They're asking $60k for this toy!

[@toyfederation]

What did you think of that eBay price ?

[@grendel0013]

I see some weird "sucker" auctions all the time on eBay. I mean some are so outright overpriced NOBODY would be able to afford them. I guess it's more of a gag listing but why does eBay allow? That beanie baby listing though feels like someone THINKS they have a rare one but they are just delusional.

[@phillipjones4983]

That was a sold price or asking price?

[@toyfederation]

Asking price.

[@grendel0013]

Oh man. If that was a sold price that beanie baby deal would have gone much differently. 🤣

[@George-de6hd]

I just bought a bunch of them unopened Batman cards for $2 a pack

[@bryantanderson430]

It's so annoying to go to a toy show and 85% of it is Funko Pops.

[@mikeblakeslee3753]

I don't get the hole Funko pops stuff ,

[@MatthewHoughton-c6g]

Yep 💯👍

[@saidraalien6837]

They're not toys anyway

[@MatthewHoughton-c6g]

@@saidraalien6837 … everyone already knows that 🙄🙄

[@chexcollects]

@@mikeblakeslee3753little demon figurines

[@Engine7601]

I like how you integrated little bits of the Podcast into this episode!

[@carlosarellano4]

Best part of walking up is toy federation in my cup-

[@toyfederation]

That's what we like to hear!

[@dontstopremembering]

totally agree

[@jimreed2138]

I work overnights. So when I get home in the morning I watch a couple of episodes to relax before I go to bed.

[@brandonguevara321]

​@@jimreed2138 same

[@joeyw7325]

I’ve been watching since day 1 and feel like I’m watching the infancy of something that’s going to be huge soon. This isn’t just a toy store. These guys are buying and selling people’s childhood memories and I’m here for it. Love this channel

[@questionblock8949]

Those Beanie Babies are the future of Funko Pops

[@DAREDEVILBKLYN]

I don't agree.

[@thousandwolves952]

Funko pops have no soul

[@finalsecretofchrono1339]

Gotta flip the video in the podcast section, but man I love how the podcast is lit. Toy store in the dark, some flashing lights in the in the background... so cool.

[@martinnaylor4060]

Sat in the garden chilling watching this all the way from Manchester UK

[@toyfederation]

So great! Now time to watch the podcast on the podcast channel! haha.

[@fearlesszenith4517]

…and now it feels like Saturday! cheers from Dunoon, Scotland

[@toyfederation]

Scotland! That's fantastic! Remember, podcast channel after this episode!

[@fearlesszenith4517]

already subscribed mate, three episodes in and loving it, i’ll get to the shop someday, it will happen, oh yes, it will happen!

[@ligerjon]

I think it went like this; us UK folk had Action Force based on Action Man, then Palitoy released the second wave of GI Joe figures on those old style Action Force cards, then more Joes on rebranded GI Joe cards; Action Force: International Heroes. Then we went GI Joe: the Action Force. I think that's broadly correct.

[@lorenzojoneson]

baron ironblood was reintroduced as cobra commander as well.

[@Adam.Edward]

In Canada it was still G.I. Joe - Real American Hero. Us kids in the 80s did not care, it was still Awesome

[@marc_andreroy]

I’m loving these double uploads of toy store videos then podcast videos.

[@toyfederation]

Awesome to hear!

[@DBirdtn]

At 12.03 "I'm gonna keep this one"😂. I love when the guys give Ryan a hard time about keeping everything 🤣. Thx you for the amazing video and laughs you all bring to us.

[@RedBeard_YT]

I love how u add in the podcast. Great editing! This has come to be one of my favorite channels. Great content pulls you in and a great show!

[@bosvarkutube]

Being an expert in your field makes it so fun to watch

[@SasquatchPicker]

Shelves..you need some shelves. Did I say you needed some shelves? I really like shelves. Shelves; shelves. Shelves. Shelves!

