What have been some of your favorite updates or replacements to the original thirteen Joes?

I loved that they were a real American hero. They will never do that in the movies because they focus on trying to cater to everyone.

I always liked the more realistic looking Joes. Grunt, Stalker, Clutch, Rock and Roll, and Snake Eyes were my favorites of the original 13.

well done, and good work bro I started with AT early 70s, and was 13 in 82, when you start to care more about your things I got the mobat and Stalker, then, got the rest of the catalog - collection Cobra was officers and troopers, CC only available by mail man, they had no chance. but I piled them up and they mostly stole Joes vehicles - weapons 83 arrived new stuff, and made things more equal I thought it completed the line well, I had no idea that Hasbro would release more, and kill characters over time, I figured those poor guys that can t get Hawk, the leader, and others... now I m in classified, and those are 'expansive enterprises' here in Can, $40 - 50 a pop... so I m going for the original 82 - 83 + exceptions, Nunchuk , Shooter. my vision of the Joes is more tv A - team - mission impossible, but military elite, heroic 10 - 1 battle ratios, and why I needed so big a Cobra army in the 80s by buying all - completist this time, I m going for essential Cobras, CC, Baroness, Mindbender, Stormy, Firefly, Scrap iron, reg officers, troops, vipers, bats iron grenadier Destro and troops I like Cesspool, Overkill v - 1, and Headmaster and headhunters I suggested Hasbro for loose rams, jump packs sold in pairs on a charger, ferrets, snakes, and claws, + battle stations at fig price point like the old days affordable, refreshing, complementary for 6' figs so now you know... good show bro

Classified needs to give us the original G.I.Joe 13 team asap

In the comics continuity Scarlett is Snake-Eyes girlfriend. In the cartoon continuity is Duke.

Great video. You brought it all back for me. Yo Joe

When GI Joe first started until the mid 80’s were the best of times for them. Maybe there were some decent ones into the later 80s. Early on the looked like an actual fighting force. The started coming up with all of the stupid bright colors for the joes and cobra. So of the weapons were huge and brightly colored. It was so dumb. It was like they just got tired of making money. The first GIJoe thing I got was an accessory pack. My dad brought it home because my Star Wars figures someone gave me needed weapons. I had the second version of Snake Eyes. I dropped Timber on the sidewalk and his back foot broke off.

Great video! I've always been surprised Rock 'N Roll got that many versions. And although Flash and Grand-Slam disappeared, I think their influence was seen throughout the entire line, with the XMLR-1A evolving into the XMLR-3A, becoming pretty much the standard G.I. Joe weapon in the animated shows.

Alot of these are explained through the comics. For example, Breaker was killed off, hence no more figures

I have Breaker and Dial-Tone hanging out together in my collection atm. And Flash and Sci-Fi. And Short-Fuse and Down Town. ;-P. XD

9:24 my husband who grew up and still owns classical stalker hated this update. He kit bashed the classified figure My husband who was 9 when the new stalker came out was severely unhappy with it. Living on air force bases most of his young life he said this figure was always in stocked at the BX (base shopping center) because other kids like himself hated it. My husband served in the military and earned his Green Beret serving in South Africa 🇿🇦 and to me he is my life size stalker. But this tundra stalker is still hated by my husband

Downtown is still one of my favorites

Great video brother, but let me be perfectly clear on this, goofy looking Sci-Fi version 1, could NEVER replace Flash, my first G.I. Joe!👍🏾

04:39 he gets to the point

Does anyone remember having to mail order Duke? I got 2 of them

im sure they have been recycled by now

Girl action figures don’t sell well with boys

How a Duke wannabe when he came out first?