacle of Joe?

1985 is often hearalded as the pinnacle of the Joe line. But why is there a reason other than nostalgia?

Aside from Flint, Snow Serpent, Eel, Snake Eyes and the Crimson Guard it's a really weak line up. A yellow guy? a dude not wearing shoes, some dweeb in a football jersey, that isn't the realistic Military action figure we'd seen up until this point, this is something different.

There were some realistic figures but Dusty isn't much fun without a desert, and Footloose is an okay figure but he's one of the first examples of a figure made by his accesories, as without them he's pretty lame, plus his ugly head was used 3 damn times on figures worse than him each time. Shipwreck is okay as well, but he's really fucking useless since Sailors are on boats, they
don't go and fight terrorists in the city.

Since like one awesome dude reads this blog (2 if Dr. Henry E. Miller gets out of prison after he finishes up his 8 month bid for numerous crimes INCLUDING MURDA, and gets LIVE:At Cook County Prison recorded 4 wit good behaviour) I'll answer the questions regular riff-raff would ask.

"BUT WHAT ABOUT THE CHARACTERS?" well sure there were some good characters but I don't need Incesteous Siegfried and Roy powerbroking for Cobra Command, nor do I need dumb people fighting dudes.

"THERE WAS BETTER ARTICULATION" Not really, do I need my action figures to hold their heads down in shame? Nope, the 82-84 Heads can look upwards too, you gotta move the torso on both designs. This isn't worthy of the praise we should give swivel arm battle grip people.

"THEY RELEASED THE DREADNOKS THOUGH" Yeah, that's great, the best Enemy figures are year old designs.

"WHAT ABOUT THE VEHICLES?" Vehicles tended to be better than the figures, shit even 88 had a couple of good vehicles.

Really, if you guys think about it both '84 and '86 were much better years, 84 had Firefly, Storm Shadow, Zartan, Ripcord and a better fanboy wetdream figure than 85, whilst 86 was better designed figures (The prototypes show most 85's were to be in the superior 84 neck style, while the 86's were actually designed for that type of neck) and the 86 Cross Country is probably the best figure released in the "Horribly racist figure" category, and he has stiff competition from Spirt and Quick Kick.

1985 was probably the best year for designs that look really really homosexual 20 years later, I mean Tollbooth, the Dreadnoks, and Shipwreck shit that is way better than 86's Dr, Mindbender or the entire ninja force