By Past Nastification GI Joe in 1:18th scale has had several eras. They are ARAH, New Sculpt, 25A/Modern. The 25A/Modern Era is currently in vogue, and the ARAH will always have its place in toy history. The NS era, though, was full of mistakes and missed opportunities. It never quite landed. It’s widely disliked by collectors. As someone who liked
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I have become smitten by the incredible twelve inch Estrela Falcon figures. This advertisement gives us a good sampling of the most interesting figures in their sci-fi oriented sets. “To face Torak, Falcon has new equipment and a bionic ally: Condor.” There’s so much design that hits all the right spots for me, it’s almost hard to put it into
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By KansasBrawler I’ve mentioned before that though I’ve always liked the concept of the Dreadnoks, I never actually had any of them growing up. The closest I got to having a Dreadnok in my collection was the Ninja Force Zartan figure. Most of the Dreadnoks came out just a little before my time and though they played a big role
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This particular Mortal Kombat mold was available in a veritable panoply of colors during the run of Hasbro video game and film tie-in toys. I did not hesitate to Taste The Rainbow when the figures hit the shelves of my local Kay-Bee Toys. Thanks to the chain’s dubious two/three-for-one sales I was able to stock up easily. Scorpion approximates his
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Grab your drab crayons kids, because it’s time for another Rise of Cobra coloring book page. As much as I didn’t care for the film’s costume designs, I have to give props for the amount of tie-in merch that was around in 2009. Not great stuff, but available. Faint praise indeed.
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By Past Nastification In a forum conversation I read years ago, someone threw out the idea that maybe “Night Force” and “Tiger Force” worked better for GI Joe not as actual sub-teams, but simply as environment-specific uniforms that all Joe team members would be issued to wear when appropriate. I can’t remember which website or forum member had the idea,
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By KansasBrawler The Tomahawk was one of KansasBrother’s big vehicles back in the day, so I’ve known about Lift Ticket for a while and I’ve always liked him. While I didn’t realize it at the time, I think subconsciously, my brain must have noticed that Lift Ticket and Sky Patrol Airborne shared bodies and that’s why I went after him.
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Part Sgt. Rock, part Challengers of the Unknown, Charlton Comics’ Fightin’ 5 debuted the same year as our favorite Movable Fighting Man, and presaged the kind of unique unit that would later grace toy aisles as Real American Heroes. Festooned in brightly colored uniforms and made up of operatives of various backgrounds including American, French-American, Israeli and even a professional
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By Past Nastification If James Bond and David Beckham (you know, the husband of Posh Spice) had a baby, it would be Action Man. Handsome AND extreme, Action Man of the 90’s/00’s was a secret agent/non-traditional sports enthusiast. There were cartoons and 1:6 scale figures, but I don’t really know much about them. Action Man has popped up twice directly
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I’m man enough to admit that I loved—loved everything about Serpentor in 1986. From the idea that Cobra would have an emperor, to the conceit that he was created from the DNA of history’s great leaders, to the super villain costume design, I was all-in for the character. The packaging art is suitably accurate to the figure and vehicle inside,
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