hello
i was going though my spirits and notice one of them had a large logo on right arm.the others spirit had a small logo check ebay and seen other spirit and found other small log arm ones.i know it wasnt just the a mess or paint faw because yojoe has the large logo picture.since i only found other small logo spirits the large one is harded to find.please check out the pictue.any comments would be cool.


http://groups.msn.com/AmericanDucky75/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=12

so which do you have large logo or small logo?

small here

this is yojoe picture with larger logo.

http://yojoe.com/action/84/spirit.shtml

I have four with the small logo

two small logos. I have a third Spirit somewhere, but I can't find it and since it is beat up pretty bad (I kept it because it is from my childhood collection, my Grandmother loved Indians and gave it to me) it may not even have an arm logo any more.

dangit! another variation to get

i have both versions of spirit but the large logo figure is faded and has a broken thumb

but yes definetly 2 versions!

This is actually a very interesting post. I used to have a 32-back carded Spirit. For those of you who aren't cardback connoisseurs, that was the first release. Interestingly, this particular Spirit had the smaller logo, (which seems to be more common from the few posts here). So my first question is: Have you checked the dates on both of these figures? It is entirely possible that the (apparently rarer) large logo version came out later. It is always fun when a later release is more rare than an earlier one IMO. Anyways, without any more information that is my best thought on the matter. Thanks for bringing this to our collective attention.

thanks for your post spirit is one of my favs.as far as the date goes same 84.it might of been in a later run.also i was thinking just maybe it was a canada carded spirit any one have one?

i'm gonna have to dig through my figures now to check. yeesh.. another one heh.

http://yojoe.com/international/canada/images/shaman_carded.jpg

just check yojoe has a canada carded spirit guess what big logo.i think were getting closer to solving this.it would make since canada produce joes were a lot less than us.so this would explain more small logo than large logo.any one else have a canada carded spirit.maybe we can wrap this up as a canada release spirt.

also when i got this spirit if came with a canada file card.

my big logo spirit is mine from my childhood. it was purchased here in kansas at sears

im still wondering about this. see my above post if you havent already. its definetly a variant, how do we go about getting it listed as one on yojoe?




http://yojoe.com/international/canada/images/shaman_carded.jpg

just check yojoe has a canada carded spirit guess what big logo.i think were getting closer to solving this.it would make since canada produce joes were a lot less than us.so this would explain more small logo than large logo.any one else have a canada carded spirit.maybe we can wrap this up as a canada release spirt.

also when i got this spirit if came with a canada file card.

Hope this helps...

Being a Canadian, I ahve the Canadian version of "Shaman"(Spirit).

Clearly it has the larger logo. DOesn't prove anything, but supports the idea posted above that it may be a regional variant.

I hope this makes him rarer (therefore worth more!):D

http://www3.telus.net/prufrock/Figures/JoeSpirit1.JPG

also when i got this spirit if came with a canada file card.


Ahhh. You shoulda mentioned that in the beginning! I automatically assume a figure is an American release unless it is explicitly stated otherwise. Anyways, the filecard coupled with the pictures above lead me to the conclusion that this is a Canadian version.

Anybody else got any information on this?

http://yojoe.com/international/canada/shaman.shtml

here is a picture of the canada spirit on card with code name shaman,but i have a full canada file card with code name spirit not shaman.so maybe the larger logo was only on the shaman card?i am just trying to figure this out if it was just a canada release it would be rarer than us since canada had a small production compare to us.

I looked at my fc for Spirit and it definately says Shaman. It is identical to the fc in the archives on this site.

Maybe you should scan your fc with "Spirit" on it and add it to the archive. I assume the fc is in both English and French?

here is a picture of front and back.i did send it in to yo joe a while back and nothing came of it.so when dan gets everything figure out i know he will put it up.

http://groups.msn.com/AmericanDucky75/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=14

oh yeah hit the prev but at top to see the back of the file card. thanks

my original big logo us bought spirit had the charlie is a spirit filecard so that doesnt make any sense that its a canadian only version. i bought mine in 1984 at sears in topeka, kansas. its the only gijoe figure i have ever found that was still in a case at the store. i remember it because it felt like a bad christmas, all these toys in the box but only enough money for 1. i got spirit and a friend of mine got blowtorch.

i wouldnt be surprised if all the canadian versions had big logos but i dont think that it was an exclusive to canada