What did you think of that eBay price ?

Best part of walking up is toy federation in my cup-

Those Beanie Babies are the future of Funko Pops

I like how you integrated little bits of the Podcast into this episode!

It's so annoying to go to a toy show and 85% of it is Funko Pops.

…and now it feels like Saturday! cheers from Dunoon, Scotland

Shelves..you need some shelves. Did I say you needed some shelves? I really like shelves. Shelves; shelves. Shelves. Shelves!

Gotta flip the video in the podcast section, but man I love how the podcast is lit. Toy store in the dark, some flashing lights in the in the background... so cool.

Sat in the garden chilling watching this all the way from Manchester UK

I think it went like this; us UK folk had Action Force based on Action Man, then Palitoy released the second wave of GI Joe figures on those old style Action Force cards, then more Joes on rebranded GI Joe cards; Action Force: International Heroes. Then we went GI Joe: the Action Force. I think that's broadly correct.

Never stop floor sorting.

I’m loving these double uploads of toy store videos then podcast videos.

I wonder if this guy for Toy Federation has ever been mistaken for George McFly when he was a young man in back to the future

I’ve been watching since day 1 and feel like I’m watching the infancy of something that’s going to be huge soon. This isn’t just a toy store. These guys are buying and selling people’s childhood memories and I’m here for it. Love this channel

Australia got GI Joe, we also got CORPS and i wouldn’t be surprised if we got action force too, but it was all have been secondary and tertiary stuff

So the Action Force Vamp is an SAS Panther Ryan - I believe it came with Snake Eyes who was called Hunter here in the UK

My wife goes with me to toy-cons/ conventions and ALWAYS ask why nobody has girls toys- she'd spend more than me if anybody had inventory

A LOST Dharma project shirt?! That is awesome! Miss that show😢

In Canada it was still G.I. Joe - Real American Hero. Us kids in the 80s did not care, it was still Awesome

I stopped really collecting over a decade ago because scarcity really began kicking in. Good products were mostly gone, and the prices were just not making sense to me anymore.

Being an expert in your field makes it so fun to watch

If people knew how to use and filter EBAY it could be great. Unfortunately people see something worth 20 bucks on there for BIN price of 50 or 60 and assume that is what its worth. On the flip side EBAY has hidden fees and percents that make it hard to make money. Nothing beats going in person to a shop and talking prices, in reality most mom and pop shops have the most realistic prices. Its a shame they have to compete with big box and online. Keep the Christmas tree up all year, it was the best holiday as a kid.

It was Action Force in England but eventually moved to G.I. Joe, 8 year old me was not happy.

I ran into these pricing discrepancies with sportscards and finally had to invest a monthly service that curated prices over many platforms to give me a better idea of the true market. You gentleman should create that for toys.

I've already listened to the podcast, I don't need to listen too parts of it again on these episodes.

I saw a KZfaq video on the Action Force APC and it looked soooo cool. A rolling hospital for 1983 Doc with an upgraded cannon on top. Meanwhile, Jem is truly outrageous.

Thanks for droping on sat bro its a nice touch

I like the podcast and the shop stuff. But keeping them separate would be better for me at least. I like them both just not together

I sold y'all that Techno Zoids rod part on ebay, very cool to hear it mentioned in the video!!

At 12.03 "I'm gonna keep this one"😂. I love when the guys give Ryan a hard time about keeping everything 🤣. Thx you for the amazing video and laughs you all bring to us.

I agree with the wristband vs badge and lanyard comment.

Start of the episode totally took me back to my childhood. Late 80s and my family went to England for a vacation. While in London we went to Harrod's. Huge department store. Of course, we had to see the toy floor and I was so confused seeing all of these GI Joe's, which was my favorite toy line as a kid, in the wrong colors and names. 😃

The APC in Action Force is really cool! It has a different gun turrent set up and the inside has a med facility with Doc's stretcher.

I love the podcast parts mixed in. I don’t have time to watch it all but love seeing parts here.

That would be such a cool job to have all the different toy lines to come threw the door. I loved the starcom line would love to complete my line and then find the cardboard box’s to add

I love how u add in the podcast. Great editing! This has come to be one of my favorite channels. Great content pulls you in and a great show!

I would love to see a segment on how you build one of your display pieces, i.e., he-man, gi joes, and transformers. What goes into deciding which figures and how you display them for sale. Love my weekly plastic toy crack show. 😆

back in the ‘80s i had metlar and my brother had d’compose, those 2 are my personal grail items that i will one day add to my collection.

I absolutely love joeFest. Also love Jen and the holograms playing in the background

That micro machines display for Mc Donald’s or whatever is cool…I am into collecting micro machines and started almost a year ago and already have some cool OG cars and rare stuff and even NIB stuff too..I have all the lighted buildings they made and also starting to collect the trains they did and were only around for 2 years before they abandoned the line!

