3:05 Man, you're not kidding about "peg hunting"! That was the best part. Searching through an entire row of Joes, just to find the exact one you're looking for, hiding near the back! When I found it, I'd leave it hidden while I went to find my parents to help get it for me. Those cards that required you to take EVERY figure off the rack just to get to the back? The only better thing I remember is the day I saw an entire, new, unopened factory box come out of the back storage area. My dad asked an employee if he could go check the boxes for one Joe, and he did, and brought the unopened box up for us to open and search!
Haha, yeah the old "take every figure off to get the last one on the peg" maneuver. I think I got to go through an unopened box once. I was so excited to be able to do that, but it was bittersweet since there was nothing interesting in the box. lol
This vid was the perfect way to relax with a cup of coffee on Saturday morning! Cannot say enough about vintage 80's card art and the overall packaging of the era. So much thought and creativity was put into every product. Keep up the great work on this channel Michael.
Glad to hear that! I grew up being entertained on Saturday mornings by great toons, so it's nice to know I can now create something that will entertain on a Saturday morning. :D I miss the days of individual character art on packaging. Doesn't seem to be enough time to put that much thought into each character anymore.
I remember feeling very lucky as a child. The neighbors' son Todd was a high schooler and he worked at the toy store at the local mall. Todd was very nice to me, I think because he liked my older sister, lol. Anyway, sometimes I would give Todd a list of the Joes I was looking for and he'd call me at home if one of them made it into the store. I still remember begging my mother to take me up there when Todd called and said they had just gotten in one Storm Shadow and one Firefly and he'd hold them for me. Finally my mom gave in and took me up but I could only get one. I didn't care, I was just happy. I chose Storm Shadow. And I almost lost his nunchuks down a sink drain before dinner time. I think I was recreating a flood from the Cobra weather dominator Hahahaha. Todd came over after work and surprised me with... Firefly! I'm not sure I touched my other Joes all week. I even snuck them to school. Firefly in one pocket and Storm Shadow in the other. Fun times. Maybe just for laughs I should send my sister a card thanking her for the Firefly! 🙏 Thanks again for the great videos.
I mentioned in your first video about the Rambo line having some of the best accessories! Chuck Norris & the Karate Kid both had Cartoons and toys as well, the Chuck Norris line was pretty Awesome.
I love your vids... I'm having flashbacks!!! Thank you for this!!! I saw the g barbeque...!!! Croc master and airtight!;; Omg!!! I'm 12 years old again. Thanks man..
It's nice to see someone else out there has / had the same ambition as me. My collection will never be this big and I do t focus on just 80s toys but I enjoy collecting and I get the same feeling you and others do. Thanks for the videos. Awesome collection
I am now 48 and still have many of the Transformers, Star Wars and MOTU toys from then. Sad I sold off my gi joes at a garage sale including the Flagg. Every week I would go peg hunting for He Man and could never find him. I make stop motion videos on my channel with the toys from my childhood!
Wow! You have a lot of Moc toys there! With more recent toys I just open them up and display them in my room! I want to be just like you when I grow up!
Im following this collection series with so much smiles on my face...a wonderfull collection ! And a Wonderfull way to approach it...as a only True 80ies kid can Michael! Your collection series inspires my own collection , and how to go about it , it really does. Much well wishes from an 80ies kid in his 40ies, from Europe!
