Toy-Ventures : Big Jim P.A.C.K Find!

[@steverino474]

Never had but always wanted....love that jack kirby box art

[@manofaction1807]

Rocking that 70's hair and Butterfly collars!!! They smell like BRUT, by Fabergé, and Old Spice!

[@chrishight6598]

LOVED this line. The laser vet and bike 2 pack were some of the best toys made. Great video. That packaging art is incredible.

[@BrickMantooth]

It really is!

[@andrewflashchannelgibbs5384]

Enjoy your purchases. 👍. Thanks for sharing. No need to justify your purchases, we hear the joy in your voice. 😊

[@BrickMantooth]

@@andrewflashchannelgibbs5384 thank you!

[@supermandrew7026]

I was born in ‘78 so I kinda missed the Big Jim line, except for adds in old comic books that I was collecting. Really cool to see this origin story - great video!

[@BrickMantooth]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!

[@charlesrobinson7469]

Big Jim should now be an O Ring 3.75 Scale Figure Series with Vehicles.👍🏾

[@steventurner6902]

My brother and I had some of these figures when we were kids back in the early 70s we loved them. My favorite was Zorak 😊

[@donaldwiller9238]

You are so lucky to have thim 😊

[@BrickMantooth]

@@donaldwiller9238 trust me I am grateful

[@donaldwiller9238]

Big Jim's wolfpack so cool Great information 👌

[@johngeraci3887]

Excellent job

[@jeremykoerner4100]

Fantastic!

[@laserbender2773]

Wow! Congrats on finding your grail toys! I'm glad you were able to find these sought after figures.

[@gijoeking1]

Awesome score! 👍👍

[@KAM1138a]

Love the Big Jim PACK

[@revnole]

I had The Whip as a kid, and it was my favorite. He would go in adventures with my Mego Kirk and Spock. Thanks for sharing.

[@rickytoddbotelho9555]

Secretly a 💎 when I was in grade school 🏫 😅

[@chrismize2738]

Had a lot of this series. Great memories and wonderful toys to play with. My favorites being Jim, Dr. Steel and the Whip.

[@manofaction1807]

Has anyone ever remade this line? An update, and development into a line would be an interesting project. Looking hard at you, Marauder Miniatures!

[@jma9275]

I had them as a kid, I wish I still had them...😢

[@edfletcher2404]

This is awesome! It is sooo satisfying when you can get that grail item or items. Congratulations!

[@BrickMantooth]

I am still in shock, thanks!

[@disteenguishedmonstoor]

WOW! Congrats on the grails and completing the set! I know how you feel about Canadian packaging, like I view comics; I've bought some CGC graded comics but ONLY when they were CAN. instead of U.S. cover prices, and if it was before we got a comic shop even close to me, I want the barcode in the corner box and not Direct Market. GREAT boxes for the P.A.C.K. and amazing & clear bubbles on the accessory sets!

[@un-intentionalcollection8951]

Big Jim is awesome & I have a decent collection. The Canadian boxed Whip & Warpath has been in my collection for over 15 years. Love the artwork of the Big Jim line, especially the Euro boxed stuff. Finally acquiring a grail is bittersweet, I know how you feel. What's next??? Congratulations on the set.

[@YAMISOOLD2009]

Enjoyed that. I liked that you gave the backstory as to why Big Jim, who seemed so much a backwoods camping fanatic and chill dude, suddenly became this sorta James Bond like super agent. I didn't have the means to comprehend that way back then but I certainly noticed from one Sears Wishbook to the next that something had really changed! I alas never had a single Big Jim item but (of course!) my cousin did so I got to play with him and possibly some of the wolf pac as well though memories are a bit fuzzy. I'm glad to see you have this stroke of luck though in your long search!💯

[@toddkillinger8538]

Another excellent video about a subject near and dear to my little plastic heart. I, too, check out the Big Jim listings every morning, though I’m more interested in completing the original sportsman/college jock series than the Wolf Pack (I recall my mother wasn’t taken with the series reboot, so any purchases of the line stopped there). Someday I might dip my toes in the Wolf waters-especially as I’m now getting into the 70’s action flicks that I was a hair too young to indulge in and appreciate at the time. (My parents were taking me to the drive-in to see “Winnie the Pooh”, not “Billy Jack”). Also, it occurred to me while watching that the MOTU/Big Jim DNA runs deeper still as Torpedo Fist and Warpath (and certainly Double Trouble) all smack of character names from Eternia. Mattel never abandons a good idea...