[@MikeRay1978]

I love the podcast parts mixed in. I don’t have time to watch it all but love seeing parts here.

[@megatronxmatt]

I would love to see a segment on how you build one of your display pieces, i.e., he-man, gi joes, and transformers. What goes into deciding which figures and how you display them for sale. Love my weekly plastic toy crack show. 😆

[@TAKTAK_Toys]

So the Action Force Vamp is an SAS Panther Ryan - I believe it came with Snake Eyes who was called Hunter here in the UK

[@ADAM_COLLECTS]

Australia got GI Joe, we also got CORPS and i wouldn’t be surprised if we got action force too, but it was all have been secondary and tertiary stuff

[@andydeveaux8763]

Start of the episode totally took me back to my childhood. Late 80s and my family went to England for a vacation. While in London we went to Harrod's. Huge department store. Of course, we had to see the toy floor and I was so confused seeing all of these GI Joe's, which was my favorite toy line as a kid, in the wrong colors and names. 😃

[@bullettoothjosh]

Speaking of Beanie Babies. Funko Pops are the new Beanie Babies of this gen.

[@PACKYCSONE80]

A LOST Dharma project shirt?! That is awesome! Miss that show😢

[@gabe1978]

My wife goes with me to toy-cons/ conventions and ALWAYS ask why nobody has girls toys- she'd spend more than me if anybody had inventory

[@DavidWalraven-kx1ly]

I saw a KZbin video on the Action Force APC and it looked soooo cool. A rolling hospital for 1983 Doc with an upgraded cannon on top. Meanwhile, Jem is truly outrageous.

[@chriswinstel9326]

The APC in Action Force is really cool! It has a different gun turrent set up and the inside has a med facility with Doc's stretcher.

[@britman1966]

It was Action Force in England but eventually moved to G.I. Joe, 8 year old me was not happy.

[@josephmontanaro5951]

I ran into these pricing discrepancies with sportscards and finally had to invest a monthly service that curated prices over many platforms to give me a better idea of the true market. You gentleman should create that for toys.

[@maxmizer002]

Thanks for droping on sat bro its a nice touch

[@planetvegan7843]

Never stop floor sorting.

[@jara8184]

Loved the insight into running shows. Another amazing episode. The streak continues!

[@ReddOchober]

I stopped really collecting over a decade ago because scarcity really began kicking in. Good products were mostly gone, and the prices were just not making sense to me anymore.

[@thunderballzz]

I work in a high paced, cutthroat tech company. These videos give me such calm and nostalgia. Thanks Ryan, don't ever stop!

[@mountaineer7435]

Nostalgia? With someone who, grew up watching Thunder ball z That would make you barely 20! 😂

[@jessekittrell2946]

​@mountaineer7435 ???? Pretty sure he's going over GI Joe stuff at the beginning of this video. And 70%+ of their content is toys from the '70s/'80s/& early to mid '90s. I was born in '85 & turn 40 this year & most of the stuff they go over were my older brothers toys i got handed down. My stuff was mainly TMNT & Xmen.

[@theusualidiot124]

back in the ‘80s i had metlar and my brother had d’compose, those 2 are my personal grail items that i will one day add to my collection.

[@brianrichards8013]

That would be such a cool job to have all the different toy lines to come threw the door. I loved the starcom line would love to complete my line and then find the cardboard box’s to add

[@thefirstfiftyeight]

I just wanna say, these videos have already taught me so much about how to fairly value toys and what to expect when selling a collection. Kuddos to you guys for spreading that priceless toy knowledge. Toy collectors can learn alot from this!

[@lara_vfett]

Awesome episode always!🙌🏽 yeah those are wild prices on eBay. I’ve heard of rumors about using beanie babies to launder money too😳🤣

[@grendel0013]

You guys really did pick the best time to drop a weekly video. It's already engrained in my brain as a weekend routine. Great video. Going back now for a second watch.

