Helped a lot, thanks. FYI for anyone out there, i bought a 500 pack of o rings that came with a few hundred screws and the little tool with a Phillips head and it was under 10 bucks and that includes shipping. Straight from the ol U-S-of Hong Kong!
My mother took all of our childhood toys and put them in the attic and when I got them down for her grand-kids to play with all of the G.I. Joe and He-Man figures had fallen apart. Glad to have found this video so that I can fix the Joes, I assume the He-Man figures are a similar fix...probably gonna need larger o-rings. Thank you
I appreciate this video! My old 1982 mail-away straight-arm Cobra Commander's o-ring is really starting to go (he's super-wobbly) and I wanted to replace it but I had no idea how to do so. I didn't realize it was so easy! Thanks for the info!
Mannnnn thanks so much I just opened my huge joe collection after about 20 years and they are all separated. I had no idea we could fix these as a kid. I simply used blue tac. Haha
Fixed 2 "infirmed" Cobra troopers in under 10 minutes with this video.. my hubby is SOOOO excited!!! The "o " ring someone was asking it about... Ooooooo.... That was easy😂😂😂 Nah . It's to hold legs, pelvis, and back like a plastic Oreo sandwich.
Oh my God thank you so much I had no idea i could save my beloved 1985 snake eye broken for years!!! I’m gonna run to the store right now to buy myself a rubber band !! THANK YOU!!!!
@@Pegwarmers Got done last night. Some of the heads were floppy afterwards, but I figured out you fix that by tightening the screw a bit more. I just didn't want to over tighten at first.
So cool, thanks. I fixed my husband his old joe's it was really relaxing and fun to do. There were more than 100 to fix. I ordered at aliexpress the set o-rings and screws. Now my daughter want to play with it. Greetings from the netherlands.🇱🇺
I never did owned any O-Ring GI Joe toy since back then i wasn't familiar with G.I. Joe as i am now and while i still don't own any i often did wonder myself how do these o-ring figures worked anyway and seeing you fix and reassemble an example i felt informed with a neat fact, thanks for the video man 👍
I can’t find anywhere, but I’ve noticed on the legs of figures some leg hooks are facing back while others are facing forward. In your video, they’re facing forward. Was there a right way? I have quite a few figures and don’t know if they were repaired wrong direction or not. Thanks for the video
@@Pegwarmers Thanks. I already have a Bridge Layer Toss n Cross and Tollbooth. I got the Cobra Hiss Tank and driver coming, and a Crimson Guard, and a Polar Bear jetski. I'm trying to get a Snow Cat with Frostbite, but it's difficult to tell which prices are better, the condition, and all that.
@@christianhafer9819 I hear ya. I prefer to buy at toy shows vs online... But there aren't many toy shows these days. Check out the channel. I've reviewed a bunch of vintage Joe's.
Thank you so much. I saved all my son's GI Joe action figures and just yesterday introduced all the figures to my 6 yr old grandson. Being old and brittle, some of the bands broke. Great to know how to repair! I will be super-gramma for sure with your help! On another note, do you know if these O rings would work as well on other action figures such as Star Wars?
Ah ha! Only one of the many SW figures I have has a small screw in the back and O ring. Thanks for the lesson. I'll concentrate on the GI Joes. How to discern the years 82-84 and 85 and up for the figures? Is there a "chart" or some such?
Could you tell the rubber band size in centimeters for the rest of the world or in what are your mesures so we can translate them ourselves? Is it inches? THANK YOU !!!!
Great video. The figures unfortunately were flawed by design with these bands that eventually deteriorate and snap. As a kid, I tried to use a regular rubber band to fix it. Another reason I was a fan of solid figures without bands, as great as these are.
Well, they didn't expect people to still care all these years later. They borrowed or adapted the design for a Japanese toy line. My dad hooked me up with the right size O-Rings back in the day, but I understand that that wasn't the norm for kids.
@@Pegwarmers Thanks. That's cool you had access to replace the rings, and much credit for being able to reassemble the figure. It looks challenging. A swivel torso can be done today with legs with ball joints thankfully many times for a similar result. .
