I'd love to, I just need to buy one lol. One day maybe..

Many thanks! I had some time between other projects and after I got this in the mail the other day, I said "I should unbox this for The Obscura Toy Files.", and here we are. I just finished recording a review of the Key Force Warriors White Heat heroic Key Master toy, that will be uploaded soon. After that I'll be reviewing the last Key Force toy I have, the evil War-Lock Cutthroat and also be showing all the toys I have together. After that? I have a couple of things still to review so keep your eyes peeled here for more!

@@theobscuratoyfiles1142 "Wow, it sounds like you've been busy! I'm thrilled to hear that you enjoyed unboxing the Key Force Warriors White Heat heroic Key Master toy for The Obscura Toy Files. I can't wait to watch your review when it's uploaded! It's exciting to hear about your plans for reviewing the evil War-Lock Cutthroat and showcasing all your Key Force toys together. Your dedication to providing thorough reviews is admirable. I'll definitely keep my eyes peeled for more reviews from you. Thanks for keeping us entertained with your insights and enthusiasm!"

🤣 Hey that's fine with me! I make these videos mostly to share the unboxing experience with others AND to help people like yourself. This channel has always been more about posterity then monetization 😆. Hope the video helped!

@@theobscuratoyfiles1142 thanks!!

Nice! I forget which one was my first, but it might have been the Piranha as that one was pretty beaten up vs the other ones lol.

Yeah me too. I also only ever saw Series 3 in my local Kay Bee in the mall. I got Wolfman Troll and never got anyone else for some reason. I did get Sgt Troll and the Trollminator on SUPER clearance at Toys R Us for like 25 or 50 cents EACH. I guess they just wanted to get rid of them, but I was happy to take them for that price!

Thanks! That's really why I started this entire channel: so people can see what it's like to open up some of these old toys. It's harder to do with M.A.S.K. toys due to how expensive they've become over the years. I got this for around $100 or so and I said "You know what, I want to open this and share the process with everyone.".

The main reason for me doing these videos of un boxing a MISB toy is really just to see what's inside the box AND to document it so that maybe other people out there don't need to open up their MISB vehicles. This channel was never about monetization rofl its purely for fun for me and if other people have fun cool! Whats funny is I may have to look up loose parts for this as it didn't include the seat belt AND I opened this thing right on camera. Talk about bad luck that the ONE Arctic Blast I chose to buy and open was incomplete when it left the factory in 1989! 😂🤣😂

Thanks! Hey if you ever get a MISB M.A.S.K. vehicle and open it, odds are you will get one too. The year right after this one is when Kenner switched over to the Kenner Action Toy Guide format and stopped making unique pamphlets for each line (Centurions had pamphlets too but their line was canceled before the introduction of the Toy Guide.).

Nice! Well at least you have that happy memory to remember her buy, she made enough of an impression on you that you still think fondly of that time today, all these years later.

That was I beleive the Mudfighter. I've been eyeballing that vehicle for several years but never was able to pull the trigger on it for a decent price. It had a cool look with the propeller in the rear. The pilot, Dogfight, looks really cool. Almost like Wild Bill's brother or cousin LoL.

@The Obscura Toy Files yes. The pilot wore avatar shades and had a mustache, too.

I was about 8 or 9 when Micromasters came out and I had about three 4-packs (Race Car Patrol, Rescue Patrol and Battle Patrol), Micromaster Transport Roughstuff and the Ironworks Autobot Micromaster Station. We didn't have any Decepticons except my sister got the Sports Car Patrol 4-pack LoL. As a kid I liked them but they weren't my favorite TF toys. As a collector I started to enjoy them after watching some of the old commercials and seeing how their main function was swarm tactics to overpower larger enemies. Oh! I had that red car, that's "Roadhandler" from the Race Car Patrol and I remember that issue, he had to wrestle some sort of human I think?

@@theobscuratoyfiles1142 back in '89 I was 15. Jim Lee did a couple of covers for the Transformers' comic that year.

Thanks! That's 100% why I enjoy making these unboxing videos so much. Finding that M.A.S.K. poster/calendar for 1987/88 totally unlocked memories of when I was a 6 or 7 year old kid getting M.A.S.K. toys as I totally remember that poster. Once M.A.S.K. got to the "Split Seconds" them towards the end of the line in 1988, Kenner had moved over to the "Kenner Action Toy Guide" booklets over poasters, so this poster/calendar was probably the last year they did these for the M.A.S.K. line.

Me too! I don't remember the racing theme to the show though, so I might have stopped watching it by then. 🤔

Me too, me too. That's part of the reason why I love doing these unboxing videos- it's a fun way to share the experience of getting a brand new old toy with everyone.

Glad I could help revisit some past memories! Yeah it's an amazing toy for sure, and really MASSIVE too, but at the same time very sleek. The bomb dropping mechanisms work great too.

I know they made Overkill into a cyborg in the G.I. Joe Valor vs Venom line in the early 2000's, this 1992 version was never meant to be a cyborg which is surprising as he has some characteristics that definitely make him look like something that's half man and half machine. You can tell in the video how happy I was that the sound pack was able to work lol, that's the main feature on this guy!

