Wild Bill (2002 India)

The Sunbow cartoon had its fair share of Joe designs that weren’t totally representative of the figures to be found on shelves. Wild Bill was one of the more disappointing figures to me as a kid. He was such a larger than life character on the show that when I picked up the Dragonfly, I found him to be lacking. Naturally, since

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The Top 10 Best Action Figures of All Time!

Continuing on from yesterday’s posting of #100 through 11, the latest UnderScoopFIRE! podcast is up, featuring Howie Decker, Justin from Generalsjoes, Engineernerd from TV and Film Toys, Justin from Weirdo Toys, and yours truly. We discussed the Top 10 from the UnderScoopFIRE! Top 100 list. Give it a listen, and see if our picks agree with yours. The nerd rage is swelling within you…

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Headhunters (1992)

By 1992, I was fully back into Joe collecting, and (in those pre-internet dark ages) waited with bated breath every February for the annual Toy Fair issue of Tomart’s Action Figure Digest to reveal the year’s Joe offerings. I won’t pretend that the idea of anti-drug plot within the Joe toyline didn’t seem patronizing and ridiculous when I first saw

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Interrogator (1993)

1993 was the year of strange mail aways. While the regular line was waning amongst a bevy of sub-lines, Hasbro Direct was offering odd recolors of recent and not-so-recent figures. Some were multi-packs, like the Arctic Commandos, the International Action Force, the Rapid Deployment Force (complete with a reused Pocket Patrol Pack!) and the Copter Pilot set, from which Interrogator

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Herc Armstrong (1986 Inhumanoids)

I know what you’re saying, “Wait, what?! Inhumanoids on Joe A Day?! You’ve broken the site!!” Well, then repeat to yourself it’s just a blog; I should really just relax. Besides, I’ll get to the Joe connection in a moment. Hasbro’s Inhumanoids toy line is probably best known for its creature figures, particularly the three giant monsters Metlar, Tendril and

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