Ranking Every Version of GI Joe
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ก.ค. 2024
- We rank every version/ reboot of GI Joe ever made by HASBRO, giving a weird out-of-order history of the toy line ranking from the Worst to the BEST versions of your favorite military hero.
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We cover:
The OG GI Joe (12 inch)
GI Joe Hall of Fame
GI joe Sigma 6
Gi Joe Extreme
GI Joe A Real American Hero
Sgt Savage & The Screaming Eagles
GI Joe Convention exclusives
GI Joe Collectors Club
GI Joe Built to Rule
GI JOe vs Cobra
GI Joe Valor Vs Venom
GI Joe Spy Troops
Gi Joe Classified
GI Joe Adventure Team
GI Joe Resolute
GI Joe Retro
GI Joe Retaliation
GI Joe Renegades
GI Joe Rise of Cobra - บันเทิง
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One of my favorite Gi Joe lines was the Kreo line. Seriously underrated.
Oh yeah, I missed that one. I have a bunch, but it is all in pieces
Where’s Resolute? Those are some of the best Joe figs ever released from the objectively greatest Joe movie ever made even if it’s only about an hour.
Oh yeah, good point. I knew I'd miss something
@@DestroIsMySpiritAnimalI have seen the video of GI Joe Resolute. It was the only animated GI Joe feature with a TV-14 V rating(it was more violent). Cobra Commander was more of a real terrorist leader here.
I went in hard on the 25th line. Started with those two 5 pack collector sets and then just went from there. I ended up passing those down (probably 30+ figures) to both of my boys (ages 6 and 9) which I think is what spurned their interest in the Classified line. And it's exactly as you say - the Classified line looks so good, but is also great for play.
very nice, passing it down to your kids. My kids tend to like legos better, but they do enjoy breaking out my GI joe stuff from time to time
I enjoy your videos. I did not know that there were so many different lines of G.I. Joe. I regret missing out on the 1/18 scale versions of the Adventure Team figures. I also wanted to thank you for directing me towards Gridiron Studios, they have some really cool stuff.
Oh yeah, I missed a few. There are also Kreo (Gi joe legos) which were pretty cool.
Grid iron is incredible. I'd buy it all but I'd go broke
I was in love with GI Joe as a kid, got as many guys as I was able to get, then I grew up. Fast forward to now, I stumbled across an antique mall and saw a 1985 Barbecue! Got him and started back down the Joe rabbit hole “pause”. Discovered the Classified series and ooooh maaan!!! It’s on and popping!!! My wife is going to be so mad.
The Pursuit of Cobra Snake-Eyes may be my favorite version of him ever.
I learned something new! This was entertaining too. Good stuff!
I want an Iron Claw in classified
Glad to see some love for the Dark Ninja Master (Sigma 6). There were some great Sigma figures, especially towards the end of the toy line, with fun modular accessories. Incredible to think, that these 8" figures, loaded with accessories, were selling for between $10 and $15 in 2005 to 2007.
Yeah, I've been eying a Dark Ninja Master on Ebay, but he runs for 100 bucks
@@DestroIsMySpiritAnimal Oh man, I bought 2 Dark Ninja Masters back around 2014 (when I bought my first Sigmas, actually), one loose and one MIB. Much much less than $100 back then, fortunately!
@@DestroIsMySpiritAnimal My favorite Sigmas are from 2007, when they were moving away from that black "Sigma suit" design and getting a bit more ARAH in spirit. Maybe if they had started with that in 2005, and made them 6" rather than 8", it would have faired better.
