{"id":9928,"date":"2006-07-10T13:48:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-10T13:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plaidstallions.com\/reboot\/index.php\/2006\/07\/10\/reasons-it-rocked-to-be-6-in-76-part_10\/"},"modified":"2019-09-08T18:06:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T18:06:01","slug":"reasons-it-rocked-to-be-6-in-76-part_10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plaidstallions.com\/reboot\/reasons-it-rocked-to-be-6-in-76-part_10\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasons it rocked to be 6 in ’76 Part two: Big Jim"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Big Jim was always there when I was a kid, he first burst on the scene as a Sports outdoor type guy in 1972, every kid I know was issued that Camper<\/a> of his. He was good, not great.<\/p>\n

In 1975, Mattel turned him into a bad ass Super Spy and leader of the P.A.C.K, (Professional Agents Crime Killers) the boxes had Jack Kirby<\/a> art, Jim went up several points in my book.<\/p>\n

What’s truly unique about Big Jim to me is, he was the first toyline that i saw die.<\/strong> In the Spring of 1977, my family visited Sears and my sole purpose was to get a new member of the P.A.C.K to go with the Torpedo Fist<\/a> I had gotten the previous fall.<\/p>\n

When we went to Sears, there was no Big Jim section. I asked a Stock boy and he said “Big Jim? they don’t make him anymore”. <\/em> It was a lot of information to process when you’re six. Luckily for me, the stock boy was a nice guy and went into the back room, he pulled out a boxed Gold Commander that was going on clearance, it was complete. I literally got the last Big Jim in the store.<\/p>\n

Twenty years later, at a toy show in Toronto, I saw a dealer put that same Canadian boxed Gold Commander on a table, it never actually hit the table as I simply took it straight from his hands. I think at the time, I overpaid by about $20 but honestly, I wasn’t going home without him. It’s still in my collection to this day!
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Big Jim was always there when I was a kid, he first burst on the scene as a Sports outdoor type guy in 1972, every kid I know was issued that Camper of his. He was good, not great. In 1975, Mattel turned him into a bad ass Super Spy and leader of the P.A.C.K, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-9928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"episode_featured_image":false,"episode_player_image":"https:\/\/plaidstallions.com\/reboot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/podcastmarker.png","download_link":"","player_link":"","audio_player":false,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"rss":{"key":"rss","url":"","label":"RSS","class":"rss","icon":"rss.png"},"rssradio":{"key":"rssradio","url":"","label":"RSSRadio","class":"rssradio","icon":"rssradio.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"stitcher":{"key":"stitcher","url":"https:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/podcast\/pod-stallions\/ps","label":"Stitcher","class":"stitcher","icon":"stitcher.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/plaidstallions.com\/reboot\/feed\/podcast\/default-podcast","embedCode":"

Reasons it rocked to be 6 in ’76 Part two: Big Jim<\/a><\/blockquote>