[@eddiegoldeniii]

I sold y'all that Techno Zoids rod part on ebay, very cool to hear it mentioned in the video!!

[@hiattbaladez9037]

I absolutely love joeFest. Also love Jen and the holograms playing in the background

[@joelmatthew4828]

If people knew how to use and filter EBAY it could be great. Unfortunately people see something worth 20 bucks on there for BIN price of 50 or 60 and assume that is what its worth. On the flip side EBAY has hidden fees and percents that make it hard to make money. Nothing beats going in person to a shop and talking prices, in reality most mom and pop shops have the most realistic prices. Its a shame they have to compete with big box and online. Keep the Christmas tree up all year, it was the best holiday as a kid.

[@jara8184]

A Jem lot!?? Wow. My wife is drooling right now 🤣

[@bikerscout7467]

Yes Action Force SAS is so cool! All the other teams too! Glad we had it here growing up in the UK! The SAS Panther is one of my favourite toys of all time! Then after the initial Palitoy action force lines finished we were able to get the U.S. GI Joe stuff rebranded Action Force International Heroes from about 1985 onwards. Almost best of both worlds, but certainly no where near the level of GI Joe figs and vehicles that you got across the Atlantic!

[@PhuryousOne]

I used to have that bone monster thing @ 10:30. lol I used to trap my G.I. Joes in his rib cage. That goes way back. I was probably 6 years old when I had that.

[@Robert-nu4vc]

That's D Compose from Inhumanoids. I had Metlar and Tendril from that toyline.

[@koncorde]

Action Force was an interesting one because (as a Brit) I knew Action Man, but didn't realise that there was a link to AF. And then a few years later AF, which had been pretty generic WW2 / Cold War soldiers with that distinctive that cocked arm, suddenly started having cool ninjas and evil badguys with complex vehicles, and expanded pose-ability. I was an avid reader of Transformers UK comics at the time, and at some point there was a Marvel crossover where Action Force appeared as like the European arm of GI Joe which was my first intro to the "other" name outside of it being periodically mentioned in moves like The Boy Who Could Fly.

[@DoingNothingKing]

Wait u just blew my mind A guy who owns a toy store, & been in the hobby for decades, is “mind blown” a stuff animal is worth thousands?!? But no random toys?! It’s the same exact thing 🤣

[@jimjones308]

No. The asking price was insane. They'll never,ever, get thousands for that beanie. What something is "worth" is what someone is willing to pay for it. People are willing to pay thousands for certain rare toys. This is fact. No one is paying thousands for that rooster beanie baby. It's actually not all that hard to understand.

[@DoingNothingKing]

@@jimjones308 ah you should do research before trying to contradict/patronize me, you’re the perfect example someone who believe they were right from gut feeling There’s plenty of beanie babies recently selling for 1k+. Plz do research before talking or even speaking to anyone. You suffer from major insecurities

[@Robert-nu4vc]

I really want to get Metlar and Tendril again. I had got them both for Christmas 1986, and I loved those toys. I gave them to my little cousin in the mid-90s, along with about 90% of my other childhood toys. I regret that so badly to this day.

[@jasonludwick3504]

That's a great store owner! Even though he's looking up stuff and doing business he still acknowledged customers walking in. That's awesome. I have walked into to similar stores and just completely ignored and guess what I sure is hell didn't buy anything. In fact when I go into a store like this and people acknowledge me and are friendly I immediately say I'm going to buy something!

[@JamesMuff-m6h]

The kraken is a unique attempt in the action force line and also baron ironblood hes the equivalent of Cobra commander there was a mail away skelatron , palitoy was a great company

[@toyfederation]

It was a great line and now there's a new take on it with Valaverse.

[@yesterlandtoys1138]

I love this smash combo of podcast and shop business video. Keep this style going please.

[@rickl9462]

I use to have all the Inhumanoids. loved that toy line.

