I just came across your channel and love looking at all the GI Joes. At one point I had all of them including the air craft carrier. My neighborhood friends and I would have literal wars.
I keep the yo Joe website saved to my home screen. It's a great database and shows every version of every Joe ever made. It even shows what every mold each one was used for. I love the books but it's a lot easier than flipping thru pages searching.
You Guys are awesome! I've picked up a 1989 Snake Eyes V3 and a 1982 Flash V1 Straight Arm (both complete) as well as a few other collectibles after discovering you guys a couple months ago! My son and I love visiting there! To anyone viewing and reading this, if you are in or visiting the Upstate of South Carolina, this is a must visit location!
Looking forward to more of this, I have a decent collection of well played with Joe's, some of my favorite. This video hit me in the feels today, my local comic shop had a long term employee who managed the comics pass away this week. I thought of him alot during this video. I have been going to this shop for over 25 years since I was a pre teen he recommended so many books to me over the years. Hobby shops provide such a great environment and community.
180 Carded and counting. 500 loose. 40 cards away from every file card ever in the line from 1982 to 1997. Very proud of what I have been able to piece together over the years.
I found Steel Brigade mail away version wedged in a vehicle 3 years ago. Bought him and a sack of Joes at Goodwill for $13 bucks, Steel and the vehicle was $3 bucks out of that. Made my day!
@@toyfederation Gold helmet version, took me a while to figure it was a mail in. I sold it and kept the ones from childhood, enjoy the finds and share with friends.
I have a complete collection with all original accessories from 82 to 90 that I put together. It was not cheap. I even have all versions of Starduster, Steel Brigade, and Recondo.
I love Joe's probably after Star Wars my favorite line. I'd love to have a full 80s run. Trying to collect 4 different lines at once so that'll probably never happen.
To someone My age that might as well be a pile of Gold Bullion. Im a COBRA fan Myself. One of these days they will put it all together. Boom. World Domination!
3:19 Heavy Metal does not have scruff/5:00 shadow. Ever seen anyone with facial hair over the bridge of their nose? It’s a dirty face from driving the Mauler with his goggles on and his head out of the hatch.
With those GI Joe microphone/antenna accessories being so small how easy/hard is it to distinguish between an original and a reproduction and what are some of the telltale signs? Awesome channel and content by the way, I watch all of your content, it’s top notch!
On heavy metal that's not a 5:00 shadow that's actually dirt because if you look his goggles are on usually when he's driving the tank and then when he pulls up his goggles it clears the top of his face but his whole mouth and that whole area is dirty. Rampage just doesn't have that dirt
As a kid in the EARLY 90s I inherited my older Brothers 1982 figures and I thought his mickey mouse CC I got was fake knockoff because of the logo looking the way it did etc.. so I hit it with a baseball bat
@@surfthestreets86 lol yeah I HATED knock off bootleg toys. I use to see them all the time at the dollar stores. I would see those darn bootleg heman figures Galaxy Warriors or something and also Those fake Galoob Lucha Libre looking Wrestlers in the 1980s and early 1990s and I despised them so when I thought that Cobra Commander was fake I destroyed him. I got the baseball bat I used to use to play baseball with the neighborhood kids with and I sent him into peices all over the road. For Months after when we kids would play Soccer in the street we would step and crunch over the parts of Cobra Commander.
Absolutely loving your videos! Need to find my old Joes, Turtles, He-Man, and Thundercats at my parents house! Is there any value to old micro machines?
my Joe collection (huge, including Terrordome) was sacrificed to my aunt & uncles pool circa 1991…after two summers serving as an epic battlefield, the rust and chlorine finally eroded them to dust….my star wars collection (also huge) never left my closet- ; )
2016 I bought a storage unit with every gi joe figure and vehicle made including the uk releases, mail aways, Sears etc… paid $2500 but ended up having massive medical bills and had to sell everything. Most money I ever made but most painful process.
