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2009 was a great year for G.I.JOE. Unfortunately the thing that caused many of the great toy releases for the year was also one of the worst creations ever in the history of the beloved toy franchise. Its no secret that the feature film G.I.Joe: The Rise of Cobra was laughable and a gigantic disappointment to JOE fans everywhere. I won't go into detail about it in this post, but you can read my review written during the film's opening weekend here . The great thing to have come as a result of Rise of Cobra was the amount of merchandise we got featuring our beloved characters both in their new film incarnations and their classic 80s look. Those of us that were terribly disappointed with the film's ridiculous story and character treatment got a great reminder of what made G.I.Joe great to begin with in the IDW comic series G.I.JOE Origins written by the man who single-handedly created the Joe characters, situations, and universe we grew up loving -- Mr. Larry Hamma . Th...

I have to start off by saying how much I love blogging and the entire Geek blogs community. I really wish I had more time to post articles more often. Blogging offers us a chance to share our memories and our creativity with others who have many things in common with us. I'm really glad I started doing this and I'm specially glad I've gotten to interact with so many cool people thanks to this blog. Today I was very excited to discover I have received an award from our good friend Chunky B over at the eclectorama . I want to thank him for this recognition and for letting me be a a part of the 2009 Spockcation . Soon I will be passing on the award to some of my other favorite blogs so stay tuned for that. Your blog might be a winner!

I've never really talked much about Legos in any of my previous posts so I thought I'd start doing so since I have been playing with Legos from a very small age and in the past couple of years with the introduction of more sets based on some of my favorite movies like Indiana Jones and Star Wars I've started to get back into them again. For my first official Lego post I'll be taking a look at some of the Lego Star Wars sets you can use to recreate one of the coolest scenes in The Empire Strikes Back. This year is the 30 th anniversary of what is perhaps the finest film in the Star Wars saga and most of the Lucasfilm licensees will be celebrating by offering tons of new Empire merchandise like the upcoming definitive book The Making of The Empire Strikes Back by J.W. Rinzler and Hasbro's ESB vehicles and vintage style action figure line. Over the years Lego has offered multiple sets featuring vehicles and play set pieces from ESB . In this post I will be utiliz...