I was just thinking about my childhood.  For some people that would be a bad thing, but I think mine was pretty cool.  I remember distinctly digging in my friend’s mom’s garden with him so that our G.I. Joe’s could have bases & forts.  We never actually got around to playing with the G.I. Joe’s because we were too busy digging in the dirt.  However, when we did actually play we always had extremely intense weapons.  If your team was going to win you needed to have lazer equipped fighter jets that can blow the enemy into vapor.

And if you’re the enemy you need to have plasma-mega-ultra force fields (or force shields) that will block anything coming in.  Otherwise, you could be toasted by the ultra-uber-mega lazer smashing ray of doom.

And we can’t have that!