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**Laser Force** is a vintage toy-line from the 1980s.
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**Laser Force** is a vintage toy-line from the 1980s.
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The **Laser Force** toy line consists of (toy) **vehicles** and **action figures** in the 3¾ inch scale.
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The **Laser Force** toy line consists of (toy) **vehicles** and **action figures** all in the 3¾ inch scale.
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Although the (toy) **vehicles** seemed to be the focus of the **Laser Force** toy line.
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The **Laser Force** toy line (toy) vehicles are in a seemingly vintage futuristic sci-fi style.
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And would fit in with many of the 1970s & 1980s sci-fi toy lines.
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The (toy) **vehicles** seemed to be the focus of the **Laser Force** toy line.
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Children seemed to often use **Laser Force** vehicles with other _compatible_ toy lines.
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Children seemed to often use **Laser Force** vehicles with other _compatible_ toy lines.
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## Action Figures
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## Action Figures
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The label “action figure” is said to have been coined by Donald Levine in 1964 while he was doing work Hasbro.
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_Action Figures_ are just dolls for boys.
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The label “action figure” is said to have been coined by Donald Levine in 1964 while he was doing work for Hasbro.
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As the story goes —
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As the story goes —
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_Action Figures_ are just _dolls_.
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_Action Figures_ are just _dolls_.
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But it was felt that the label “doll” had taken on a connotation where many felt that _dolls_ were toys just for girls.
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So a new label was created — “action figure”; which is a “doll” for boys.
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But it was felt that (back then) the label “doll” had taken on a connotation where many felt that _dolls_ were toys just for girls.
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And felt that — boys would not play with dolls.
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So a new alternative label was created — “action figure”; which is a “doll” for boys.
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(But in marketing media, “action figures” are intentionally never called “doll”.)
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## G.I. Joe
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The label “**G.I. Joe**” was originally just slang for — a U.S. soldier.
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The plural version — “**G.I. Joes**” — was also common at in the past.
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## G.I. Joe: America's Movable Fighting Man
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Later the label “**G.I. Joe**” was appropriated by Hasbro as a label for their then (in the 1960s) new toy line — G.I. Joe: America's Movable Fighting Man.
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As the story goes —
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In 1963 Stan Weston came up with designs and rudimentary prototypes for a line to toy military figures, and showed them to Donald Levine, an executive at Hasbro at the time. Weston subsequently licensed the entire concept to Hasbro. And _G.I. Joe: America's Movable Fighting Man_ was born.
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This first verion of _G.I. Joe: America's Movable Fighting Man_ is a lot different than the _G.I. Joe_ of the 1980s.
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With _G.I. Joe: America's Movable Fighting Man_, **G.I. Joes** was a single individual (rather than the name of a team).
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And the dolls / action figures were 12 inches tall (rather than 3¾ inch scale tall).
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## G.I. Joe Adventure Team
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## Henshin Cyborg
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## Microman
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## Adventure People
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## Super Joe
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## G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero
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## Compatibility
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## Compatibility
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