I guess I understand why they don't make them this way anymore but their articulation was so much better especially when having them fight eachother and throws kicks
@@Pegwarmers Awesome :) They were my favorite toy line as a kid. They were just so versatile: I also remember taking pieces of Transformers apart and creating giant cyborgs with GI Joe and robot parts!
haha, I knew I'd find something like this online! I need to go to the hardware store- I had an old Ripper figure and a Cryotek (Visionaries) die this way and I'm tired of posing them stiffly on their legs, lol.
@@Pegwarmers haha, you did help for sure! It worked like a charm! I just went to the hardware store to pick up a multi-pack. Ripper's was a tad loose but not in any important way, but the Visionaries one works amazingly well (and was even easier to put in, because of the different scale). Now I just regret buying a replacement one (only cost me $5 since that one was incomplete and mine was fully decked out, but still). Thanks a lot for this!
Just got a box with around 100 vintage Joes. Sadly about half of them have blown out O rings and most of the intact figures are close to losing theirs.
Got my bag of O rings and finally I can fix Stalker (the Action Force SAS repaint of Snake Eyes v1, not the GI Joe Stalker) over 30 years after breaking him!
Haha, man..... i sure wish my brother and I knew you could fix them like this because in the backyard of a home in Mountain Brook, Alabama there is a graveyard of GI Joes that were buried during the 90s. We thought there was nothing we could do to save them so we had real funerals for them.
Thank you. Much easier than I’d imagined. I have a bag of 30 complete joes to put back together now.
Good luck!
Helped a lot, thanks. FYI for anyone out there, i bought a 500 pack of o rings that came with a few hundred screws and the little tool with a Phillips head and it was under 10 bucks and that includes shipping. Straight from the ol U-S-of Hong Kong!
My mother took all of our childhood toys and put them in the attic and when I got them down for her grand-kids to play with all of the G.I. Joe and He-Man figures had fallen apart. Glad to have found this video so that I can fix the Joes, I assume the He-Man figures are a similar fix...probably gonna need larger o-rings. Thank you
He-Man uses a dumbbell shaped piece of rubber not O-Rings. There are people that sell bundles of the He-Man leg bands on ebay and other places
Wish I knew this when I was a kid. I had Cross Country break and super glued him back together.
My Dad (who was a helicopter mechanic) used to change o-rings for me and my friends when we were kids.
I appreciate this video! My old 1982 mail-away straight-arm Cobra Commander's o-ring is really starting to go (he's super-wobbly) and I wanted to replace it but I had no idea how to do so. I didn't realize it was so easy! Thanks for the info!
Yeah, just be careful. That old plastic is brittle.
@@Pegwarmers Will do!
The operation was a complete success and CC is as good as new! Thanks again!
Mannnnn thanks so much I just opened my huge joe collection after about 20 years and they are all separated. I had no idea we could fix these as a kid. I simply used blue tac. Haha
Other than the Zartan Family and some of the Ninja Force guys you can fix most.
Same......guess who's NOT doing this in front of his toddler son!?!?
Fixed 2 "infirmed" Cobra troopers in under 10 minutes with this video.. my hubby is SOOOO excited!!! The "o " ring someone was asking it about... Ooooooo.... That was easy😂😂😂
Nah . It's to hold legs, pelvis, and back like a plastic Oreo sandwich.
Great job!
Oh my God thank you so much I had no idea i could save my beloved 1985 snake eye broken for years!!! I’m gonna run to the store right now to buy myself a rubber band !! THANK YOU!!!!
Thanks for the information! Much appreciated! Quick question? What are the size for the O-rings? Thanks for all the help!
Check the video description
Thanks again! Trying to repair some of my dads old GI Joes from 1985 and beyond. Gonna be a little project but absolutely fun!
Nice video, straight to the point. I'm about to replace the o-rings on the surviving figures from my brother's original collection.
Thanks!
@@Pegwarmers Got done last night. Some of the heads were floppy afterwards, but I figured out you fix that by tightening the screw a bit more. I just didn't want to over tighten at first.
Awesome video. I repaired 4 of my Joes today and all went amazing. Thank you again!
No problem! Glad I could help.
Thanks so much came across some old gi Joes. And they are all broken from the o ring. Can’t believe after all these years I still have all the parts
Good luck repairing them!
So cool, thanks.
