It’s Thanksgiving in the US, and that means a lot of us will be partaking of heaping helpings of turkey. I thought we’d pile on here with a couple turkeys of our own. Enjoy! If you’re like me, you also might want to check out more turkeys with ShoutFactory’s LIVE MST3K special right here.
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First, an apology is in order. This figure wasn’t properly cleaned before its time before the camera. I like to think the buried in sand look adds character. I’ll admit that I’m a lazy blogger sometimes. Okay, most of the time. Back in 1986, I picked up quite a few of the American Defense two-packs. I genuinely enjoyed them,
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I’m having a great time with these American Defense bios. They’re just as insane as the figure designs. Ice Ranger continues many of the themes we saw with Yeti. Very—cool.
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Bet you didn’t know the Yeti had a bio. Okay, so it’s not the actual mythical creature. This does however make me want to track down old episodes of In Search Of. The American Defense line from Remco went bat excrement crazy after starting out as a bunch of me-too copies of concepts made popular by GI Joe. The amount
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No, it’s not the title of an 80s Turkish action film knock-off pastiche of The Karate Kid and Rambo (but it should be). It is a wonderful knock-off set of action figures inspired by both GI Joe and Rambo. Either way, what’s not to like? It’s Remco Joe! RemJoe! I sucked up a bunch of these two-packs at K-Mart back
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