Glad to hear it! Puts a smile on my face every time I walk in the room so I'm happy to share it. Good luck with your collection. Remember it's not just about the toys, it's about the shelving too! :D
Well finish watching all your collection dint commend the rest of the videos becasue I wanted to finish watching the videos and just say what an awesome collection wish i had extra money to build my museum, and yeah I grew up watching the commercials of toys r us and I never went to the store because I was in Tijuana mexico LOL we dint get any toys R us on this side so all my child hood i only watch the store on the TV until I was 27 i got my visa and yes one of the first things to do was going to the store but for a surprise there where no 80's or 90's toys hahaha but it was awesome to watch all the figures all the new toys that well now I like, I collect Marvel legends Trying to get the version of the cartoon from the 90's and also spiderman characters from the cartoon of the 90's as well, also love transformers i don't have any G1 well the only one is optimus prime incomplete but I have it, from transformers i ahd a lot of generations but i started to sale them to get MP's I will stick with the MP line have a couple but trying to clean up the collection, funny enough I do have vintage gobots i have a soft spot for them, but my main figures that I collect is TMNT vintage and some new ones, have other random figures from games becasue i love game as well vintage one's that is I collect vintage games mainly Nintendo games or consoles. and I saw on the second part of your videos a big bot Grendizer is very cool character, but the one that I love and grew up was mazinger Z i only have one it is the 40th anniversary soul of Chogokin, that I recommend if you want a companion for your Grendizer. I grew up with all of those cartoons that you mention and toys but a lot of them dint stick to my nostalgia, or maybe is because right now all the figures are hard to get and price is just crazy, but one day will put out my collection is awesome to have all the figures on display to show up to friends family and is relaxing to watch all your favorite characters on display. A use to care about my toys back in the day I had a lot of silver hawks, Gi-joes, starwars, transformers G1, MOTU, Robotech, gobots TMNT insectors, but you know what the neighborhood that we live back in the day was to getto and all my toys where stolen sucks LOL, so I started collecting like 9 years back Im 36, so I get what I can now, if is on a good price that is. thank you for your videos to bring joy and nostalgia to my eyes and memories great videos thanks for sharing thumps up.
I've been watching your very entertaining videos just lately and what a walk down memory lane for me. While I did not have many of these toys, my younger brother did. He is 6 years younger than I am and we always got along great. I totally get the museum idea and the way you've mixed figures on cards and diorama-style displays is awesome. I also get the "garnish" idea and I've now seen toys on your videos that I either never knew about or simply disregarded. You're not so much into Star Wars and, well, not everyone could be. Even as a kid I was amazed that my brother had Star Wars, LEGOs, Transformers, and He-Man toys. Quite a collection and the way he took care of them and displayed them probably helped him earn more. He-Man characters were more like caricatures but the show was REALLY good. Transformers were superb and both the show/amazing world of Eternia and the toys were ingenious. I remember my brother getting both the Constructicons and Superion based on the stories from the show. Amazing ideas and linking of the story to the toys. I wonder if you knew about Battlestar Gallactica toys but really a very late 70s product and they didn't last long much like the show. Nerdmaste!
Whuuuh. Lt. tank Ellis... My jaw dropped. I know nothing of captain power, but I know i had to have that figure the first time i saw him. Crazy. I'd forgotten all about him.
When the 25th anniversary card backs came out... wow has it been a decade ago??? I was hunting for joes that I didn’t have. I’m going thru the pegs feeling like a little boy again and found ONE Zaratan figure. Of course it was after I had gone through all the pegs... I was literally a grown ass man screaming “YES” in the store and I couldn’t care less what anyone thought of me. Lol
Had that feeling a few times myself with the 25th line. Passion has no age limit, and the people who seem to think so probably never had any in the first place. :D
After getting a closer look at that Mon-star, I feel like I remember his chest opening up for some reason. Did his mask come off and fit in there or something? Man I've been watching these all day while I worked. So much nostalgia.
Hope to see more as I love watching your 80’s Toy Museum videos. Also loving those MOC Inhumanoids, so minty! Let me know if you ever decide to sell them.
Once again you've solved a childhood mystery of mine. I remember my dad telling me he had read about a new show in the newspaper. No clue why it was in the paper, but he told me you could shoot at it with a laser gun and blow up the ships on the TV. He said I could use a gun I already had. Which was just a blinking light noise maker thrift store special. I didn't think he was right but I tried it out anyways. I was right, but didn't care for the show anyways. So, no loss. I'd always wondered what that show was and how it was supposed to actually work. Reminded me of and helped me solve the mystery all in one shot. Appreciate it.