I fixed my husband his old joe's it was really relaxing and fun to do. There were more than 100 to fix. I ordered at aliexpress the set o-rings and screws. Now my daughter want to play with it. Greetings from the netherlands.🇱🇺
That's great!
Nice because i have some that look like 2 pieces from were did you buy the rubber band?
Very helpful video! I just opened my box of Joe's after years of storage and about 10 of them have broken O-Rings. Gonna fix 'em all!
That's great. Glad I can help.
What size screwdriver do you use?
Great video, informative and executed well. Doing my whole collection of 200 joes now
Wow! Good luck.
@@Pegwarmers I’m already halfway done. It’s going pretty smoothly so far
Oooo, so that's why it was called "O" ring
I never did owned any O-Ring GI Joe toy since back then i wasn't familiar with G.I. Joe as i am now and while i still don't own any i often did wonder myself how do these o-ring figures worked anyway and seeing you fix and reassemble an example i felt informed with a neat fact, thanks for the video man 👍
Knowing is half the battle! Glad you learned something.
Wish there was youtube 20 years ago... Thanks for sharing
Ha ha, in 1988 my dad gave me a little screw driver and some O-Rings so I could fix my Joe's.
Thanks so much dude!! I used your video to fix my dad's old Beach Head figure, and he's as good as ever
That's awesome! Beach Head is too cool to be out of service!
Thanks for the tip, now I can fix the incinerator that I just bought.
Great! I love being able to help people restore their joes.
This is absolutely fantastic. Thanks for this
You are very welcome!
I can’t find anywhere, but I’ve noticed on the legs of figures some leg hooks are facing back while others are facing forward. In your video, they’re facing forward. Was there a right way? I have quite a few figures and don’t know if they were repaired wrong direction or not. Thanks for the video
It just depends which way it was assembled at the factory. I've seen lots of figures both ways.
I used to have these when I was tiny, and I never knew what they were, or where they were from. I want some more now.
GI Joe is the best!
Hello , were do you get those rings from?
If you only need one or two you can grab them at the hardware store. Otherwise you can buy them from SmallJoes.com (see video description) or ebay.
Thank you so much.
Wow that's easier than I thought pretty cool thanks for that tutorial, nice.
You are welcome!
I might need to do this, because I'm starting a GI Joe collection again. Thanks for the informative video.
Good luck collecting!
@@Pegwarmers Thanks. I already have a Bridge Layer Toss n Cross and Tollbooth. I got the Cobra Hiss Tank and driver coming, and a Crimson Guard, and a Polar Bear jetski. I'm trying to get a Snow Cat with Frostbite, but it's difficult to tell which prices are better, the condition, and all that.
@@christianhafer9819 I hear ya. I prefer to buy at toy shows vs online... But there aren't many toy shows these days. Check out the channel. I've reviewed a bunch of vintage Joe's.
@@Pegwarmers I will. Thanks.
Awesome, I just found like 50 gi joes at the swap meet and they need o ring replaced,thanks
You are welcome!
Worked like a charm, thanks!
Awesome!
Hello. What millimeter size are these "O" rings? Looks like they can also be used for the Mego Micronauts Time Traveler figures. Thanks.
The dimensions of the o-rings are in the description, but you'll have to convert to metric.
@@Pegwarmers I found on eBay a kit with o-rings, t-bars, screws and a mini screwdriver, so I ordered that. All set. Thanks. 👍
love it....1st video on the list and I'm sure glad i did....thank you.....you brought back my inner YO JOE!......for that i commend you.....
That's great!
Excellent video. Thanks for the info.
Glad you found it helpful!
Great vid, I have abt ten that need the ring. Love the enthusiasm.
Zartan (color change) and some ninja force (action features) don't open easy.
What's the size on that old ring,,,, or do you just ask for the smallest kind
Check the description.
What size are the rings?
See the video description
Does anyone here know if Lanard corps is o-ring? Basically can I do the same? Thank you
Most old Lanard are oring.
When I was a kid I used rubber bands. They would not be as tight, but I got it to work.
Hey, whatever works
What is the mm size of the o ring?
Check video description for info
Thank you so much. I saved all my son's GI Joe action figures and just yesterday introduced all the figures to my 6 yr old grandson. Being old and brittle, some of the bands broke. Great to know how to repair! I will be super-gramma for sure with your help! On another note, do you know if these O rings would work as well on other action figures such as Star Wars?
