Hello everyone, here is a link to Episode 1 of the original series I made MANY years ago. Back then the series was broken up into 18 smaller episodes. I will post combined, full length versions of both series later this month. Thank you. ruclips.net/video/TL1oZEUrdV8/видео.html
hey man question, how did recording this all come about? did you contact her and then visit? was she nearby or you had to take a trip? also were the other people in the film people you knew or were they other people invited?
@@hippa2dahoppa2 Both Aire, the woman in these videos, and Mark Bellomo, who I had filmed a year earlier, I just knew through old toy group forums. Both were very open and giving with their toy knowledge to other collectors in the forums, so at different times I reached out to both to see if they'd be interested in having me film them while they talked about their collections. Mark was in the middle of prepping his second edition of The Ultimate Guide To G.I.JOE book, so I flew out to the east coast and stayed with him for 4 or so days while we filmed. Then the following year I flew down to Texas to stay with Aire for 4-5 days while we filmed her collection. The group that showed up was not pre-planned by me, Aire had offered to allow some local collectors to visit while I happened to be there, so it actually worked out well because it gave her people to talk to and explain everything, instead of just talking into the camera more. I only made these videos for fun, but unfortunately it was too expensive to keep doing these videos for free. I live in Canada, so I had pay about $1,000 for each series to cover flights, and other transportation to make them. Both were a great experience, I just couldn't keep doing them for the out of pocket costs.
@@FlophouseFilms oh wow dude thats a awesome story thanks for sharing. i had did concerts for a number of years and met some comedians and started hanging with them in new york. but it would take me 9 hours to drive there each time plus the cost of hotels there etc was way to much. (i hate flying btw) i really wanted to get into interviewing them and make a seperate page for that because i earned trust of people to be around. had alot of interview ideas but then covid hit and i moved on to other things. sttill get offered to come out all the time i just cant make it. i love documenting things, i did alot of graffiti and urban exploring as well. so its cool to hear stuff like yours from other people who film. thanks for sharing.
@@FlophouseFilms you know what might be a neat good idea is doing a small skype interview with her and asking her how shes been and have her say what she did with her collection. might be a neat little update video?
Amazing woman. Great mom. The passion for collecting and archiving along with the joy of her kids playing with them is inspirational. It's unfortunate to hear her computer crashed, but she did have a lot written down; some toy history may have been lost and her legendary collection along with it. The amount of bins she had, if she had a show (TV and/or RUclips channel), there would be many years of content. The many toy lines, complete runs, variations and grails that other people are chasing to find, her book or video would have been used for reference. I'll be watching this video many times over; it's exciting to see the toys, a glimpse of a childhood dream I had collecting toys, but sad it will eventually be separated and lost (that's life). Thank you for combining the video & sharing and acknowledging the main film maker.
id imagine if she still had it today she could have a whole channel on it. theres so many figures and variations to put into their own segments. she would of most def been a famous youtuber in this era
Greatest joe collector of all time. I wish I could have met her. I love Joe's and I would be like a kid all over if I got a chance to have her show me her collection. Simply amazing.
Thank you so much for taking the time to bring this wonderful Joestorian's (after seeing this yes it's officially a word) documentary back to the light. Good Job brother 👍🏿
Her name is "Airedevon". Years ago, her hard drives crashed and she lost all of her backups to her "toy history" book ahe was working on. She had many complete vintage toy lines not just G.I. Joe ARAH. Yes, all of it is gone now. She gave up on finishing the book and sold all of her collection. A few of the Joe guys on the toy forums she used to post on got pieces of her collection. No one knows were she is today.
oh no! thats a sad ending! thank you for the update. i imagine if she sold it in todays market she prob would of got 3x more maybe on some of those sealed cards. at least shes free from the burden of it though and its all documented.
@@caroljavalera8508 how is she doing? i told the filmmaker who is in the pinned comment tthey should do a update on zoom if shes interested. or possibly ill try if hes not interested.
Look at mama go..😱 with all their names and stuff.. omg..! Now that's what i called, "G.I JOE'S MAMA" an avid collector wouldn't have any problems with thier names,colours, which maker,even from which year.. you earned the title mama.. 🫡🫡 heard that you're sick. I pray for your health and always in God's grace.. 🙏😊
@@caroljavalera8508 yah the rumor of passing away is coming from another comment on here, but it has been addressed. i want to delete the original comment, but if people would take the time to expand the other comment the literal second comment is proof shes alive. so i dunno what to do. im prob going to eventually delete any comment that says she has passed so there is no confusion. but its hard because the replies within those have context and updates.
