Over at the Transformers fansite The AllSpark, Dave Willis of Shortpacked! fame put together a little charity drive to get his hands on an ’86 Toy Fair catalog in order to reference high res scans for Transformers fans.
Well, of course, this turns into a big boon for Joe fans as well as the TFWiki also scanned it every single G.I. Joe page as well and posted it on the site! This is some great stuff that us normal Joe fan folks don’t usually get to see.
I don’t want to leech traffic away from Dave’s site, so here’s a mirrored image below, you can hit up TFWiki for links to the rest of the awesome images.
As an added bonus, this endeavor also spiraled into a charity drive for Hasbro’s Children Hospital! Big kudos to the TFWiki guys for getting this stuff out there and supporting a great charity while they’re at it.
Sweet! I see five figures I wouldn’t mind seeing on the shelves as store exclusives this year.
Can anyone tell me what the bomb thing is in this image and who/what vehicle it came with. I desperately gotta’ get me one.
Link below:
http://www.shortpacked.com/images/misc/ToyFair1986-JOEpage02.jpg
I wasn’t around during the 80’s and I was just a kid when VvV came out, but I must say that ’86 looked like it was a pretty good year!
What great fun for boys! Glad to see a charity being promoted in the process!
It is an aerial mine and came with the Flight Pod.
http://www.yojoe.com/vehicles/85/flightpod/
Going on M6d’s comments a little, I got interested when I read Justin’s comments about more 25th anniversary stuff possibly popping up in stores as exclusives this year. But now that I think about it, Hasbro told us last year Alpine would be coming back as well as Slice and Dice. There’s also too much changing and swapping and delaying and cancelling and stay tuned and no comments at this time that makes me start to feel differently.
Of course I’d like to see those same 5 as well.Footloose, Lifeline, Dial Tone, Sci-Fi, and Airtight. And of course Cover Girl and Lowlight. But I doubt it’s going to happen.
Wow, that brings back memories. THE greatest time to be a Joe fan…the 85/86 assortment is still the one to be beat in my opinion. This was the height of the GIJoe fame and the comics were awesome at this time and the figures were jaw-dropping everytime I saw a new one on shelves.
Come to think of it, there is a big part of me that hates the internet and the fact we always see all the new figures months before they are on shelves. Nothing was cooler than checking the toy store to see if new figs were there and on those rare occassions they were it was like freaking Christmas, Birthday and whatever else all thrown together. I remember spending hours at the toy store trying to take in each figure. My Mom would usually let me get one or two and even though that was really generous of her, I still remember the agony of trying to decide who to get.
Unfortunately, seeing these also makes me angry that Hasbro didn’t finish the 25th line up to at least the end of 86. So many iconic characters/figures are still missing from that collection.
Thanks for letting us know about this though, Justin. It really is a gift for us looooooong time collectors. lol
I agree 100% Hawkwinter! there were a bunch of figures left out that would’ve made a world of difference in the 25th style…(sob!) i want low-light & footloose, dammit!
Usually when someone brings up the fact that they want more 25th anniversary figures, the Hasbro apologists come out of the woodwork and start in with the usual “the 25th anniversary line is done” or “It can’t be the 25th anniversary line anymore because it’s not the 25th year” or my favorite “Really? Who else do you want? Do you really expect Hasbro to just do the 25th anniversary line. And who will they make Ninja Force or Eco Warriors?”
Though I am sure those units had their fans, I don’t see anyone asking for Ninja Force or Eco Warriors. No one wants Hasbro to “just” make classic style figures. Of course it’s not the 25th year anniversary, but the figures don’t have to be called “25th anniversary.” The lack of thought from those people who are too eager to take up for Hasbro instead of rationalizing something really is sad.
You two guys just said what everyone else who wants more classics have said: Finish it to the 86 mark. We don’t need 3 years of classics. We don’t need Capt Grid Iron or Eco Warriors. Just give us the last 7-10 figures from the golden years. Call it the classics. Call it whatever you want. Re-name the characters whatever you have to if the names are not owned by Hasbro. It may have said SPC Altitude on the box, but when he went into the glass case he was Ripcord. Sell them as a set sold online. Whatever, just do it.
Top most wanted Joes: Lowlight, Dial Tone, Cover Girl, Airtight, Sci-Fi, Lifeline, Footloose, Keel Haul, Jinx, Cross Country and Iceberg.
Tom most wanted Cobras: Zarana,Zandar,Thrasher, Monkeywrench, and Vipers for troop building; Techno Viper, Night Viper, or Frag Vipers.
A Viper troop building pack would sell out. Yes it would. You put in Alley Vipers x2, Night Vipers x2, Techno Vipers x2 and make the 7th a Frag Viper, Range Viper or a BAT along with 7 packs of the last Joes and the Dreadnoks and everyone just sit back and watch G.I.Joe become hot again.
Well, i would really, really love to see ninja force & eco-warriors in the 25th anniversary tooling, and of course, my favorites: the mega marines complete with a case of play-doh!
I wouldn’t mind Battle Force 2000, the Oktober Guard, Kwinn (next year SDCC… Khaki and Arctic!!) and the Renegades in 25th sculpt to go along with everyone else mentioned either… just saying.
I’d like a Mega Marines and Eco-Warriors sets put out… in modern colors. Wouldn’t one think Hasbro would try and have some fun and put out a Mega Marine set that could easily be front line GIJOE, but would be something that could fit with HALO or Aliens or Star Wars?
I’m thinking along the lines of how dinohunters were out around the jurrassic period thing….
That would be fun.
Kwinn & the Oktober Guard would be great to finally see fully fleshed out in 25th style. So far, the only one we managed to get was Red Star in the comic 2-packs.
Besides, we still need a figure of the ONE OG guy that has never gotten one…Wang, the “Chinese Cowboy”. Between the comics, cartoons and toys, there were only 11 Oktober Guard characters ever shown anyway, including Wang (pronounced wahng like “ah”)from the cartoon series. Volga aka Vorona aka Daina has a red hair version from the 80’s Lady Jaye mold, was a brunette in the cartoons, but like in the comics, her 3-pack figure was blonde, so one way or the other, she’s covered, lol.
Throw in arctic dress Snake Eyes, Stalker, Scarlett and Gung-Ho and we have a decent Exclusive 16-figure set. I’d love to see that, or at least the Wang figure to complete my personal OG lineup. I’d even settle for O-ring version of him.