I went through the same process with my original Joes, and I appreciate your enthusiasm for the endeavor. This is the adult equivilent of a really good all-out play session with your figures... not that I'm above a skirmish every now and then! Very rewarding, way t' be!
Awesome. Had the base for many years. Never took it outside. Learned to be able to assemble in less than five minutes. Good points on vehicle integration, and overall military simplicity look (U.S.A.F. kid here,) as well as mentioning the numerous playsets of the great 80's toy age. Had Joe base (as mentioned,) Castle Greyskull, Snake Mountain, Ewok Village. (and a younger brother with whom I had to share everything with. lol. That was ok, always had someone to play the bad-guy.)
I liked how u talked about being taken back to childhood fun times with gi joes. that is exactly why I bought all my favorite joes from 83-87 for my 3yr old son to play with. just watching how much love and excitement he experiences with them takes me way back. course, I just let him play with a few and he treats them with respect. can't wait to really play later when he's a bit older.
This is beautiful! I was forced to learn how to fix my Joe's. My older brother used to torture me by sitting on me and breaking each one. When he realized that I could restore them, he quit breaking them.
this was a neat video,a few years ago i used to work in a retro toy store and sometimes i got to help go through collections that would come in. i spent a good part of the daygoing through gi joes and the parts seeing wich were complete i managed to complete 100+ it was a good day.
The dirt and the scuffs and the scrapes. I haven't tried to clean or restore my old toys because I want them to retain those marks of the past, as well as the original smells some of them still have. My TIE Fighter pilot for example still smells like it did out of the package. I do wish they didn't have wear and aging signs from bad storage in an attic at a parent's house.
Almost 1 year ago I took my figures from the basement and store them into zip bags in my closet. I recently notice that my Clamp Cham got black spots on his rubber arms and legs. This did not happend yet on the other figures. I am planning now to replace zip bags with canvas bags, because I think plastic zip bags are not good for rubber parts.
also if anyone doesnt know, yojoe com has a whobit section where you can match all weapons to the figures to figure out =) lol edit nevermind you just said that in video
Michael, am I beyond crazy to suggest that you stream these types of fixes/Restoration processes? if this sounds at all of interest go to Twitch.tv and check out the creative section. Anyhow yet Another interesting video! I've been watching all of your videos all day! super entertaining! cheers and keep them coming!
I pick up used Joes at garage sales and such, and sometimes wonder about their stories. Last year I got a heavily worn Flint in pieces whose chest was tied to some old firecracker or rocket parachute thing. I've yet to fix him, his screw is rusted and stuck.
once my step brother gave me all his gi joes, i sorted each one out for him, put each weapon with the right character and was going to try to get a good price for him off ebay. he wanted them back to sell them to a local shop. he knew i had a big interest in the toys and i would of bought them for a cheap price but we were trying to get a good price thats why i was selling them. he ended up getting ripped off. the shop gave him barely a dollar each for the really rare hard to find ones. then he accused me of stealing a bunch. i learned to not help anyone and if i do then tell them make a small checklist before hand so they dont accuse the help. he did although give me some misc rare stuff from mc donalds and etc he did not want so that made up for it also for o rings a temp repair is using hair braid rubberbands. there relaly small about the same size but some are a little loose. but they only last a few years and then break again they arent heavy duty but they are good to buy locally at any walgreens or cvs
I have a question? ..is it possible to fix a crack on a joes leg from where the metal hook goes into to keep the legs together or is it a lost cause ..
I had a sizable G.I. Joe collection in my day. A nice assortment of figures and vehicles -- all lost to years and years of playing with them -- with the exception of a moment of madness when at the age of 13 I smashed all my figures with a baseball bat and kept the heads. That unspeakable act of stupidity haunts me to this day. Luckily, I had lost Wild Bill, Scrap Iron and Ace before the bat episode. They magically turned up years later after a move, so they survived that horrible fate and I cherished them for a few years, only to be lost again. Watching this video makes me wonder the second life my Joe collection could have had -- had I just a bit of foresight as a kid.
For all of the questions about broken crotches. would simply super gluing the crotch back on not work. I din't have a whole lot of G.I. Joe figures as a kid but the few I had, I had that problem to. Thanks.
my wife wanted me to clear out my closets so I started selling my Joe's on EBay a few years ago, then I stopped cuz shipping is outrageous, now I regret it! I took great care of my action figures when I was young, I should have never sold the ones I did! bummer
bro that great that helped out like that! I have of course a ton of joes that I bought vintage but there is a special box with MY REAL joes the ones from my child hood and yup there beat to hell!! but I dont wanna fix em like you say I remember that way and I just wanna save em for me.
Great videos. They bring back memories of toys I used to own. I wish I knew about fixing GI Joes years ago. I had a huge collection and a relative snapped the waist from the majority of them. They were all thrown away as I didn't know they could be fixed. I only have a handful of favorites left. A question: What's in the Rocketeer box (~1:22) in your Toy Archive Tour? I heard Go Lion was violent but those caps in your video are surprising. I'll add it to the list with Gatchaman and others.
he had a storm shadow V2 ... and a jinx but his step kid scratched off her emblem ... he had a sick look on his face when I said that would be pretty sweet if mint ... and he told me it was until the kid did that to it LOL.
Here is a toughy for you...How do you Repair a Broken O Ring in Zartan without tearing him apart? seems it is almost impossible to take that figure apart
The Lone Ranger stood watch on the figures for all those years, keeping them safe until they could be rediscovered and restored. "...some of his most prized toys from childhood and he wanted to keep them....And he said that his wife was starting to look at them like junk..." Some wife. Sounds like your friend needs a wife upgrade. Tell him to look on C-net, as I'm sure there's an Open Source program he can download for that. 4:08 -- Cat on patrol. Tex (kitteh sez, "4:12 and all's well.")
I still can't figure out how I managed to keep all my orig vehicles and no figures....?! I bet one of my cuz or one of my mothers friends younger kids have them?! Dangit
New sub to your channel. I was a huge GI Joe fan back in the 80's. I read all of the comics, loved the toys, and hated the movie. Just like Transformers, the GI Joe Movie killed the series for me. Cobra LA had to be the worst idea ever... seriously who the Hell thought that would work?