The amount of time and money and EFFORT it must have taken to not just collect this, but research and organize and compile information… It’s staggering. It seems impossible. It’s such a tragedy that she wasn’t able to make her book. But my god - this video alone is a wealth of information including details I hadn’t known. She is incredible. Thank you for sharing this
Her name is Airdevon and the film was made by Flophouse films! I don’t know what happened to this unbelievable collection! I read someone else said she gave up on the book which is really sad because if anybody could have done an ultimate guide, it’s this woman! This collection will never be recreated ever truly amazing
flophouse is pinned in the comments. apparently from what other comments say, her hard drive crashed and she lost everything and then sold off the collection. focuses on training dogs now. alot of the collection was sold back to collectors of the old forum
@@caroljavalera8508 if youd like to correct it and update the info, here is a good spot instead of not elaborating. since every comment comes on my screen i need to correct people with correct info and i can only do that if other people help me put the right info out there.
She has $1000s of dollars just invested in containers, totes, and binders. I can’t even begin to imagine the $ value in Joes, not to mention all the other different lines and of collections! Truly a lifetimes work YO JOE!!!
2:05:40 halfway through What an awesome person she is. I was think the same thing, as I have a small collection, but they take up a lot of space. It would be a dream to have a collection like that, a nightmare in its vastness and amount of money spent (although the value of that collection is more now). Would you have offered money to maintain (not sell) the main collection, add-on to the collection and continue with her book and work? If I had the money, I would have loved to take over and be the curator of that epic collection and information. Thanks for putting these video together; 4 hours long, great collection, no complaints.
youre welcome, also the original filmmaker was found and is in the pinned comment now. that time stamp is great. i mean even in the crawl space she had it filled! and a entire room just for the kids to play. rewatching that reminds me of a childhood story. i use to hang out with my friend anthony after school. he had 2 kids on his street we hung out with very rarely. one day anthony said you should see his joe collection. this kid was basically hiding it from other people. as alot of kids did with things like video games and stuff living in the city friends often would steal. we didnt see it that day but a different day we went into his basement i cant remember why, i think we were trying to find some baseball gloves or something and in his basement he had a setup like her attic where he had 10x more joes then me, duplicates, the aircraft etc. he had strings on his vehicles so they could hover in the air like she did. i was blown away. he had no where near her collection, but he had way more then the average kid. i went over there immediately and was staring in shock. and then the kid said ok lets go. to him it was nothing really. he played with it so much hethought it was just normal. i wanted to stay there and look but was ushered upstairs and outside lol. thats such a cool memory to think back on. i also remember i hung out with this older kid sean. he stuck up for me because i always wore heavy metal t shirts and let me hang with him. he had tons of joes but he grew out of them. eventually he gave them to his younger brother eric who was about a year younger then me. since sean was maybe 4 yrs older then me he eventually got a car and disappeared so i hung out with his younger brother. his younger brother inherited all seans gi joes but didnt take care of them and often left them all over the yard. i was super jealous. i was getting to a point where i was storing my toys as collectables. one day he went in for dinner and i had to leave and i knew he had a bunch of joes laying outside in the dirt. before i left i grabbed a handfull and stole them lol. i cleaned them up and till this day i have them still preserved in a show box along with the rest ofmine. if i had the money id buy some sort of building and have all her joes on display and make it into some sort of restraunt as well so that you can tour the joes for a small fee, and pay her to give special tours and then also make money from the food or something in order to keep the place in business to keep caring for the museum portion. that would of been my plan. itd have to be in a city area to attract people
1:04:07 This part is amazing to me because I always wonder all the time if these things we do as humans will be lost forever to time simply because no one is recording every last fact of the process. She was literally archiving everything about G.I. Joe to be not only a permanent part of our culture's history, but a comprehensible part of our culture's history. It might be in vain, but it is incredibly inspirational and I feel the same should be done for everything in our culture, but we need people with time, patience, and money like this to do it basically... Thanks for sharing this documentary @hippa2dahoppa2 & thanks for creating the film @FlophouseFilms
i was always thinking man they should have a gi joe museum, and then i was thinking well if they did, how? thats when i started searching out big collections and i believe it was the old joe forum that people showed me this back then. this womans collection was so enormous that there is times second after second i would say wow wow wow. its totally crushed every collection i ever saw. i really wish there could of been a way for her to archive it as a museum and make money off tours and somehow have the city preserve it and file it all. but i guess this is the closest itll get. i started collecting he man origins 4 or 5 yrs ago and i set out on a mission to get all mint and the entire set as its still being released. i would say as far as i know i have the most mint he man origins set there is that i know of. i went through great lengths of trial and error finding the perfect card. now that the line is slowing down im slowly getting some of the variations. id like to think a little of her collecting stuck with me
Cool. Im a collector too here in Oregon. I think I have a few thousand minus vehicles. The hardest ones to find new/mint for me were the ones that required upc’s and mailing I didn’t get initially. I’m fine with open cards as long as everything is there and packaging complete
Amazing amount of knowledge along with a great collection she had. I never knew Action Man was part of GI Joe. I saw a bunch of the figures and a motorcycle at a Goodwill, but didn't get them as I thought they were knockoffs.
