The Five Vehicles I love most in my collection
5: Desert Fox All kinds of win, I always played with Joes in teams of five or six which fit perfectly on this baby

4: Night Ops/Desert/Jungle strike Humvees I will argue that this mold rivals the R.H.I.N.O. as best new sculpt vehicle. I lump these guys together but they are a semi-realistic useful vehicle that holds five figures and gear.

3: Morey PT Boat It just screams awesome and isn't a monstrosity like the whale or the flag but it still holds a boat load (no pun intended) of figures and has a ton of neat play accessories. I never had the original cobra boat.

2: Tiger Rat I never had the Rattler but its cool play value combined with the fact that my high school mascot was a tiger put this (and all of the TF vehicles) in a special place. It was also a gift from my cousin who got it Minty in a slot car trade.

1: The Equalizer Say what you will about the Sarge he had great taste in Tanks none of those were a wash (kind of an odd reversal of the original night force. Crazy figure colors and drop dead cool vehicle colors) This Tank had it all, radar, Anti Air missiles, dual light cannon (not a tank on tank type of tank) and it had a search light

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I forgot about these:



These are precious too.

Sorry, kingofpain, I couldn't help it...that box is just too funny.

Well I got my good laugh for the day.

Rhino and NAC tied for the top. Both of these have so many play features. Perfect designs, FOW.

Grizzly my favourite Joe tank.

Night Raven my favourite plane.

Night Adder Second favourite plane. Great to play with.

Roboskull One of the best toy vehicle designs of all time. Awesome.

Swamp skier I had endless fun with this as a kid.

AF SAS Fang as above.

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Night force Night Striker : one of my last Joe Christmas presents from my Dad.

Rattler : Last Christmas present from my High School Sweetheart.

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My MIB Canadian Mauler, but I just bought a car and I need to raise some money, so I'm selling it:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... %3DSelling

It's killing me to do this but I had to take down my Joe room when my son was born and this thing (along with 90%) of my collection is sitting in the attic and unless I move or build onto my house I don't see me pulling this stuff out of storage for 18 plus years.

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If we are going with strictly realeased vehicles, here are few of my favorites:


Defiant: I was always fascinated with Space toys ever since I was a kid growing up and got to visit Kennedy Space Center. I know it has its design problems but the over all look of the Defiant just really appeals to me.

Night Raven: This is another one of those that I just had to have from another childhood experience. Im sure anyone who grew up around the Dayton/Cincy Ohio area has at some point being to the Airplane Museum outside of Wright Patterson Air Force. Back in the day they used to have a Blackbird sitting right out in front of the museum so every time you would go you never missed.

Thunder Clap I'm not sure what it was about this vehicle that appealed to me when it came but for some reason I just really liked the Thunderclap. Maybe it was the huge artillery canon or just the fact that it split into 3 smaller vehicles but It's still one of my favorites today.

Truthfully however most of my favorite vehicles are Customs I have done over the years. Out of all the Custom vehicles I have done there are a few that stand out from the rest and no matter how much money I was offered or If I just quit collecting all together I would never get rid of any of these Customs.

Hisstank Five:
http://www.joecustoms.com/customs/custo ... 144&id=589

Arctic Whale:
http://www.joecustoms.com/customs/custo ... 144&id=534

Tiger Force Skystriker:
http://www.joecustoms.com/customs/custo ... 144&id=454

Halo 3 Warthog:
http://www.joecustoms.com/customs/custo ... 144&id=533

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For me it's the Hammerhead and the Bugg.

Both have insane amounts of play value on land or in water.

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I always loved my Killer Whale and Water Mocassin. I used to have TONS of fun with those as a kid, and they are still among my favorites today.

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So my most precious vehicle happens to be my ONLY vehicle... lol. Kiddo gets most of what I buy, but there are a few things I keep back for myself. Anyway, I have a 1984 SHARC in excellent condition, but for a busted hinge on the canopy (which I want to replace). I know it originally came with Deep Six, but in my Sunbow-based verse that's Shippy's vehicle and my 1985 Shipwreck (also in excellent condition) stands right next to it. Both of them are my pride and joy. I was particularly proud to get both because I always played with my brother's Shipwreck when we were kids...and my brother never had a SHARC. neener neener

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