1982 GI Joe Playset from the JC Penney Catalog

One of my favourite things about Department store wishbooks is when they snuck in an exclusive item. Sometimes this was whole figures like the Mego Secret Identity figures; other times, carry cases or even playsets meant to be used with the toys unofficially. That’s the case with the Mobile Command HQ playset from the 1982 JC Penny wishbook. 

Despite having GI Joe’s logo on the photo and nothing but Joe Toys, this is not, to my knowledge, officially licensed.  It is merely a generic concept playset meant for all Military figures like SGT. Rock by REMCO is specifically mentioned. 

It’s construction makes it look a lot like the Mego Pocket Superheroes Bat Cave, but they aren’t the same. Perhaps they used the same factory because this is also quite thin plastic.

1982 GI Joe Playset from JC Penney

1982 GI Joe Playset from JC Penney

I have to tell you as a kid, I would have BEEN ALL OVER THIS. I was heavy into that first wave of RAH Joes and I’ve always been a playset nerd. Sadly, there are no JC Penneys in Canada, and by the time RAH added playsets, I was in the 8th grade. 

Here is the rest of the glorious page, I bet many of the exclusive catalog packs cost more than my kid’s tuition this year. Click to enlarge.

1982 GI Joe Playset from JC Penney

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WKRP Record Player- Vanity Fair 1982

With no offense to Daddy Warbucks, the Dukes of Hazzard or the Smurfs but the WKRP record player is hands down the best one made in the 1980s.

The “Sing Along” aspect allowed you to actually “Be” Dr. Johnny Fever or Venus Flytrap but likely no kid wanted to be Bucky. 

Also, I want to end this segment with the following, Bailey, always Bailey. 

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Which was better for Milton Bradley’s The Dark Tower or Mattel’s Electronic Dungeons and Dragons?

I’m sincerely asking because I’ve never played either. Not for lack of trying, mind you. I was ten when the fantasy craze started in the early 1980s, and I got swept up in it. I tried to play Dungeons and Dragons like many suburban kids with asthma; it seemed like something I might enjoy. I purchased the starter Dungeons and Dragons kit from a used bookstore and fell fast asleep reading the first two pages. This happened repeatedly; heck, I should keep it at my bedside now.

A local friend was a DM and invited me to play Dungeons and Dragons one Sunday afternoon. I got killed off for being silly and never asked back, I was not hurt by that.

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There I found the fantasy game that was truly my speed filled with dragons, bats and secret rooms.

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After the Adventure Team closed up shop in 1976 and Superjoe said Goodbye in 1978, the G.I. Joe name reemerged in 1982, a good deal shorter but fueled by a renewed surge in patriotism.

G.I. Joe was no longer a man but a team name, a covert group that protected the world, as we would later discover, the forces of Cobra.

In mass marketing the (very well written) toy tie-in comic with wonderfully animated spots, G.I. Joe was one of the biggest hits of the 1980s and its popularity endures to this day. 

The first concept figures for GI Joe were actually kit bashed using Mego CHiPs action figures and that articulated O-Ring construction would become the norm with the line.

First Assortment of Figures. I remember being kind of ticked Breaker had a beard, he was my favourite character in the comic. Marvel killed him off when the comic’s sales started to slag, which upset me as i recall. I bought almost every one of these and mailed away for Cobra Commander, wish I had kept them.

In Canada, Snake Eyes was changed to “Zorro” for the french speaking market.

Stuff like the Jet pack and characters like Flash added a little touch of sci fi to this military series, it was a great element.

Stuff like the Jet pack and characters like Flash added a little touch of sci fi to this military series, it was a great element.

Mobat was a great toy, it really could move..

That Marvel comic really was amazing, I kept on with it longer than the toys which i abandoned after this wave..

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