New Dukes Stuff - 8/19/2020 - Pins, Gordy Tool Set, TNN Promo Pic, John Schneider 45, Goonies, All Kinds of Stuff!

How about new blog full of wonderful Dukes of Hazzard stuff?  It seems I slack on writing blogs when the weather is so nice.  So it's been a while since I've shared the newest items in my collection.  Admittedly, I took these pictures a few months ago and never got around to writing this one.  Let's dive into this slew of Dukes goodness Uncle Scrooge style!

One of the areas of Dukes collecting I've been very focused one lately is Dukes of Hazzard pins.  Of course, this is because of my obsession to complete the Jaycees Dukes pins collection, which I did earlier this year.  While focusing on those pins, I started started paying attention to other Dukes pens from all three eras of Dukes collecting.  I noticed that I didn't have all of the button pin backs that were released under the Dukes license during the golden era.  I had to rectify that.  These are the six pins that were licensed by WB and released in 1981.  Five of them are round and one is oval. The round ones feature Bo and Luke, , The Gen'ral, Daisy, and the two "bad guys."  I like that both Boss and Rosco's are election style pins.  "I'm makin' Bacon with Boss Hogg" has to be my favorite, though the re-elect Rosco is also a great one.  The oval General Lee pin features a cartoon Gen'ral while the round one has a picture of the Gen'ral jumping and a unique logo.  There are no markings on these besides the WB copyright info so I don't know which company released the pins.  Glad I have them all now.  

Besides traditional round button pin back style pins, there have been a bunch of other pins released throughout the golden, silver, and modern eras.  Most of these are non-licensed, but too cool to pass up.  The police badge style pin, the two that say Cooter's and the 01 all came from Cooter's Place.  Some are still available but some date way back to the Sperryville beginnings of our favorite store.  The TV shaped one is a weird little pin.  I think it's from the '80s but can't conform that.  I've had a few of them in my collection forever and have no idea who made them. The two General Lee pins on top and the one in the middle on the bottom are all recent unlicensed pins that came from various sellers online.  The bigger one was a limited edition that I think is sold out, but the other two pop up on ebay pretty often.  This is quite a collection of Dukes pins as well.  

Next up is a weird one.   Everyone's favorite comic book writer, Jeff, loves to find the most unique Dukes items and get them for me as presents.  This one was a Christmas present that I've been waiting for the perfect blog post to include.  It fits perfectly with all these other pins.  It appears to be a mash-up between the Friday the 13th movie franchise and the Dukes.  That's a new one.  It has Jason Voorhees' signature hockey mask, with a knife throw the eye, on top of a General Lee clone with 13 replacing the 01.  Wow.  Not only did I get a pin, but also a larger sticker of the artwork.  Great find Jeffery!

 

I'm throwing in this late silver era/early modern era key chain in this blog.  I picked it up cheap and then found another one in the collection that I already had.  It has the same logo on both sides and I'd say it is a licensed piece.  That's all I got to say about that one.  

I also got some non-Dukes pins to discuss while I'm on the topic.  When I was Jaycees Pins crazy, I still kinda am, I bought a few other pins that the civic club produced for their annual meetings.  I love me some superheroes so I jumped on this Illinois Spider-Man as well as these Ohio Supermans and Batman.  The Spider-Man is a little hard to recognize as the webs are hard to pull off on such a small piece.  I love the classic Super-Friends era Batman and both the Supermans are timeless.  I also got a couple Sheriff Buford T. Justice pins from Georgia.  There is a standard and a smaller Senator's pin.  

 

Next up is another awesome, but non-Dukes pin.  This one was also a present from Jeff.  HEY YOU GUYS!!!!  It's Sloth!  Who doesn't love the Gooines?  It is my all time favorite movie.  Jeff knows this.  He once stole my Goonie Blu-Ray special edition!  He made up for it all these years later by getting me this great Sloth Pin.  

It comes form Scott C.  Great job Scott.  

Let's wrap all this pin talk up.  Did you think I was gonna say "Let's put a pin in it?"  I probably should have.  The final pins I recently picked up come from the wrestling world.  This awesome four-pack of Wrestlemania III pins was a Walmart exclusive that never showed up in my area.  I had to have them and a good pal from Twitter, Good Brother Mike hooked me up.  He is a big part of the #FigLife online community that look out for fellow collectors finding wrestling and other figures for each to avoid paying online scalpers.  I'm really grateful for Mike for hooking me up with this pin set.  Thanks Good Brother!

