100 GI Joe 3-3/4" O-Ring Replacement Waistband O-Rings from Professor Foam

As the title says. I was able to repair 20 G.I Joe figures already and it makes them look brand new. No loose waste or stretched out or leg wiggle. Most of mine are from the 80s and most of the bands are deteriorated over the years and some have just fell apart and snap with little movement. So, now I just have 50 more figures to repair. Good product and works like it should!

As a kid my brother and I had a huge collection of GI Joe action figures, after years of playing with them a lot of them were either loose or the o-rings had broken on them. Before the advent of Amazon or eBay, things were so much more difficult to find and we, as little kids that didn't know any better, ended up repairing a lot of the GI Joes with small rubber bands that were either not tight enough or broke after a couple of months. Fast forward 25 years later, I found our old toys preserved in my parents garage and set on a mission to repair them. Fortunately I found these o-rings on Amazon and they worked great. They are exactly the level of tightness as the originals and extremely easy to replace. If you haven't repaired a GI Joe it is actually pretty easy to do, there is a screw in the back of the torso that needs to be removed and then the torso can be separated. You replace the o-ring, there is a hook in the legs, thread the o-ring through the waist and attach it to the torso and then screw the torso back up. Hopefully my kids and then their kids can continue to enjoy these action figures, as much as my brother and I did.

Found my old GI Joes and had many where the bands were either broken or very stretched out. When I was a kid, there was really nothing you could do. But now it's so easy to find parts to pretty much anything. Simply unscrew the back and take the GI Joe apart. Pull off the mid section as well. Insert the band around the hook on the legs and put back on the mid section. Wrap the band around the peg in the torso. Balance the arms and head and get the chest on. Carefully screw back together being sure to not over tighten. If you see a gap in the shoulders at all, don't force because the screw will strip. Typically, the cause is because one of the arms is rubbing on the band. Push the arm in more securely and try again. Again, these made my guys like they were when I was a kid!

I bought these to fix a bunch of old GI Joe action figures that I saved from my childhood and gave to my boys. If you don’t know one of these small rubber bands holds a GI Joe together at the waist but over the years they wear out and disintegrate. Anyway these bands are a little stiff but you can stretch them out a bit once you’ve hooked them on to the GI Joe. I fixed all my broken Joes and had plenty of bands left over for future use.

I used them on over 25 Joes already this year after we took them out of storage. They are a little thick but they work.

My son and I pulled my old GI Joes out of storage. Some of the date back to the original release and conditions during my childhood were not great for preventing deterioration of the O-rings. Needless to say we were both disappointed when the figures started coming apart. Fortunately for these replacement pieces. The price was right and repair was straight forward. I repaired about 30 figures the first day these arrived and still have O-rings to spare on the ones that haven't fallen apart yet! I did research and found these to be the best price and quantity. They are a perfect fit.

I recently pulled out all my old GI Joes from the attic of my parents house for my kids. Needless to say, 30 years in a hot, dry attic was not great for the rubber bands. Before too long, we had about 50 soldiers broken in half. I originally used some of my daughters hair elastics to fix them, which worked, but weren't very durable. I bought this and they are amazing. I was able to fix all them and they are solidly together again, ready for another 30 years.

Inexpensive and work great for rebuilding those old Real American Heroes 3 3/4 figures of your youth. You get a bunch, they don't cost much and they worked fine for me. I rebuilt about 40 or so Joes. Know you know, and knowing is half the battle.