I didn't really start paying attention to the exclusives until just a few years ago. What is your favorite of all time? Can be a vehicle or a figure. Not limited to SDCC. Any exclusive.

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Sgt. Slaughter!

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If the mail-ins count, then Starduster. The radical vehicle-driver mail-in sets, which gave me a chance to own figures I never would have otherwise, would be a close second.

If not, SDCC suited Destro. My long national nightmare of waiting for a figure with Joe articulation in a suit was finally over.

Wow too tough to call. I have to break it down a little bit more. These are listed in each category in the order I like them.

GIJCC Con exclusive figure
Doc
Repeater
Voltar
Wet-Suit
Dragonsky
Air Viper
Metal Head
Long Arm
Brekhov
Psyche Out
Natalie Poole
Daina
Headhunter BATs

Con vehicles
Night Boomer
Tiger Ray Hydrofoil
HISS 2B

SDCC exclsuives
Sgt Slaughter
Black hair Zarana
Soundwave
Starscream
Jetfire

CJC exclusives
Black Ice
Hazard
Captain Ruin
Traceroute

NJCC
Metalhead

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I'm biased, but for me it has to be the JoeCon Red Shadow figure.

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its really hard to say as honestly the ONLY figures i have been interested in for about the last 5 years have ALL been exclusives which is annoying. i would probably say sdcc zarana but the jinx is cool too. and the nok 7 pack.

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Counter Culture Adventurer

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SDCC Starscream. I'll never get to own it, but it's awesome.

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Night Force, and I mean the TRU exclusives from 1988-89. Twelve cool figures, eight awesome vehicles.

Cold Slither Zarana

or vintage I would say special mission brazil.

SDCC
Regular Zarana (Cold Slither version is cool, but because of the totally different colours, seems like a different character) (PDD and Sgt Slaughter are very close too)
Shockwave HISS tank with Destro and Devastator BAT (Starscream is not too far behind)

Joe Con
Pretty much all the OG figures, not perfect, but as a whole, they're a great [half of a] set
The OG cargo truck, the only JoeCon vehicle I own, but still a good one, Night Boomer is close behind

Other exclusives:
The Dreadnok set, like the OG set, not perfect but as a whole, they're great
I'm pretty impressed with the Operation MOTH sets and own many of the troop builders
Over all I was happy with the first FSS, looking forward to part two

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I don't mean to call you out and make you feel like you have to defend yourself, but I'm going to call you out and make you defend yourself. I, personally, don't get how this vehicle sold out in the first place, much less how it could end up on a "best" list of any kind. So, did you not own the Indiana Jones version? Have you seen the other exclusives? Just have a love for trucks? As a fan of the exclusive, can you please explain to me what I'm missing? I honestly don't get why anybody bought it when it was inferior to the IJ version at 5 times the original retail price.

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Mail In: Steel Brigade followed by first Sgt Slaughter

Store: Sky Patrol (prefect way to reuse molds but still create new characters), followed by the Walmart issued ROC Battle Stations play sets (if these had been mass marketed instead of exclusive we may have seen more POC stuff, I'm still trying to get these and I worked at Walmart at the time )

GIJC: Doc, followed by From the Red Shadows set. Though Crimson Asp & Freestyle nearly took that place.

JCC: Iron Claw followed by Dr Venom

SDCC: Rally Cobra Commander followed by a tie with this years and last years sets.

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I dont own it and never will, but I was quite fond of the 2008 Cobra Commander in a suit with podium. The fact it came out in an election year was too perfect.

As far as things I do own, I loved the blue and grey Viper 3-pack from 1998, which was a TRU exclusive.

I love the black SNAKE armor from Target from Rise of Cobra. Definitely high up on my list of great exclusives. I enjoy the 25th mail away Doc, as well...mostly because they sent more than I ordered for some strange reason. And because it's a good figure that I enjoy, of a character I never got to own before.

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