[@fdeadlycommasir]

Congratulations on your findings! Great video!

[@BrickMantooth]

Thanks so much!

[@michaelj.destasio3052]

Brian, that is none other than Ernie Colon. He is masterfully mimicking the style of Kirby and Big John. Enjoy!!!

[@TheChadTI]

I love that Identity Crisis intro you've always used. 🤙 Alice doing Iggy 😅

[@BrickMantooth]

Its been stuck in my head for years.

[@benway23]

Thank you for your work.

[@Mark_Prince]

Wow! Great pickups! I also loved Big Jim P.A.C.K. when I was a kid. I keep hoping Mattel will bring them back like they did with MOTU.

[@paolomongon6616]

Gorgeous set!

[@esa5952]

Brian, I don’t remember seeing any packaging other than the window boxes in Montreal. I also don’t remember seeing the solid box Big Jim either. I owned Torpedo Fist, double trouble big jim and Zodak. Even though the tattoos would rub off and the buckles would snap in half I didn’t care because there was so much play value in these. Congrats on your acquisitions. It’s such a shame that the Big Jim line ended in North America. The continued international waves are amazing. On a related note I remember a hot wheels mainline formula style race car with P.A.C.K deco.this was the first time I ever encountered a cross over between Mattel toy lines. I thought it was so cool

[@bio1656]

Mattel should bring back big jim . so many people would purchase them .

[@KoolKatDave]

When I was heavily collecting Big Jim 20 years ago, I asked the same thing, and someone in the know (one of the then Big Jim "gurus") told me there were only about 100 Big Jim collectors worldwide then. That's not enough to have a company bring back an entire line for retail, sadly.

[@travishiltz4750]

IVery cool. never had any of the figures, but loved those Kirby ads. My grail is that promotional comic.

[@rainmanmanilajoe3716]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@BrickMantooth]

thank you!

[@LightOfReason7]

Great video, i love them too!

[@BigNasty72-kb2hx]

Had the sports camper back in the day. Hope to reacquire it one of these days.

[@daleschroeder-jm9gu]

I have 2 1971 big jims mint in box and the 1975 big jim P A C K mint in the box they want alot of money for him and other big jim guys there awesome😁

[@jonacheson]

I had the Big Jim camper, the Sky Commander playset. which was a Barbie jetliner with new art and a different interior and a rescue winch that was cool looking but didn't really work, and the Howler bike. I had the wolfpack Big Jim, and a couple of the costume packs, and best of all, the Laservette, which was pretty indestructible. It lasted long enough for my nephew to have fun with it in the 2010s.

[@captlazer5509]

I was a Major Matt Mason kid. It sold into the very early 70s and that line huge on vehicles. I remember Big Jim and had the diver. Missed out on the other cool stuff. Thanks for showing!

[@Busk_N_Groove]

Fun video & Congrats on your scores! So cool that you found them after all this years. Never had any Big Jim but always liked seeing him the Mattel mini catalog back in the day. Btw, “Formidable accessories” takes the cake.

[@johngaither5522]

Awesome!

[@Mazooc]

My brother (‘70) and I (‘71) were gifted the Big Jim camper set, I think we were too young and it didn’t click. Eagle Eye and Mike Power came a year, maybe two later and the timing was right… hooked on Joe, not Jim. Thanks Brian for a great reflection on the series we missed out on, or perhaps disregarded.

[@BrickMantooth]

I was addicted to Joe too! Still am!

[@Merylstreep1949]

Zorak, lol surprised Space Ghost didn't file a lawsuit 😂

[@katenunyabizness9221]

My BF's older brother had some of these. I can recall the holster and silver pistol from Jom, the communicator or as I like to call it now Pipboy. I recall the boots with the paw prints and the bolas and whip, all sitting inside what was left of the Big Jim Sky Commander.