[@mjpaul1]

Love that Action Force makes it first channel appearance. Thats my main collecting focus having grown up with it as a kid before Hasbro "took over".

[@blankshotgaming]

My wife and I are driving to Joefest from MD, please bring some of the pony stuff for her lol.

[@chrisstephenson8311]

That micro machines display for Mc Donald’s or whatever is cool…I am into collecting micro machines and started almost a year ago and already have some cool OG cars and rare stuff and even NIB stuff too..I have all the lighted buildings they made and also starting to collect the trains they did and were only around for 2 years before they abandoned the line!

[@LeTon75]

My teacher at school asked me yesterday if there's anywhere in the world I like to go.....i said "I'd love to visit Travis and the boys at Toy Federation in the State's" Unfortunately she said I dont think the school budget could afford the trip so I'll just save up my paper round monies. See ya in 2026 Travis 👍 love from London ❤

[@michaelleary9233]

Kids still do paper routes over there? Even the adult carriers over here are losing those jobs as everything goes digital.

[@LeTon75]

@@michaelleary9233 lol yep I'm up every morning at 5am to do mine on roller skates. I hate Sundays tho as they are the heaviest with all the magazines no one reads lol 😂

[@michaelleary9233]

@@LeTon75 Cool, my dad had morning and afternoon routes as a kid, but by the 90s, they wouldn't hire kids even if their parents drove them to do it. Nowadays, they are hardly selling enough papers to need anyone.

[@nathanmoulds939]

I'm from the UK and grew up with action force. Fantastic toy line from palitoy, based on action man.

[@Ronnie2787]

5:42 exactly the reason i sold all of my funkos this past Christmas lol. Started noticing some of my higher end pops really start to drop in price and i wasn’t really collecting much anymore so id rather get my money out while i could. Idk if the hobby will ever die out like Beanie Babies but now the Pop game is all about signatures. Everyone wants to stand in line to pay crazy signature prices and then go try and sell to someone who wasn’t lucky enough to own specific pop and get it signed. There is a market for it cause the shop i sold my stuff to deals heavy in pops and they are always buying and moving these crazy priced pops. Big pass for me on that aspect. Love the content as always 👍.

[@frankieingrid1983]

Always makes my Saturday watching these videos

[@SteveDonnelly-i1s]

SOOO COOOL WHEN YOU GUY'S COME ON!!! IT'S LIKE WATCHING GI JOE BACK IN THE DAY, AFTER SCHOOL GI JOE!!!!! "NOW , TOY FEDERATION"!!!!!!!! THANK YOU ALL SOOOOOOO VERY MUCH!!!!!!!❤😂🙏🫶👍❤😂

[@knightrider6473]

I've already listened to the podcast, I don't need to listen too parts of it again on these episodes.

[@Deathbringerrrrrrrrr]

I agree with the wristband vs badge and lanyard comment.

[@CarbonScoring]

"I think they are cool, I don't know where I'm gonna put 'em" is the story of my life!

[@gazev9691]

I used to love action Force here in the UK, I think it also shared a comic run with Transformers over here. I loved my Kracken, I seem to think it was a mail away once you had collected enough vouchers - but all many years ago, so I may be completely wrong 🤣🤣 another great episode 👍👍

[@BeardedG.i.JoeAdmiral71]

The knowledge is great and i hope to be able to provide this sone day on my youtube channel, G.i.Joe's & Beards. Great video gentleman 👏

[@stephenbarone4053]

How do you figure out the pricing on the store displays?

[@punaforager]

Would love to see more of the faces behind some of these trade ins, like the woman who got rid of her Jem collection. Great episode!

[@DevilDog00]

Always look forward to Saturday mornings with toy federation feels like the 80s again have a great weekend guys!

[@chaicharin]

Decompose is one the scariest things I witnessed as a child on Saturday morning cartoons.