Nice! Yeah hitting '88 is when the line started to just go bananas on the vehicle designs for sure. Some of them ate great, fun vehicles and some you just look at and are like "Okay...so how does the driver of a Buzz Boar actually see where he's going in that thing??"

Super Trooper's shield really did have an awesome design, I never mailed away for him, but his overall look always stuck out in my mind over the years- and apparently he has the same head as Knockdown from Battle Force 2000. Carson over at 3djoes.com had said when talking about his Kickstarter "Operation: Recall" O-Ring 3.75" figure line, that he wants it to be "Military Fantasy" more then realistic military. I think G.I. Joe got more into that "Military Fantasy" genre as it went into 1986 and beyond, with fun toy vehicles like the Swamp Masher, but were in no way based in reality. You look at a BUNCH of the vehicles in G.I. Joe and see that they are great for kids to play and imagine battles with, but in high stakes, real life wars, a soldier wouldn't last 10 seconds in some of these things. Like the Cobra Pogo is a cool looking toy vehicle, but I think a soldier with good aim and a rocket launcher could just blow them out of the sky in between hops.

Yeah I dig it! It feels more finalized then some of the other BF2000 vehicles. What's funny is the Vindicator was supposed to have a windshield, you can see it on the back of the box on the prototype in the photo, but I guess it it didnt "cost out" and Hasbro nixed it. There's still a slot for where it would have plugged in too, so it's even more bittersweet it's not included. I think just Dee-Jay was the only other BF2000 character, and the Pulverizer tank that was another cheapie vehicle.

Yeah he has a good look and the machine gun skis are very toyetic and not realistic at all (maybe he pushes his toes on a button to fire them?). Me and my friend where laughing about that earlier today! It's like, "Hasbro give the guy a roof or something.". It's not a bad idea, but the execution was missing a few parts. The front should have been more like a sled so it could glide on snow easier. I tried it in the snow and it didn't work so well lol.

Awesome! Then you've come to the right place as I do that alot on this channel. Yeah the Arctic Blast is a very "toyetic" vehicle, meaning in a real life, no holds barred, military combat situation: this thing would not last very long. In the world of toys however, it's a great arctic vehicle for kids to drive around their snow Joes. It holds 3 guys in total and for the time, it wouldn't be a bad grab for $8.99. Also: Windchill has machine guns on his skis. Is it realistic? Of course not. But- is it freaking awesome? Oh hell yes.

The G.I. Joe Collectors Club kept things going with some sweet exclusives and box sets.

The real problem with Battle Force 2000, was upper management. The team really wanted them to be epic vehicles and they just kept getting the budget cut, forcing them to come out less then stellar. If you go to 3djoes.com, the site owner, Carson has some audio recordings he did from interviews with the design team. They talk about how they wanted it to be and it's stuff I never knew. The Vindicator even had its clear windshield cut for budget issues but it can be seen on the back of the box. This vehicle is pretty fun, and a few of the others are, but a couple just seem incomplete- which makes sense if things were cut to make them cheaper for Hasbro to manufacture.

@@konstantinkoverchenko9587 Yeah I saw some of their 25th Anniversary scale figures done up as Battle Force 2000 guys! Plus I think they made the Polar Bear in a BF 2000 colorway?

@@theobscuratoyfiles1142 I think the last cool play set was the Defiant.

@@randallgoeswhere Yeah that was for sure the last BIG "Oh wow!!" Joe playset Hasbro put out. The General that came out in 1990 was big, but more in line with the Thunderclap and the Rolling Thunder then anywhere near the Defiant or Mobile Command Center.

Right?? 🤣🤣 I found him like that. The right side or his face is pretty scarred up too. I guess he crashed in the Falcon Glider he came with or something.

You totally could find some affordably carded Joes at JoeFest. I paid $100 for that Blaster/Avalanche 2-pack and I felt that was a good price as it works out to basically $50 per figure. A local collectibles store had a HUGE vintage collection come into their possession back in 2019 and they have some carded figures from anywhere to $40-to-$100 a piece. Granted not as cheap as they cost back in the day, but I feel anywhere from $30-to-$40 bucks for a carded Joe is a decent price. You'll not find any that cheap between 1982-to-1987, but it depends on demand and which character it is. Also the condition of the cardback. If you want to open a vintage, carded G.I. Joe, I would recommend looking for ones with damaged cardbacks. Like the Pathfinder figure I showed off a couple videos back. He was just $65 bucks BUT his cardback had gotten wet, warped and it's as wavy as a potato chip. So that's a perfect candidate to open. Like I mentioned in this video, I prefer to get my Joes MOC or MIB because then I know I'm getting them in the newest condition possible. No broken thumbs, no cracked crotches, etc. It also depends on how many accessories they come with. Sometimes it's cheaper to buy a MOC figure and open it then hunt down all the parts to complete a loose one.

@@theobscuratoyfiles1142 I have enjoyed these openings. I do want to get some to keep unopened so looking for the better cards is going to be the trick for me. I am leaning more and more on going now.

