TOY DEFENSE 2 COMMANDER GUIDE SERIES
Produced by Lanard Toy, the CORPS! (you have to yell that part every time you say it ) is a series of swivel armed 3 ?-inch soldiers that are well-made and offer a lower cost alternative to RAH.
TOY DEFENSE 2 COMMANDER GUIDE PATCH
The big hook with the General Patch line was that his “weapons with the smell of battle,” which one can only assume was the stench of fear, blood, gunpowder and possibly freshly pooped pants. Galoob reused a lot of the same figure molds from their hit A-Team line for this 1984 rip-off series. Rock came in Vietnam-era fatigues and his Easy Company was replaced by a bunch of generic soldiers with unimaginative but functional names like “Sharpshooter.” While Sarge’s packaging did have some killer Joe Kubert art, the figures were rather clunky Remco simply repainted the good guy figures blue for the enemy soldiers. Joe in 1983, and really didn’t adhere to the comics at all. However, toymaker Remco simply used his name as a competitor to G.I. Rock is an comic book icon, and anytime he makes it to toy form, it should be exciting. Trouble was, the factory they chose simply copied an existing Joe figure, including its famous reversed fingernail, which Hasbro had left uncorrected on its 12-inch toy to help spot counterfeits. In an effort to produce a male counterpart to their hit Barbie knock-off “Maddie Mod,” they produced Fighting Yank in 1970, a 12-inch “nudge nudge” version of America’s fighting man. In the late ’60s, Mego was a maker of budget toys you’d get when it wasn’t Christmas or your birthday. Unfortunately, the toys themselves looked like they were cobbled together by repainting body parts from ’70s Mego lines like C.H.i.Ps” In 1997, the line returned, this time using toy molds leased from Hasbro itself, and the figures were quite popular during the Real American Hero drought. The company began releasing the Broze Bombers in 1987, with card art which looked like it was from some cool Fred Williamson movie. Olmec Toys was a company dedicated to providing alternatives for African-American children, who seemed to ignore the fact that the Joe team was rather racially diverse. Eventually, Hasbro would buy out Palitoy in the mid-’80s and the figures would simply become part of the Joe team we all knew and loved. With sales of the 12-inch figure declining, Palitoy sought to re-brand it in a smaller size in 1983 the 3 ?-inch figures they came up with owe more to Star Wars than Hasbro’s Real American Hero, and have a far more realistic military flavor. toy maker Palitoy, who for over a decade had been marketing Hasbro’s G.I. Not so much a knock-off but more of distant cousin, Action Force was created by U.K. These cheapie discount store figures were barely articulated, came with a back pack, and was saddled with a tremendously homoerotic codename, such as “Kelly Nightwing,” “Le Macho” and “L’ Homme” - which does indeed literally mean “The Man.”
The talking action figure gimmick of the ’90s was responible for a lot of horrible toylines, including Toy Max’s M P.A.C.T.
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