Forgotten Figures

The 1984 Blowtorch is one of my favorite figures.  His gear just made him so much fun to play with.  Sadly, my childhood figure quickly fell...

Back in the mid and late 2000's, there were tons of alternate figures coming from Asian sources.  Some were unpainted prototypes.  Other...

The various Remco action figure lines are full of lower quality toys that were meant to mimic more popular, and expensive, brands of the ...

Taurus is a boring figure.  He's the least popular of the Renegades and is the one you least often see in action.  The only really inter...

So, this is more of an oddity than anything rare.  But, really, I just like the idea that there is a marketing piece out there that carried ...

In Mexico, the Auriken toy company released a small line of exclusive Joes.  There are a few different series.  The initial series, though,...

The 1989 Deep Six is not a beloved figure.  He is, though, a pretty great figure for his specialty.  He was the perfect blend of 1989 modern...

There is a fairly direct line between exclusive G.I. Joe toys produced by the Plastirama toy company in Argentina in the 1980s and those al...

In the summer of 2001 , a random seller posted a few bagged 1983 G.I. Joe figures who were packed with redback filecards.  They had a small ...

While Estrela produced around 150 total figures in their exclusive Comandos Em Acao line, they  had intended for there to be more.  In the 1...

BattleForce 2000 was a late 1987 release.  The figures were among the final ones I acquired when I was a kid.  But, the actual products were...

The 1993 Night Creeper figure is the only Ninja Force figure that I actually bought at retail.  I didn't, though, buy him for his weapon...

I'm putting together Rarities Month for this year.  And, I don't really have much left.  The last few years have been a seller's...

Zartan was one of Hasbro's most popular toys.  Something like 1.7 million were produced.  Despite that asinine number of toys available,...

The Italian Jet Man figure was one of those things that was long rumoured, but never really confirmed for a long time.  In the past decade o...

We all know about the Estrela toy company from Brazil.  They were Hasbro's partner to release licensed G.I. Joe figures in their native ...

On of the most ignored facets of the worldwide Joe line is that a huge number of vehicles that were released in Europe actually feature some...