@@poormansstack Awesome! I'm glad you've been enjoying the series so far. Next one _should_ be that Talking Commander Overkill figure, I'm just trying to track down what batteries it takes so I can swap them out during the review. I want to go to Joefest or Joecon this year, I just need to see when they are.

I think you're remembering 1991- cause that is when things started going down hill with vehicles. Some duds were in '89 and '90, but those 2 years were pretty decent overall. This was an $8.99 small vehicle so there's not much to it.

Oh totally. Especially since I didnt have a ton of vehicles as a kid so it's cool to see what it would have been like had I gotten this. Yeah this vehicle is a very bare-bones type of vehicle. The Toys R Us price sticker on the side said it cost $8.99 so there isn't alot to it. I didn't think of the seat belt being inside the tire, damn now I have to look. Wouldn't that be a kick in the head if it got stuck in there? Yeah I agree, $90 was juuuust within the range I would have paid for it. If it was like $150 or $200, I'd have easily passed on it.

Awesome! Welcome aboard! I have some older videos going back to 2016 when I started, so there's a decent amount of stuff to sift through.

Hey! Welcome to the channel! And thanks to @3GoodNerds for the recommendation. I might be able to do that with the Pathfinder, but the card is VERY warped and has water degradation damage on it all over the back of it. If you look, you can't even see Countdown on the cross sell art on the back because some other G.I. Joe package got stuck to it and tore off part of the card. If this was in really nice, mint condition I'd totally keep it carded. Actually- had it been in better condition I'd not have even to be able to afford it. This guy was only $65 bucks because of how damaged the card and bubble were. Apparently, as the story goes, this Pathfinder came from a secret toy collector who died in the spring of 2019. This store local to me went to his widow's house and this guy had DOZENS of carded Joe figures. He apparently loved science fiction so he was troop building with all sorts of Vipers and Iron Grenadiers Troopers. Over the past 4 years they've sold off alot of the collection but STILL have a ton of crap left, mostly loose figures and some carded ones. Some cards were so badly water damaged with mold inside the bubbles, that the store had to take the figures off the cardbacks and sell them loose (this secret collector had to have stored them in a basement or something). I know because I got x2 Annihilators from them and the weapons and the figures were in SUPER MINT shape. I've opened alot of vintage Joes over the years, so I know what they feel like and look like when they're recently un-carded. As for your more G.I. Joe request? You will be getting your wish as I am putting a review of the Arctic Blast with Wind Chill up here tomorrow! So stay tuned for that.

Carded or Loose Battle Corps? It depends. Some figures can be like $100 carded, some might not be. Best bet is to go on eBay and just look up "G.I. Joe Battle Corps" and see what some are going for.

Carded.

@@poormansstack Carded I've seen them go for various prices. I saw Ice Cream Soldier on a full size file card cardback for $100 Buy It Now. But then saw Dial-Tone for like $40. The later 1994 stuff hasn't reached critical mass yet in terms of being expensive. Like these Battle Corps v2 Vipers I paid $40-to-$45 carded and I see people selling loose complete ones on eBay for like $50 or $60. 🤷‍♂️

Me either! And it's from 1987/1988, so towards the end of the 80's. My friend Ben found and bought a piece of original packaging artwork from this line and posted it on his Instagram (maybe back in November of 2022) and that's how I got introduced to them. The battery powered Droid thing REALLY kicks, if it wasn't evident by it zooming around the review table. If you want to pick one up, go on eBay and type in "Lionel Power Masters", there's a bunch MOC and MIB that are around $22-to-$30 bucks. Not bad for a 35 year old toy.

@@theobscuratoyfiles1142 Oh hey, there was a cartoon made for this.

Thanks! Welcome aboard! I was born in very late '79 (I existed in the 1970's for less then a month and a half LoL) and was into toys pretty much from the time I was a kid up until now, so I've seen a LOT of toy stuff over the years. New video coming soon, I did a recap on all the RoboCop stuff I reviewed so we can see how all these items interact with one another.

It was all a bad move on Kenner's part to package it with the spring mechanism locked in. All that did was put a TON of tension on that little trigger on his butt and caused all of them to break. Yeah it looks like it should be riding a vehicle right? I have no idea why it's arms are posed that way. It looks weird. Like design wise he's a cool cyborg skeleton robot, but functionally he's a mess.

ROFL yeah the sculpting on it isn't the best. I was even looking at it like "This is a fire ball?" What's funny is that Kenner would re-use that launcher AND the "fire ball" projectile, in 1991 with their Endoglow Terminator action figure. That one was solid orange and looks like a Cheeto more then this one! 🤣😂

You know, I thought it might have been but I wasn't 100% certain. I never watched the show but saw clips here and there on KZbin. Are the Ultra Police in it too?

I've heard that before! I was actually at the one in the American Dream mall in New Jersey last month. So cool to see them starting to come back.

Thanks and once I get the Robo-Command boxed vehicle in the mail, I'm going to do an un-boxing video and put that together and de-card these 4 figures. The RoboCop line was pretty slick, lots of cool figure designs and awesome vehicles. Definitely not one to pass up!

You're welcome! It's a great set and any fan of the old LJN Advanced Dungeons and Dragons line should have these in their collection.