The pin set features the four stars of Wrestlemania III.  We all know I'm a huge Hulkamaniac, and I consider Hulk's match with Andre and "Mania III to be the greatest moment in wrestling history.  The other huge match at that event was Macho Man Randy Savage, my second favorite of all time, against Ricky, the Dragon, Steamboat.  That match it considered one of the best matches of all time.  No wonder WWE is still capitalizing on that event.  It was one of the best ever.  Ok, I put a pin in the pin talk. 

One more non-Dukes item.  This was also a Christmas present from Jeffrey.  I guess I really waited a long time to show off Jeff's presents.  Remember shopping malls?  Those were great.  This is an FYE exclusive cassette of the Stranger Things Season 3 soundtrack.  How cool is that?  

Jeff, of course, was very interested in this soundtrack because it features a song by his all time favorite, "Weird Al" Yankovic.  I listened to quite a few songs from this soundtrack streaming last summer and by far, my favorite is Gaten Matarazzo and Gabriella Pizzolo's rendition of Never Ending Story.  When Dustin and Suzie belted out that song over the ham radio I got all kind of chills.  It's perfectly captured on this soundtrack.  This is a very cool piece from Stranger Things.  Thanks again Jeff!

Ok, back to Dukes.  This is a great piece that DukesCollector Cooter wants to show off.  

  

It's a letter that real Cooter, Ben Jones, sent to his fans during production of the show.  Ben would hand sign copies of this letter and send them to fans what wrote him.  I'm super excited to get my hands on a copy.  What a cool piece of Dukes history.  

DukesCollector Cooter also wanted to show off this great 8x10.  

It's a promotional photo released by TNN to promote their upcoming airings of the show.  TNN started re-airing the Dukes of Hazzard in 1997, ushering in the Silver Age of the Dukes of Hazzard and helping the world fall in love with the Dukes once again.  

We are all grateful that TNN brought the Dukes back in our lives.  Could this promo picture that features my favaoite cast shot be the first piece of Silver Era Dukes of Hazzard memorabilia?  It just could be!

Now this is a fun piece.  DukesCollector Cooter loved posing with this one.  

This is a promo copy of John Schneider's "Love You Ain't Seen The Last Of Me" single on 45.  It is a "promotional copy, not for sale" version on the song.  It's on very cool yellow vinyl.  It's the same on both sides and did not come in a sleeve.  One of these days I have to get all the Dukes and Dukes related music together for a music blog.  Soon!

 

You know how excited DukesCollector Cooter and I get when we track down new Gordy items to add to the collection.  This is definitely Cooter's favorite piece of Gordy Dukes.  

 

This is the super hard to find Die Cast Metal Auto Tools Set.  I finally got one!

The real metal tools consist of a hammer, adjustable spanner, an open end wrench, and split joint pliers.

This image is used on several Gordy items.  It is a picture of a General Lee with a camera strapped to it post jump with liquid spilling out of the front.  What a strange image to use.  It's clearly the General Lee that made the Carnival of Thrills jump, but it's more of a behind the scenes picture.  Oh Gordy, you silly company. 

Like all Gordy items, there is nothing on the back of the card.  

I know what you're saying, "Larry, you already did a huge lunch box blog post that included all five different Dukes of Hazzard mid day meal containers."  To which I would say you are correct, and check it out here.  

But this Canadian lunch box is a tiny bit different so I had to buy it!

 

It features a blue handle!  I had to buy the different blue handle version!

Now I have a white handle Canadian Dukes of Hazzard lunch box and a blue handle Canadian Dukes of Hazzard lunch box.  I'm happy. 

 

I was shopping in a local antique shop a while ago and found this Bo Duke Halloween costume.  I have a few of them on both this generic Super Hero box, as well as the Dukes specific box.  But, usually when I find Dukes in the wild, I buy it.  

A cool addition to this costume was the original receipt.  Judith Bentz bought this particular costume at the Gee Bees Department Store in Bethel Park, PA in October of 1981.  I wonder what else Judy bought to total twenty seven bucks.  This makes the costume even more special.  Anyone know Judy from the South Hills?

