WTF Was up with G.I. Joe TIGER FORCE?

[Money_Mike_Jooones]

I wasn’t old enough to get tem in the original paint schemes, got that ATV, but wanted the original

GI Joe Tiger Force Commercial 1992

[Money_Mike_Jooones]

And never found a Snake Eyes, sure as shit didn’t want this one.

[Money_Mike_Jooones]

Motherf’er.

[shen]

Boy, I was hoping someone else would answer this…

Uh, Tiger Force was deemed “very problematic” and the product of a bygone era by the mid 60s.

Originally, in the very early 1960s, Tiger Forcer was a group of all African American soldiers, who were part of a special unit. BUT it had a different, far less PC name before it was changed to ‘Tiger Force’.

Then, eventually, they scrapped the entire African American angle too.

That’s all I’m gonna say.

[BoydBucky]

[BoydBucky]

I wonder if they have gender neutral/trans dolls now as opposed to just gi Joe/Barbie

[Money_Mike_Jooones]

@shen

BUT it had a different, far less PC name before it was changed to ‘Tiger Force’.

Maybe someone could move this to the OG.

I think their name was the least of their worries.

[scourge]

WFA

And Tiger Force was just a marketing scheme to sell old leftover toys. Repaint them and put them back out there! I’ll admit as a kid, I wanted them pretty bad.

[Jacinto]

I remember being in total shock when i found a Stormshadow hanging on a rack in my local Woolworth’s. The one and only time i ever saw one in the years i collected those figures when i was growing up.