Loved the insight into running shows. Another amazing episode. The streak continues!

Action Force was an interesting one because (as a Brit) I knew Action Man, but didn't realise that there was a link to AF. And then a few years later AF, which had been pretty generic WW2 / Cold War soldiers with that distinctive that cocked arm, suddenly started having cool ninjas and evil badguys with complex vehicles, and expanded pose-ability. I was an avid reader of Transformers UK comics at the time, and at some point there was a Marvel crossover where Action Force appeared as like the European arm of GI Joe which was my first intro to the "other" name outside of it being periodically mentioned in moves like The Boy Who Could Fly.

My teacher at school asked me yesterday if there's anywhere in the world I like to go.....i said "I'd love to visit Travis and the boys at Toy Federation in the State's" Unfortunately she said I dont think the school budget could afford the trip so I'll just save up my paper round monies. See ya in 2026 Travis 👍 love from London ❤

So a brief primer on Action Force. Palitoy were the UK distributers for the 12" GI Joe which they rebranded as Action Man and was a big hit in the 70s. In the early 80s they noticed that sales of Action Man were declining while sales of Star Wars figures (which they were also UK distributers for) were going gangbusters. This was also around the time of the oil crisis when producing plastic products was becoming very expensive, and Palitoy had the idea of relaunching Action Man as a spin-off 3 3/4" line just like Star Wars. Across the pond, Hasbro had had exacty the same idea and I believe Action Force and GI Joe: RAH debuted within months of each other on opposite sides of the Atlantic. Like RAH, Action Force initially tried to be quite a serious line with a focus on real military technology but soon went off in a completely different direction with aliens and world-spanning threats appearing. Also like RAH it launched a promotional tie-in comic. Unlike RAH, however, the figures were very simple 5poa affairs in the Star Wars style, where RAH went for a much more super-articulated feel. For a couple of years the two lines were completely independent, until Palitoy started bringing over some RAH figures and repainting them to fit the Action Force theme. I believe both Cobra Commander and Snake Eyes were included in Action Force but as completely different characters. A few more years went by, and now Palitoy had been bought by Hasbro. Hasbro wanted to launch RAH in the UK properly, but Action Force was still a popular brand so they decided to stick with it. From this point on everything was now repackaged RAH product, with just the name on the box changed to Action Force. The 5poa figues were all completely retired, the Red Shadows who had been the main antagonists of Action Force previously were replaced by COBRA. The UK-produced Action Force comic was taken over by Marvel UK who mainly reprinted US RAH strips hastily edited to remove any reference to the GI Joe name (I believe there were some UK original comic stories, as there had been for Transformers). That continued for another couple of years (including an extraordinary dub of the animated movie, which had every reference to GI Joe removed as well as renaming Sgt Slaughter to Sgt Slammer) and finally Hasbro just decided it was easier if GI Joe was GI Joe in every region. To be honest, this was at a time when RAH was kind of dying off anyway so it made little difference but the last couple of years of the line were sold in the UK as GI Joe and the Action Force name disappeared. It stayed gone for around 30 years until Bobby Vala picked it up (the story I heard was that Hasbro had so little interest in the line that they had let the trademark lapse and so Vala swooped in). A lot of UK kids now in their 40s and 50s have fond memories of Action Force, especially the early Palitoy produced stuff. And they still show up from time to time; I think one of the US GI Joe comics recently had a storyline where the Red Shadows were introduced as new villains.

A Jem lot!?? Wow. My wife is drooling right now 🤣

Speaking of Beanie Babies. Funko Pops are the new Beanie Babies of this gen.

I use to have all the Inhumanoids. loved that toy line.

Always makes my Saturday watching these videos

Awesome episode always!🙌🏽 yeah those are wild prices on eBay. I’ve heard of rumors about using beanie babies to launder money too😳🤣

Wait u just blew my mind A guy who owns a toy store, & been in the hobby for decades, is “mind blown” a stuff animal is worth thousands?!? But no random toys?! It’s the same exact thing 🤣

The knowledge is great and i hope to be able to provide this sone day on my youtube channel, G.i.Joe's & Beards. Great video gentleman 👏

Yes Action Force SAS is so cool! All the other teams too! Glad we had it here growing up in the UK! The SAS Panther is one of my favourite toys of all time! Then after the initial Palitoy action force lines finished we were able to get the U.S. GI Joe stuff rebranded Action Force International Heroes from about 1985 onwards. Almost best of both worlds, but certainly no where near the level of GI Joe figs and vehicles that you got across the Atlantic!

Ever thought of doing a personal collection tour?