Loving the videos, you should get everyone to sit around and do a live Q&A (or not live, so you can research things your not sure about!) More coverage of con trips would be cool too
“You didn’t ask I didn’t tell” …..it’s can be a shady business you better know your stuff newbies …..same with vinyl record collecting (that’s my other hobby) if you don’t know might wanna educate yourself because some people are not so honest or forthcoming with information and will rip you right off
What an awesome collection, and also very informative. Ive just recently started hunting different loose variants of the vintage tmnt figs. Whats your take on the "yellow eyed metalhead"? You think its a real variant or just the red plastic eyes faded.
@@toyfederation yeah, it's slowly becoming a thing. Nobody really knows if it's legit official or not. But they give off almost a cream/white/yellow glow instead of red. And the "brain" in the back is still red. I personally lean towards the eyes are just faded, but I am always looking, just in case it is legit. Get ahead of the game while metalheads are still super cheap and super common, right!
Hi there! Dude great stuff! I am a junkie for variants also so this video struck a cord. Do you have the gold head brigade (sorry didnt watch the whole vid yet), also are you aware of a ninja viper variants (like red and dark red logos and also the no swords variants?
Ive been collecting joes since 2007, i have the 64-69 joes in every set released except nurse and police officer. I also have all 70s reg grip and kung fu grip figures, but I wasn't too crazy about all the outfits, so I didn't get them all. I did get some foreign joes, heshin cyborg, then i got all the store released 82-2017 figures and vehicles i liked. I then got all the vehicles 2007-2016 plus all the variations i found out about plus a decent amount convention, foreign, etc and then started the classified figures but tapped out around number 50 because Hasbro started ripping off their customers with high prices i refuse to pay
@@toyfederation thanks all i need is the black cassette from mission brazil to have them all complete. I have alot of 82-94 unbroken accessories and vehicle parts might get rid of and ive watched that your not too crazy about 60s joes/accessories maybe we can work out a trade. Im also looking for certain other stuff like, maybe you can send me a pic of what you have or what I can send you what i need
On heavy metal, thats not scruff/5 oclock shadow. Its dust built up on his lower face with the outline of the goggles on his cheeks lol. Im no gi joe aficionado, but i AM a former tanker that pulled gunner duty in iraq on humvees so we often times came back from missions looking like that when haboobs were blowing through baghdad.
The videos would be a lot more enjoyable on my phone with the audio kicked up a bit just fyi. Not a problem on TV but my phone only goes so loud. Love the channel though keep it up
The VA has amazingly gone from that to, do ask, do tell. There's a lot of health problems in the lgbt world and that means it's in the world of the military. As a marine, I love that.
Who wants to keep watching us complete this?
Any content is good content 💯
I love all of your content.
I would watch it. It be awesome if you show your complete set at the end
oh heck yeah
Were u located
I love talking about vintage joes and love seeing people talk about vintage joes
I just came across your channel and love looking at all the GI Joes. At one point I had all of them including the air craft carrier. My neighborhood friends and I would have literal wars.
I'd love to see this displayed on the wall
Please keep putting these out. I freaking love your channel. Great work as usual gang.
I keep the yo Joe website saved to my home screen. It's a great database and shows every version of every Joe ever made. It even shows what every mold each one was used for. I love the books but it's a lot easier than flipping thru pages searching.
Sure you do
@@ricksterk7014 you don't know what to do with your hands.
Greatest action figure toy line ever created.
This Channel has become one of my favorites, awesome stuff! Keep posting more Joe content! 😎👍
One of your favorites!? Not your favorite!? Hahah. Who's beating us!!
You Guys are awesome! I've picked up a 1989 Snake Eyes V3 and a 1982 Flash V1 Straight Arm (both complete) as well as a few other collectibles after discovering you guys a couple months ago! My son and I love visiting there! To anyone viewing and reading this, if you are in or visiting the Upstate of South Carolina, this is a must visit location!
Thank you so much!
Looking forward to more of this, I have a decent collection of well played with Joe's, some of my favorite. This video hit me in the feels today, my local comic shop had a long term employee who managed the comics pass away this week. I thought of him alot during this video. I have been going to this shop for over 25 years since I was a pre teen he recommended so many books to me over the years. Hobby shops provide such a great environment and community.
I'm so sorry for your loss. Always hard when you lose someone who had such an impact on your life.
i love watching 45yr old men comparing sligh paint variants on gi joes. i watch this channel often.
