Unproduced GI Joe Battle Corps Rangers - 1995 | Cancelled Figures | Vintage Toy History
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Have a look at the 1995 G.I. Joe A Real American Hero 3.75" CANCELLED o-ring products. That's right, the Battle Corps Rangers, including the forces of Cobra the Enemy, were never released in this particular product line.
We'd have seen a return of Duke, the Baroness and others. Plus a few new characters.
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Which unproduced item do YOU like the most???
You know adventure people had ball joint heads before GIJoe. And I had my childhood boat left over so I bought like 4 adventure people lots and my 4 year old daughter loves them. We also used to play with them with our GIJoes. I was going to make some customs from them. But I will with the broken one. lol since I bought so much.
I was sick as a child and went through a lot of medical procedures. I was a huge GI Joe fan and when the surgeries started I insisted on having 2 action figures with me. Flint, and The Baroness. I was a child and scared and wanted help from both sides of the only thing I knew. The hospital actually let me keep them on either side of me during all 4 procedures sealed in bags. I knew Flint was a total badass and would protect me, but if that failed, The Baroness could call in major reinforcements from Cobra. And as a young boy I wanted to be Flint and let’s face it I was in love with Baroness. Was weird I guess but I just tried to hold on to what I knew
Thank you for sharing this. I love Flint as well.
I grew up in the 70's and 80's. I was a Cobra fan, but my favorite Joe was Flint. Glad to see another Flint fan. My favorites in order were Firefly, Storm Shadow, Crimson Guard and Flint.
Great video! That Arctic Assault Team set box art you showed at the end is a set I definitely would've scooped up back then. I can only hope the Polar Bear would've actually been included.
Yo Joe! Thx for watching.
That was a lot more potential stuff than I would’ve figured to be on the table.
Definitely would've loved that Baroness. That might have gotten me to start picking up GI Joe again in 1995 when I was going to shelves for POTF2.
She'd have been a good update to the 1984 version for sure.
These are always fascinating to see why they decided to do different or abandon
For sure!
Excellent work on the video! Always very informative Ken!
Thx bud!
I see an opportunity here for Super 7, to continue where Hasbro left off. Would be awesome if they would take some of these ideas into production with their new o-ring line. Great video!
That 95 baroness had a very prominent box😂😂 I wonder if that was accurate to the secretary as well
Great video as usual, Ken! Funny how some of the proposed releases for '95 actually got released in the Joes' comeback in '97 and the following years. For example, you mentioned the possible re-release of the MCC in '95, but Hasbro actually re-released it under the SpyTroops line in 2003. The one big-ticket item I always wished they produced was the train. That could've been a game-changer as it would've offered many toyetic features and a whole new feel for the line. It could've come with an engineer and maybe a tillerman. I always imagined them offering extra tracks like the weapons and accessories packs. Heck, it may have just won some Joe enthusiasts back and attracted some new ones!
Yup - when i got my MCC years ago i had to check and make sure it wasn't the 2003 version (nothing wrong with that one but the store's price reflected the 1987 one). I guess the fact they made it in 03 is further proof they considered it in the 90s after all 🙌
I really miss my G.I.JOE toys… 😢
Damn, thanks for bringing attention to all this obscure information. I appreciate it!
Awesome Video man! so many cool figures and vehicles we never got. I would love to see some of these made in the modern day. Chad made a cool custom of the EEL I would loove to see more !!!!!!!
Saw that video! He did a great job on it.
Great video Ken! I knew about some of these but, wow!, so much more we could have had! I'd be all over that Arctic Locust and Sea Wolf!!
Sea Wolf wouldda been amazing! Good to hear from you Dixon.
Great stuff, Ken! There's so many offerings in the 95 subset that I would still love to add to my collection.
You and me both!
Great video Ken..so many hidden gems!
So much potential if it had continued in 1995 😎
@@ToyKennectionsagreed!
Great history video Ken! Some pretty cool designs that didn't see the light of day.
Cheers Tim 🍻
Those designs are awesome. I would buy all of them in the Classified series.
Hi Ken, even though you're Asleep Great video about Unproduced GI Joe Battle Corps Rangers-1995|Cancelled Figures|Vintage Toy History, Keep them coming, Also your latest video was outstanding, Also Awesome Video so many cool figuresvand Vehicles we never got. I would love to see some of these made in the modern day. Also Great video! That Arctic Assault Team set box art you showed at the end is a set i definitely would've scooped up back then. I can only hope that the Polar Bear would've actually been included. Also Perhaps Super7 can give these concepts new life??? They have the O-Ring license. Also Some very cool looking figures, Also Woah!! I would have definitely liked some of those!!! Bulldozer!! Awesome episode buddy!!!🙂👍 Also Good stuff, Also Awesome Stream, Also Great video Ken so many hidden gems! Also What could have been. Would've loved to many of these. Great video, definitely brought a smile to my face. Also Great video Ken! I knew about some of these but, wow! so much more we could have had! I'd be all over that Arctic Locust and Sea Wolf!! Also thanks for sharing Ken keep up the good work stay safe out there in Canada, YO JOE, have a goodnight, see you next time and take care.🙂🟢💪🦸🏋️❤️👍💚🇺🇲🥊👊😁🎇🎆😃😎✊ 3:52 am.
