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GI Joe Dangerous Assignment Game (sponsored link) —

This is easily one of my bigger grails, a board game based on the GI Joe Adventure team when I was five years old. I love absolutely everything about this, but when it does show up, it’s a bad time, like the Holidays during a 3-week mail strike. Yay!

UPDATE: I know it sold but it’s still worth talking about.

SWAT air assault set (sponsored linkage) —

If I have a rack toy weakness, it’s little soldier-type figures like this. I can use them for my “Dawn of the Dead” diorama!

Mexican Big Jim Zorak by Cipsa (sponsored linkage)-

It’s incredible how much torment vintage cardboard and cellophane can bring upon a person who has incredible luck with Big Jim this year, but it’s haunting me a little.

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Hasbro got in on the Marvel lady power by releasing this and Spider-Woman paint sets in 1980. They are hard to find and are also incredible looking. 

PS I liked the Disney show, people need to relax about this stuff…

Inflatable Wolfman (affiliate link) —

I’ve never heard of “Nadel & Sons” nor seen these amazing little things, the seller also has a devil one. I may need these in my life….

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The Blood-A-Rama Shock Festival Pack

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1976 GI Joe Adventure Team Catalog PageOver the weekend, a friend asked me to help him with toy research, which meant going through my catalogue collection.  That sort of activity is always welcome here as I get to thumb through some favourites from childhood. In particular, the 1976 Simpsons-Sears catalogue. In Canada, Sears partnered with a Canadian firm called Simpsons, and it remained dual-named until 1984. 

I had this catalogue as a kid, and as I’ve discussed, they’ve fascinated me since I can remember.  This page of GI Joe Adventure Team, well it’s technically the Super Adventure Team by this point is one so deeply ingrained in my consciousness it gives me endorphins looking at it.

Though many have decried this era as a low point for GI Joe, I counter with the thought that it depends on how old you were. This version of GI Joe was “My Era” because I was five, and trust me, I loved it. Here are my reasons for it:

1976 GI Joe Adventure Team Catalog Page

Mike Power: The Atomic Man was added to GI Joe a year earlier and was a hit. Yes, he was a Bionic Man Knock Off but I still played with him even after getting the real deal from Kenner. He was a cool concept and those clear arms were super neat. We won’t discuss how he runs with one “Atomic” leg.

As big of a departure Mike was for GI Joe, it was nothing compared to what Hasbro had planned for 1976. 

BulletMan, the Human Bullet, had a bad rap in GI Joe collector circles for decades, and it’s so unfair. I LOVED this character and was so excited about what was next with GI Joe. I was superhero crazy as a kid and they obviously didn’t have to be comic book based for me to fall in love with it. However, to be fair there is one character I didn’t get behind.

The Intruder was a really out-there concept and one I’d love to know more about. Joe’s first real enemy seemed to be more of a minion than an evil mastermind. The Intruders probably needed a leader of some sort, it would have helped. However, the Intruder has one great defence, it inspired some amazing vehicles like the Capture Copter (which I got for my 6th birthday) and the Big Trapper, which is wonderful.

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This week we take a look at Bulletman: The Human Bullet and his many international variations from the UK (Palitoy) and Mexico (Lili Ledy). I discuss my personal history with this figure and why he’s so special to me.

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My latest addition is the UK version of Bulletman, the good people at Palitoy invented a lot of things for Joe including Kung Fu Grip, Eagle Eyes and the flocked hair we all love so much. When they took a look at Bulletman, they decided to make some edits the first being they gave his helmet better vision with larger eye holes.

And they gave him jet boots!

Mexico called him “Hombre Bala” and I’ve yet to see his packaging. Hopefully someday I’ll have another update.

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1977 LILI LEDY (MEXICO) TOY CATALOG

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This is Bullet Man as he appeared in Mexico, produced by the Lili Ledy Company.Below are some vintage newspaper ads from when Bulletman was new.

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