Serpentor's Lair

Welcome to the Outpost. Today I’m getting into another 1986 G.I.Joe character, ‘Dial-Tone‘. This is another figure my brother had and I was able to get plenty of play time with him. This is a great looking figure. I love his uniform. The black beret was brilliant on this character. Dial-Tone also comes with one of the most unique and most recognizable radio packs. The nice thing about this is the mic was made pretty meaty compared to other character’s mics so this mic is one that normally is still attached if you…

Welcome to the Outpost. Today we are talking about the G.I.Joe Team’s first computer specialist, ‘Mainframe‘. Mainframe came on the scene in 1986. Up to this point there were communication specialist such as Breaker and Sparks, but computers even though they had been around for decades, had only started to be made compact in the seventies, and they really didn’t catch on till the eighties. Although there could have been a computer specialist earlier in the franchise I think Mainframe represents the birth of the computer age. My brother got Mainframe that year for…

Welcome to the Outpost. This week I’m taking a look at the 2005 G.I.Joe vehicles. I was 1 year a new father and that put me back in toy aisles and stores like TRU. There were lots of good stuff this year and I bought a vehicle for the first time in my life. All the other vehicles were all gifts. There were 4 convention exclusives this year. The Cobra Stealth Moray which is a blue and black version. This one looks really cool. Iron Grenadier Stealth AGP. This is a cool…