its def a hidden gem, the original film maker is in the pinned comment. i had not seen it for years either and randomly found it in a different folder on a drive then i usually would file stuff in
#hippa2dahoppa2 - Do you have a link to where you found "amazing gijoe toy action figure collection must see". Not even close to the right title and I'd like to see who else is uploading my content as their own.
are you chad hucal? the person mentioned above in the other post? i dont have the link as it was downloaded many many many years ago, but thats the exact title that it was saved as that was on youtube, thats why i menttioned it in the intro. and i could not find that title when searching youtube. i dont know how old this video is, but im guessing i had downloaded it in maybe 2013. 2017 at the latest. which is why i made the lengthy intro is to find the original owner if that is you. i tried to be as respectable as possible and i can take it down if its yours and you provide the original link if youd like. i dont monetize anything on my channel, ive just always found this a really really amazing documentary and wanted to reshare it and give proper credit to the original people. i have a huge passion for vintage joes, i bought a bunch of afa's even off the guy from coleco when he sold off his collection. but ive switched to motu origins. again no disrespect, i posted all out of love
i looked at your channel and believe this is yours, and by the post of your uploads it says 6 yrs ago. my flash drive says 2017 so that would seem to line up pretty close. the clips were 4 1 hour long clips (i can screenshot it if youd like although i dont think it matters). someone may have merged your clips at that time into a hour long clip (hour may of been the max in 2017 maybe? i know sometimes it took a while to extend from 10 minutes to longer uploads). let me know if you want me to take it down. if you do want me to take it down id urge you to please merge the clips like i did and re upload them. youtube is more popular today then it was 6 yrs ago and more people can see it. thanks!
Those dates are correct. This is the back story. If you look at the description below my videos it also explains this. I originally uploaded them in about 2010 or 11 I think, but they were only in 720p. Then around 2017 I re-uploaded the videos in 1080p, since more and more content then was becoming higher def. So I lost all the original view counts on the initial 720p versions, but I have those numbers in the description of each video. Oh, and yes, I’m Chad. If your videos aren’t monetized, that is fine, please just leave a link for Episode 1 of my series pinned at the top of the comments and in the description. It’s just not cool when people take my videos and pass them off as their own while they monetize them as well and make money off my work. Thank you.
@@FlophouseFilms that makes alot more sense of why i was thinking closer to 2013 then because i had bought my first house and got sick at the same time for about 8 months i was stuck in bed and the economy was still bad and i was on a gi joe buying spree since everything was so cheap. if you can do me a favor and leave a fresh new comment with the link you want and say your the owner i'll pin that as well as leave these comments here. i think its better if i pin it coming from you so people can click on your name easily as well as the link. also if u havent checked the first 4 minutes of the vid please watch it. i know how u feel at first, ive had people steal my edits on my other channels, i have 3 diff channels that i dont monetize so i know it can be infuriating when someone steals something with no credit. id have to browse my flash drive again but i think i have the low quality old old versions pasted together in this version. so maybe in the new post also mention he better quality is on your page if that sounds good? thanks man
@@hippa2dahoppa2 I will add a new comment with a link to the original videos for you to pin, thank you doing that. Thank you also for suggesting doing a full version cut to upload. You're right, back when these were originally uploaded YT had a much smaller time limit. In the next few weeks I'll do that for both series. Lastly, thank you for both acknowledging in your intro that the videos weren't yours and that you weren't monetizing them, and also for offering to take the video down if I had requested it. Not everyone on the internet has enough class to do the right thing. So thanks for being one of the good ones.
thank you so much, do you know if his original posts are up? i could not find them before making this. and def if he comments ill pin him in the comments. thanks for the update!
