Going to spend a few hours today moving, opening boxes & trying to organize on this Family Day holiday.

This is a sculpt of the pre-production Terror Drome Rampart used when Hasbro was designing the playset. It’s only a partial sculpt because they flipped it and duplicated it for the other half- it ended up being changed to a slightly different snake design in the finished product

Added this minty AFA 80+ 1985 Quick Kick (or in French, Savate- which refers to a specific type of French kickboxing with shoes which is weird because Quick Kick has none!) 34 back, Canadian peach card and not super easy to come across. Yo Joe!

Here’s something you don’t see every day, and pretty much never. This is a Rubiplas (Venezuela) Skystriker- about as rare as the Rubiplas vehicles go. The plastic is far whiter than the US / Canadian release and I’m super happy to have it in my collection.

With all of the crazy stuff going on in the world right now I’ve found that I almost feel guilty with “taking solace” in my ‘Joe collection lately. I don’t want to get political or anything but it’s been pretty dismal out in the real world lately. I’m going to post some cool

Christmas gift from my kids, explosion 20 back Short Fuze MOC! US Card.

When your wife surprises you with a couple of sealed Canadian Joes and you get the five DIC cartoon Cels you grabbed just in time for Christmas- more pics to follow! Merry Christmas everyone!

1991 Cloudburst Wax Sculpt pieces from the collection.

Lest we Forget.

Chuckles is one of my favourite characters in the ‘Joe universe and when I was in South Africa these Australian based figures were just coming out as I was leaving. It was common to see Palitoy Action Force, Hasbro Action Force and Australian and New Zealand Action Man cards over

Canadian file card holder that came with the Sears exclusive Missile Command Center- the all cardboard Cobra “base.” These base was released in 1982 & carried over until 1983. These don’t come up often and are a neat glimpse into the time this was released- notably the 11

This is a special pickup for me, when I was small my brothers and I all had a pair of these. When I saw the Canadian version pop up on EBay, I knew I had to grab it. I love stuff like this that immediately brings me right back to 1985 in a split second. Did anyone else have

Tripwire This is a 1983 Canadian MOC 32 back Tripwire- one of the more underrated GIJoe figures, IMO. Check out all of those ‘82 releases on the back of the card! When I was a kid my three brothers and I all had our “own” Joes that we would keep together and play with. I

Canadian Sgt. Slaughters Renegades When you collect GIJoes for a while it becomes kind of neat to see what you can easily come across and what seems to be much harder. There isn’t much rhyme or reason to it either. Some things you’d expect to be hard to find really aren’t

'TRANSFORMER', the Japanese theme song for the original cartoon, had its lyrics arranged by a young Shirō Sagisu, who would one day become a famous composer who would work on the likes of Evangelion, Shin Godzilla and SSSS. Gridman (1985)

@ClassicGIJoe Wild Weasel has been entombed in my hometown’s time capsule since 1988. Won’t be opened until 2088.

Few new additions to the Collection.

❄️❄️❄️❄️ Absolutely amazing stretch today to get it done! I’m proud of you all! You’re all very COOL 😎 Congrats to the team on yet another successful Classified HasLab!! FULL FORCE!!

Rattlers arrived! (Not home so this stock collection photo will have to do)

UK Palitoy / Nordic MOC Storm Shadow. Not something seen very often (in my experience.) NFS.