Decepticreep
Men of Action!!
I have a LOT of them!
This is because in the early 2000's Hasbro released 4 Adventure Team Timeless Collection sets that all came with the same figure - a brown haired, blue eyed Man of Action with Kung Fu Grip. This was likely the reason why the GI Joe Collector Club never came out with a reproduction of this AT member like they did with all the other members from the 1970-74 run.
Did I say they were all identical? Well, that's not completely true, one of them, the figure that came with the Wal Mart exclusive " 8 Ropes of Danger" set had bright red hair and blue eyes. You could pretend he was a clean shaven Sea Adventurer if you were willing to overlook the fact that his eyes were the wrong color and his hair the wrong shade of red.
In 2007, Wal Mart again gave us another variation on the MOA, this time in the form of flocked 40th anniversary figure.
I decided to reflock one of these figures with blonde hair to make him a little different, and alos because his flocking was starting to rub off. The one on the far right is not technically a GI Joe at all, he is a custom figure from Cotswold Collectibles I ordered about a year ago so I would have my own version of the hard to find blonde "hard hands" variant of the MOA.
I plan to someday come up with bios for all the different characters who served as the "Man of Action" for the AT as I see most of these figures as representing different individuals who served as the MOA at different points in time.
Men of Action!!
I have a LOT of them!
This is because in the early 2000's Hasbro released 4 Adventure Team Timeless Collection sets that all came with the same figure - a brown haired, blue eyed Man of Action with Kung Fu Grip. This was likely the reason why the GI Joe Collector Club never came out with a reproduction of this AT member like they did with all the other members from the 1970-74 run.
Did I say they were all identical? Well, that's not completely true, one of them, the figure that came with the Wal Mart exclusive " 8 Ropes of Danger" set had bright red hair and blue eyes. You could pretend he was a clean shaven Sea Adventurer if you were willing to overlook the fact that his eyes were the wrong color and his hair the wrong shade of red.
In 2007, Wal Mart again gave us another variation on the MOA, this time in the form of flocked 40th anniversary figure.
I decided to reflock one of these figures with blonde hair to make him a little different, and alos because his flocking was starting to rub off. The one on the far right is not technically a GI Joe at all, he is a custom figure from Cotswold Collectibles I ordered about a year ago so I would have my own version of the hard to find blonde "hard hands" variant of the MOA.
I plan to someday come up with bios for all the different characters who served as the "Man of Action" for the AT as I see most of these figures as representing different individuals who served as the MOA at different points in time.