Tearing open sealed bags just to show the variations in colour. She loves to share her passion and obviously way before this stuff got super expensive.
man i remember around the time this came out i was buying up AFA's and tall cards as much as i could. we were in a recession and AFAs were around $50 and sealed cards were about $10. i wish i would of bought more but i was remodeling my first house i had bought. that collection right now if it still existed (which others said it was sold off already) would prob be worth 100k? 500k? maybe a million? i dunno but it would sure be up there for the prices they are going for now. the way she just threw carded joes around in the comic book boxes makes me jump on the edge of my seat going nooooo please handle with care! lol
it depends ive had alot of hard drives fail. for a professional company to actually fix the plates inside is in the thousands. if you get bad sectors the damage could just turn images into errors. ive had off brand usb drives go corrupt and tried to fix them and recovered a few files and the rest turned into jibberish corrupted files. ive had laptop drives go bad and i pulled them out and plugged a usb cable into them and put them into another computer just long enough to extract almost all the data. some of the windows operating systems when you pull a hard drive out and plug it into another system you cant get past the admin tto copy anything. so it all depends whatt she was using. when they first came out witththe 1tb usb drive which was just a encased hard drive mine failed in a month and i had put everything on it. i could not get it to boot no matter what. one day a few yrs later i still had it and wrapped it and put it in a freezer all night. next day i plugged it in and it started clunking and i got it to spin up and work just long enough to get everything off it. if uknow nothing about hard drives then your local shop will most likely tell u they cant save it or they want to format it to fix it and u lose everything because thats thefastest wayfor them to fix it.
@@caroljavalera8508 if you can prove otherwise id love to hear it. the pinned comment would be a good spot. i dont know why nobody ever reads or uses it
This filmmaker also did the ultimate guide to G I Joe documentary with Mark when he was working on volume one someone told me long ago that they bought her collection and unfortunately she has already passed
oh no! thats very sad to hear she passed =( another person said in the comments she had pieced alot out to alot of the members on the gi joe forum and was selling it off. im wondering if one person bought a bulk of it?
Im so sorry.. just went thru with the comments and found out that mama had already passed.. 😔😔 still, my prayers and thoughts for the family.. R.I.P mama.. 💐💐🌹🌹💐💐 you collections are still the best..
That was what I was thinking before the video started with her appearing. My brain was saying they went to her house, but I thought I had seen something else on her as well. I also could not imagine the game chasers actually brought enough cash to buy anything from her (“what’s wrong with these guys”???). Hahaha.
@@hippa2dahoppa2 A lot! I sold some things to her that she needed. She is a very nice person who truly loved GI Joe and finding all of the variations. I am very knowledgable with joes as I have been collecting 27 plus years but she was on a whole other level than everyone. I know some pieces I lost to her in ebay auctions and she would bid high knowing it may be the only time to get a hard to find variation. Its funny but in the video I was looking to see any key pieces I sold her. The convention tan vamp was mine that I sold her.
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Hello everyone, here is a link to Episode 1 of the original series I made MANY years ago. Back then the series was broken up into 18 smaller episodes. I will post combined, full length versions of both series later this month. Thank you.
ruclips.net/video/TL1oZEUrdV8/видео.html
^ also his is better quality, so for anyone watching on a tv or bigger device (which i recommend) def check the vids out on his channel.
hey man question, how did recording this all come about? did you contact her and then visit? was she nearby or you had to take a trip? also were the other people in the film people you knew or were they other people invited?
@@hippa2dahoppa2 Both Aire, the woman in these videos, and Mark Bellomo, who I had filmed a year earlier, I just knew through old toy group forums. Both were very open and giving with their toy knowledge to other collectors in the forums, so at different times I reached out to both to see if they'd be interested in having me film them while they talked about their collections. Mark was in the middle of prepping his second edition of The Ultimate Guide To G.I.JOE book, so I flew out to the east coast and stayed with him for 4 or so days while we filmed. Then the following year I flew down to Texas to stay with Aire for 4-5 days while we filmed her collection. The group that showed up was not pre-planned by me, Aire had offered to allow some local collectors to visit while I happened to be there, so it actually worked out well because it gave her people to talk to and explain everything, instead of just talking into the camera more. I only made these videos for fun, but unfortunately it was too expensive to keep doing these videos for free. I live in Canada, so I had pay about $1,000 for each series to cover flights, and other transportation to make them. Both were a great experience, I just couldn't keep doing them for the out of pocket costs.
@@FlophouseFilms oh wow dude thats a awesome story thanks for sharing. i had did concerts for a number of years and met some comedians and started hanging with them in new york. but it would take me 9 hours to drive there each time plus the cost of hotels there etc was way to much. (i hate flying btw) i really wanted to get into interviewing them and make a seperate page for that because i earned trust of people to be around. had alot of interview ideas but then covid hit and i moved on to other things. sttill get offered to come out all the time i just cant make it. i love documenting things, i did alot of graffiti and urban exploring as well. so its cool to hear stuff like yours from other people who film. thanks for sharing.