Happy to see you enjoyed it. I appreciate the kind words!
💥So much gold in this video wow I wish the line had continued into 96 and we got the Replicators, all the Manimals and The Ninja Commandos 💥
I've got an upcoming video on the Replicators 😎
Woah!! I would have definitely liked some of those!!! Bulldozer!! Yes!!!
Awesome episode buddy!!! 😘👍
Thx buddy! Yeah Bulldozer wouldda been fun to own.
Fantastic video. Action Force/G.I Joe was one of my favorite toys as a kid in the 80s
Wow, never realized what we missed out on. I wonder if they'll end up bringing them to classified!
If they do, that'll be great! Lotta potential still here 🙌
The piranha on black looks awesome but again it’s better when they had two seater vehicles than just one
Yup!
As always, incredible video! A great learning experience. The trend was going to be reimaginings of the same characters, I see. There were few and far between new characters as the 90s evolved, so it's clear even back then they were clinging to the nostalgia and lore set by the core characters of the 80s. Ken, you do yourself proud and the research is stellar as per usual
Thx bud! Yeah it's too bad we didnt get to see these.
The research was tough, but I had great book resources available!
i had the whale as a kid but the white one would have been sweet too! great video
Great video Ken! Thanks for sharing out links to the book! I hope people will jump into the series to learn so much more about our favorite toy line!
Yup - much love for the books!
They should have made Sargent Savage 3 3/4 size then it would have been huge.
Oh yeah! Would have made play time easier for sure.
And if your partner with fresh retro, you could design the panels how you want the walls for the base and you can get it done way faster and then it’s compatible with fresh retro. That’s a cool idea. I hope you use it and even talk to call longbow Troy and Doug about it And Mikey And I’m sure Steve would like it too plus you’d save on costs because they already have everything for fresh retro so be easier to design faster then you could change it around as much as you want because it is click in So it gives way more options on what you wanna do with your base and you could always add more and make it as large as you want and order more and more
The new Characters Sureshot and Bulldozer like Ice Cream Soldier release in 94 were created so Hasbro would have the toy trademark for the names of DC Comics SGT Rock characters since WB had been working on a SGT Rock movie and Mattel was trying to get the toy rights for said movie. That movie is also the reason why Sgt Savage line was created as to the part of the RAH toyline to directly compete with the movie line that never came out. Movie still being in development by 1994 is why Sgt Savage got the greenlit for release after all the toys it was in Development with Between January of 93 and July of 94 where cancelled.
What could have been. Would've loved to have many of these. Great video, definitively brought a smile to my face.
Indeed what could have been. Yo Joe!
That's funny Barroness would have been a revival for us at the time. Battle corps was wicked cool. Helmets, dogs and more.. A Barroness for the guys who never had one. Oh and a kamakura introduction... Whoa
I read somewhere that the Sea Wolf was supposed to be a Toys R Us exclusive.
Another excellent video. 92 through 94 was my collecting heyday. I definitely would have liked to have been able to get the Baroness, Bulldozer, and Sure Shot. The other Battle Corps Rangers look excellent with the exception of Dr. Mindbender. The vehicles were definitely a vast improvement compared to the vehicles from 1992 to 1994.
Having said all that. I'm kind of satisfied that the line finished in 1994. The hypothethical 1995 line shows some of the same weaknesses as the 1993 and 1994 lines. For instance; How many different versions of Duke or other main characters did we need? By that point all of the serious kid collectors like me already had at least one version of a main character. The new figures would have had to be incredible for me to buy them considering that I had some of the excellent versions from the 80s found at yard sales.
Also, although the Sea Wolf and the Battle Station are awesome concepts, the prices would have been exorbitant and out of reach for most kids until they went on sale. The adult collectors weren't quite ready to go all in on GI JOE for at least another decade. Many of these figures and vehicles would have sold on clearance and hung around on the secondary market for decades. At worst, it might have frightened Hasbro away from innovating with G.I. Joe in the 21st century.
Great insight! Thx.
is it or those that un-produce Baroness kinda looks like that Classified Baroness that comes with the Haslab Rattler!?... idk why you said she has longer hair cause to me they're shorter than the 1st version but i doesn't matter.... if she was designed to look like this dude secretary... thats a lucky man!
Sure shot wow that’s an awesome figure. Your going to have to make one for your line but better 😉
I still need lots of these figures for my collection
In my Opinion, it got Bad when they did away with the O Ring & screw in the back/legs. The Manimals would've been Awesome in O Ring Format.👍🏾
Some very cool looking figures
The return to military roots for G. I. Joe came too late to salvage the line. And the character designs could've been better. At this point, even the filecards weren't written well.
Surprised Hasbro kept insisting on using Dr. Mindbender as he's one of the line's lamest- just an orthodontist.
The Battle Corps ads also lacked the fun of the 1980s ads for the figures.
Did Transformers also have unproduced Autobots & Decepticons?
Transformers had some unproduced toys that I'm aware of. Arcee and Unicron were prototyped, as was G2 Menasor, so those come to mind. I'm sure there's more though.
