Anyone collect vintage ARAH toys?

I've got a pretty decent collection of 82-85 ARAH stuff. Just about every loose figure and quite a few vehicles with boxes. Trying to get all of the vehicles with boxes to finish out my collection. Just curious if there are any other fellow collectors here.

Cool! No boxes left but have a lot of what you are showing and then some in near mint loose condition.


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lost most of my collection a couple years ago when i moved... jealous as hell!

Yup, I got tons. I usually trade or sell the boxes, though. I just don't have room for boxes.

Ah, so that is you from LS2!

I've got lots of loose figures in storage. Most of the '83-86ers. I've got two carded Flints, carded Bazooka and Airtight, and a boxed Zartan. Would love to have more sealed figures, but Flint and the Z-man are the only ones I keep on display, with their modified Sideshow counterparts and loose figures.

DPrime said:

Yup, I got tons. I usually trade or sell the boxes, though. I just don't have room for boxes.

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Hey, I love boxes. Let me know if you have any you want to get rid of.

EVILFACE said:

Ah, so that is you from LS2!

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Yep, it's me. I didn't realize you were the same evilface from there.

karamazov80 said:

I've got lots of loose figures in storage. Most of the '83-86ers. I've got two carded Flints, carded Bazooka and Airtight, and a boxed Zartan. Would love to have more sealed figures, but Flint and the Z-man are the only ones I keep on display, with their modified Sideshow counterparts and loose figures.

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I want a carded Flint at some point. Still remember buying that one back in the day. I have Spirit, Airborne, Recondo, Airtight and Short Fuze carded. All of my vehicles have been opened except for the Rattler. That one is still sealed in the bag but the box is a little rough.

GI Joe ARAH is my primary collection, you have some great stuff there, especially the Sears Crimson Attack Tank!

Great collection! The vast majority of mine were sold at a garage sale long ago, so I am very envious. Think my mom got around a quarter per figure.

I've got all my 80s stuff still, I'm currently reringing and putting new screws in everything that needed it and cleaning up my vehicles. Trying to figure out how/where to display them though, don't wanna get them back in fighting shape just to rebox them and put them back in the attic.

GearheadSS said:

Hey, I love boxes. Let me know if you have any you want to get rid of.

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I think they're all gone for the most part. I'll let you know if any turn up, though.

Sorry to bring up such a long buried thread but I have been adding a figure or two to my small vintage collection over the past few years, I will post more photos when I get the chance to actually photograph them.

The Skull said:

Sorry to bring up such a long buried thread but I have been adding a figure or two to my small vintage collection over the past few years, I will post more photos when I get the chance to actually photograph them.

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That was a very cool series of figures. More or less in the style of the original figures, but more accurate to the comic in many cases, and we got several characters that were neglected altogether in the original line like Kwinn and the Oktober Guard.

karamazov80 said:

That was a very cool series of figures. More or less in the style of the original figures, but more accurate to the comic in many cases, and we got several characters that were neglected altogether in the original line like Kwinn and the Oktober Guard.

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I bought that particular set mainly for the 83 snake eyes with up-dated paint that comes included, zap is also pretty cool to however the Grunt is odd having blonde hair, not sure what happened there



I just found out about the Vietnam 3 pack with Stalker, Storm Shadow and Snake-eyes in their Nam outfits, such a cool set, to bad its a fortune now

I remember when those were being clearanced out on HasbroToyShop. I stocked up on some of them. I loved their Zartan.

And I almost had something else to contribute to this thread, as I was outbid at the last minute on a couple of carded Takara Joes last week. But one day, they will be mind. THIS, I COMMAND!

Hasbro sure got their money worth with the Snake Eyes mold. Something like 40+ figure variations of it.

karamazov80 said:

I remember when those were being clearanced out on HasbroToyShop. I stocked up on some of them. I loved their Zartan.

And I almost had something else to contribute to this thread, as I was outbid at the last minute on a couple of carded Takara Joes last week. But one day, they will be mind. THIS, I COMMAND!

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I wish I had stocked up, I completely missed the boat on them, I stopped collecting from 2003-2009. I only started picking up vintage joes in 2013 and not very many, I have less than 20 total.

EVILFACE said:

Hasbro sure got their money worth with the Snake Eyes mold. Something like 40+ figure variations of it.

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Easy money

EVILFACE said:

Hasbro sure got their money worth with the Snake Eyes mold. Something like 40+ figure variations of it.

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And now Gentle Giant is doing the large and small figures based off of the same mold! One of my favorite Snake Eyes variants, even though it only uses his head I think:

https://www.yojoe.com/action/int/2intcard/br-deaco.jpg

Yea I'd get a GG Deaco.

Here's some more, not much to speak of, a couple are the funskool versions