Mystery Figure: Please help me find this childhood figure

[Figuremod73]

Neat. Please take some pics of him when you have him ready.

[kinostadt]

Brown Bear,
Thanks a lot for the generous gift. That was very nice of you!

[UnderdogDJLSW]

Great story. You should have a party, invite your brothers, and unveil the new TC in front of them.

[Brown Bear]

After finally tracking this figure down thanks to the help of my friends here, I wanted to offer a brief background on why this toy is so important to me.

Growing up, my playtime with my two older brothers revolved around our mego’s. We called them our “Little Men”. We often traded our figures back and forth, so each of us got to own our favorites at one point or another. But my brother would never dare trade his Toughest Cop!

This toy was bought before I was born, and my brother ripped the head off this toy and plopped it on a type 2 body and dressed him with a LJN Rookie uniform. He inscribed the initials “T.C.” on his helmet and as the legend goes, he beat every single police officer in a street fight to be named Toughest Cop on the Force! He would be his street fight champion and win battles with Zaius, Big Jim and whoever else dared challenge T.C.

No matter what I offered him, he would never trade him away. Ever since I was first introduced to the internet in 1997, I would search for this guy. I knew very little about him and tried various searches over the years.

Even as my brothers are now in their forties, they will often comment on my impressive toy collection by saying “Well you still don’t own a T.C.”. LOL

This figure holds such sentimental memories for me and is such a feather in my cap of collecting to add him to the collection. When this toy arrives, still sealed on card, I can’t wait to immediately rip his head off, throw it on a T2 body and steal some clothes from one of my Rookie guys. I might even make him rough up Ponch and John.

To own my very own T.C. is awesome and perhaps second only to seeing my AJ reunited with his son Baldy (but that’s another story).

[Earth 2 Chris]

Reunited...and it feels so good!

Chris

[palitoy]

Congrats on the reuniting.

[MegoCapnMike]

Awesome! Glad you were able to find it!

[sprytel]

I am continually amazed by some of the ninja skills of the Members here... So cool that you were able to track this one down!

[Brown Bear]

C'mon Mojo.....pm me your addy too.....got more love to spread around guys! This is awesome.

[kinostadt]

Awesome! I'm glad you got him. I'll gladly pm you my address. By the way, Mojo Lemon was the member who mentioned the Durham figure earlier.

[Brown Bear]

Hey Brown Bear. One of the members who posted earlier was correct. It is the head from a Durham figure and there happens to be one in eBay from a European seller currently.
Item 200963485422. I hope you get it.

OMG!!! THAT'S HIM!!! Thank you so much kinostadt for helping to end a 30 year search for this toy!! Please send me your home address and I will send you a reward gift. I actually got goosebumps looking at the auction. I hit Buy Now without even looking at the price. LOL. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!

[kinostadt]

Correction. It's a Canadian seller.

[kinostadt]

Hey Brown Bear. One of the members who posted earlier was correct. It is the head from a Durham figure and there happens to be one in eBay from a European seller currently.
Item 200963485422. I hope you get it.

[Brown Bear]

Did some more searching but no luck. Again, reward offered for any info leading to me finding this guy.

[Brown Bear]

Thanks guys, but no luck yet. Please keep the ideas coming. I'll do some digging on the Durham tip. Thanks.