Banned for lack of GI Joe trivia.
The first big flop in the GI Joe line was GI Nurse, an action girl designed to bring American girls into the GI Joe universe. It didn't work-- girls preferred Barbie, who wasn't subordinate ta a male. Boys also refused to play with her, so Hasbro replace her with a male medic. Today the doll, which sold for $4.99 in 1967, is so rare that it sells at auction for as much as $6,000.00