That's great! 70's and 80's Star Wars guys don't have the joint at the hips so they don't need O-Rings.
Ah ha! Only one of the many SW figures I have has a small screw in the back and O ring. Thanks for the lesson. I'll concentrate on the GI Joes. How to discern the years 82-84 and 85 and up for the figures? Is there a "chart" or some such?
@@celesteges 3DJoe.com can help, or look at the date on the inside of the figures thigh.
Could you tell the rubber band size in centimeters for the rest of the world or in what are your mesures so we can translate them ourselves? Is it inches? THANK YOU !!!!
Check the video description for info about sizes.
would wd40 work on rusty screws?
It might help some
Great video. The figures unfortunately were flawed by design with these bands that eventually deteriorate and snap. As a kid, I tried to use a regular rubber band to fix it. Another reason I was a fan of solid figures without bands, as great as these are.
Well, they didn't expect people to still care all these years later. They borrowed or adapted the design for a Japanese toy line. My dad hooked me up with the right size O-Rings back in the day, but I understand that that wasn't the norm for kids.
@@Pegwarmers Thanks. That's cool you had access to replace the rings, and much credit for being able to reassemble the figure. It looks challenging. A swivel torso can be done today with legs with ball joints thankfully many times for a similar result. .
Thanks, good information.
You're welcome
Metal head is about to get fixed. Hell yeah
Nice!
Awesome thx!
You got it!
JOE MD!👍 Thanks! 🧔♂️
You got it
I guess I understand why they don't make them this way anymore but their articulation was so much better especially when having them fight eachother and throws kicks
There has to be a another way to engineer them to have the same type of movement without the o-ring.
What are. The ribbit made off ?
The rivets in the shoulders and elbows? I believe they are aluminium.
@@Pegwarmers ahh gotcha gotcha
My brother and I took them apart and mixed torsos and legs.
I used to buy extras at the flea market and make my own characters.
@@Pegwarmers Awesome :) They were my favorite toy line as a kid. They were just so versatile: I also remember taking pieces of Transformers apart and creating giant cyborgs with GI Joe and robot parts!
haha, I knew I'd find something like this online! I need to go to the hardware store- I had an old Ripper figure and a Cryotek (Visionaries) die this way and I'm tired of posing them stiffly on their legs, lol.
You probably need a bigger o-ring for the Visionaries figure. Glad I can help.
@@Pegwarmers haha, you did help for sure! It worked like a charm! I just went to the hardware store to pick up a multi-pack. Ripper's was a tad loose but not in any important way, but the Visionaries one works amazingly well (and was even easier to put in, because of the different scale). Now I just regret buying a replacement one (only cost me $5 since that one was incomplete and mine was fully decked out, but still).
Thanks a lot for this!
Just got a box with around 100 vintage Joes. Sadly about half of them have blown out O rings and most of the intact figures are close to losing theirs.
It's very common. That little o-ring has been hanging out under tension in their for 30-40 years.
Got my bag of O rings and finally I can fix Stalker (the Action Force SAS repaint of Snake Eyes v1, not the GI Joe Stalker) over 30 years after breaking him!
I'm glad you are repairing him! That's a figure I'd be proud to own.
What size O rings did you use? Thanks
@@sharkozym I just bought a bag of them off ebay listed as GI Joe o Rings
@@ForburyLion thank you kindly! I appreciate the info!
So what about ninja force figures that don’t have the back screw?
You are out of luck on the Ninja Force figures.
Anyone ever broke a post inside the body? I broke a night viper recently. I was sad.
I did once as a kid, but I dropped the figure and that's how it broke.
After the O-Ring is Broken then New O-Ring fits G.I. Joe Action Figures is True.
Haha, man..... i sure wish my brother and I knew you could fix them like this because in the backyard of a home in Mountain Brook, Alabama there is a graveyard of GI Joes that were buried during the 90s. We thought there was nothing we could do to save them so we had real funerals for them.
Wow!
That's my problem. I'm not old, my 40 year old O-ring is broke.
You need your 40 year O-Ring change. You'll be good to go.
I wonder if those are real o-rings. My friend said that petrified fruit loops are not real o-rings,
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What size O rings??? Please help me
Check the description