Gi joe was always my favorite still have a bunch of my old ones. Loved it when I was a kid my mom would go let me pick out a ton of joes at the toy store for my birthday.
Such a great video. The 80's were the best of everything. I remember our Toys R Us having a discount isle behind the main isle of action figures, and if my brother and I were short on cash, we would search the obscure lines like battlebeasts, m.u.s.c.l.e. men, madballs. Great times. Great video, great channel cheers!!!!
This video is great! I love your affection toward Toys R Us, as I've always enjoyed stopping in and just taking in everything they have to offer even if I don't have money to buy. However, it breaks my heart that Toys R Us is closing a lot of their stores. Both of my locations are slated to close by April. Thanks for sharing your collection and memories.
Thanks! Too bad about Toys R Us but as the song goes, "The times they are a-changin'." Luckily there's retro toy shows for those of us who grew up wandering the isles of toy stores. :D
The worst thing that ever happened is my grandparents got me the USS Flag for Christmas one year and when I went to college they gave it away . They didn’t understand why I wanted to keep it! The bull horn was still in perfect condition too!
I am kicking myself for passing up on the He-Man 2000s series. I bought 2 Skeletors (a basic and a spinning blade version) and Trapjaw. As well as that Castle Grayskull, but none of the others. I've been burnt out on Transformers...maybe I need to change to collecting those for a while.
love the collection. I wish Toys R Us promoted their shelves like this again. Only thing missing and I've yet to see them in anyone's collection are the 3.75" Mego CHiPs figures that started the idea for G.I. Joe 3" figures.
yeah I definitely loved seeing that. 80s did such a great job with toys, and tv shows and obviously it shows because a lot of collectors their stuff is from the 80s. I like that they're remaking a lot of the stuff and adding more articulation to some of the older stuff. Seeing the G.I. Joe Shipwreck he was my hardest one to find as a kid. I eventually got him and I still have him to this day. Him Quick Kick and I liked Mainframe because his attire reminded me of the uniforms worn on Airwolf.
Really loving seeing your collection and can't wait for the next part :) There are so many great pieces, some of which I have not seen before and hope to find for my collection. Thank you for sharing it with us :D As to peg hunting memories one of my best ones was when I was about ten, I had just read an issue of transformers Uk comic, which had Twin twist and Top spin in it and then went out with my Mum and Dad up the town, we went into a couple of the shops, one of which had a really big toy department so they let my Sister and I have a look around for a bit as we both had some savings and pocket money to spend. I was happily looking at all the different lines including He-man and Action Force, which was the name for G.I.Joe in the UK and then came to the Transformers, I look through the different rows of figures and as I was found both Twin twist and Top spin near the back, which I could believe at the time, I asked my Mum how much I had to spend and found out that it was just enough to get both of them, so I went home very happy that day and they are both in my collection to this day :)
Thanks! Glad you're enjoying. Finding buried treasures in the back was always so exciting! I remember having to remove entire rows of Joes to get at figures I wanted at the very back of the peg since the old Joe cards only had holes and not the hooks like today. I've also got Top Spin and Twin Twist. Very cool TFs. I like how they have more of a Cybertronian looking design, as if they stayed behind when all the other Autobots left for Earth.
Yeah I did that a few times too :) The designs of Top spin and Twin Twist were one of things that made me want them so much, they were so different for the time.
Michael Mercy I sold my 25th Carded collection Bad move by myself. Have to get them back one day. But my money is going to the G1 and Masterpiece Transformers. Loved Cops as a kid. Have a good weekend Michael. Roy
this is a great series im not a modern joe collector but the cards alone are worth the cost of those 25th joes those inhumanoids are insane but you need a slaughters marauders sarge for that top shelf! cant wait for whats next
Thanks! Yup, I love the vintage style modern figures. I was never much of a fan of the Marauders or Tiger Force. They seemed like lazy repaints to me. I guess I got too spoiled on all new sculpts and accessories every year since '82. :D
Fellow 80s kid here (well, born in the 70s!). Great vid! I too am a proud Canadian, but was always annoyed by the french text on the packaging. Wasn't much of an issue on the original stuff that came out in the 80s, but is more of annoyance with all of the re-issues of today. Also, how did you get all the background scores? I've always wanted the musical scores for G.I.Joe and He-Man but could never find them! Keep up the great work!
