Forgotten Figures

What happens when you take a mold that is completely played out and repackage it into a release with just 2 paint masks?  In the case of Fir...

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...