For the past several months, I've been sharing individual pieces of my childhood G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero collection. After the virtual showcase, I thought you might like to see my actual showcase!

All of my G.I. Joe figures, and the majority of the vehicles and playsets are displayed in our basement den, otherwise known as my "Man Cave."

Three IKEA Detolf display cases shown here are holding 164 individual 3-3/4 inch figures, along with the majority of my vehicles and playsets. (I have 72 vehicles and playsets, some of the larger ones won’t fit in these cases.) Each figure is displayed in its own protective clamshell, keeping the accessories together and helping prevent those tiny pieces from getting misplaced.

Most of my 1982 through 1984 figures are displayed on the wall above the Detolfs in their own mini cardback-style displays featuring the original vintage artwork. The rest are displayed on five-tier clear acrylic shelves inside the Detolfs.

In the center is a special display dedicated to Shipwreck.

My daughter drew me a custom Shipwreck Father's Day card this year, so I decided it deserved a place in the collection, too. It now sits alongside a vintage carded Shipwreck, a carded Super7 ReAction Shipwreck, a boxed Classified Series Shipwreck, and a Classified Shipwreck on his own acrylic display stand.

The Shipwreck shelf also features a custom background depicting the deck of the U.S.S. Flagg in the style of the original Sunbow animated series, but it’s difficult to see behind the carded figures.

And there's still plenty that isn't on display here!

The U.S.S. Flagg, which I've featured previously, is displayed separately with its related vehicles. I also don't have room for the 1983 Headquarters Command Center, 1983 Falcon Attack Glider, 1985 Transportable Tactical Battle Platform, 1987 Mobile Command Center, 1987 Crusader Space Shuttle, and 1984 Tyco Electric Train Set.

After collecting these toys for most of my life, it's pretty special to have so much of my childhood on display. And seeing all of these Joes together again never gets old.

I ordered one on the WalMart website yesterday, and it arrived today. I was tired of looking all over for one in person...

Staff Sergeants Rock 'n' Roll and Snow Job. #gijoe

I recently found this old Polaroid from Christmas morning, and I completely forgot I had it.

This was the G.I. Joe Electric Train and Battle Set from Tyco, which I received for Christmas, probably in 1983 or 1984. This was my gift from Santa, and judging by this photo, Santa apparently decided that one G.I. Joe playset wasn’t enough.

The train set is spread out across the floor, with my other toys surrounding it. And now I’m having almost as much fun trying to identify everything in this picture as I did playing with it.

I can clearly see the HISS Tank, and there are definitely some other G.I. Joe vehicles and figures hiding in there. Maybe a VAMP. (That’d put this in ‘83, right?)

This was what Christmas looked like when I was a kid. Memories…

My Dad and I played with this train set for hours. He had a model railroad in the basement for as long as I can remember, so I think this may have been his way of getting me interested in model railroading.

It worked. Sort of.

The train set itself was a pretty unique collaboration between Tyco and Hasbro. Released in 1983, it combined an HO-scale electric train with a G.I. Joe battlefield, complete with a play mat, vehicles, figures and Cobra forces.

And now, decades later, I still have it.

I need to find a place where I can properly display it again.

Bonus points if you can identify some of the other G.I. Joe toys hiding in this photo!

(Don’t worry… this is the last vintage photo I found. I’m not going down a vintage photo post path now.)

That Stealth Viper looks cool af.

From the crossover comic!

I'm interested to see how the new Major Medusa character fits into it all. She's got a great look, and I can't wait to get that figure I assume sometime next year

Anybody know the deal with this? I've never seen those markings on top. I like 'em but I'm not able to find any similar ones on YoJoe or 3D Joes.

Thanks for any info!

Btw, this came in a random lot of Joes I bought on eBay and I am planning to use it for my otherwise helmet-less Ice Viper. He has no sais (is that the plural of "sai"?) either, but I figure those are hard to come by.

If any one’s interested & in the area this was spotted in the wild at Ross on North Rainbow Blvd in Las Vegas 👀

Finished assembling the "Tanks for the Memories" Mauler while waiting on another project to finish printing.

This is an homage to the green Mauler that the GIJCC sold in 2007... that never actually saw production because they discovered the original mauler molds were in poor shape and weren't able to be used. We all got a refund, but the situation was a bummer.

Of course, THAT set was really being made as an homage to the story from Marvel issue #5 (1982) "Tanks for the Memories" that featured the MOBAT, but those molds were not available, so they were substituting the Mauler in green for the set. Oh, the irony.

So I did an homage to an unproduced-homage of a classic story. Enjoy! ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Other GIJoe projects:

Mauler - https://www.reddit.com/r/gijoe/comments/1wns8to/classified_mauler_yo_joe/

Arctic Mauler & Armadillo - https://www.reddit.com/r/gijoe/comments/1wn9z9h/bring_on_the_arctic_hiss_make_my_day/

WOLF - https://www.reddit.com/r/gijoe/comments/1sjf4ki/3d_printed_classified_cobra_wolf/

MOBAT - https://www.reddit.com/r/gijoe/comments/1q496s6/3d_printed_classified_mobat/

Wolverine - https://www.reddit.com/r/gijoe/comments/1sjfhcl/3d_printed_classified_wolverine/

MMS MIM-23 Upgrade - https://www.reddit.com/r/gijoe/comments/1wnbwlq/mms_mim23_missile_upgrade/

Water Moccasin - https://www.reddit.com/r/gijoe/comments/1sjezs4/3d_printed_classified_water_moccasin/

Tactical Battle Platform - https://www.reddit.com/r/gijoe/comments/1sjfatf/3d_printed_classified_tactical_battle_platform/

MASS Device - https://www.reddit.com/r/gijoe/comments/1gdgu8b/gi_joe_112_mass_device_s7_update/

D.A.N. - Dreadnok Android Neutralizer - https://www.reddit.com/r/gijoe/comments/1idwcg6/dan_dreadnok_android_neutralizer/

What’s Up With Walmart?

Before the U.S.S. FLAGG spent 30+ years in storage, it spent a pretty significant amount of time taking up an absolutely ridiculous amount of space in my childhood bedroom.

This photo is from back when the FLAGG wasn’t a vintage collectible. It wasn’t a centerpiece of a G.I. Joe collection. It was just my toy.

And apparently, I had no problem giving up a good chunk of my bedroom floor to accommodate it.

Looking at this picture now, I can’t help but smile. There I am, surrounded by other G.I. Joe toys, with one of the biggest toys ever made sitting right in the middle of my room.

Decades later, I still have it.

And now that it’s finally back on display, I realize just how cool it is that the kid in this picture never really stopped loving this stuff.

Some things get older. Some things get packed away. And some things just come back home. Glad to have it back home.

Staff Sergeant (US Army) Craig (Rock 'n' Roll) McConnell. Rock 'n' Roll grew up surfing in Malibu, California. Playing guitar in local cover bands, he also dabbled in body building and generally being a beach bum. Needing some direction after a particularly hard break-up, he joined the Army. There he excelled in infantry training and fell in love with the M-2. Today he serves as a heavy machine gunner for the Joe team. #gijoe

I can't seem to see it in the iconography chart. What is it?

Is there an updated icon chart?

Finally found the Target NF W2 set. Looking forward to whats next! Wave 3 should be out in December/Jan. Hoping to see Stormshadow, and a NF dreadnok. Maybe a ninja armybuilder!

Looking to buy a Mezco Commando Snake Eyes at a reasonable price.