Really enjoying these videos but I do have a question. What’s up with the transformer figures in human form and the mask character being included in the G.I. joe collection. Were they featured like that in comic mash ups of transformers vs G.I. Joe or other media that I’m not aware of? Or is it more of a realist toy store thing where going through the carded figures of say Star Wars, you would find a G.I. joe hidden lol. I remember doing that as a kid, hiding a figure somewhere then go back later to get it.
I saw this virtual tour of your very very awesome collection (nice 👍🏽) and I was wondering, how do you maintain it? As in cleaning, light exposure etc. And how do you deal with that plastic breakdown (aka slimy surface)? With many vintage collections, I've seen this as a regular issue but no real answers to it.
Hi my Toy Brother! Great vids. Did you see the 1988 XMEN pilot cartoon, one of the best Ive ever seen, by the SpiderMan and his Amazing Friends animators. Also, GalaxyRangers toys all came out in UK and even a TRANSFORMING Inspector Gadget Diecast Bandai Car I got from Japan, see my Toy Time videos... I came back from my summer trip when I was a kid in the late 80s and found my entire Mego, HeMan and Castle Eterneria with 3 towers, SilverHawks and Mask collection stolen. But Im ok. Now I create comics :-)
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I don't know what's more impressive, the collection or the way you worked in all those cartoon clips :D
Thanks! Nerdmasté! 🙏
3:05 Man, you're not kidding about "peg hunting"! That was the best part. Searching through an entire row of Joes, just to find the exact one you're looking for, hiding near the back! When I found it, I'd leave it hidden while I went to find my parents to help get it for me. Those cards that required you to take EVERY figure off the rack just to get to the back?
The only better thing I remember is the day I saw an entire, new, unopened factory box come out of the back storage area. My dad asked an employee if he could go check the boxes for one Joe, and he did, and brought the unopened box up for us to open and search!
Haha, yeah the old "take every figure off to get the last one on the peg" maneuver. I think I got to go through an unopened box once. I was so excited to be able to do that, but it was bittersweet since there was nothing interesting in the box. lol
Collection is flawless! Thanks for sharing!
This vid was the perfect way to relax with a cup of coffee on Saturday morning! Cannot say enough about vintage 80's card art and the overall packaging of the era. So much thought and creativity was put into every product. Keep up the great work on this channel Michael.
Glad to hear that! I grew up being entertained on Saturday mornings by great toons, so it's nice to know I can now create something that will entertain on a Saturday morning. :D I miss the days of individual character art on packaging. Doesn't seem to be enough time to put that much thought into each character anymore.
@@MichaelMercy Just found your channel today. Sipping coffee on a Saturday morning. Great vids & awesome toy collection. Thank you for sharing!
You have COPS figures on card! I never saw those figures in my neck of the woods (UK) great show loved the theme tune and Visionaries loved that show!
Yup, COPS were like HUGE GI Joes, both the figures and the cards. :D
I remember feeling very lucky as a child. The neighbors' son Todd was a high schooler and he worked at the toy store at the local mall. Todd was very nice to me, I think because he liked my older sister, lol. Anyway, sometimes I would give Todd a list of the Joes I was looking for and he'd call me at home if one of them made it into the store. I still remember begging my mother to take me up there when Todd called and said they had just gotten in one Storm Shadow and one Firefly and he'd hold them for me. Finally my mom gave in and took me up but I could only get one. I didn't care, I was just happy. I chose Storm Shadow. And I almost lost his nunchuks down a sink drain before dinner time. I think I was recreating a flood from the Cobra weather dominator Hahahaha. Todd came over after work and surprised me with... Firefly! I'm not sure I touched my other Joes all week. I even snuck them to school. Firefly in one pocket and Storm Shadow in the other. Fun times. Maybe just for laughs I should send my sister a card thanking her for the Firefly! 🙏 Thanks again for the great videos.
