Forgotten Figures

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...

I was very surprised to find this is the first content I've made on the 1991 Mercer figure in 20 years.  He's a figure I greatly enj...

When I first saw the 1987 catalog, it was full of toys I wanted.  Two oddball items stuck out to me, though.  The first, obviously, was Cobr...

Surprisingly, there's a lot of content out there that features the 1989 Slaughter's Marauders Spirit.  As it's kind of tough to ...

While collectors focus on the Brazilian figures who feature drastically different paint jobs or new construction that was not available in t...

1987 is the year of the G.I. Joe Movie.  Not knowing that was going to be a thing, though, left the year with some oddball releases.  The we...

If you liked Snake Eyes, there weren't many options for him in the vintage line.  Sure, you had a lot of different figuers.  But, he, fo...

In all the time I have been reviewing G.I. Joe figures, I have only looked at two members of the Slaughter's Marauders subset that was r...

Of the vintage sub sets, Slaughter's Marauders is the least represented on my site.  I didn't get around to the first member ( Mutt ...

In the mid 1980's a ritual in the first couple of months of the year was to find and spend hours pouring over the new yearly G.I. Joe ca...

Mutt is a personal favorite of mine.  The mold is great and the character is fun.  His appearance in the Slaughter's Marauders was a gre...

The Mutt mold's history is extremely interesting to me.  First, it's one of my favorite vintage molds.  I like both the character an...