Three Cheers for the Pom Poms

There were only a few GI Joe Naval artillery pieces. There was the water-cooled 40mm deck machine gun in WWII GI Joe Battleship Row Defender. There was the air-cooled 40mm deck machine gun in the modern GI Joe Coast Guard Harbor Security The biggest piece was the WWII GI Joe Navy Gunner with Twin Mount […]

Is Captain Kirk Just Green with Envy?

In 1979, Paramount released Star Trek the Motion Picture. This was the first film from the Star Trek franchise after Hollywood awoke to the potential of Science Fiction films in 1977. Since Kenner was making a bundle of money with the toys for Star Wars and Mattel was doing reasonably well with Battlestar Galactica, Mego […]