Way to go Todd! Would have loved having an 'inside man' at my toy store. There was almost a riot of kids fighting over Duke and Snake Eyes '85.
I remember taking joes with me too.. they would ease the torture that was school 😂
Dunno why this made me smile, but it did.
I mentioned in your first video about the Rambo line having some of the best accessories! Chuck Norris & the Karate Kid both had Cartoons and toys as well, the Chuck Norris line was pretty Awesome.
Wow, loved Captain Power as a kid. My ships and figures definitely got played with.
Congratulations!!! Amazing collection and great video 😀✌🏻
Thank you! Nerdmasté! 🙏
Definitely some good stuff on the card wall. Very nice!
Thanks!
every time I want to see toys and positive vives I allways watch your videos, they are rad !!! I demand more toy videos !!
I had a captain power just remebered I had one when I seen yours . I love being a 80's kid
I love your vids... I'm having flashbacks!!! Thank you for this!!! I saw the g barbeque...!!! Croc master and airtight!;; Omg!!! I'm 12 years old again. Thanks man..
Thanks Tim, glad you enjoyed. Yo Joe! :D
I can't believe you mentioned Rambo! I also liked that a lot for the short time it was on.
It's nice to see someone else out there has / had the same ambition as me. My collection will never be this big and I do t focus on just 80s toys but I enjoy collecting and I get the same feeling you and others do. Thanks for the videos. Awesome collection
Awesome! And I love the fact you have Reboot figures as well! Such an underrated show!
We had a Children's Palace and KB Toys toy stores long before Toys R Us came to town. I loved the "Palace", ours was pretty cool
I am now 48 and still have many of the Transformers, Star Wars and MOTU toys from then. Sad I sold off my gi joes at a garage sale including the Flagg. Every week I would go peg hunting for He Man and could never find him. I make stop motion videos on my channel with the toys from my childhood!
That's so cool! Keep having fun.
As always, great video. One of my favorite Joes was Dusty. I loved the detail in his figure, especially with the bipod gun he came with.
Thanks! And the cloth flap on the back of his helmet was cool too. One of the first Joes to include fabric I believe.
Just wow, you have a awesome collection, makes me want to come round and just play for hours
Thanks! :D
Wow! You have a lot of Moc toys there! With more recent toys I just open them up and display them in my room! I want to be just like you when I grow up!
Thanks! Remember to not grow all the way up. :D
Just wow...what an awesome room. Nostalgia tanks overflowing!
Right on! Nerdmasté! 🙏
Im following this collection series with so much smiles on my face...a wonderfull collection ! And a Wonderfull way to approach it...as a only True 80ies kid can Michael! Your collection series inspires my own collection , and how to go about it , it really does. Much well wishes from an 80ies kid in his 40ies, from Europe!
Glad to hear it! Puts a smile on my face every time I walk in the room so I'm happy to share it. Good luck with your collection. Remember it's not just about the toys, it's about the shelving too! :D
I'm definitely in Cloud City after watching this. Thank you so much! 🙏
And you can call me Billy Dee.
