Tag: toy collecting

Welcome to the Outpost. Today I’m taking a look at the G.I.Joe character that inspired the Outpost name. Outback is one of those characters that is a huge fan favorite and correct me if I’m wrong but has never been in a cartoon. Looks like he may have some comic book time but this is a character that would be a great use in a show, or even the live action movie could have added an Outback character. Any hoot this is one figure I had as a kid. This is one of the…

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Welcome to the Outpost. This week we are talking 1991 G.I.Joe vehicles. 1990 had a number of great vehicles and by 1991 The Chicago Bulls won their first of 6 championships with Michael Jordan, Scott Norwood of the Buffalo Bills went wide right to loose the first of 4 straight Super Bowls, and the undeniable decline of vehicles. There were still some cool vehicles but over all this was the weakest year since the line started in 1982. I did not have any of these as a kid and I do own…

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Welcome to the Outpost. 1986 was a bit of a turning point for G.I. Joe. The previous 4 years had posted some awesome figures and vehicles and the success and popularity was mounding. This led to creative ideas and some pretty awesome characters and figures. The 1989 B.A.T. was a very cool idea. Cobra troopers, Vipers, and Crimson Guards really didn’t get hurt in the cartoon, but the Battle Android Troopers were characters that could be ripped apart and destroyed and it was just a machine with a human type bodies,…

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Welcome to the Outpost. Today I’m hitting up a character that I didn’t know much about until I started collecting G.I.Joe. 1992 introduced Overkill the B.A.T. leader. This is an interesting character. He started out a 3rd generation B.A.T. and ended up being more advanced than the rest of the BATs. He was kind of a goof in the cartoon, but he seemed like he should have been or perhaps would have been a bit more ruthless had he been thought up in the 80s. I often wonder if the Star Wars…

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Welcome to the Outpost. September already, it is hard to believe this year is flying by so quickly. Today I’m bringing a double feature, the 1991 G.I.Joe Badger and the 1993 Crimson Cruiser. These 2 used the same mold but created 2 different vehicles. The Badger is a vehicle I just got for the first time in a Marketplace find last week. This is one of those vehicles I would not have tracked down, but since I found it in this vehicle lot I had to do some closer inspection of the vehicle.…

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Welcome to the Outpost. Today I’m Getting into the 1986 G.I.Joe medic Lifeline. Lifeline was a figure my older brother bought so I did have some play time with him as a kid. This was a really cool figure when it first hit shelves. The figure had a ton of detail and of course the signature white Rescue down his left leg that really jumped out at you. Lifeline came with his signature medic rescue case with the respiratory mask and a pistol. The pistol ended up not making sense after an episode where Lifeline refused…

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Welcome to the Outpost. Today I’m checking out another G.I.Joe medic, the 2006 character Med Alert. I bought this figure at TRU and passed up the 2006 Cover Girl because money was tight back then. When I saw this figure it was really cool and I thought he would look great next to Lifeline. Med Alert didn’t have a lot of accessories, but I loved his removable helmet and that was a huge selling point for me. I’m not sure if this character was ever used in a cartoon or comic, but it’s…

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Welcome to the Outpost. Today I’m checking out a 1990 G.I.Joe figure that doesn’t get much attention. Stretcher is one of those characters that wasn’t used much in the cartoon if at all. I’m not sure but it looks like he may have appeared in the comics but I’m not sure about that either. I did not have Stretcher as a kid so my love started for him as a collector. There are a lot of colors in his uniform but the figure has a nice look to it. His hat really…

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Welcome to the Outpost. Today I’m getting into another G.I.Joe Pilot and this is another one I love and perhaps the replacement for Ace. When 1986 rolled around G.I.Joe was in full stride. The characters were being cranked out and along with them came figures and vehicles. The Conquest is another one of my favorite jets. I had one as a kid and I have 1 modern one and several 1986 shells with one in pretty good shape. With this awesome jet came another one of my favorite figures. The 1986 Slip-Stream just has a killer…

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