@@FlophouseFilms you know what might be a neat good idea is doing a small skype interview with her and asking her how shes been and have her say what she did with her collection. might be a neat little update video?
Amazing woman. Great mom. The passion for collecting and archiving along with the joy of her kids playing with them is inspirational. It's unfortunate to hear her computer crashed, but she did have a lot written down; some toy history may have been lost and her legendary collection along with it. The amount of bins she had, if she had a show (TV and/or RUclips channel), there would be many years of content. The many toy lines, complete runs, variations and grails that other people are chasing to find, her book or video would have been used for reference. I'll be watching this video many times over; it's exciting to see the toys, a glimpse of a childhood dream I had collecting toys, but sad it will eventually be separated and lost (that's life). Thank you for combining the video & sharing and acknowledging the main film maker.
id imagine if she still had it today she could have a whole channel on it. theres so many figures and variations to put into their own segments. she would of most def been a famous youtuber in this era
Thanks for posting this video. I heard about her years ago, but never got to see this amazing toy museum of a collection.
Greatest joe collector of all time. I wish I could have met her. I love Joe's and I would be like a kid all over if I got a chance to have her show me her collection. Simply amazing.
I remember watching this multipart series a long time ago. Thanks for sharing this. The collection is so impressive.
This lady is my hero. Id love to have a collection even comparable to hers. Insane collection.
My jaw has dropped. This is an incredible collection.
This has got to be the largest and best collection of Joes in the world! I bet she has more than the manufacturer
Thank you so much for taking the time to bring this wonderful Joestorian's (after seeing this yes it's officially a word) documentary back to the light. Good Job brother 👍🏿
Her name is "Airedevon". Years ago, her hard drives crashed and she lost all of her backups to her "toy history" book ahe was working on. She had many complete vintage toy lines not just G.I. Joe ARAH. Yes, all of it is gone now. She gave up on finishing the book and sold all of her collection. A few of the Joe guys on the toy forums she used to post on got pieces of her collection. No one knows were she is today.
oh no! thats a sad ending! thank you for the update. i imagine if she sold it in todays market she prob would of got 3x more maybe on some of those sealed cards. at least shes free from the burden of it though and its all documented.
Dam thats horrible
damn thats wack
Not true at all 😂 I spoke with her a week ago
@@caroljavalera8508 how is she doing? i told the filmmaker who is in the pinned comment tthey should do a update on zoom if shes interested. or possibly ill try if hes not interested.
Damn, she is badass having her collection. She’s sitting on a fortune. I hope she has a secured museum for her collection.
she ended up selling it off, bu i dont think well see another collection quite like it again.
@@hippa2dahoppa2I’m close to it at the very least and have the newer Target versions through the 2000’s as well
@@hippa2dahoppa2That’s sad she sold it
Now I know why my mom could not find a single storm shadow back in 1985 at K-mart ever! Thanks for hording them all.
LOL. true story i actually took my storm shaddow as a kid and tied it to a bottle rocket. wish i never done that
Hahahaha 🤦🏻♂️if we only knew better
Absolutely amazing collection. Thanks for sharing her story.
This lady is AWESOME!! Gi collection is crazy!!! 🤣 I love it though and that Mask collection really took me back.
Look at mama go..😱 with all their names and stuff.. omg..! Now that's what i called, "G.I JOE'S MAMA" an avid collector wouldn't have any problems with thier names,colours, which maker,even from which year.. you earned the title mama.. 🫡🫡 heard that you're sick. I pray for your health and always in God's grace.. 🙏😊
I wish I could have hugged her. What a lady. What a collector. So Kind and willing to teach. RIP
the original film maker has said shes still alive, the other comment had it wrong.
@@hippa2dahoppa2she is alive and well. Just other collectors making crap up to keep the market down
@@caroljavalera8508 yah the rumor of passing away is coming from another comment on here, but it has been addressed. i want to delete the original comment, but if people would take the time to expand the other comment the literal second comment is proof shes alive. so i dunno what to do. im prob going to eventually delete any comment that says she has passed so there is no confusion. but its hard because the replies within those have context and updates.
The amount of time and money and EFFORT it must have taken to not just collect this, but research and organize and compile information… It’s staggering. It seems impossible. It’s such a tragedy that she wasn’t able to make her book. But my god - this video alone is a wealth of information including details I hadn’t known. She is incredible. Thank you for sharing this
Her name is Airdevon and the film was made by Flophouse films! I don’t know what happened to this unbelievable collection! I read someone else said she gave up on the book which is really sad because if anybody could have done an ultimate guide, it’s this woman! This collection will never be recreated ever truly amazing
flophouse is pinned in the comments. apparently from what other comments say, her hard drive crashed and she lost everything and then sold off the collection. focuses on training dogs now. alot of the collection was sold back to collectors of the old forum
@@hippa2dahoppa2nope not true at all
@@caroljavalera8508 if youd like to correct it and update the info, here is a good spot instead of not elaborating. since every comment comes on my screen i need to correct people with correct info and i can only do that if other people help me put the right info out there.