Lol 😆
Thanks! :D
I was never into the siverhawks or thundercats, but Star Wars , GI Joe, He-Man, and, Transformers made my childhood
Well finish watching all your collection dint commend the rest of the videos becasue I wanted to finish watching the videos and just say what an awesome collection wish i had extra money to build my museum, and yeah I grew up watching the commercials of toys r us and I never went to the store because I was in Tijuana mexico LOL we dint get any toys R us on this side so all my child hood i only watch the store on the TV until I was 27 i got my visa and yes one of the first things to do was going to the store but for a surprise there where no 80's or 90's toys hahaha but it was awesome to watch all the figures all the new toys that well now I like, I collect Marvel legends Trying to get the version of the cartoon from the 90's and also spiderman characters from the cartoon of the 90's as well, also love transformers i don't have any G1 well the only one is optimus prime incomplete but I have it, from transformers i ahd a lot of generations but i started to sale them to get MP's I will stick with the MP line have a couple but trying to clean up the collection, funny enough I do have vintage gobots i have a soft spot for them, but my main figures that I collect is TMNT vintage and some new ones, have other random figures from games becasue i love game as well vintage one's that is I collect vintage games mainly Nintendo games or consoles. and I saw on the second part of your videos a big bot Grendizer is very cool character, but the one that I love and grew up was mazinger Z i only have one it is the 40th anniversary soul of Chogokin, that I recommend if you want a companion for your Grendizer. I grew up with all of those cartoons that you mention and toys but a lot of them dint stick to my nostalgia, or maybe is because right now all the figures are hard to get and price is just crazy, but one day will put out my collection is awesome to have all the figures on display to show up to friends family and is relaxing to watch all your favorite characters on display.
A use to care about my toys back in the day I had a lot of silver hawks, Gi-joes, starwars, transformers G1, MOTU, Robotech, gobots TMNT insectors, but you know what the neighborhood that we live back in the day was to getto and all my toys where stolen sucks LOL, so I started collecting like 9 years back Im 36, so I get what I can now, if is on a good price that is.
thank you for your videos to bring joy and nostalgia to my eyes and memories great videos
thanks for sharing thumps up.
I've been watching your very entertaining videos just lately and what a walk down memory lane for me. While I did not have many of these toys, my younger brother did. He is 6 years younger than I am and we always got along great. I totally get the museum idea and the way you've mixed figures on cards and diorama-style displays is awesome. I also get the "garnish" idea and I've now seen toys on your videos that I either never knew about or simply disregarded. You're not so much into Star Wars and, well, not everyone could be. Even as a kid I was amazed that my brother had Star Wars, LEGOs, Transformers, and He-Man toys. Quite a collection and the way he took care of them and displayed them probably helped him earn more. He-Man characters were more like caricatures but the show was REALLY good. Transformers were superb and both the show/amazing world of Eternia and the toys were ingenious. I remember my brother getting both the Constructicons and Superion based on the stories from the show. Amazing ideas and linking of the story to the toys. I wonder if you knew about Battlestar Gallactica toys but really a very late 70s product and they didn't last long much like the show. Nerdmaste!
Whuuuh. Lt. tank Ellis... My jaw dropped. I know nothing of captain power, but I know i had to have that figure the first time i saw him. Crazy. I'd forgotten all about him.
Good luck! Luckily he doesn't go for very much even mint on card. :D
When the 25th anniversary card backs came out... wow has it been a decade ago??? I was hunting for joes that I didn’t have. I’m going thru the pegs feeling like a little boy again and found ONE Zaratan figure. Of course it was after I had gone through all the pegs... I was literally a grown ass man screaming “YES” in the store and I couldn’t care less what anyone thought of me. Lol
Had that feeling a few times myself with the 25th line. Passion has no age limit, and the people who seem to think so probably never had any in the first place. :D
Totally badass. I had Silverhawk shrinkydinks. Those plastic things you painted and threw in the oven.
Oh yeah! Totally forgot about those things. :D
That sure does bring back memories....I know Snake Eyes is in here, he has to be!!
After getting a closer look at that Mon-star, I feel like I remember his chest opening up for some reason. Did his mask come off and fit in there or something? Man I've been watching these all day while I worked. So much nostalgia.
Hope to see more as I love watching your 80’s Toy Museum videos. Also loving those MOC Inhumanoids, so minty! Let me know if you ever decide to sell them.
Thanks!
Once again you've solved a childhood mystery of mine. I remember my dad telling me he had read about a new show in the newspaper. No clue why it was in the paper, but he told me you could shoot at it with a laser gun and blow up the ships on the TV. He said I could use a gun I already had. Which was just a blinking light noise maker thrift store special. I didn't think he was right but I tried it out anyways. I was right, but didn't care for the show anyways. So, no loss. I'd always wondered what that show was and how it was supposed to actually work. Reminded me of and helped me solve the mystery all in one shot. Appreciate it.
