how long would a gi joe last underground?

This would be cool to see. Post pics when you find them.

So what happened? Did you find any?

good to know they got metal dog tags now lets just hope he left them on when he buried them

I have yet to go over there but im planing soon too

Metal Dog Tags:

true buut 40 years ago I don't think aluminum was used very much in anything other than airplanes.

before you do anthing check if the mettle rivets on Joes are magnetick because some mettles arn't magnetick.

I think it's the fact that there are so many good places for him to ahve to search.

whats with the angry face?

well she has one big tree thats low to the ground and they had some chain link fencing and a grape orchard which when not in season is just a big open space with lots of vines around it


any of those places would be a great place to play with some joes

lol. I hope she doesn't have a lot of land. Best places to look would be areas that would have been fun to play with the figures.

thats awesome to know I do actually have a metal detector ill have to go over to my gmas house its a long drive so might be awhile but hey whats a couple days on 40 years in the ground

Some good news. According the wiki on these Joes they're held together with metal rivets so a metal detector may be able to pick them up.

vintage 12 inch joes

Are they the big G.I. Joes or the litle ones?

I'm betting those things have at least metal dogtags if not metal internal parts.

Did he barry them in plastic box of some kind? If he did you can just buy a pitch fork and poke litle holes down till you hit something.

you should take pics of the joes half dug up and have an ironman, namor,thor wasp and gaintman standing around the hole

Great idea, Didn't the early joes have Metal dog tags?

Well, having learned general combat and survival skills, a Joe could go undercover and stay there indefinitely, especially if they took a page from Zartan's playbook and wore a disguise. It would help to already have a cache of weapons and supplies stashed away and....

...Oh, you mean underground literally...

Ask you dad if they had metal parts, you may be able to find them with a metal detector.

I figured they would be messed up but maybe still good fodder at least
maybe I will give my grandma a call
shes got a big backyard and my dad didn't know where he buried them either so its gonna be a pain in the but finding them

if thats the case then customize them to be zombies . since they won't be worth much if they are like that.

Hard to tell. I'd say do and see. The clothes and hair would probably be bad but the plastic should have survived unless they froze a lot.

probably