Originally Posted by
ctc
Hmmmm....
This is kinda complicated!
>For the 1960's versions, here's what you'd find:
Action Soldier
Action Marine
Action Pilot
Action Sailor
I’ve seen four before, but a lot of refrences group the Marine/army guy as the same.... even though I’ve seen two different outfits: cammo and OD. They’re often both referred to as Rocky.... does one have another name?
The original "prototypes" had names, but the creators at Hasbro didn't want to limit them by name. My thought is Timmy goes to the store and all they have are Rocky's on the shelf and his mom says you already have a Rocky. But if it's an Action Soldier, Timmy can't have too many of those, LOL..
Regarding the outfits, the Action Solider came with OD fatigues and the Marine had Camo. Pilot was an orange jumpsuit(the early ones came in Goldenrod jumpsuits, yellow). The Sailor has light blue shirt, and dark blue pants.
>In 1965 they released a Black Action Solider and same sculpt as the regular figures.
So.... the same head sculpt? What was the basic outfit like?
Yes the exact same head sculpt, and he was called the Black Action Soldier so he came in the same OD shirt and pants the regular soldier had.
>The Soldiers of the World sets were a different face sculpt, no scar and came in the different hair colors as well, except for the Japanese figure which only came in black and was a specific head sculpt.
>there was Japanese soldier, French, Russian, and German soldiers that had a European appearance
....er.... wait.... there’s another series? Did they ALL use the same sculpts? What were the basic outfits like for these guys?
All of the SOTW figures had the same European head sculpt with no scar except for the Japanese figure. In the SOTW there was the German, Russian, French, British, Australian and Japanese.
>There were also talking versions of all of the standard sets too.
Were they different from the regular ones sculp-wise? (I could never keep track of all the talking guys....)
Sculpt wise no, but those later issue heads were generally softer plastic wise, whereas the early GiJoe heads tended to harden over the years.
>The 1969 sets were released only one year, and they had the Adventurer, and Aquanaut and Talking Astronaut. Those all came in all the same hair colors. A Negro Adventurer was also released.
>That led into the fuzzy haired era in 1970.
Wow. The reason I’m wondering is ‘cos I got a set of True Dave’s 8" scaled Joe heads and I’m wondering which Joes to make with them. I’m also hoping this doesn’t become another series I have to obsessively build. (I got pics of that training tower already.... a bad sign.)
Don C.
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