Comments on: 1979 Palitoy Commander Power Catalog (Super Joe)

By: Seventiesfan

Seventiesfan — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 01:52:55 +0000

It's too bad about the Super Joe figures falling apart. I still have the Super Joe figure I got for Christmas almost 40 years ago, and he is not in the best shape. I remember gluing his broken parts back together years ago, but could never find his hands, so I replaced them with Mego hands. A couple of years ago I found a Gor figure on Ebay for a good price. The light doesn't work, but the figure is otherwise in great shape.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 15:54:07 +0000

Sadly, as Hauntedheadful has pointed out:

the maybe-stretchy plastic bands that were the Super Joe's skeletons/internal supports were of a weak plastic, + broke after a few months...or, at least that's what a lot of SJ owners have said. A number of 1970s GI Joe's internal plastic bands also didn't last long- I think that's why, when I look on ebay, [a lot of vintage 1970s GI Joe figures, + a lot of super joes, are 1] still in the box, but 2] are now a pile of unattached, toy body parts. ^^;

[You could make custom- SJ outfits, + 1970s GIJ outfits], for 1990s + after- gi joes, + 1960s, gi joes], however.
I used to have an S. Joe commander, + a figure of his un-bearded assistant. I think my cousin might have "borrowed them without asking", on me. :D

By: Hauntedheadful

Hauntedheadful — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 14:45:22 +0000

I've read that these were really cheap toys for a reason.Supposedly, the price of plastics skyrocketed due to oil embargo and shortages in the 70's. The 12 inch figures were too expensive to make so they made shorter figures.and apparently the new plastic itself was really low quality.Also the rubber bands holding them together were cheap.I got The Shield for my birthday in '78 and I remember it didn't last long before breaking,while my mego superheroes from a few years prior outlasted it(In fact I still have them 40 years later).I found a Gor a few years ago without a working light and a few weeks ago I bought a Rocket Command Center in good shape,but finding other figures in one piece is rare.