Gi joe was always my favorite still have a bunch of my old ones. Loved it when I was a kid my mom would go let me pick out a ton of joes at the toy store for my birthday.
I loved Sgt. Slaughter growing up too. Great video and enjoying your Toy Museum videos!
Thanks, Yo Joe! :D
Such a great video. The 80's were the best of everything. I remember our Toys R Us having a discount isle behind the main isle of action figures, and if my brother and I were short on cash, we would search the obscure lines like battlebeasts, m.u.s.c.l.e. men, madballs. Great times. Great video, great channel cheers!!!!
Just seeing your JOE collection, especially from this episode, fills me with so much joy. A truly amazing collection all around.
LOOOOVED REBOOT!
loved the Joe's.. i never opened my joes.. for the package itself is memorable.. with GI Joes logos..
This video is great! I love your affection toward Toys R Us, as I've always enjoyed stopping in and just taking in everything they have to offer even if I don't have money to buy. However, it breaks my heart that Toys R Us is closing a lot of their stores. Both of my locations are slated to close by April. Thanks for sharing your collection and memories.
Thanks! Too bad about Toys R Us but as the song goes, "The times they are a-changin'." Luckily there's retro toy shows for those of us who grew up wandering the isles of toy stores. :D
The worst thing that ever happened is my grandparents got me the USS Flag for Christmas one year and when I went to college they gave it away . They didn’t understand why I wanted to keep it! The bull horn was still in perfect condition too!
Great collection silverhaks
I am kicking myself for passing up on the He-Man 2000s series. I bought 2 Skeletors (a basic and a spinning blade version) and Trapjaw. As well as that Castle Grayskull, but none of the others. I've been burnt out on Transformers...maybe I need to change to collecting those for a while.
Do you remember the toy store Child World"? My mother worked there for 10 years so I was spoiled in the 80's. Wish I knew to keep everything...
VERY GOOD VIRTUAL TOUR : THE MICHAEL MERCY 80'S TOY MUSEUM [PART 6] !!!!
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love the collection. I wish Toys R Us promoted their shelves like this again. Only thing missing and I've yet to see them in anyone's collection are the 3.75" Mego CHiPs figures that started the idea for G.I. Joe 3" figures.
Thanks! Shelf talkers add so much. I don't have those but I have the little Mego Dukes figures in the General Lee.
yeah I definitely loved seeing that. 80s did such a great job with toys, and tv shows and obviously it shows because a lot of collectors their stuff is from the 80s. I like that they're remaking a lot of the stuff and adding more articulation to some of the older stuff. Seeing the G.I. Joe Shipwreck he was my hardest one to find as a kid. I eventually got him and I still have him to this day. Him Quick Kick and I liked Mainframe because his attire reminded me of the uniforms worn on Airwolf.
It’s so beautiful!
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Really loving seeing your collection and can't wait for the next part :) There are so many great pieces, some of which I have not seen before and hope to find for my collection. Thank you for sharing it with us :D
As to peg hunting memories one of my best ones was when I was about ten, I had just read an issue of transformers Uk comic, which had Twin twist and Top spin in it and then went out with my Mum and Dad up the town, we went into a couple of the shops, one of which had a really big toy department so they let my Sister and I have a look around for a bit as we both had some savings and pocket money to spend. I was happily looking at all the different lines including He-man and Action Force, which was the name for G.I.Joe in the UK and then came to the Transformers, I look through the different rows of figures and as I was found both Twin twist and Top spin near the back, which I could believe at the time, I asked my Mum how much I had to spend and found out that it was just enough to get both of them, so I went home very happy that day and they are both in my collection to this day :)
Thanks! Glad you're enjoying. Finding buried treasures in the back was always so exciting! I remember having to remove entire rows of Joes to get at figures I wanted at the very back of the peg since the old Joe cards only had holes and not the hooks like today. I've also got Top Spin and Twin Twist. Very cool TFs. I like how they have more of a Cybertronian looking design, as if they stayed behind when all the other Autobots left for Earth.
