Forgotten Figures

After nearly 20 years, the stain of the old club is wearing off of figures like this Range Viper.  It's always been a quality release.  ...

Back in 2015 and 2016, you could buy large lots of these figures from  Asia for a couple of bucks each.  As those sold out, you could get pl...

No single product better encapsulates the 2000's era releases of vintage Joe molds than the #26 comic pack.  On the surface, this was a ...

Army building is heavily a phenomenon of adult collecting.  It spawns from the fantasies that we all had as kids of owning as many toys as y...

In 1997, if you had told collectors they'd be able to buy two classic army builders crafted after the Cobra Officer and a newly sculpted...

Sometimes, a simple repaint creates a fig for the ages.  In the case of the 2006 Operation Flaming Moth Shipwreck, what should have been a m...

You can make a strong argument that the first Joe desert figure appeared in 1983 with the tan Grunt repaint .  The 1984 VAMK Mark ...

Once the anniversary figures were released in 2007 , the JvC era of G.I. Joe came to an end.  I define this period (generally) as 2002 thro...

As a write reviews I find myself asking the question of questions “Where does the time go?”  This figure was released 13 years ago, a 2006 ...

2006 was not a good time to be a Joe fan.  In a lot of ways, it was like 1995 .  A great run of toys had pitifully ended at retail while t...

The Comic Packs ushered in an era of unbridled optimism when they were announced in 2004.  But, by the end of that year, the luster had worn...

This Overlord exists as an oops to the collecting community after the group responsible for it got backlash.  They mistakenly thought collec...

Mercer was a character who didn't appear in the comics, but who found a strong afterlife in the fan fiction and early dio story communit...

This week, we take a look at the various content surrounding the 2006 Cobra Mortal figure. Cobra Mortal Profile Cobra Mortal at JoeBattl...

It is no secret that the figures made by Master Collector far exceeded the quality of many figures released for mass retail consumption. It ...