  

Can you believe I am still finding Ertl four car sets with a different combination of cars or cars in different locations?  I am.  This set has Hazzard Patrol car, Boss Hogg Caddy, General Lee, Hazzard Patrol Car.  I have over eighteen different combos and still finding more.  I love collecting Dukes!

This item I found at Target.  It's a new printing of the Games We Played puzzle.  

I found the first printing back in 2015.  This is the same puzzle but in a smaller box. 

Among all the classic board games is the Dukes board game.  I'm surprised the Dukes game is one of the few licensed games featured.  Most shown are regular games like Sorry and Monopoly.  They could have included a lot of other licensed games like Care Bears and Knight Rider.  But the Dukes is the best at everything.  

This version of the game carries a 2019 copyright year.  

Appearantly, the creator of the puzzle, While Mountain Puzzles, also has a lunch box puzzle that also features the Dukes.  I gotta find that now!

Sheesh, this is a long one.  Next up is a cast and crew belt buckle.  This is my fourth one in the collection and this one is from 1980.  There is one from every season and I'm over half way to completing the set.  

Like the other ones, this one is made by Trophy King Gifts.  

DukesCollector Cooter has a few cool notebooks to show off.  

Remember the three Italian notebooks I got earlier this year?  I got a fourth one!  This one fits right in with the other three and features artwork similar to the album cover.  

The back is the same as the other ones.  This is a very rare item. 

Next up is an 8" by 10.5" spiral notebook by WriteRight.  I have a bunch of the school supplies by WriteRight, but I keep finding more I don't have.  This one features the Duke clan and Cooter hanging out in front of the Hazzard County courthouse.  

The back has the best Dukes logo, in classic Dukes font.  

This is a weird one.  I found this shirt on instagram from a vintage clothing dealer.  Since I bought this one, another showed up on ebay.  I don't know the history of it, but it appears to be a football type jersey.  It features the Dukes of Hazzard in a font similar to Kinght Rider on the front.  

The back has a big 01 on it and it has the name "Davies" above the number.  

The sleeves feature Warner Bros on them.  I have no idea why or when this shirt was produced but I'm going to make up a story that the cast a crew of the Dukes participated in a football tournament against other television productions.   The tourney was so big that it featured crews from all over Hollywood and different studios like Universal, Disney, and Paramount.  I have nothing to back up that story, except this shirt, but I'm sticking to it.  I'm sure the Dukes team won the championship which I am now calling the Hollywood Bowl.  There's nothing else with that name, right?

Coming up on the end, I promise.  I got yet another cast and crew jacket!  This one is a different style than the other two I have.  I have to have all the different versions!

This one has the label Jon on it.  There were two Jon's that worked on the crew of the Dukes of Hazzard.  First Assistant Director Jon Pare and stunt coordinator Jon H. Epstein.  Jon Pare is a big deal in Hollywood.  His credits include working on 35 episodes of the Dukes, as well Wonder Woman and the A-Team, and spans all the way to today where is is the Co-Executive Producer on the Sons of Anarchy spin-off The Mayans.  With about a hundred titles in between.  Jon H. Epstein did stunts on one episode of the Dukes and also did stunts on everything from Twin Peaks, to Walker: Texas Ranger, to The Incredible Hulk Returns, to Captain America: Winter Soldier, to This Is Us.  Yep, he's a big deal too.  So this jacket once belonged to one of this fine gentlemen and now belongs to me!  

The jacket features the familiar Dukes Of Hazzard on the back. like the other jackets.  

It is a zipper jacket, unlike the Bob G. jacket that is a button down.  

The new jacket is similar to the Len jacket, because it has a zipper, but is a Lawman brand, like the Bob G.  All three jackets have a lot of differences.  They were probably all ordered from different distributors.  Catherine Bach ordered all the jackets and Christmas presents for the cast a crew.  

The new one doesn't have the Hazzard County Sheriff Department badge on it.  

It's very similar to the Bob G. jacket, except it doesn't have the sheriff patch and is a button down.  I wonder how many other variations of this Dukes crew jacket there are.  I can't wait to find out!