180 Carded and counting. 500 loose. 40 cards away from every file card ever in the line from 1982 to 1997. Very proud of what I have been able to piece together over the years.
Oh wow I'd love to see this collection!
I don’t see a 93 create a cobra. Still the rarest figure in my opinion. I’ve come across 2 in the wild. Sold them both and regretted it every time.
Rarer than the Pimp Daddy Destro?
@@Medieval_Dead hmm actually not sure. Probably not actually.
My first Joe toy was the MMS with the original Hawk.
Thats it. Im getting back into the G.I.JOE game. This is bringing back to many memories.
Heck yes! Do it!
Just awesome, just awesome
Great episode
Thank you!
Right here! LOVED this. I'm a fan of G.I. Joe, but I don't have the deepest knowledge of it. I could have watched an hour of this lol.
Good to know! Maybe we will do that!
@@toyfederation Yah, listen. Any toyline you guys are passionate about and want to nerd out over is content gold
Well good to know!
That’s not a 5 o’clock shadow on heavy metal
That’s a dirt outline of his goggles
I found Steel Brigade mail away version wedged in a vehicle 3 years ago. Bought him and a sack of Joes at Goodwill for $13 bucks, Steel and the vehicle was $3 bucks out of that. Made my day!
Wow! That's crazy!
@@toyfederation Gold helmet version, took me a while to figure it was a mail in. I sold it and kept the ones from childhood, enjoy the finds and share with friends.
@@thaddeusmcgrath Yes yes!
You've got a great collection. I want to see it completed.
Thanks! SO do we! Do you have a favorite Joe?
Yes, my favorite GI Joe figure is Croc Master.
@@destructarr Nice choice!
Awesome collection my man
By far my favorite personal collection…mines not as complete as yours though, lol
They would look amazing on display
FANTASTIC STUFF
I so need to find time and visit the store sometime. So many parts need to fix my toys from growing up. Also pick up some missing figures I never got.
Please come in!
That’s a bunch of joes! Never realized they made so many. Star Wars only had roughly 90 figures and GI Joe smoked past that!
That is an impressive collection! I could've watched you go through every figure haha.
I love seeing your collection! Please in the future show us more!
Thanks! Will do!
I have a complete collection with all original accessories from 82 to 90 that I put together. It was not cheap. I even have all versions of Starduster, Steel Brigade, and Recondo.
Awesome collection. I wish i could have every single Joe ever created. That would be a museum collection
Yes it would be!
Such a good channel, wish u had a video everyday.
I love Joe's probably after Star Wars my favorite line. I'd love to have a full 80s run. Trying to collect 4 different lines at once so that'll probably never happen.
GI Joes is second to Star Wars to me as well!
Yes please.. some of the best content on TH-cam comes from your store
oh wow! Thank you! Favorite episode so far?
Good job 👍
Well thank you! What did you like about this episode?
Tunnel Rat from the anime I remember him.
To someone My age that might as well be a pile of Gold Bullion. Im a COBRA fan Myself. One of these days they will put it all together. Boom. World Domination!
3:19 Heavy Metal does not have scruff/5:00 shadow. Ever seen anyone with facial hair over the bridge of their nose? It’s a dirty face from driving the Mauler with his goggles on and his head out of the hatch.
Oh. That makes sense Thanks!
Now to get EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. graded and then you will truly have a unique collection 😁
Oh God no!
With those GI Joe microphone/antenna accessories being so small how easy/hard is it to distinguish between an original and a reproduction and what are some of the telltale signs? Awesome channel and content by the way, I watch all of your content, it’s top notch!
That's a loaded question, but it's just something that we've learned over years of doing it.
Some of the repros are very easy to tell but a few guys have really good 3d printers and make amazing copies.
W.O.R.M.S. and the Maggot was my Favorite Vehicle+Figure...Epic Joe collection !
Wonder if the top five Joe collectors in the world can be named?
Brad, George, Mike, Bart, and Harry.
@@MSgt_0699 Dats racist, yo!
Another awesome video nice collection man.
Thank you!
GI Joe greatest toy line
Wow! That's a hot take! May have to agree, but Star Wars has my heart!
