G.I. Joe conventions tend to bring out the worst aspects of G.I.Joe, the worst of all is the exclusives so I'll look back at as many of them as I can remember or until I get bored, don't worry though I'm not gonna do anything stupid like that 1993 Backblast that got bagged and sold in like 98 or something.
James DeSimone's convention exclusives:
Cobra Infiltrate Jinx: This figure is great because it was James DeSimone getting a bunch of Jinx's and a Mickey Mouse CC Cobra symbol stencil. I bet that guy makes a batch in his garage every two years
Police Officer: What happens when you take an already ugly figure and make him a cop? A hilarious waste of Stardusters, but I suppose this motherfucker is hella rare what with regular Stardusters being like 60 bucks and these guys never show up. They'd probably go for like 200 bucks, I guess I should make some in my garage and then sell them.
Race Car Driver:I think this is the best coloring of the Ace v1 mold shame it's just a shitty custom
Master Collector Exclusives
2002: Hey remember when Vipers weren't boring and Crimson repaints weren't (really) stupid? yeah the good old days indeed!
2003: The beginning of using "obscure molds" oh well atleast this set didn't prevent any good molds from being used at retail
2004: HELL YEH DREADNOKZ It's pretty bad when the best figures are a Buzzer and Ripper with hilarious and unnoticed ripped off foreign colorschemes. Also this set is the beggining of really hilarious and overpriced other exclusives (I think there was only 1 in 03, here there's a bunch) My favorite being the fifty dollar Zubaz pants Zartan with a TBC Hawk in bad colors and a second one with new sculpt head. Didn't they make a v1 style Zartan head with a balljoint neck in 2001? Why not use that
2005: Hey like 90% of these molds would've done better at retail and not being Iron Grenadiers, seriously fuck the Iron Grenaiders those guys are overrated
2006: What happens when you take some of the lamer molds and make a bunch of fat ass troopers for Major Bludd and Overlord, who also introduces the coil, a sub par convention set, so how do you save it? Throw in a R@RE and cool South American exclusive, just ya know make it worse that the original. This is probably the worst set ever devised by these MC cats mainly due too the fact it throws all the popular Joe fan ideas together and proves they're all godawful. Wait I guess this is the best set.
2007: Some decent updates too classic characters and some cartoon characters. It's lowpoint is pretty much the female Cobra troopers. While not nearly as fucked up as a lot of customs the terrible back mold ruins those figures.
2008: DRUG DEALING ROBOTS CRACK SMACK BZZT LSD
Canadian Joe exclusives: The most expensive customs around, too bad they all suck and aren't even worth the money jerks pay for them.
So in the end, most Joe convention exclusives are terrible (much like this article) and not really worth 300 bones, but then again "HEY U GUYS THERE EXCLUSIVES THEY MIGHT SELL OUT!" which ya know rarely happens