You'd think I'd end this wonderful post with a piece as wonderful as a Dukes of Hazzard cast and crew jacket.  Nope.  I'm ending it with yet another Christmas present from our pal Jeffrey.  This is a poster from a movie John Schneider made called Cocaine Wars.  John is looking pretty Schwarzenegger ripped in this artwork.   I don't know much about this movie but imdb tells me it's from 1985 and John played an undercover DEA agent trying to take down the biggest drug exporter in the region.  Get 'em John!  This original movie poster is in perfect condition, except for the folds.  It is certainly an odd piece and will be displayed proudly in the Jeff McClelland Memorial Wing of the DukesCollector Dukes of Hazzard Museum.  (Don't worry, Jeff isn't dead.)

1/18 Dixie Jeep - Greenlight's 1979 Jeep CJ-7 Golden Eagle Is Perfect!

It's finally here!  This this the Greenlight I have been most excited for and it does not dissapoint!  The newest addition to Greenlight's Hazzardous Collection is the 1979 Jeep CJ-7 Golden Eagle that we all know as Daisy's Dixie.  I love it!

This is, of course, the second variation of Daisy's Jeep in Greenlight's Hazzardous Collection.  They released it in 1/43 scale earlier this year.  When I reviewed that version, I included a lot of history on the Jeep that included a discussion on her first car, the yellow Plymouth.  I talked about the Jeep looking a little different in it's first official episode and discussed the deal AMC, the owner of Jeep at the time, made with the producers of the Dukes of Hazzard to feature the Jeep and other cars on the show.  To read all this fun info, head on over to my previous Greenlight Jeep post:

Greenlight 1/43 Dixie Jeep! Plus 1/64 Hazzard Patrol Car and Chickasaw Patrol Car

Now that you're back, let's discuss this beautiful 1/18 Dixie Jeep.

The Jeep is in Greenlight's Artisan Collection, like the previous 1/18 Dukes police cars.  The box resembles the previous releases.

 

The side of the box has the Dixie logo that adorns the hood of the car.  This design has been a part of the Daisy's Jeep since its first appearance on the show.  I have to believe this is Copyrighted just like the 01 by Warner Bros. right?  I'm sure Greenlight isn't doing anything illegal.  Right?

The top of the box is all green.  Green green green.

We all know the drill by now, no Dukes, no WB.  It is a Limited Edition.  Previous Dukes 1/18 cars have been great to display mint in box, but the Greenlight cars just don't have the display factor when they are still in the package.

Out of the box is where this car shines.  The diecast is beautiful!  I seriously love it.  1/18 has been my favorite scale since we got our first General Lee in 2000.  If you'd like to read about every single Dukes 1/18 (before the Greenlights) check out this post.  It's such a great scale to display all the details of the car.  I love the little hotwheel sized 1/64s but the 1/18 is the perfect scale for me.  Maybe because it's been all muscle cars and police cars, but finally having the Jeep in the scale just makes me so happy.  Did I mention I love this diecast?

There are a ton of details that Greenlight nailed.  Look how great the Dixie logo looks!

The wheels look perfect.  The Jeep logo and the white roll bar look perfect.  Everything looks perfect.

The rear spare tire is detached in the package.  You install it when you take it out of the box.  You get to act like little 1/18 Cooter, which is always fun.

Seven slots of Dukes 1/18 glory!

I love the Golden Eagle emblem.  I know it is not exclusive to Dukes, but we can all agree, you can't see this bird without thinking of Daisy Duke.  Even Jeep understands the connection with the Golden Eagle has to Daisy which is why they left a Daisy Duke shorts Easter egg on their latest Golden Eagle Wrangler in 2018.

Everything about this diecast is just right.

One of the main trivia Dukes of Hazzard trivia questions is what's the General Lee's license plate number.  We all know it's CNH 320.  Daisy's plate number should be just as easy to recite.  The FCH 630 is perfectly represented on the diecast.  You can check out all the Dukes of Hazzard license plates on this previous blog post.

Greenlight added some great detail to the interior of the Jeep.

Even the tiny gear positions are represented on the gear shift.  Great job Greenlight.

Look at those tiny graphics!

The model comes with a roof and doors.  The two doors are attached to the roof and it's all one piece.  This addition comes packaged inside the styrofoam that protects the Jeep inside the box.  We all know it never rained in Hazzard County and the interior of Daisy's Jeep never got wet.  The same can be said about the General Lee which is why the windows were never rolled up.  I don't even know how Bo and Luke could have rolled them up if they weren't in the car because the doors were welded shut.  That's just Dukes logic.  Don't question it.  Regardless, we never saw Dixie with a roof on it.  This is an addition we don't really need.  My guess is that Greenlight has plans for the casting of this diecast that aren't just Daisy specific.  Because they created it, they added it.

