Joe Movie logo and Eagle Force

betabob · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:19 am

Does the new Joe logo for the movie remind anyone else of Eagle Force. I can see these movie characters being a second team in my collection and a cool update to the old Eagle Force idea (without the gold jumpsuits).
For anyone that doesn't remember Eagle Force you can find out about them here:
http://www.megomuseum.com/misc/eagleforce.shtml

MUNDO · **Posted:** Wed Apr 08, 2009 9:11 am

I used to love Eagle Force. $.25 got you a pretty cool little solid figure, and an accessory or two. I wouldn't mind seeing some customs of the characters.

Taliesin Crow · **Posted:** Wed Apr 08, 2009 9:38 am

Zombieguide did some AWESOME Eagle Force customs a while back.

This is the only one I could find right now but he did alot more.

http://www.joecustoms.com/customs/custo ... 10&id=6999

*edit* Found one more but I know there were alot of others.

http://www.joearmory.com/images/view.as ... uctId=4178

crowncoke · **Posted:** Wed Apr 08, 2009 9:50 am

Here are a couple more of his...

http://www.joecustoms.com/customs/custo ... 10&id=6977

http://www.joecustoms.com/customs/custo ... 10&id=7098

slim19722 · **Posted:** Wed Apr 08, 2009 6:16 pm

Back in 82 I headed into a K-Mart looking to buy some Eagle Force figures. Came up empty and as I leaving, I saw a new action figure on the peg-GI Joe Bazooka Trooper Code Name: Zap. Needless to say I no longer was into Eagle Force.

betabob · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:19 am

slim19722 wrote:

Back in 82 I headed into a K-Mart looking to buy some Eagle Force figures. Came up empty and as I leaving, I saw a new action figure on the peg-GI Joe Bazooka Trooper Code Name: Zap. Needless to say I no longer was into Eagle Force.

G.I.Joe was the death of Eagle Force for me too....and pretty much the death of Eagle Force altogether...lol.
They were a good concept for the time though......unfortunatly G.I.Joe did the concept better.

revsears · **Posted:** Thu Apr 09, 2009 1:23 am

did they have to name the two black guys "Sgt. Brown" and "Big Bro." ? geeze!

i was born in 84, so never saw the guys on the pegs, but did hear about and i've seen them as an adult. pretty cool for it's time i'm sure.

AutobotC5 · **Joined:** Wed Jun 27, 2007 6:50 pm **Location:** Home!

It reminds me a bit of the Eagle motors logo, too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_(automobile)

I find it funny that, after making umpteen zillion different figures in the old Microman-style body, Mego opted to go diecast mini for Eagle Force. I see what kind of motif they were going for, but Hasbro just had a better feel for the market at the time with their army action figure format. Had Eagle Force figures been made like Joes...well, who knows? I'd bet the EF line would have been a lot more popular back then, though.

It's too bad Mego can't quite re-establish itself well enough to relaunch some of its old brands like EF (and, of course, Micronauts). They need to sell out to Hasbro, and let the Hasbro marketing machine take over. :-)

pluv · **Posted:** Thu Apr 09, 2009 1:43 pm

AutobotC5 wrote:

It's too bad Mego can't quite re-establish itself well enough to relaunch some of its old brands like EF (and, of course, Micronauts). They need to sell out to Hasbro, and let the Hasbro marketing machine take over. :-)

The world needs more Mr. Potatoe Head cross overs.

meyerc13 · **Posted:** Thu Apr 09, 2009 4:25 pm

I had completely forgotten about these until this thread. So these were out before the ARAH figures? Interesting because I remember having some of these.

AutobotC5 · **Joined:** Wed Jun 27, 2007 6:50 pm **Location:** Home!

meyerc13 wrote:

I had completely forgotten about these until this thread. So these were out before the ARAH figures? Interesting because I remember having some of these.

They were. Barely. IIRC, some of the guys who worked on EF ended up working on Joe. Mego collapsed not too long after EF was released.

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