I agree, GI Joe had the most functionality for play fighting.
If you need help on a Zartan O-ring replacement let me know. Yo Joe!
very cool video. love the channel.
Thanks so much!
Awesome channel. Yo Joe!
Hey, thanks!
This video needs to be longer ~
We need more in our collection!
INCREDIBLE 👏🏼
That rampage was in my collection for over 25yrs Ryan gets all my goodies 😂
Love the SeaDogs hat! Sad Mainer stuck in Oregon.
Lets go SeaDogs!
Andy reppin' the Portland Sea Dogs. Sweet
Yes he is!
On heavy metal that's not a 5:00 shadow that's actually dirt because if you look his goggles are on usually when he's driving the tank and then when he pulls up his goggles it clears the top of his face but his whole mouth and that whole area is dirty. Rampage just doesn't have that dirt
Got us last week now another day early!
This channel is awesome. It’s going to blow up with subs sooner than later
YOu don't think 11k in 3 months is impressive? :(
As a kid in the EARLY 90s I inherited my older Brothers 1982 figures and I thought his mickey mouse CC I got was fake knockoff because of the logo looking the way it did etc.. so I hit it with a baseball bat
Lol damn. Good ol'days
@@surfthestreets86 lol yeah I HATED knock off bootleg toys. I use to see them all the time at the dollar stores. I would see those darn bootleg heman figures Galaxy Warriors or something and also Those fake Galoob Lucha Libre looking Wrestlers in the 1980s and early 1990s and I despised them so when I thought that Cobra Commander was fake I destroyed him. I got the baseball bat I used to use to play baseball with the neighborhood kids with and I sent him into peices all over the road. For Months after when we kids would play Soccer in the street we would step and crunch over the parts of Cobra Commander.
@@KirksCORNER1983 This is a fantastic story! WE love hearing stuff like this!
Yo Joe! Another "killer" video.
Thanks!
Love the videos!
Thanks so much! What video has been your favorite so far?
Absolutely loving your videos! Need to find my old Joes, Turtles, He-Man, and Thundercats at my parents house! Is there any value to old micro machines?
Yes! I love micro machines!
Hey Ryan, realistically, how much is a collection like this worth? $$$?
I’m hooked
Yay!
Yo Joe! I think I have maybe 30?? lol What’s the book you mentioned to see them all and their weapons?
I am also curious on the book, I am trying to build a 82-87/88 set since those are the years I played with them.
Ultimate Guide to GI Joe
The cassette on your tripwire is wrong, unless it looks white on camera, is supposed to be yellow
my Joe collection (huge, including Terrordome) was sacrificed to my aunt & uncles pool circa 1991…after two summers serving as an epic battlefield, the rust and chlorine finally eroded them to dust….my star wars collection (also huge) never left my closet- ; )
Oh wow!
2016 I bought a storage unit with every gi joe figure and vehicle made including the uk releases, mail aways, Sears etc… paid $2500 but ended up having massive medical bills and had to sell everything. Most money I ever made but most painful process.
Sorry to hear that!
Keep going please this is fascinating
This video in particular or the whole channel? Trying to decide what you guys want more of.
Both
Ha! Noted!
Loving the videos, you should get everyone to sit around and do a live Q&A (or not live, so you can research things your not sure about!)
More coverage of con trips would be cool too
Love the channel! Subbed!
Scoops Mic is reasonable priced usually as well.
“You didn’t ask I didn’t tell” …..it’s can be a shady business you better know your stuff newbies …..same with vinyl record collecting (that’s my other hobby) if you don’t know might wanna educate yourself because some people are not so honest or forthcoming with information and will rip you right off
question : what book is that ? the one that you use as a guide ?
Ultimate Guide to GI Joe.
Where do you purchase your O-rings? I purchased some on eBay and every single one of the O-rings I repaired started to snap after 6 months.
Is there a process of protecting the plastic?
Coatings ?😊
What book do you guys use to know all the variations of each Gi Joe figure?