She has $1000s of dollars just invested in containers, totes, and binders.
I can’t even begin to imagine the $ value in Joes, not to mention all the other different lines and of collections!
Truly a lifetimes work
YO JOE!!!
2:05:40 halfway through
What an awesome person she is. I was think the same thing, as I have a small collection, but they take up a lot of space. It would be a dream to have a collection like that, a nightmare in its vastness and amount of money spent (although the value of that collection is more now). Would you have offered money to maintain (not sell) the main collection, add-on to the collection and continue with her book and work? If I had the money, I would have loved to take over and be the curator of that epic collection and information. Thanks for putting these video together; 4 hours long, great collection, no complaints.
youre welcome, also the original filmmaker was found and is in the pinned comment now. that time stamp is great. i mean even in the crawl space she had it filled! and a entire room just for the kids to play. rewatching that reminds me of a childhood story. i use to hang out with my friend anthony after school. he had 2 kids on his street we hung out with very rarely. one day anthony said you should see his joe collection. this kid was basically hiding it from other people. as alot of kids did with things like video games and stuff living in the city friends often would steal. we didnt see it that day but a different day we went into his basement i cant remember why, i think we were trying to find some baseball gloves or something and in his basement he had a setup like her attic where he had 10x more joes then me, duplicates, the aircraft etc. he had strings on his vehicles so they could hover in the air like she did. i was blown away. he had no where near her collection, but he had way more then the average kid. i went over there immediately and was staring in shock. and then the kid said ok lets go. to him it was nothing really. he played with it so much hethought it was just normal. i wanted to stay there and look but was ushered upstairs and outside lol. thats such a cool memory to think back on. i also remember i hung out with this older kid sean. he stuck up for me because i always wore heavy metal t shirts and let me hang with him. he had tons of joes but he grew out of them. eventually he gave them to his younger brother eric who was about a year younger then me. since sean was maybe 4 yrs older then me he eventually got a car and disappeared so i hung out with his younger brother. his younger brother inherited all seans gi joes but didnt take care of them and often left them all over the yard. i was super jealous. i was getting to a point where i was storing my toys as collectables. one day he went in for dinner and i had to leave and i knew he had a bunch of joes laying outside in the dirt. before i left i grabbed a handfull and stole them lol. i cleaned them up and till this day i have them still preserved in a show box along with the rest ofmine. if i had the money id buy some sort of building and have all her joes on display and make it into some sort of restraunt as well so that you can tour the joes for a small fee, and pay her to give special tours and then also make money from the food or something in order to keep the place in business to keep caring for the museum portion. that would of been my plan. itd have to be in a city area to attract people
I feel like her parents wanted her to play with dolls and shes like, no
1:04:07 This part is amazing to me because I always wonder all the time if these things we do as humans will be lost forever to time simply because no one is recording every last fact of the process. She was literally archiving everything about G.I. Joe to be not only a permanent part of our culture's history, but a comprehensible part of our culture's history. It might be in vain, but it is incredibly inspirational and I feel the same should be done for everything in our culture, but we need people with time, patience, and money like this to do it basically...
Thanks for sharing this documentary @hippa2dahoppa2
& thanks for creating the film @FlophouseFilms
i was always thinking man they should have a gi joe museum, and then i was thinking well if they did, how? thats when i started searching out big collections and i believe it was the old joe forum that people showed me this back then. this womans collection was so enormous that there is times second after second i would say wow wow wow. its totally crushed every collection i ever saw. i really wish there could of been a way for her to archive it as a museum and make money off tours and somehow have the city preserve it and file it all. but i guess this is the closest itll get. i started collecting he man origins 4 or 5 yrs ago and i set out on a mission to get all mint and the entire set as its still being released. i would say as far as i know i have the most mint he man origins set there is that i know of. i went through great lengths of trial and error finding the perfect card. now that the line is slowing down im slowly getting some of the variations. id like to think a little of her collecting stuck with me
This woman is a legend
🇺🇲😎🥃. There's no man on Earth as badass as she is. She is the goddess queen of all GI Joe collectors on Earth. 👑🌎
I need those street hawk
Cool. Im a collector too here in Oregon. I think I have a few thousand minus vehicles. The hardest ones to find new/mint for me were the ones that required upc’s and mailing I didn’t get initially. I’m fine with open cards as long as everything is there and packaging complete
Amazing amount of knowledge along with a great collection she had. I never knew Action Man was part of GI Joe. I saw a bunch of the figures and a motorcycle at a Goodwill, but didn't get them as I thought they were knockoffs.
