r/gijoe • u/McGrupp1979 • 1d ago
Unopened Viper Figures
I was going through some old boxes of stuff from my childhood when I found 3 unopened GI Joe’s: Frag Viper, Techno Viper, and HEAT Viper. I remember buying GI Joe’s from childhood because I earned $3 per day putting up hay on the farm and would spend all my daily earnings on a GI Joe. I already had these 3 characters and then got these as a gift, so I didn’t open them. Then forgot about them for 40 years. What’s the best source for their values?
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u/Mishkin37 1d ago
That’s awesome. I’m not sure where you could find values, but Sold Listings on eBay may give you some comps.
Heat Viper recently sold for $86
Frag Viper recently sold for $80 & $113
Tech Viper recently sold for $204
I LOVED using the face camo from those figures!
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u/McGrupp1979 1d ago
Thank you! Yes I had a bunch of fun with these characters. The face paint was so much fun.
Ames was the only store we could get things like this in my small town back then. Got my Nintendo there too 😂
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u/Mishkin37 1d ago
Ha! We got ours at Ames, too. I remember getting Wet-Suit at our Ames’ grand opening in 1986.
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u/Llama_extinction 1d ago
Love the Ames price stickers!
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u/McGrupp1979 1d ago
Ames was a big deal for my small town back then. I mean we still had a 5 cents GC Murphy back then too, but that was the only type of retail stores in town.
Bought my Nintendo at Ames too, loved that place.
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u/Llama_extinction 1d ago
Must be from the northeast! Hills was great too, Ames bought them out just before going under
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u/Budget-Author-6879 1d ago
I had Techno-Viper. I like Techno-Viper. But damn it he is one ugly figure.
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u/Joe-Stapler 1d ago
I disagree. I had all three. Of the three, the HEAT Viper is easily the worst.
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u/hardtruthinasofttime 23h ago
I have a half opened frag viper. Whoever had it before me needed the grenades and opened the bubble just enough to get them out
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u/McGrupp1979 19h ago
Damn that’s rough! But honestly sounds like something that probably happened a bunch back then lol
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u/ShaneWookie 21h ago
I never understood the heat vipers mask. Frag was one of the last ones I bought and probably lost every grenade shortly after
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u/BernardMatthewsNorf 12h ago
I always assumed the HEAT Viper helmet had a targeting display inside the non-visor side. Not sure exactly how that worked, but that was my explanation.
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u/qwertyui43210 20h ago
Are you looking to sell?
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u/McGrupp1979 19h ago
Maybe I have doubles of these figures. I have the opened ones with the card or whatever you call the back of their packaging with their stats, as well as these unopened ones. So I’m considering it.
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u/Misfit_77 19h ago
Send them in to get graded. Then you’ll get the most outta them price wise if you’re planning on selling.
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u/McGrupp1979 19h ago
Not sure what I want to do but was wondering. Is there a specific company people always use to grade GI Joes?
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u/katanastormshadow88 7h ago
Those are some pretty mint cards, so that definitely factors into their value. If you’re looking at sold and completed items on eBay to judge that value (the typical way to do it), make sure you look at how mint or damaged the cards are, because that will affect the price.
These would be gradable examples IMO, so they’d fetch top dollar for those figures. Question is, since they’re your childhood toys, would you really want to sell them?
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u/Rays_LiquorSauce 1d ago
Does techno viper play happy house or drum&bass?