Ever since we last wrote about the G.I. Joe Stop Motion Film Festival, we’ve been spending lots of our free time reacquainting ourselves with our beloved hero. And we’ve discovered a whole world of incredible material featuring G.I. Joe.

For example, websites such as General Joes, “A blog about the importance (or unimportance) of little plastic men.” A wide variety of classic G.I. Joe videos on YouTube, and a number of current projects that utilize original G.I. Joe cartoons in new ways. Via BoingBoing, we learned that writer Warren Ellis (Transmetropolitan and Planetary): “has written a new series of GI Joe cartoons, reimagining the infra-dumb 80s toy-sales vehicle as a serious war comic.” (on YouTube here) We’ve even heard that a colleague of ours “does a fine rendtion of the GI Joe theme song,” though he’s being tight-lipped about where we could hear such a song.

To say we’ve been enjoying this would be an understatement. So it was with some reservation that we discovered a listing of The 20 Stupidest GI Joe Vehicles Ever. To our dismay, the listing is of all the toys we thought were great! The Cobra F.A.N.G., Trubble Bubble, these are stupid? Clearly whoever wrote this list doesn’t really understand or appreciate G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero.

We’d like to invite the writer to attend the G.I. Joe Stop Motion Film Festival at 92YTribeca on Jul 25, where he could see these toys in a whole new light. Surely he would change the title of his piece to The 20 Awesomest GI Joe Vehicles Ever.

If you enjoy all things G.I. Joe as much as we do, or even if you only have fond memories, 92YTribeca has a discussion taking place on their Facebook: What’s Your Fondest G.I. Joe Memory?. A number of people have already left comments, and we really want to read your as well!