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  • Megotu
    jerk
    • Dec 16, 2001
    • 10738

    The Ethics of the Adventure Team

    What was GI Joe really up to in the 70's?
    I mean seriously. One guy with a plastic foldup boat sent out to capture a Pygmy Gorilla...Sent by Whom exactly? I mean was it just a few guys who looked a lot like each other on the World's Wackiest Scavenger Hunt? They got an Amphicat and went digging for Midget Mummies in Egypt? Did they get permission from the Office of Egyptian Antiquities?
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  • Mikey
    Verbose Member
    • Aug 9, 2001
    • 47258

    #2
    I always imagined them to be rogue college professors.

    In a way, Indiana Jones ripped off AT big-time.

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    • HardyGirl
      Mego Museum's Poster Girl
      • Apr 3, 2007
      • 13950

      #3
      They probably worked for the same organization as Dr. Benton Quest. They make scientific discoveries, recover lost artifacts, capture spies, endulge in space travel and maintain peace. I think their organization is so secret, it doesn't even have a name. That way in case of capture, no one can obtain that information under duress.
      "Do you believe, you believe in magic?
      'Cos I believe, I believe that I do,
      Yes, I can see I believe that it's magic
      If your mission is magic your love will shine true."

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      • jwyblejr
        galactic yo-yo
        • Apr 6, 2006
        • 11147

        #4
        I view them more along the lines of a type of explorer's club.

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        • Drain
          megos are yummy
          • Jun 10, 2007
          • 659

          #5
          just and bunch of guy out for a lark.
          Mego Nudists Fish Nude Show Off your Rod.

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          • Tyme2tyme
            Veteran Member
            • Apr 3, 2008
            • 418

            #6
            I always imagined a group of rich guys that ran a "club" for adventurers like the big game hunters of years past. As a group, they would decide on the adventures based on what they considered the greatest challenge whether it be pygmy gorillas or mummies. JOHN
            Livin' the American Dream!

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            • Drain
              megos are yummy
              • Jun 10, 2007
              • 659

              #7
              I do have the GI Joe Mummy Quest Ornamate set by American Greeting that Walmart sold for $9.97 back in 2006. It came with a Joe in Dessert outfit, Dune Buggie, and Mummy case. One of these day when I decide to put a tree I may put it on along with my Hallmark GI Joe Ornamate if I don't do a Hallmark Star Wars Tree.
              Mego Nudists Fish Nude Show Off your Rod.

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              • Captain
                Fighting the good fight!
                • Jun 17, 2001
                • 6031

                #8
                That was the beauty of lines like this back in the good old days. Kids didnt need to have everything spelled out for them. As evidenced above, we all made our own back stories for these guys.

                For example:

                --GI JOE was sent on these goofy little adventures as a make work project set up by the unemployment office? (what else you gonna do with a bunch of ex soldiers?)

                --They are really a bunch of greedy relatives, acting out the whims of an ecentric uncle...hoping he'll leave them his fortune in the will.

                --Glory hounds....each and every fuzzy headed one!

                --They know they can never be as cool as Johnny West, or even that little shrimp "Big" Jim, so they keep going on wilder and wilder adventures to try and make up for it.

                --They do it for the chicks! Chicks dig cars that fold out of a back pack...almost as much as they dig kung fu grip, mod hair, and pygmy gorillas.
                "Crayons taste like purple!"

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                • Tyme2tyme
                  Veteran Member
                  • Apr 3, 2008
                  • 418

                  #9
                  They do it for the chicks! Chicks dig cars that fold out of a back pack...almost as much as they dig kung fu grip, mod hair, and pygmy gorillas.
                  That's It!! I guess I didn't make that connection as a kid. JOHN
                  Livin' the American Dream!

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                  • Megotu
                    jerk
                    • Dec 16, 2001
                    • 10738

                    #10
                    I am just saying that by today's standards and definitions, these guys would be seen as pilfering tombs and stealing ancient treasures (mummy's tomb and the golden buddha), poaching (white tiger, pygmy gorilla), espionage, and possible terrorism. Unless they are a governmental agency in which they are just upholding American interests abroad...
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                    • Lynn TXP 0369
                      Career Member
                      • Jun 10, 2007
                      • 804

                      #11
                      Boy did you hit that nail on the head Megotu...
                      Lynn

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                      • MysteryWho
                        Persistent Member
                        • Dec 16, 2008
                        • 1047

                        #12
                        It's just Champions of the Unknown, the DC comic.
                        I love the Adventure Team.
                        The army stuff is a yawn, unless there are giant ants, or something.

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                        • spotter
                          Veteran Member
                          • Apr 6, 2008
                          • 322

                          #13
                          Originally posted by Megotu
                          I am just saying that by today's standards and definitions, these guys would be seen as pilfering tombs and stealing ancient treasures (mummy's tomb and the golden buddha), poaching (white tiger, pygmy gorilla), espionage, and possible terrorism. Unless they are a governmental agency in which they are just upholding American interests abroad...

                          sounds like a normal day of work for Haliburton
                          Looking for t1 LIZARD

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                          • kryptosmaster
                            Removed.
                            • Jun 14, 2008
                            • 0

                            #14
                            Originally posted by MysteryWho
                            It's just Champions of the Unknown, the DC comic.
                            I love the Adventure Team.
                            The army stuff is a yawn, unless there are giant ants, or something.
                            I think you meant Challengers of the Unknown.

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                            • Drain
                              megos are yummy
                              • Jun 10, 2007
                              • 659

                              #15
                              Read this at your own risk, Trust no one.

                              They were ex-soldiers recruited as spies for the some top secret government black ops agency maybe CIA. Now that you have read this, I will have to sent people to make you disappear.
                              Last edited by Drain; Dec 28, '08, 12:30 PM. Reason: grammer
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