Transformers G2 which ran alongside late GI Joe RAH and Sgt Savage had a large number of cancel figures that for some of the molds that would be used by Takara in Japan later in the 90s and Hasbro I'm the early 2000s also among the prototypes was a RAH G2 crossover toy
They can be released as Classified, in the future.
when I was a kid my moms stupid dog chewed on the head of my Scarlett, made me so mad, but I took some model car body putty, filled in the holes, sanded them, drilled out the messed up eye installed a red translucent peg from something into it, and made a facemask for her and she became a sort of cybernetic Joe, unfortunately she was a casualty when the old house was torn down and no-one got my trunk of stuff I wanted saved out of it, I do still have baroness and hooded cobra commander, lol,
Awesome video. I never knew about those
And knowing is half the battle 😎
@@ToyKennections and now I know
Perhaps Super7 can give these concepts new life??? They have the O-Ring license.
Awesome stream
Good stuff
Oh, fuck.
Dude. Dude, dude, dude. DUUUUDE.
They look great man. I will appreciate if an Indi company make this line since I doubt Hasbro pickup what they started...😃☕️👍💡
Let's hope we see some of these made one day 🙌
The iron panther is awesome. I got it.
Woot! 🙌
I messaged call sign Longbow and if they make a modular base, maybe they could partner with fresh retro on a joint venture in the Kickstarter that they’ll do and then we can have a module base that’s compatible with fresh retro stuff you know them better than I do so maybe you could pass that idea along as well as for your line as well for Delta 17 Then I’ll make it way faster to get a base for both lines that you could use with your fresh retro stuff. Thanks again Ken and if you could talk to Steve about it would be awesome.
We talk to Longbow often. I think they wanna focus on getting their wave 1 finished (though Ghost will land soon!). As for us, we are hard at work on wave 2 design. 🙏
Very good suggestion though. We have discussed a modular base a couple years ago internally between me and Steve. Just didnt end up going for it
Wow can I come over to your house and play with your toys please?
I may have to charge an admission fee 😅
Super7 should be picking up the 1995 line and branch out from there. But naw, they have to rehash figures…..
Looked more like Gu Ho then Shipwreck lol
Lol.
Take cesspool‘s helmet and you could put it on other Joe’s. It looks fantastic if you could design something like that for Delta 17, that would be cool and you could put on other figures as well.
Where'd that image of the unproduced "X-Soldiers" come from? I can't seem to find it anywhere online.
In vol. 14 of Dan Klingensmith's Creating GI Joe book
@@ToyKennections Much appreciated. I find myself oddly fascinated by the concept.
@@Cirex9000 check the link in my description - the book may still be available!
Why is the sculpting so generic in later years of gi Joe ? They look like corps figures
Seems like they always try to play it safe with using that tiny sub. lol 😂 I thought the first version of the tiny sub was made cheaply like crap. It had a cool name. I think they called that man of war or something. A devil fish that’s two seated would’ve been good. The tiny locust is cool, but we already have a lot of those. lol 😂. The hovercraft would be awesome if they would do some different designs for the cannons
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I just bought a few parts lots so I can make a custom ATC into a APC mobile medical unit. Seeing how the guts come out I will take out the guts from one of the APC parts lots I just got cause 3 come in it. So I might be able to make two and have to get a few more parts to make 3 from 4. Or two front parts of the vehicle. I have one APC from 1983 already so to make 2 or 3 more and one or two into a custom I am super excited but it will take a few weeks to get here.
Awesome! I see you got a 1982 Action Force AF3 vehicle too!
I ordered from the fresh retro site that you recommended. They lost the inventory of the two stair play sets I wanted. So they gave me the option of getting another tower or a different one. So I opted for another tower. And told them to let me know when they find them or get more. Also, it would be cool if they did a collaboration with you and Steve for a place at like a base because they already have the infrastructure ready so maybe you can get a better deal but you never know it would be cool cause then everything would interact with the fresh retro stuff so you can make Your base many different ways that you want a Modular playset.
@@JoePal-c3n hopefully when your set arrives, you like it!
After 1989 GI Joe was lame and awful. Ruined by the politically correct 1990s thanks to the likes of Peggy Charron. It started going downhill a little after 1986 with the canceling of the sunbow cartoon and the over the top, yet still enjoyable. sci fi approach of the GI Joe: The Movie. After 1988 it was pretty much running out of gas with ideas and resorted to a full year of pretty much repaints and redos if old vehicles and figures in 1989 as a last chance to get what you missed in earlier years. By 1991 I was through collecting toys and about to start high school. But I felt sorry for kids coming up behind me seeing how toys and cartoons were becoming after the crossover into the 1990s. Batman: The Animated Series being a notable exception…something we all kept up with even in high school, college and early adulthood
Around 86 or 87 it got bad
Yeah this comment saying the 90s wad PC is just dumb.
@@AlmightyTod hot pink uniforms and orange weapons are not my gi joe
I thought many of the figures sculpts looked pretty good but those bright and neon color paints were just awful
the Childrens Television Act passed in 1990, years after the Sunbow cartoon ended and years after the decline of the toyline