[@superquad7]

Just this past week I bought a Metlar. I knew it had head damage (the inside bottom of the head suffers from "GPS", or gold plastic syndrome, where the plastic is very brittle), but turned out the leg housing inside was busted. I hope I can repair it, but it's quite extensive. I've always wanted the 3 monsters from inhumanoids, but they're so costly. I loved watching inhumaoids with Jem and Bigfoot. Such a great show. I've talked to Flint Dille (showrunner of Inhumanoids), and he had a ton of fun with creating the show.

[@PeterSTIHL]

I wish they made Sslither or a fan made him.

[@SkorDie-id9qf]

I think those disney toy displays are from mcdonalds. I remember getting the Mulan and the vhs toys in happy meals when i was younger

[@grendel0013]

I didn't give two craps about girl's toys when I was a kid but now as an adult I do find them interesting. This is very educational.

[@toyfederation]

We were worried about this episode! Thanks for saying that!

[@LeTon75]

Also the worse thing about being a UK fan is we can't buy from the Toy Fed ebay store 😢

[@jeff0117]

I like the podcast and the shop stuff. But keeping them separate would be better for me at least. I like them both just not together

[@martyguy8185]

I like the inserts with the podcast. Maby in smaller bits would make it better ??

[@craigcharlesworth1538]

So a brief primer on Action Force. Palitoy were the UK distributers for the 12" GI Joe which they rebranded as Action Man and was a big hit in the 70s. In the early 80s they noticed that sales of Action Man were declining while sales of Star Wars figures (which they were also UK distributers for) were going gangbusters. This was also around the time of the oil crisis when producing plastic products was becoming very expensive, and Palitoy had the idea of relaunching Action Man as a spin-off 3 3/4" line just like Star Wars. Across the pond, Hasbro had had exacty the same idea and I believe Action Force and GI Joe: RAH debuted within months of each other on opposite sides of the Atlantic. Like RAH, Action Force initially tried to be quite a serious line with a focus on real military technology but soon went off in a completely different direction with aliens and world-spanning threats appearing. Also like RAH it launched a promotional tie-in comic. Unlike RAH, however, the figures were very simple 5poa affairs in the Star Wars style, where RAH went for a much more super-articulated feel. For a couple of years the two lines were completely independent, until Palitoy started bringing over some RAH figures and repainting them to fit the Action Force theme. I believe both Cobra Commander and Snake Eyes were included in Action Force but as completely different characters. A few more years went by, and now Palitoy had been bought by Hasbro. Hasbro wanted to launch RAH in the UK properly, but Action Force was still a popular brand so they decided to stick with it. From this point on everything was now repackaged RAH product, with just the name on the box changed to Action Force. The 5poa figues were all completely retired, the Red Shadows who had been the main antagonists of Action Force previously were replaced by COBRA. The UK-produced Action Force comic was taken over by Marvel UK who mainly reprinted US RAH strips hastily edited to remove any reference to the GI Joe name (I believe there were some UK original comic stories, as there had been for Transformers). That continued for another couple of years (including an extraordinary dub of the animated movie, which had every reference to GI Joe removed as well as renaming Sgt Slaughter to Sgt Slammer) and finally Hasbro just decided it was easier if GI Joe was GI Joe in every region. To be honest, this was at a time when RAH was kind of dying off anyway so it made little difference but the last couple of years of the line were sold in the UK as GI Joe and the Action Force name disappeared. It stayed gone for around 30 years until Bobby Vala picked it up (the story I heard was that Hasbro had so little interest in the line that they had let the trademark lapse and so Vala swooped in). A lot of UK kids now in their 40s and 50s have fond memories of Action Force, especially the early Palitoy produced stuff. And they still show up from time to time; I think one of the US GI Joe comics recently had a storyline where the Red Shadows were introduced as new villains.

[@GeneralSantucci1st]

The totes of motu figure made my jaw drop . 5$ a figure is a good price and I might grab a few if they are on eBay .

