I'm in driving distance to Mexico and when I get my stuff down here next month I have some Joe Vs Cobra Star Wars Crotch figures that REALLY deserve a well placed Sealbomb.
I couldn't afford to blow up Joes as a kid. I'd use them as trade fodder rather than fireworks fodder. Bartering FTW!
Yeah but there is just something about blowing the shit out of your friends beat up old HISS with a few M-80s
Sgt Slaughter for turning evil and confusing me because he was a good guy for a while.. it made me sad and i was too young to understand the whole WWF thing
Everyone that was local said it rocked! I thought it sucked ass too. BTW when I went home last month I had me some Tommy's
I'm within driving distance to a Black Feet reservation, and have always been lucky enough to get ahold of the good stuff. M-80's, cherry bombs ect Oh and you ain't seen nothin till you've put an artillery shell (firework) in a coffee can with an unsuspecting dollar store ko on top waiting to be sent into orbit. *I do not condone the improper use of dangerous objects...even if i do it*
Like the original G1 Megatron, M-80 firecrackers are now prohibited from sale everywhere in America as a result of child safety laws. Unlike G1 Megatron, they cannot be sold with a simple orange cap. The firecrackers advertised as "M-80s" are much weaker and probably will not destroy a GI Joe figure on the first attempt.
While I'm trying to hunt for one, you want to blow it up? Mexico doesn't have to follow US laws... They aren't part of the US (well, the illegal immigrants are...)
Well Indian Reservations are exempt from said laws and as such sell them every year. No, they're not. They're selling firecrackers that are much less powerful and advertising them as M-80s to fool gullible consumers. M-80s are treated as explosives in the United States and are under strict regulation from the BATF. If it has a consumer label and factory address, it's not an M-80. Any reputable fireworks company would not want an M-80 being traced back to them.
^ I've been getting them from the same place for the last 20 years, ever since my brother took me to buy them when I was four, which I believe was pre ban, and there no less potent then before. So i'll believe what my eyes, ears, blown up toys and personal experience tell me.
I lived in Tennessee. You could walk from my house to the fireworks store. This was back when M8o's could blow up a mail box. I remember my friends destroying a few and I remember a few instances of miss use of them in campfires at boyscouts. You'd be sitting there some one would throw something into the fire then BOOM! Thats why I always stayed 10 feet away from the fire. We had several trips to the doctor for minor incidents in my troop, luckly no one was ever really hurt. Except when Jermy fell off the cliff and when they branded him by heating up the coat hanger in the fire, and then when they .......come to think of it the rattlesnake patrol wasn't really that bright. Thank goodness I was in the cobra patrol. Ah childhood memories.
They don't sell fireworks over here except on new year anyway, so I couldn't blow up any of my action figures. Nor did I want to, anyway. I had much more horrifying fates for them... ...like tying a huge rock onto their ankles and tossing them into a lake Seriously though, that fate was only met by figures that broke. I had this Cobra space dude whose frikkin' foot broke off (plus his spaceship disappeared over the years), and some KO Joe figure whose fingers had snapped so he couldn't even hold any of his accessories.
Read what I posted again. "I may or may not be serious here" I actually have 2 sons, and my extras go to them. I'm talking about blowing up ruined, broken, crap fig (ANY fig, not always a Joe) Sometimes, or a really crappy Joe a a gift (or KO) I've blown up in my childhood? Jeez. And you might not want to get into the political side of things.
Wisconsin is the same way. When I was in Minneapolis we would make runs all the time. Same here bro. My kids usually get the ones I don't want/need. Though I am quite serious about the Cobra-La stuff being blown to hell. No way am I subjecting my kids to that crap.