[@richconroy5559]

Oh I had so much of this stuff. Thank you for covering the stuff because I could not remember what half of it was called.

[@BrickMantooth]

@@richconroy5559 happy to do it.

[@richconroy5559]

@@BrickMantooth Believe me, it shows. Congratulations on completing the figure set. I think I had all of them except for the Whip, but I remember the comics almost more than the toys

[@bigjimschannelMiguelAngel]

👏👏👏👏👏

[@geekstrong1]

💪😎

[@BrickMantooth]

Thanks Dean!

[@wmnoe]

I never had the Big Jim figures, but I did have the double trouble outfit sets, a couple of them anyway. I believe IIRC they were available for cheap at Pic n Save. I know I had both of the deluxe sets you purchased. I used them with my Mego Star Trek and Planet of the Apes figures and of course they were too big!

[@elcowabungahe-man6156]

Great line to bad I didn't have the chance to play with this figures but i did had a lot of Mego

[@NoordinaryTeacher]

As a boy I played with my Dr Steel so much I think it was broken within days. ❤😢

[@fletchkeilman2205]

Ah yes....Monster Dog in the opening. Good choice

[@BrickMantooth]

Big fan

[@MrLee204]

Never once saw these as a kid(Leaf Rapids, Manitoba) in person but the comic book advertisement from that era was burned into my brain.

[@jimkuna8687]

This is what kids need real guys doing guy things mixing it up a bit with Weapons and the art work wow

[@KasumiKenshirou]

I grew up in the era of the Ninja Turtles figures. April O'Neil had a video camera that had a concealed handgun inside of it, a similar idea to one of these figures.

[@Loopcats]

I had a lot of the Big Jim toy line, including the Laser Vette. I seem to recall a large white vehicle on skids for traveling through snow but I'm not sure if that a Big Jim product.

[@TheBlindDyslexic]

What would be cool is if Mattel would Rerelease Big Jim's Wolf PACK, and turn around and create maybe a Live-Action or Animated movie for them. Maybe update them to where the team takes place in the '80 or '90s.

[@Kane429]

I was born in '74, so I just missed this line. I would have adored it. Double Trouble Big Jim Commander remains a huge want for me, but prices are out of control, sadly.

[@BrickMantooth]

Yeah, a lot of "Buy It Nows" are kind of hopeful.

[@thrdgll1]

The Off-Road Adventure box appears to have Kirby art on the back (the comic strip), but that's not looking too Kirby to my geeky eye on the front.

[@Mazooc]

My brother (‘70) and I (‘71) were gifted the Big Jim camper set, I think we were too young and it didn’t click. Eagle Eye and Mike Power came a year, maybe two later and the timing was right… hooked on Joe, not Jim.

[@kingerikthegreatest.ofall.7860]

I had Dr. Steele.

[@unorthdoxcleric6953]

Damm that is some amount of time to wait for an Ebay Listing

[@devilman2465]

I want to know if it was just a coincidence that the figure designer made Big Jim's head look exactly like a Tom of Finland drawing.

[@artsquestions.1722]

I had bullet man. I need to find him and pulsar.

[@fdeadlycommasir]

@@artsquestions.1722 I had Bullet Man. He looked a lot like my swimming instructor. I felt it really didn't fit in with the GI Joe line.

[@bootleggodzilla1]

Not sure if anyone has said this but Jack Kirby had a falling out with marvel and Stan Lee around this time over original artwork that he deserved to get back so he could sell it at conventions like th sdcc and ny comicon. He was working at DC and this time on the new gods related comics that were all about darkseid and his kids

[@BrickMantooth]

Yeah I didn't want to delve too deeply into Jack for this one but his work at Mattel sides with his move to California.

[@80sCartoonsGuy]

I read that some of the leftover Big Jim stuff was repurposed into Masters of the Universe. Like battle cat for instance. Not sure if that is true or not. 🤔

[@shughes4113]

That art looks like Joe Staton.

[@esa5952]

Oops Zorak not zodak

[@JuntoAsnani]

Too bad the new packaging didn't retain the Jack Kirby art.

[@t.s.180]

As a comic guy I can’t identify the artist. Honestly, it’s probably not I identifiable. But it’s definitely not Sal Buscema.