Ultimate guid to gi Joe
Do you sell those holder boxes?? If so I need a bunch…
What an awesome collection, and also very informative. Ive just recently started hunting different loose variants of the vintage tmnt figs. Whats your take on the "yellow eyed metalhead"? You think its a real variant or just the red plastic eyes faded.
Oh, don't think I've heard of this yet!
@@toyfederation yeah, it's slowly becoming a thing. Nobody really knows if it's legit official or not. But they give off almost a cream/white/yellow glow instead of red. And the "brain" in the back is still red. I personally lean towards the eyes are just faded, but I am always looking, just in case it is legit. Get ahead of the game while metalheads are still super cheap and super common, right!
@@jonathanward8967 That's very interesting. We might have to go through all of ours in the back.
I was hoping to see you bust out your Nightforce and Stardusters figures.
Hi there! Dude great stuff! I am a junkie for variants also so this video struck a cord. Do you have the gold head brigade (sorry didnt watch the whole vid yet), also are you aware of a ninja viper variants (like red and dark red logos and also the no swords variants?
Ive been collecting joes since 2007, i have the 64-69 joes in every set released except nurse and police officer. I also have all 70s reg grip and kung fu grip figures, but I wasn't too crazy about all the outfits, so I didn't get them all. I did get some foreign joes, heshin cyborg, then i got all the store released 82-2017 figures and vehicles i liked. I then got all the vehicles 2007-2016 plus all the variations i found out about plus a decent amount convention, foreign, etc and then started the classified figures but tapped out around number 50 because Hasbro started ripping off their customers with high prices i refuse to pay
That sounds like an amazing collection!
@@toyfederation thanks all i need is the black cassette from mission brazil to have them all complete. I have alot of 82-94 unbroken accessories and vehicle parts might get rid of and ive watched that your not too crazy about 60s joes/accessories maybe we can work out a trade. Im also looking for certain other stuff like, maybe you can send me a pic of what you have or what I can send you what i need
Are you local?
@@toyfederation no, unfortunately. Im in staten Island new york
KEEP er Goin !!!
Heck yea!
On heavy metal, thats not scruff/5 oclock shadow. Its dust built up on his lower face with the outline of the goggles on his cheeks lol. Im no gi joe aficionado, but i AM a former tanker that pulled gunner duty in iraq on humvees so we often times came back from missions looking like that when haboobs were blowing through baghdad.
Rah
Awsome! More GI joe content 🤘🏻🇺🇸🦅
Have you watched all the other Joe content we posted?
@@toyfederationyes sir!! Keep it coming 🦅🇺🇸👍🏻
How many mor Joes do you still need?
About 50-75
Ai caramba Go Joe !
Ha. Like?
An another one.... 💯💯💯
THank you! What's been your favorite episode?
Is Heavy Metal's face scruff, or dirt from where his goggles aren't protecting it?
We’ve learned that it’s dirt.
@toyfederation.. you have the wrong cassette on Listen and fun tripwire. The one that comes with him is yellow.
Oh! Thank you! You can confirm that? Want to make sure I have everything correct.
Bonus!!!!!!!!
Where can I get those packages you have each guy in?
Multiple places on line. Just google action figure cases.
Thank you!!
I'm sad I was late on liking the video I 422.
Ha!
the joes xxx
My mom said I can come over and play
What time you coming?
why is your audio always so low
Is there a need for the aggressive negativity?
The videos would be a lot more enjoyable on my phone with the audio kicked up a bit just fyi. Not a problem on TV but my phone only goes so loud. Love the channel though keep it up
RAD !!!!!
Seems like it's more complicated collecting the loose g.i figurines then collecting them carded
Yeah, he mentions that in a previous video I saw. Or maybe it was a video after this. I haven’t watched them in order.
👍
Were u located
Greer, SC
Why would u hart that I asked were u were located u sell Joe's
I also hearted the other response
Damn that far do u ship Joe's
@@jameswhite4370 We don't. Sorry. Also, this is my personal collection.
fix the color grading on the vid pls a bit too yellow
It's not the color grading. It's the lights.
Me
You?
DONT ASK DONT TELL🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
The VA has amazingly gone from that to, do ask, do tell. There's a lot of health problems in the lgbt world and that means it's in the world of the military. As a marine, I love that.