Any new Joes?

[Neutron X]

Henshin Cyborg

I never thought I would have this guy in my collection again. Prices have been going up and this guy was for years way outa my range.. This guy was missing hands and outer head. He also had badly stretched leg elastic. I think that's why I got lucky. I used the Youtube Toy Poloi method of repair. Leave metal elastic clips on hip rivets open wider and replace elastic while still on place. My repair was a little looser than I would like but it sits on my shelf so I am OK as is. Was hopping to use grey reissue wrist pegs but were to big for vintage arms. I had vintage white pegs and clear 40th Gijoe Club hands. So I like the look and am pleased. Hoping to get a reissue clear outer head and I am golden.
20200911_120924 (2) by edtime5, on Flickr

[PNGwynne]

He looks great--no yellowing and crisp repairs. I have a repro of him. I like your mention of the elastic switch, can you link? It sounds much easier than replacing thigh rivets. (I have a rivet tool, but it's not easy to use.)

[PNGwynne]

Did someone mention Henshin Cyborg??

Gad, that playcase--another fantastic thing drquest turned me on to.

(I have another, incomplete one for sale, btw.)

[drquest]

I never thought I would have this guy in my collection again. Prices have been going up and this guy was for years way outa my range.. This guy was missing hands and outer head. He also had badly stretched leg elastic. I think that's why I got lucky. I used the Youtube Toy Poloi method of repair. Leave metal elastic clips on hip rivets open wider and replace elastic while still on place. My repair was a little looser than I would like but it sits on my shelf so I am OK as is. Was hopping to use grey reissue wrist pegs but were to big for vintage arms. I had vintage white pegs and clear 40th Gijoe Club hands. So I like the look and am pleased. Hoping to get a reissue clear outer head and I am golden.

Very nice Ed!

Glad you found one reasonable!

[RonnyG]

Is this Joe for real? His arms are rubbery/bendy. Everything else is the same.

[PNGwynne]

Looks to me like a hybrid Joe with Fighting Yank arms.

[RonnyG]

Looks to me like a hybrid Joe with Fighting Yank arms.

Thanks! I never heard of Fighting Yank before. I googled him, and I think you're right.

[Neutron X]

Thanks Danny! I have a lead on newer Cyborg head replacement.

PNGwynne Toy Polio has a Youtube channel. Look for Cyborg repair one. Has a repair for Action Man/Gijoe mine detector, The Cyborg vehicle from UK/Japan, Star Wars, Action Man, Micronauts, Lone Ranger, ect. Not a big fan of Lone Ranger repair( I can save hours) I think they are good to learn from. He uses a lot of Lego parts very creatively.!

[drquest]

Here's my Revenge of the Spy Shark set. It's on a blonde muscle body Joe.

There's several specific pieces to this set. One being the black shark, same shark used in other Adventure Team sets, but this is molded in black. The yellow raft is unmarked, and does not have oar loops. The knife is unpainted as is the unpainted spear gun. The oar is molded like a regular one, but has swirls in the plastic of darker colors. The buoy is all red(mine is the normal red with white stripe) and the orange jacket(one snap) and pants(elastic) are specific to this set.

I was able to pick up the correct all red buoy for this set. Here's both versions side by side.

[Makernaut]

Thought I'd bump this up to see if anyone has made any JOE progress in the last year. I'm way off my pace from past years, but curious if anyone else is making headway on their collections, lately.

[PNGwynne]

I have a nice repro Land Adventurer locker prepped to re-hinge, with 40th stuff to stock it. (I cut the hinge mortises a bit to deep and have to compensate.)

My last purchases, in July--MOTU Origins has intruded--were two repro Falcon sci-fi troopers and some repro Geyper black muscle-body figures.

The Falcon stufff is amazing but $$$. Geyper MB figures have been integral to my kitbashing of 12" Super Joes and foes.

The last 40th kitbash I'd like to do is a Landing Signal Officer, I love Navy Joes.

An accessory I still hope to find reasonably is the Magnetic Flaw Detector, and I'm searching for a nice Action Man Space Ranger tabard for a custom. So the hunt goes (slowly) on!

[rykerw1701]

I've only acquired one vintage Joe item since the start of the pandemic, but he's a nice one. It's this Landing Signal Officer. Prices just went too nuts. I hope to get back at it when things settle down a bit.

Landing Signal Officer V2.jpg

[PNGwynne]

Ooh, he is nice.

[Makernaut]

Oh, yeah! The LSO is one of the coolest JOEs ever. Nice!

[drquest]

Speaking of LSO's, these aren't new, had them a while, but the one on the right is an LSO colored uniform, but without the stripes. Several have been found like this, and it's basically identical to the standard one color and design wise. No holes as if someone removed the stripes. There's two thoughts on this, and one is Hasbro shipped some LSO's without the stripes by accident, and the other thought is this is a pilot variation uniform. Either way, it's kind of a neat variation.



And kind of related to the tan color, there's a tan version of the Scramble Jumpsuit as well, that you cans see below.