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 THE GREAT TEXAS G.I. JOE SHOW RIDES AGAIN!
August 30, 2005
Houston, Texas
For immediate release:
The Great Texas G.I. Joe Show Rides Again!
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Online Media Room: www.TexasGIJoeShow.com/mediaroom
The Show
The 2nd annual Great Texas G.I. Joe Show will be held at the Hilton NASA Clear Lake Hotel, 3000 NASA Road 1, Houston, Texas, on Sunday, October 23, 2005. Show hours will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. This will be a one-day only show.
Collectors and children of all ages from around Texas will once again gather at The Great Texas G.I. Joe Show to celebrate G.I. Joe, the most famous toy ever made and an American pop culture icon.
Participants can test their skills against their friends in the 1/6th scale radio-controlled Tank Rodeo, which this year features a Tank vs. Tank Combat Course. Kids can play the G.I. Joe Trading Card Game. There will be Contests for custom figures, custom vehicles, photography, and dioramas. Members of the 3-time national champion Space City Diorama Team will have dioramas on display. Exhibitors will be selling G.I. Joes and related military action figures and accessories in the showroom. The host for the Show is The Space City Division of the international G.I. Joe Collectors’ Club. The DFW and San Antonio divisions will be represented at the event.
Tickets are available at the door for $10.00.
Children 12 and under are FREE.
Information: 713/750-0003 or www.TexasGIJoeShow.com
About G.I. Joe
Hasbro’s man of action, with 21 moving parts and representing all four armed services, was an instantaneous hit with American boys when G.I. Joe debuted in 1964, and he became a phenomenon that was licensed around the globe. The launch of G.I. Joe was a watershed event in the history of toys. Before G.I. Joe, there were no action figures. Since then, the action figure market has mushroomed into a multi-billion dollar segment of the toy industry, with multiple companies churning out figures from motion pictures, sports and comic books. And G.I. Joe was the very first.
The leader of the team that developed G.I. Joe, Don Levine, was a master sergeant who spent two years fighting in Korea. “We took an immense risk. Boys simply didn’t play with dolls. So I instructed everyone to refer to Joe as an action figure.” The phrase was coined, the risk paid off, and G.I. Joe became the everyman hero of living room rugs and backyard dirt piles all across America. In the process, G.I. Joe also became perhaps the most famous toy ever made, and an American cultural icon. “He saved the world a million times… One backyard at a time,” says Brian Savage, president of the international G.I. Joe Collectors’ Club.
For information, contact:
John Graves, Space City Events, 713/750-0003, Info@TexasGIJoeShow.com
Online Media Room: www.TexasGIJoeShow.com
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