YOOOO! I was looking for this VID! Thanks for reposting it BRO BRO!
its def a hidden gem, the original film maker is in the pinned comment. i had not seen it for years either and randomly found it in a different folder on a drive then i usually would file stuff in
#hippa2dahoppa2 - Do you have a link to where you found "amazing gijoe toy action figure collection must see". Not even close to the right title and I'd like to see who else is uploading my content as their own.
are you chad hucal? the person mentioned above in the other post? i dont have the link as it was downloaded many many many years ago, but thats the exact title that it was saved as that was on youtube, thats why i menttioned it in the intro. and i could not find that title when searching youtube. i dont know how old this video is, but im guessing i had downloaded it in maybe 2013. 2017 at the latest. which is why i made the lengthy intro is to find the original owner if that is you. i tried to be as respectable as possible and i can take it down if its yours and you provide the original link if youd like. i dont monetize anything on my channel, ive just always found this a really really amazing documentary and wanted to reshare it and give proper credit to the original people. i have a huge passion for vintage joes, i bought a bunch of afa's even off the guy from coleco when he sold off his collection. but ive switched to motu origins. again no disrespect, i posted all out of love
i looked at your channel and believe this is yours, and by the post of your uploads it says 6 yrs ago. my flash drive says 2017 so that would seem to line up pretty close. the clips were 4 1 hour long clips (i can screenshot it if youd like although i dont think it matters). someone may have merged your clips at that time into a hour long clip (hour may of been the max in 2017 maybe? i know sometimes it took a while to extend from 10 minutes to longer uploads). let me know if you want me to take it down. if you do want me to take it down id urge you to please merge the clips like i did and re upload them. youtube is more popular today then it was 6 yrs ago and more people can see it. thanks!
Those dates are correct. This is the back story. If you look at the description below my videos it also explains this. I originally uploaded them in about 2010 or 11 I think, but they were only in 720p. Then around 2017 I re-uploaded the videos in 1080p, since more and more content then was becoming higher def. So I lost all the original view counts on the initial 720p versions, but I have those numbers in the description of each video. Oh, and yes, I’m Chad. If your videos aren’t monetized, that is fine, please just leave a link for Episode 1 of my series pinned at the top of the comments and in the description. It’s just not cool when people take my videos and pass them off as their own while they monetize them as well and make money off my work. Thank you.
@@FlophouseFilms that makes alot more sense of why i was thinking closer to 2013 then because i had bought my first house and got sick at the same time for about 8 months i was stuck in bed and the economy was still bad and i was on a gi joe buying spree since everything was so cheap. if you can do me a favor and leave a fresh new comment with the link you want and say your the owner i'll pin that as well as leave these comments here. i think its better if i pin it coming from you so people can click on your name easily as well as the link. also if u havent checked the first 4 minutes of the vid please watch it. i know how u feel at first, ive had people steal my edits on my other channels, i have 3 diff channels that i dont monetize so i know it can be infuriating when someone steals something with no credit. id have to browse my flash drive again but i think i have the low quality old old versions pasted together in this version. so maybe in the new post also mention he better quality is on your page if that sounds good? thanks man
@@hippa2dahoppa2 I will add a new comment with a link to the original videos for you to pin, thank you doing that. Thank you also for suggesting doing a full version cut to upload. You're right, back when these were originally uploaded YT had a much smaller time limit. In the next few weeks I'll do that for both series. Lastly, thank you for both acknowledging in your intro that the videos weren't yours and that you weren't monetizing them, and also for offering to take the video down if I had requested it. Not everyone on the internet has enough class to do the right thing. So thanks for being one of the good ones.
This is Chad Hucal's film. I sent him the link.
thank you so much, do you know if his original posts are up? i could not find them before making this. and def if he comments ill pin him in the comments. thanks for the update!
nevermind i think he commented, waiting on what he wants me to do.
Absolutely amazing collection. Of course I know this madam. Also, she reminds me of Traudl Junge's youth.. :)
yah actually she kinda does a little
you know your collection is large when it covers multiple rooms lmao
Nice one. So do you sell also worldwide
i dont sell anything
Addiction
Totally amazing collection, really nice woman
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보기만해도 행복합니다
어떤 멋진 피규어가 나와도 지아이조가
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gi joe was always the first for me until they changed the o ring. i guess it needed to be done but it was never the same after
3D Joes would help you with you book Carson knows everything
The kitchen of my dreams ❤
Amazing collection. Sad she sold it off but glad it sounds like people got it who would appreciate it. Easily $100k worth of Joes there.