[@goingindieEN]

Seeing a random zoids in the wild is crazy. Haven't heard of zoids in forever.

[@ambiguousgender7616]

I still have Action Force VHS and can recall some moments aha: INTERNATIONAL HEROES, ACTION FORCE WILL BE THERE!

[@JohnCardVanDam]

I lived in England from 96-01 and instead of GI Joe/Max Steel, they had Action Man. Lots of variations

[@jimmyPureYa]

I literally have both of those Toys… and I am at a loss of words… I remember playing he-man and transformers and we used to fight those guys.. Got them at the Cumberland Mall… unbelievable…

[@kilo-watt]

This channel has become one of my favorites.

[@MegaAppl3]

Those displays are super cool. It would be so cool to have Star Wars displays like that. Different scenes from the movie

[@bwetdude]

Our GI Joes were the same as in the USA, except for the stickers sheets which had Canadian flags. My mother made me give away my Cobra Glider back in the days; to some 3rd grade cousin or something... 😕 I believe I still have the "pilot"... Maybe the box, if I'm lucky! 🍀

[@natterman2037]

He picked up Ram Man. I had him when i was a little one. His legs are spring loaded and push up inside! Oh memories! I had a few He Mans. A Tri Klops he had 3 eyes that could spin around his head but only 1 could stop for him to use! We was never allowed to own Skeletor😢

[@dontstopremembering]

congratulations for 50k!

[@toyfederation]

Thank you so much 😀

[@nucleusclothing]

Inhumanoids and Sectaurs were such awesome toys.

[@jazz-2-moonbase2]

I couldn't agree more!!!! I now need to make it a mission to get those inhumanoids back in my life lol

[@ArtistAnnex]

My sister had the Jem and MLP toy lines growing up. I recently finished my Action Force/Palitoy run. I'm just waiting for the Roboskull MKII to arrive so I can compare it to the OG.

[@Sharksleep]

That's one of the few D'Composes I've seen with the head still attached, let alone the ponytail.

[@Rexcelot]

what i learned about watching videos like these, is to never bring you anything and just sell everything yourself.

[@gaminggerber4308]

After seeing some videos he keeps it fair

[@gaineyjohnson6628]

Retail vs. Wholesale. When a collector sells to a retailer, they are selling as a wholesaler. Which seems to be 35 to 50 percent of retail? Is that about right? Prices change so fast I don't know from the videos.

[@jimreed2138]

He seems pretty fair

[@darthsmoke76]

I've been wanting to pick up a Tendril figure and I didn't even have any inhumanoids as a kid I just love the looks of it

[@aawasup]

Those old McDonald’s displays are cool!

[@toyfederation]

Old McDonald's toys are the best!

[@tomchorlton4911]

Between 18:00 and 19:00, there is a sand colored playset looking thing on screen right, generally beneath the micro machine displays Ryan is holding up. What is that?

[@MatthewHoughton-c6g]

I wonder if this guy for Toy Federation has ever been mistaken for George McFly when he was a young man in back to the future

[@MrIrishTech]

It was GI Joe "International Hero" in the UK & Ireland.

[@bradmoon5991]

Ever thought of doing a personal collection tour?

[@Anthony-ot8vl]

The gliders are still on my wish list. Worth the price.

[@kanopi07]

Morning everyone!!😊

[@toyfederation]

Good Morning.

[@stephenkelly1125]

I’ll be bringing over a load of action force stuff to Joefest along with my buddy Stefan Brown who will have a full table. Happy to help educate you about the history, plenty of European joe fans heading over this year with AF knowledge

[@jasonmuller1199]

Americans trying to explain that there are other countries in the world is hilarious

[@joelorozco]

Thin sheet metal wall, neodymium magnet glued to the back of each loose MOTU figure!

[@randyduncan4004]

I absolutely LOVE this channel. Do you do starting lineups? A show about those would be awesome!!