I don't love it.  It just doesn't look like Dixie to me with the top on.  But I'm sure there are actual Dixie replica owners who have roofs on their Jeeps because they don't live in Hazzard and may actually need to protect the interior of their car and may actually want to lock it, so maybe their roof looks like this.  For those people, I'm glad GL included this feature of the diecast.

It has a cool look, but Dixie didn't wear a hat.  I also don't love how the piece fits over the top and you almost have to bend it to get it on.  It made me nervous taking it off.  I think I'll keep the top piece packed in the styrofoam from now on.

Quick Robin!  To the patented DukesCollector vehicle scale photographs!

If there's one style of picture that defines this blog, and me as a blogger, I'd like to think it's these photos where I line up the different scales of the same vehicle.  I love when I get to add a new  vehicle to the line-up!  The 1/18 Jeep has taken its rightful place at the far end of the shot.

From left to right we have the new 1/18 Dixie, the 1/25 Ertl Daisy's Jeep from 1981, (with incorrect "Daisy" on the hood instead of Dixie) Greenlight's new 1/43 Dixie, 2006's Johhny Lightning 1/64 Dixie from series 1 of their Dukes line, and the 1997 1/144 Jeep from Racing Champions.

I'm surprised in the color difference between Greenlight's two Dixies.  The 1/18 is very off white while the 1/43 is super crisp white.  Replicas of the Jeep that I've seen have been more crisp than off white, but I'm not really sure what color the actual Jeeps used on the show were.  Both of these look right.  I think I like the look of the 1/18 over the 1/43.  But they are both great.

I had to get out the other Dukes family members' 1/18 vehicles.  Here we have Uncle Jesse's 1/18 Pickup, officially called the Greenlight 1973 Ford F-100 from 2019, and the king of Dukes of Hazzard diecasts, the Auto World Movie Machines 1/18 General Lee from 2012.  Wow, that car has been out for eight years now.  It really is the best.  Since we already have a king, I am ready to crown this new 1/18 Dixie Jeep as the Queen.  I love it that much.  I just need a 1/18 Duke farm set and this would look like an establishing shot for a scene that takes place in Uncle Jesse's kitchen.  I bet Bo is eating something while Luke is coming up with a plan to get out of Boss's latest scheme.  I bet it will involve Daisy convincing Enos to tell her what Boss and Rosco are actually up to.  I'm sure a car chase will be involved and the General Lee will jump a creek.  Cooter and Unlce Jesse will help.  And there will be a happy ending.  It might even end with a celebrity singing at the Boars Nest.

All three cars have their correct license plates and look like they were made to be together.  CL 7634 on Uncle Jesse's pickup, FCH 630 on Dixie, and of course CNH 320 on the Gen'ral.  One of my only complaints about AW's nearly perfect General Lee is the license plate doesn't look all that accurate.  GL really nailed the plates; both of theirs look great.

I've mentioned this before while reviewing Greenlight's Hazzardous Collection.  I don't love their lack of continuity.  We know they can't use the Dukes of Hazzard logo because these cars aren't licensed by Warner Bros., but they could at least make the boxes look similar.  The Jeep box does resemble the other two 1/18s in the line, Rosco's patrol car and Sheriff Little's Chickasaw car, but they are all in the Artisan Collection.  Uncle Jesse's pickup isn't in the Artisan Collection and comes in a window box.  They just don't look good together mint in box.  Oh well, these cars are made to be displayed out of the box, especially with a General Lee, that unfortunately Greenlight will never make.  Good thing we have the AW General Lee!

Complaints over.  I love this release.  It is 100% my favorite car that Greenlight has released yet.  They got a bunch more fun cars coming, but I don't think they can top this one.  It is perfect.  Of course I bought two, one to open and one to keep in the box, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to be getting another one for Catherine Bach to sign for me.  I just love it so much.  The Jeep is available now at Cooter's Place at all three locations, Nashville, Pigeon Forge, and Luray and of course online at CootersPlace.com.  This is a perfect diecast replica and I just can't stop saying how much I love it.  Head on over to Cooter's and get one today.  And get an extra for Catherine to sign at her next apparence at Cooter's.  I know I am.