my motivations for buying the figures I have are varied. Obviously, some are ones I had as a kid. There's a LOAD that I got when I first started that I'd wanted as a kid; like Lady Jaye, Scarlett, Ripcord, Stalker, Dusty, the Snow Cat and Frostbite, Crankcase and the AWE Striker. There's a load I got because I liked the character in the comics, like Airborne, Charbroil, Hit&Run, Spearhead and Max and Tunnel Rat. Some like Mutt and Junkyard, Blowtorch and Alpine I got so I had the majority of the carded figures from 1985 and 1987 over here.
Then there's a few I got because I was basically trying to build a coherent Joe army, like Recoil, Bulletproof, Stretcher, and these last three.
I also got the Action Team set, Action Man and Joe Colton because I thought they were cool figures and wanted them. I'd still love to get the Natalie Poole con figure to go with AM.