Yeah I did that a few times too :) The designs of Top spin and Twin Twist were one of things that made me want them so much, they were so different for the time.
Wow, amazing! :)
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I LOVE the wall! Awesome display :-)
i thought i was losing my mind at 11:05, had to watch it a few times
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Awesome
Love it
Thanks!
Michael Mercy I sold my 25th Carded collection
Bad move by myself. Have to get them back one day. But my money is going to the G1 and Masterpiece Transformers. Loved Cops as a kid. Have a good weekend Michael. Roy
Coleco was also responsible for STARCOM, another beloved 80's line.
Never had any of those but I've seen videos. The auto transforming gimmicks were cool.
My dream room
this is a great series im not a modern joe collector but the cards alone are worth the cost of those 25th joes those inhumanoids are insane but you need a slaughters marauders sarge for that top shelf! cant wait for whats next
Thanks! Yup, I love the vintage style modern figures. I was never much of a fan of the Marauders or Tiger Force. They seemed like lazy repaints to me. I guess I got too spoiled on all new sculpts and accessories every year since '82. :D
Is very nice your toys
I am jealous of the trap jaw figure
Fellow 80s kid here (well, born in the 70s!). Great vid!
I too am a proud Canadian, but was always annoyed by the french text on the packaging. Wasn't much of an issue on the original stuff that came out in the 80s, but is more of annoyance with all of the re-issues of today.
Also, how did you get all the background scores? I've always wanted the musical scores for G.I.Joe and He-Man but could never find them!
Keep up the great work!
where did you get these original toy aisle peg-shelves to hang the carded figures? I need that for my future toy
room...
From Zellers when they closed down (Canada's version of Target). Toys R Us is probably going to be selling theirs off as well.
Really enjoying these videos but I do have a question. What’s up with the transformer figures in human form and the mask character being included in the G.I. joe collection. Were they featured like that in comic mash ups of transformers vs G.I. Joe or other media that I’m not aware of? Or is it more of a realist toy store thing where going through the carded figures of say Star Wars, you would find a G.I. joe hidden lol. I remember doing that as a kid, hiding a figure somewhere then go back later to get it.
I saw this virtual tour of your very very awesome collection (nice 👍🏽) and I was wondering, how do you maintain it? As in cleaning, light exposure etc. And how do you deal with that plastic breakdown (aka slimy surface)? With many vintage collections, I've seen this as a regular issue but no real answers to it.
Thanks! There's no window, it's a low dust room and so far the plastic condition hasn't changed on anything.
Hi my Toy Brother! Great vids. Did you see the 1988 XMEN pilot cartoon, one of the best Ive ever seen, by the SpiderMan and his Amazing Friends animators. Also, GalaxyRangers toys all came out in UK and even a TRANSFORMING Inspector Gadget Diecast Bandai Car I got from Japan, see my Toy Time videos...
I came back from my summer trip when I was a kid in the late 80s and found my entire Mego, HeMan and Castle Eterneria with 3 towers, SilverHawks and Mask collection stolen. But Im ok. Now I create comics :-)
Michael Mercy, did you also like the biker mice from mars ?
when you show your carded Joes you show some that the figures were removed how did you remove them without destroying the card?
Do you ever see Army Ants at any of theses conventions?
Nope, those are hard to find.
how do you interact the videos in your videos???
How did you find the older ones like the rambo in such good condition, no bends or anything
Just kept looking Ebay for many years.
If you don't mind, could you tell me what modern 3 3/4 Star Wars line you think is the best?
I like the ones on the vintage cards. I don't open them so it's all about the packaging for me.
Star Wars are all remakes though right??
Aka snoke good vid bud
I had a Lion that shine your eyes
What are the vehicles with the plant weapons on top called
Saw Boss from Wheeled Warriors.
I like g.Ijoe very much
I am Brasilian and here in my conwtry we not know capitain power
To bad gi joe don’t sell anymore
i get the prune face #robotchicken