Ahh, dopamine hit! Need to pull away. Another great video and full of Joe toys I had no clue about. I just want to say that as a kid, I pulled coins from under the couch and between the front car seats to buy GI Joe Real American Hero figures at our local True Value Hardware. I lived four hours from the nearest big stores that sold gobs of G.I. Joe toys, but even in a small, isolated town Joes were easy for literally any kid to buy and have fun with. The articulation and detail were not the same level as GI Joe Classified, but it was still amazing. Kids have far more imagination so we didn't need that anyhow. That the articulation and detail was there, plus the lore (comics, cartoon, movie, file cards and even package art) kept the line going and outpaced many other cool toys of the 1980s. My twin brother and I had every figure and vehicle from 1983 to 1986, most from 1982, 1987, and 1988. I don't recall how we convinced our parents to buy the USS Flag,, but I remember the day it arrived, 3-4 months after we ordered it. The delivery truck was as old beater Chevy from 1970s with wood rails around the truck bed, and the box was unbelievably huge. We could not convince our parents to get the Defiant space shuttle. Smart move on their part. I think the line started its decline in 1986 when Sci-Fi replaced Flash as the laser rifle trooper. It's not that Flash was replaced. It's that Sci-Fi was an awful neon green. There were still great figures to come, like Ambush and Big Ben in 1990, but 1986 was a turning point. I'm one of the few who didn't like the 1986 Cobra Vipers with their boring silver face shields and bright red arm guards. Snow Vipers from the year before - amazing! How were they followed up with these guys?
Awesome video. Seeing some of these versions makes me wished I kept up with GI Joe throughout the years.
Yeah, the collector's club shit is what kills me
Another great video broskie! We agree on pretty much everything, especially Iron Claw being the only good thing from Extreme.
Thanks!
I was going to say that Classified should've been first, but yeah, when you include all the vehicles with the figures, the original was definitely the best line! Great list. Awesome to see all the incarnations of GI Joe, good and bad!
Thanks! Yeah, as much as the Classified design is better, the playsets/ vehicles are what they can't touch
you forgot SuperJoe, Gijoe Classic Collection, and Timeless Collections, Adventure team villians were called the intruders
I knew I'd forget something
Great video. I learned some things that I probably should’ve already known lol! Two versions missed that I enjoyed were the kre-o line, and the real American hero collection from 2000.
Awesome video, im glad youtube recommended me this channel because its awesome, and youtube algorythm sucks.
Thanks!
Just got into the classified line a couple weeks back and absolutely agree with your points! They seem very well made for the price, and that makes me confident to buy them loose or sealed.
Love your content!
Thanks!
Awesome video man! I am always waiting to see what you’ll put out next! I really enjoy your videos! It would be very difficult for me to make this list. I could easily get the worst out of the way but the great stuff is where I go back and forth.
Thanks a lot!
You got it correct. The 80s version is the greatest line ever !!!
I bought a couple character load-outs for my Breaker figure, the Doc load-out and all the V.A,M.P. upgrades. It all got a little expensive. The Adventure Team figures were Collector's Club figures , and now they sell for $300 a piece on ebay...yikes.
Love the channel bro…. “Subscribed”
Thanks! I've got some really big videos coming soon
Great video. Didn’t know about most of these.
Thanks
I love good countdown and list and we might have differences but that cool. I just want leave comment on one your videos for while now but this one really sparked me. Anyway keep up great list buddy
Thanks!
Excellent video, very cool and informative. I grew up in the 80's and had the first 3 years or so of the 3 3/4" line, absolutely loved them. I even had the straight arm characters that were kind of a hot mess because they fell apart (thumbs).
Oh yeah, the thumb break was always tragic
I love Sigma 6! They got me back into collecting GI JOE (as a kid I grew up with the 'O'-ring figures and vehicles plus the 12" 1/6 scale ones before that) as smaller figures since my main thing has been collecting and building custom 1/6 in my 'kidult' life (motorcycles and guns in my adult life lol). I think the product designer in me just loves the innovations of the accessories and the geometric aesthetic of that series. Since very recently starting to collect the Classified line (run out of room and money for 1/6) I've dug out my Sigma 6 collection (I think I have 95% of the figures released with some duplicates) and thanks to the 'Wayback Machine' have found the old Sigma 6 Central site as matching the accessories to the correct figures is quite a challenge! LOL.
No other military toy line!? How dare you ignore The Corps!
Oh yeah. that's that super cheap-o shit, right? That plastic will definitely give you cancer
Nooooo!
