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Canadian G.I. Joe Cards… WTF?

by Paul

From what I’ve seen, being a Canadian G.I. Joe collector is tough. They haven’t seen the first four waves of Joes at all! Canadian Joe collectors do have one thing going for them though… they have absolutely no reason to keep their figures mint on card. Check out these images from Canprime of HissTank.com.

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How incredibly awful. No cool retro picture and a big fat sticker on there due to laws in Canada that require items that are sold in the country to be written in English and French. The sticker also has Spanish on it, so I’m guessing that this card is versatile enough to be sold in Mexico. No matter where this is sold, toy fans lose. Ugh.

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Posted in G.I. Joe, Hasbro on January 15th, 2008

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4 Responses to “Canadian G.I. Joe Cards… WTF?”

  1. XeQUae Says:
    January 15th, 2008 at 7:18 pm

    LOL!! Those cardbacks really suck. It is like they just stopped working on them half way through…

  2. Esbat Says:
    January 17th, 2008 at 2:54 am

    Try to get old Toybiz MLs down here by the fricken Mexican border… all trilingual. wtf, walmart… wtf!

  3. KLS Says:
    January 22nd, 2008 at 2:43 am

    Now I know where all those loose figs in ebay originated from. You’re right, there’s absolutely no reason at all to keep in MOMC. It looks like someone puked on the card during printing.

  4. Toy Bender » Blog Archive » Canadian Joe Fans No Longer Getting the Icy Shaft Says:
    March 12th, 2008 at 8:09 am

    [...] Joe Fans No Longer Getting the Icy Shaft by Paul Awhile back I reported that Canadian G.I. Joe fans were due to get some of the ugliest card backs I’ve ever seen. Well, it looks like Hasbro [...]

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