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1. Woo Hoo! 0%!
   Oh well — at least I had fun making up the names. Also, one of them (Dr. Mindbender, maybe), looks a bit like what I imagine the star of a gay porn set in a biker bar would look like…. Somehow I think that’s not Hasbro was going for.

   posted by Lindsey on 3-24-2009 at 12:10 pm

2. 100%!! This one was right up my alley. I had all of those toys.

   I agree with Lindsey’s assessment of Dr. Mindbender. I’d like to read an article about what these characters did after their military careers.

   posted by Tim on 3-24-2009 at 12:16 pm

3. Hey – I got all 14 right (old-school G.I. Joe fan here!), but I only got credit for 13 of them. (I guess because there’s no period after the “Dr.” in “Dr Mindbender.”

   posted by Steve on 3-24-2009 at 12:22 pm

4. Well I knew them all, but got 13/14.

   FYI.. this seems like a bug (or you’re extra picky:)

   Your answer:
   dr mindbender
   Correct answer:
   Dr. Mindbender

   posted by Ryan H on 3-24-2009 at 12:34 pm

5. 14/14!! It probably helps that I have the entire run of the G.I. Joe comic book that Marvel put out in the 1980’s.

   Yooooo Joe!

   posted by SpaceMonkeyX on 3-24-2009 at 12:38 pm

6. Ryan & Steve — Give yourselves perfect scores. Dr Mindbender (and Dr Mind Bender and Dr Mind-Bender) are now all on the list of acceptable answers. Sorry about that.

   posted by Jason English on 3-24-2009 at 12:42 pm

7. 13/14. I didn’t have Alpine growin up. I panicked and put Road Block, even though that clearly wasn’t Road Block.

   posted by John on 3-24-2009 at 1:08 pm

8. I got the first two right. From there, we had Cobra Commander’s Flamboyant Cousin, Das Racoon, Dave From Accounting and a few other made up names.

   posted by EMStoveken on 3-24-2009 at 1:38 pm

9. Ditto, EMStoveken. And I’m a child of the 80s who had GI Joes and Transformers made of metal. I got the first two, thought “Yeah, I’m rocking this”, couldn’t remember the next two, had no idea on the next three, and then just gave up. I admit it, it beat me.

   posted by Jeff on 3-24-2009 at 2:30 pm

10. You make a good point, EMStoveken… Cobra needs cash to finance their plans, and money means accountants. Do they have their own in-house accounting team? Do they go with one of the Big Four? Personally I think they lurk outside CPA examinations and abduct the most confident looking test-takers and brainwash them into servitude. Or they just put out an RFP and wait for Ernst & Young, Deloitte & Toushe, and the rest fall all over themselves trying to land the engagement.

    posted by TBV on 3-24-2009 at 2:45 pm

11. I loved this quiz, don’t get me wrong, but there are so many versions of each single character it depends a lot on whether or not you had that particular version to get the question right.
    For instance, the Cobra Commander I always remember had a silver metal mask with a blue suit. After that, I had another version of Cobra Commander that was all black with red lining, with CC wearing a black hood.
    My favorite character has been and always will be Destro. Just because of the mask. Some people really like Snake Eyes, but I’m more a pirate fan than ninja.

    posted by Joel on 3-24-2009 at 2:47 pm

12. TBV:
    If you’re not already, you should really be following Cobra Commander on Twitter.
    (www.twitter.com/CobraCommander)
    He thinks a lot like you do about these sorts of things…

    posted by SpaceMonkeyX on 3-24-2009 at 9:11 pm

13. Great quiz! 8/14, but it should’ve been 9/14–I put Battle Android Trooper, which is what B.A.T. stands for. Pulled Alpine out of I-don’t-know-where and got totally lucky on Tunnel Rat. How ’bout a Transformers version? Heck, there were enough G.I. Joes, version 2.0 couldn’t be too hard to throw together:)

    posted by Bob on 3-24-2009 at 9:50 pm

14. Thanks, SpaceMonkeyX. Will do! (Gosh, isn’t that something Space Ghost would say?!)

    posted by TBV on 3-25-2009 at 9:19 am

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