Dude, I loved the Hall of Fame collection! I was in 2nd year of high school and hadn't owned a Joe, for a few years. These made me get back into GI Joe, for a short time. I understand your point about using later versions of these characters, but in my opinion, they were pretty tight!
Great job 😃
your top 3 is totally spot on! I Love Classified, but it will never beat ARAH. ARAH could be collected at volume, and the space requirement was very small.
I still have a couple 12" GI Joe figures, one of which is George Washington. The ultimate Joe.
Great video and thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks!
G.I. Joe ARAH line’s success may not be repeatable but it remains iconic. As big a piece of pop cultural and toy history as Pokémon, Star Wars, Barbie and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in my view.
Saw a mint on card sigma six dark ninja master at a vintage toy shop. $70 bucks, it'll probably get more expensive as the years go on. I remember seeing them all over big lots in the late 2000s
You got the top spot 100% correct.
In the 80’s with the toys, comic books & cartoons..it was a trifecta of awesome. Never to be done again. Yo Joe!!
I do want to see Joe’s getting after Barbie in her sequel movie.. she needs a Real American Hero not that wimp Ken ;)
Venom vs ..imagine being in line and seeing a guy get Wolves DNA and then grizzly and then shark and as you step up you read your injection and it's HAMPSTER 😂
Haha. What the hell were they thinking?
Best lines for me is
1. Pursuit of Cobra
2. 30th
3. Retaliation
4. 50th
5. Figure Subscription Service
6. Con Exclusives ( 2009 onwards )
7. Renegades
8. Rise of Cobra
9. 25th
10. Classifieds
11. A Real American Hero
I’m clearly around your age, so I agree with your final two. I started doing the Classified series, but they started coming out with too many, too fast, so I only picked ones that are more retro, that look like the original. I did jump on a couple of the actual Classified Retro figures like Scarlet and Duke. I have fallen in with the Ultimates line though. I find them to be quite fun, and can keep up with the release schedule of those a lot better. They also represent what I liked about the look of the originals better.
Snow Job was definitely my favorite figure of all time though. I tracked down a mint version of his original o-ring figure, as well as his snowmobile. Of course I got the Classified version as well. If only they would make his snowmobile now. 😊
No one likes EXTREME, except real ones
I know that's how Kwinn was referred to in the comics, but "eskimo" is now considered a derogatory term (similar to "redskin"). The proper term is Inuit.
Great video, most entertaining - thank you :), I just can not take to the classified line as the scale is just way off for Joes, I still try picking up obscure and cool looking 4 inch figures - unfortunately usually expensive FSS or SDCC :)
this video was effing great!
Thanks!
You ever thought about reading the GI Joe comic books like from start to finish online? Id watch/ listen. I haven't seen one really.
Interesting. I'm thinking about reviewing them/ or doing a summary of the greatest moments. The orignal run is one of my favorite things ever
Real American Hero is topps for me, but I have to love adventure team too!
Adventure Team is pretty wild. I'd love to get my hands on a Eagle Eye GI Joe
Just in terms of something being insulting and disregarding lore I gotta say the winner was the Halo tv show against the games/books. One of my biggest disappointments haha.
Anyway, awesome video, thanks for doing what you do. loving the content as I go backwards checking it out.
Thanks! I will make sure not to watch the Halo show
Good list. I had forgotten how good the Valor vs Venom 12” were. I only ever got CC but regret passing on others. Agent Faces is rad.
Oh yeah, Agent Faces. I should have put that in the video. I'd take a classified of him
They could use the 80s series like Legos. Just release parts little screw drivers and oh rings. There are glasses repair kits After figuring out how to make your own guys made joes bad ass.
Yeah, i did some of that back in the day, I took apart an Extra Storm Shadow and turned him into Billy Kessler
Another Awesome Vid :)
Thanks!
I completely agree with your top two choices. Classified is a great looking line. And the vintage 80s line is where I got interested, and the size and articulation made it great. Best vehicles.