Tearing open sealed bags just to show the variations in colour. She loves to share her passion and obviously way before this stuff got super expensive.
man i remember around the time this came out i was buying up AFA's and tall cards as much as i could. we were in a recession and AFAs were around $50 and sealed cards were about $10. i wish i would of bought more but i was remodeling my first house i had bought. that collection right now if it still existed (which others said it was sold off already) would prob be worth 100k? 500k? maybe a million? i dunno but it would sure be up there for the prices they are going for now. the way she just threw carded joes around in the comic book boxes makes me jump on the edge of my seat going nooooo please handle with care! lol
Awesome !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Couldn't the GI Joe lady have the data from her hard drives recovered?
it depends ive had alot of hard drives fail. for a professional company to actually fix the plates inside is in the thousands. if you get bad sectors the damage could just turn images into errors. ive had off brand usb drives go corrupt and tried to fix them and recovered a few files and the rest turned into jibberish corrupted files. ive had laptop drives go bad and i pulled them out and plugged a usb cable into them and put them into another computer just long enough to extract almost all the data. some of the windows operating systems when you pull a hard drive out and plug it into another system you cant get past the admin tto copy anything. so it all depends whatt she was using. when they first came out witththe 1tb usb drive which was just a encased hard drive mine failed in a month and i had put everything on it. i could not get it to boot no matter what. one day a few yrs later i still had it and wrapped it and put it in a freezer all night. next day i plugged it in and it started clunking and i got it to spin up and work just long enough to get everything off it. if uknow nothing about hard drives then your local shop will most likely tell u they cant save it or they want to format it to fix it and u lose everything because thats thefastest wayfor them to fix it.
False she has all the hard drives People love to spread rumors
@@caroljavalera8508 if you can prove otherwise id love to hear it. the pinned comment would be a good spot. i dont know why nobody ever reads or uses it
Amazing woman and collection. Wow
Is that “An” from collectors anonymous in the video? Just curious.
sorry not sure what you mean
@ An Truong Do
@ An Truong Do
oh, check out the pinned comment and ask there
This filmmaker also did the ultimate guide to G I Joe documentary with Mark when he was working on volume one someone told me long ago that they bought her collection and unfortunately she has already passed
oh no! thats very sad to hear she passed =( another person said in the comments she had pieced alot out to alot of the members on the gi joe forum and was selling it off. im wondering if one person bought a bulk of it?
She has not passed away. She just got burnt out on toys. She trains dogs professionally now. I still know someone who keeps in contact with her.
@@FlophouseFilms oh thats good news! =)
Im so sorry.. just went thru with the comments and found out that mama had already passed.. 😔😔 still, my prayers and thoughts for the family.. R.I.P mama.. 💐💐🌹🌹💐💐 you collections are still the best..
she is still with us, the filmmaker has confirmed she is ok and trains dogs now.
Not true and she never sold ot
Do you sell gi. Joe's also
no, not me in the video
The game chasers got to see her when she was in the middle of selling off her collection. Its a whole episode on one of there early seasons
That was what I was thinking before the video started with her appearing. My brain was saying they went to her house, but I thought I had seen something else on her as well. I also could not imagine the game chasers actually brought enough cash to buy anything from her (“what’s wrong with these guys”???). Hahaha.
😱🤤
The bummer is she can’t enjoy anything in those tubs.
if you watch the game chasers they had an episode on toy chasers in her home..that was a sight to see
really? do you have a link or know how long ago itt was? id love to see that
@hippa2dahoppa2 ruclips.net/video/JNzGbV47-y0/видео.htmlsi=CRLVcN8JzS3litVF
Omg
i wonder how much money she spent on this stuff
i wonder that myself. even during the time she was collecting some of those pieces were still high priced.
@@hippa2dahoppa2 was she rich? I mean to have that amount of expendable income got to have some hefty funds.
@@hippa2dahoppa2 A lot! I sold some things to her that she needed. She is a very nice person who truly loved GI Joe and finding all of the variations. I am very knowledgable with joes as I have been collecting 27 plus years but she was on a whole other level than everyone. I know some pieces I lost to her in ebay auctions and she would bid high knowing it may be the only time to get a hard to find variation. Its funny but in the video I was looking to see any key pieces I sold her. The convention tan vamp was mine that I sold her.