Reminder: G.I. Joe was popular in the ’80s

And in case you forgot it was very specifically the 1980s in which the brand was at its peak popularity, Hasbro has a reminder set up in its booth at NYCC:

OK, so it’s cool to see these little modernized versions of toys I owned as a kid, but I’m afraid “Zandar” there negates any warm feelings the display might engender by filling me with a deep and abiding shame that I ever used to think those colors were color. To wear. Myself.

At least I’d outgrown it by the time Hypercolor rolled around.

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