I wouldn't rank Sigma Six as high as you but what I like about lists is that the reasons I don't like things are the reasons you do. Also if I agree if I were a kid would have loved the play features. Entertaining video.
Thanks, yeah my love of Sigma 6 is a bit odd, as for the most part, they have a lot of features I typically don't like: Cartoonish design, too much sci-fi, etc. But they are fun
I said once it and I'll say it again, I'm learning a lot about my favorite toy brand ever from watching your vids!!! Obviously your ranking is not the same as my ranking but thats ok.
Dude you said it, when you find the "correct formula" and its not broken, then dont fix it! Maybe at one point the moms didn't want to buy GI Joes but i guaranty the dads were there for that.... cause you know, the dad F is secretary and the mom kick him out and he feels bad and buys all kind of toys to the kid.... you know how the story goes
I do. that is how the story went in my house. Divorce meant double the presents.
Did you end up getting the classified Mutt and Junkyard? Its so fucking awesome. My ONLY complaint is they didn't include the mac 10 he originally had.
Yes, he's great. Love the head sculpt
Sgt.Savage should have been done as a straight WW2 period G.I.Joe story.
"Blue" Snake-Eyes is my 3rd favorite Snake-Eyes. My least favorite is the Ninja Force one, yet I still like that one too. lol
Some of the ones listed separately I see as continuations of earlier lines (see below). My top five would be:
1. A Real American Hero (80’s-90’s)
2. 25th, ROC, POC, 50th
3. GI vs Cobra, Valor vs Venom, Spy Troops
4. 12 Inch 1970’s
5. Hall of Fame - just needed more of these
Reaction could have been great if they’d have executed it differently. Lower prices, more Joe characters (instead of Joe troops and stupid variants like CC, Destro, Baroness in disguise). I just can’t get into the 6 inch Classified. They feel cheap to me and the scale brings back neither the nostalgia of the 70’s 12 inch or the 80’s 3.75 inch.
So the USS Flag was $100 bucks back in 1985. Today that would be about $300 with inflation. Now I understand why I never got one. lol
Still pretty cheap. If they made it today Hasbro would charge 3 grand
I was in the bar too ahhhhh😢
Yeah. Not that I regret it... Oh wait, I regret some of it, but not because of GI Joe
I think the retro line should have been two separate entries, cause yes the single packed figures weren't great, but there was also the vehicles that came with classic o-ring figures as well as the two packs, especially the Duke/Cobra Commander one that came with so many accessories from the start of the g.i. Joe movie 🤷
Always considered 25th to club figures all in between 1 line. Even though has different names 39th pursuit 50th movie figs etc they all had same look and style
Classified Too High. Renegades too low. I'd probably go 1 RAH 2 PoC 3 Renegades 4 RoC 5 Classified 6 Super7 Ultimates. I've also enjoyed some of the figures coming in the ReAction line, even if that style figure isn't my favorite.
So if I wanted to get a couple of the Classifieds to display and I was a huge cobra commander, crimson guard and eel mark are there multiple versions of them out there? if so, what are the best ones do you think?
The Crimson Guard are great figures. I'd get the Retro card back because the packaging is great, and it is the same figure. With Cobra Commander, I'd hold off. The retro version will be out in a few months. Although I did like the first version as well. There is also a "Ceremonial dress" figure that is great. It's out of print, but you can get it on Aliexpress for not too much
The Eels are pretty disappointing.
There is a retro carded Eel coming too if you’re patient and prepared to get them the millisecond they drop
My first ever GI JOE was a GI Joe VS. Cobra, and it was so ugly and cheap that it ruined the toy line for me for nearly the rest of my life. I threw mine into the trashcan after playing with it once.
24 years later, I saw the Classifieds in the store a few times and didn't pay them any mind, "oh its that ugly thing from when I was a kid" and moved on.
I see the light now. As of last month, I have now collected almost every single Classified and it's the consistently highest quality figures I've ever seen. I hope Classifieds are selling well and they keep making them. I'll keep buying them!
