Forgotten Figures

In the first half of the vintage line, repaints were relatively rare.  For the most part, Hasbro released new figures every year.  There wer...

Starting in 1997 , Hasbro attempted to cater to the collector market with exclusive repaints of classic figures.  Between 1997 and 2006, hun...

When I was a kid, there was a retired couple in neighborhood who always spent the winter in Arizona.  Each year when they left, they hired m...

In the fall of 1986 , I wandered into an endcap full of new Joe figure sets at Toys R Us.  These figures were not in the '86 catalog, bu...

In the late '00's, enterprising collectors realized that they could have some Joe figure molds bootlegged in Chinese factories.  Thi...