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Have you ever enabled yourself to add a doll to your collection?

After reading the blog about my GI Joe collection, yesterday a fellow doll enthusiast-member of my online doll discussion group posed the question:  How many AA GI Janes were made?  I gave a rough estimate of two and deferred the question to another member whose answer was also two:  The US Army Helicopter Pilot that I already own and the GI Jane Vietnam Nurse. 

Roxanne features her two redressed and wigged Janes in her blog, Not-So-Plain Janes.  As illustrated in her images, the nurse has a different face sculpt than the helicopter pilot.  Recalling this, I thought, "I need her," and off to eBay I went last night to browse.  Voila!  I found a loose one there with a current bid amount of only $4.  That was very promising because the auction was scheduled to end a few hours later.  Before placing a bid (I rarely bid early), after dinner I decided to rest a while.  I had been up since 5 a.m., had early voted, picked up mail from my PO Box, and had done some grocery shopping. 

When I woke up at 9:30 p.m., an hour and 14 minutes after the auction ended, I shrugged off the loss (after a few seconds of disappointment) as that one not being meant for me. 

Curious, this morning I wanted to know how much the loose Jane nurse sold for.  I opened the marked as unread email from eBay:  Don't Miss Out On Item GI Joe/GI Jane Loose Figure and followed the link to eBay.  Wouldn't you know it, there was only one bidder.  In my best Estelle Rolle voice, I thought:
D#$%, D#$%, D#$%, James!  I could have had the loose one for a little over $4. 

Licking my wounds of loss, while on eBay, I proceeded to search for another AA Jane nurse using various search phrases.  Guess what?  I found one and won it today!  This one is never removed from box and wears a different uniform than the loose one, which leads me to know that not only was the loose one loose, it was also redressed.  So all is well that ends well, but I do know this:  as much as I love to blog and as much as I blog, I do not... I repeat, do not need to repeatedly blog-enable myself.

By the way, so far I have discovered there were three (possibly more?) AA GI Janes:  The US Army Helicopter Pilot, the Vietnam Nurse, and 82nd Airbone. The 82nd Airborne and Helicopter Pilot appear to share the same head sculpt, so I don't think I need the 82nd. 


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A Toy for Boys but Girls Like It. Too: GI Joe

My Tuskegee Airmen blog prompted me to photograph the rest of my GI Joes.  This was done over a week ago.  Before returning them to their shelves, I wanted to blog-document each one.  Since I need to return that section of the room to some form of order, I decided to use this free time to complete the documentation of my meager Hasbro GI Joe and "lone" Jane collection.  They are included here in circa-date or box-date order:

According to my son's question when I acquired this, my first GI Joe, circa 1990s, "What are you doing with Heavy Duty?"  This is, therefore, to the best of my knowledge, 6-inch GI Joe Heavy Duty, purchased loose.

Hall of Fame GI Joe Stalker, 1991

GI Joe Action Sailor Masterpiece Edition, 1996; original reproduction GI Joe Sailor is housed in a heavy cardboard, book-like display box, includes the deluxe book, GI Joe the Story Behind the Legend by GI Joe creator, Don Levine, with John Michlig (GI Joe Action Sailor is book's cover image).

GI Joe Action Soldier Masterpiece Edition, 1996; original reproduction GI Joe Soldier is also housed in a heavy cardboard, book-like display box, includes same book mentioned above but has cover image of
GI Joe Action Soldier.

The quite homely, GI Joe Classic Collection GI Jane US Army Helicopter Pilot, 1997

GI Joe Classic Collection Navy Aviation Fuel Handler "Grape," known as "the Grapes" because of their purple shirts, 1997.

GI Joe Classic Collection General Colin L. Powell, Historical Commanders Edition, Fourth in a Series, 1998

Adventure Team GI Joe with Kung Fu Grip, GI Joe Adventurer, 2006 has flocked hair (which sheds!).

GI Joe the Rise of the Cobra Heavy Duty, 4-inch figure from the movie of the same name, 2009,

and finally...

GI Joe The Rise of the Cobra Wallace "Ripcord" Weems based on the character from the movie of the same name, 2009.  The figure does resemble Marlon Wayans, who played the character, Wallace Weems in the movie.

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