I agree with most of your assessments however I take umbrage with your take on DTC Major Bludd. The DTC line isn't great I'll agree, however that Bludd was awesome, possibly the high point in aesthetic design of that line. Most mercenary look since his OG figure.
The DTC had the best version of copperhead. The DTC Python patrol black red and gray version is cool. I like the original Python patrol copperhead.
Pursuit of Cobra was a really good line with some great figures. I think the PoC Snow Job is still my favorite version of that character and hopefully we'll see a Classified figure with that outfit and gear load-out at some point.
I definitely remember the horror that was GI Joe Extreme. However, even Star Wars figures were hitting the steroids in the mid-1990s, so it was just a weird time in general for action figures.
In order to be successful, in my opinion, GI Joe needs to strike that perfect balance of about 70-80% realistic, modern-military gear and 20-30% science fiction. If the sci-fi element takes over too much, then it just kills the appeal of the franchise. This is why I think those early Classified waves really missed the mark so badly; but now that Hasbro is actually listening to the fans again, I think Classified has become one of the best toy lines being produced right now.
I agree entirely. Too much sci-fi destroys it, but a little is nice. I don't mind B.A.T.S and lasers and jump packs, But keep out invading alien races
How would you rank the 15th Anniversary Collection from 1997-98, or the Real American Hero Collection from 2000-2002?
Oh god. Of course, I missed a bunch. I'd rank them pretty low because they are just re-issues, repaints
@@DestroIsMySpiritAnimal - I will say though that the plastic technology had improved and the hands seem more rubbery that they can hold weapons without fear of breaking thumbs and fingers. They still hold up!
You should look into the Kree-o stuff. It was great.
Good point. Kree-o was great
Disney Star Wars, phase 4 marvel, Jar Jar Abrams Star Trek, Chibnal Doctor who, all way worse than Rise of cobras disrespect.
I know there are people that liked Wanted, but read the comic. The movie was a slap in the face.
Disney Star Wars does suck, but rubber suit Snake Eyes with lips is still shittier than all of those
I own the entire series of GI Joe Renegades. It was okay but certainly not a tribute to the original animated series.
What about the Resolute line?
Loathe the original 12 inch or Barbie size. Loathe Sigma 6 appearance goofy loathe anything exclusive and I hope and wish what was exclusive then IS NOT REPEATED AS EXCLUSIVE IN THE CLASSIFIED LINE... like Oktober Guards. #1 forever #1 then Pursuit of Cobra and CLASSIFIED 25th 4th. Comic packs makes it as my top 5
YOU ARE WAS COMING UP WITH SOME GREAT CONTENT THANKS MY GUY!
Thanks, man! Appreciate it
Gordon luvit as Cobra commander 😂
There are only two GI Joe series, the OG 1/6, and Scarlet, in any scale we can get her. Fight me.
I guess you are not EXTREME enough for GI Joe EXTREME!!!!!!
@@DestroIsMySpiritAnimal 🤣 As a 58 year old heart attack survivor who is partial to cardigans, probably not.
Also, in Gi Joe Resolute, Mainframe is a woman, and yeah it is done well.
He man the movie was the worst case of ignoring the lore.
You know what pisses me off about the gi joe movies? HOw off they are from the brand. All you need to do is make a movie with a squad of guys ripped right out of the predator, heart break ridge or Commando. A cool 90s mid to low budget action movie and they would of nailed it. Sure you could tone the violence down a little bit for that pg-13 rating but its all you needed. At the base of it after the 3 3/4 inch line gi joe was a group of grunts taking on terrorists with some scifi tech. It was their skill vs Cobra's numbers and technology. Hell john woo's face off is a better joe movie then the joe movies.
Yeah, predator is the closest thing we got to a GI Joe movie.
What about super joe from the 70s?
A bottom tier line is the fairly recent ReAction line. Ugly and cheap looking but still carries a $20 price tag... ouch!
Extreme..a bridge too far
Sorry but transformers is better by just a hair
Hell and naw
Transformers gets my number 2 slot. They were not as much fun to play with, as they had limited mobility, but still up there with the greatest toy lines