The kraken is a unique attempt in the action force line and also baron ironblood hes the equivalent of Cobra commander there was a mail away skelatron , palitoy was a great company

I literally have both of those Toys… and I am at a loss of words… I remember playing he-man and transformers and we used to fight those guys.. Got them at the Cumberland Mall… unbelievable…

I just wanna say, these videos have already taught me so much about how to fairly value toys and what to expect when selling a collection. Kuddos to you guys for spreading that priceless toy knowledge. Toy collectors can learn alot from this!

congratulations for 50k!

Also the worse thing about being a UK fan is we can't buy from the Toy Fed ebay store 😢

Look how cool this figure is camera man just sits there hahahahaha time for a new camera guy

Another great video!

I'm from the UK and grew up with action force. Fantastic toy line from palitoy, based on action man.

Inhumanoids and Sectaurs were such awesome toys.

Would love to see more of the faces behind some of these trade ins, like the woman who got rid of her Jem collection. Great episode!

I think those disney toy displays are from mcdonalds. I remember getting the Mulan and the vhs toys in happy meals when i was younger

Another one in the can! Thanks!

My wife and I are driving to Joefest from MD, please bring some of the pony stuff for her lol.

Love that Action Force makes it first channel appearance. Thats my main collecting focus having grown up with it as a kid before Hasbro "took over".

I used to love action Force here in the UK, I think it also shared a comic run with Transformers over here. I loved my Kracken, I seem to think it was a mail away once you had collected enough vouchers - but all many years ago, so I may be completely wrong 🤣🤣 another great episode 👍👍

"I think they are cool, I don't know where I'm gonna put 'em" is the story of my life!

How do you figure out the pricing on the store displays?

That's a great store owner! Even though he's looking up stuff and doing business he still acknowledged customers walking in. That's awesome. I have walked into to similar stores and just completely ignored and guess what I sure is hell didn't buy anything. In fact when I go into a store like this and people acknowledge me and are friendly I immediately say I'm going to buy something!

Always look forward to Saturday mornings with toy federation feels like the 80s again have a great weekend guys!

You guys really did pick the best time to drop a weekly video. It's already engrained in my brain as a weekend routine. Great video. Going back now for a second watch.

Love this channel

Those old McDonald’s displays are cool!

I love this smash combo of podcast and shop business video. Keep this style going please.

I lived in England from 96-01 and instead of GI Joe/Max Steel, they had Action Man. Lots of variations

I remember selling those boxes for 5 bucks years ago..never know 😂

That was truly outrageous! 😂

I absolutely LOVE this channel. Do you do starting lineups? A show about those would be awesome!!

Morning everyone!!😊

5:42 exactly the reason i sold all of my funkos this past Christmas lol. Started noticing some of my higher end pops really start to drop in price and i wasn’t really collecting much anymore so id rather get my money out while i could. Idk if the hobby will ever die out like Beanie Babies but now the Pop game is all about signatures. Everyone wants to stand in line to pay crazy signature prices and then go try and sell to someone who wasn’t lucky enough to own specific pop and get it signed. There is a market for it cause the shop i sold my stuff to deals heavy in pops and they are always buying and moving these crazy priced pops. Big pass for me on that aspect. Love the content as always 👍.

please can we have more close ups of the toys

Seeing a random zoids in the wild is crazy. Haven't heard of zoids in forever.

Made my morning!

This channel has become one of my favorites.

Awesome!! 😎 👍

I still have Action Force VHS and can recall some moments aha: INTERNATIONAL HEROES, ACTION FORCE WILL BE THERE!

I've been wanting to pick up a Tendril figure and I didn't even have any inhumanoids as a kid I just love the looks of it

"Skull in the front party in the back."-11:48 😊you guys are funny

I didn't give two craps about girl's toys when I was a kid but now as an adult I do find them interesting. This is very educational.

That's one of the few D'Composes I've seen with the head still attached, let alone the ponytail.

It was GI Joe "International Hero" in the UK & Ireland.

Simple answer. Action Force is better than GI Joe because we got Roboskull 💀

Those displays are super cool. It would be so cool to have Star Wars displays like that. Different scenes from the movie

Just recently added the viper pilot to my collection. That glider is so hard to find

omg I NEED those inhumanoids !!!!!!!! FML

My sister had the Jem and MLP toy lines growing up. I recently finished my Action Force/Palitoy run. I'm just waiting for the Roboskull MKII to arrive so I can compare it to the OG.

He picked up Ram Man. I had him when i was a little one. His legs are spring loaded and push up inside! Oh memories! I had a few He Mans. A Tri Klops he had 3 eyes that could spin around his head but only 1 could stop for him to use! We was never allowed to own Skeletor😢

The totes of motu figure made my jaw drop . 5$ a figure is a good price and I might grab a few if they are on eBay .