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Good info. To note my 3d glasses says on other side for use with 3d posters unlike the ones shown in this thread that say for use with video.

Mine came with glasses that didn't have arms on them. I am assuming mine is a later print as well since different price on it.

So this is what I am talking about when it come to the 1982/1983 Snake Eyes and Steeler (Mobat driver). They both came with the same Uzi's. But there is two types, rounded and one that squared off with a point. My understanding was that 1982 is rounded and original mold and then 1983 they brought the originals back 1.5 and that was new molds. So when they redid the molds my understanding is that they would upgrade the design so the Uzi got changed and the points where added to make it look more realistic. However I have looked at sealed copies of Mobat and Snake Eyes carded and seen them have both. People do reseals, check yojoe and 3djoes it goes back and fourth. Rounded in 82 and pointy in 83. I thought until today accessory pack only came with one type which one person showed me pointy but yet I had a round one due to the pack came later. Then I got a pointy one today. It makes me assume they just kept using both molds since for two figures and they intertwined or there was actually a difference between SE and Steeler. Makes my brain hurt lol. Pics for reference. I have a Steeler I bought that came with round. Second pic is SE with a satchel as reference vs the accessory pack.

Did a GI Joe trade with someone local and got some parts and figures for parts. Almost had a trade for a 82/83 se/steeler uzi but it was accessory pack grrrrrrrrrr. But now it just raised more questions since he let me keep it and now I have both accessory pack versions when we thought there was only one. These uzi's make my brain hurt lol.

The brown U sandbags is from Tonka according to this ebay listing. https://www.ebay.com/itm/265664365315

Np. Hard to tell but that long yellow spike looks like a tent peg from this angle lol.

That part I put the red square around is from the GI Joe snake armor. You put it inside instead of a figure to hold the armor together. https://www.yojoe.com/vehicles/83/snake/

i aplogize. im drunk hahahh

no i like turtles

I called it way back. now look. pressers that cant fo their job, ripping off ppeople. yeah its paper its a book, gran iff ya like . just enjoy

Oh noes

its been a long time. but i hate pressers. i hate how its all about money. now we have people that dont even care making prophit. but we should just enjoy the comics. they meant to be read. if ya not into it then. bizz off

Whats a Petroglyph

When i was a kid there was no cgc. We just bought the comics we loved. maybe you collect covers, or it was story. but regradless. its just paper.

HI

Found a tape style frenzy at Walmart and figured why not and grabbed just in case they don't make a Frenzy for the Soundwave I have.

Some great stuff in there!

That is a big difference.

Wish my city had better toy shows. We have nothing but garbage booths that its not even worth the $5 dollars to go anymore lol. Last show I paid $5 to get in and walked out with two hot wheels for $5 since there was nothing. Felt more like a flea market then a toy show. Luckily I know someone for the big comic show and can borrow a vendor pass for a couple hours but even then most of the booths are candy, Funko pops and oddball booths and seldom find anything. I also don't like buying online anymore since so many scammers and repro items. Its really slowed down my collecting of Joe and finishing my 1982-89 run. Even on Facebook you see less and less of earlier joes and when you post up a load of 80's Joe stuff for trade no one has what ya want anymore (my list is getting into the harder to get pieces) or they try and scam ya , try and sell/trade you repro ( which is getting really bad now because everyone has a 3d printer lol), try and convince you an accessory pack uzi is the original and the list goes on. Why I hold onto my bags of accessories and do trade only and don't sell since no one will let go of their hoards of stuff even to sell. I am lucky if I find a couple pieces a year. Why I just been doing modern stuff since collecting the original stuff has become annoying. Here is an example. All that stuff in the pictures I put up and I still cant even get one item off my list but everyone wants to buy it all. Same with transformers. I even tried the oddball stuff. I swear I thought someone would trade for that pink panosh princess voltron helmet by now. The A-Team enemies stuff doesn't show up to often either. Friggin hoarders lol.

So I found this info. So it came in a promotional kit where FHE by the looks of it grab some #30s and stuck stickers on them. I see as this becomes more known that there is going to be a bunch of fakes made.

Had a question about a book I see on ebay that all of a sudden starts appearing out of thin air that in my 40+ years of collecting Joe books have never seen or heard of until the last couple months. Its the ARAH #30 that has a sticker from Family Home Entertainment on it. 1. Who put the sticker on those books? 2. Why is there so few of them and really no records of them until late? How come they just started appearing now? 3. If it was the vhs store or whoever and not Marvel can we really consider this a variant? 4. How come no extra individual stickers have appeared elsewhere or on other products? 5. Is it a first or second printing book? Have concerns also because stickers like that can be faked so easily. Just seems very odd and gives me that Steel brigade version E feeling.

Found the video about retro not being Walmart exclusives anymore.

I haven't owned one of the retro card back yet but my understanding was that the card stock is flimsy and thin.