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Oct 29, 2026

Danny LigairiGUEST
7:59
older.
Danny LigairiGUEST
7:59
So even in my mid-twenties, I got my action man out and dressed him up.
Danny LigairiGUEST
8:06
Made a smug and got every other gear.
Danny LigairiGUEST
8:08
Little action man.
Danny LigairiGUEST
8:09
My son was two.
Danny LigairiGUEST
8:11
Gave him my action man.
Danny LigairiGUEST
8:12
Got him all the gear.
Danny LigairiGUEST
8:13
Went and found all the toys and dressed up my own little doll.
Graham RaddingsHOST
10:31
Ewoks.
Graham RaddingsHOST
10:31
in it mad but they didn't have I mean obviously post Return of the Jedi because I'm guessing they wanted to keep the franchise about the franchise and not have an animated version of it in any way but it's amazing really that they didn't because I was well into Star Wars figures I mean like every kid my age I think I had a little collection of Star Wars figures and then you diversify at Christmas because your parents don't want to buy always Star Wars figures that's when I got He-Man and then you start to get Action Force and then you start to get Action Man and stuff like that and again Action Man no comic of that no cartoon of that in the UK which seems crazy and
Adrian MillsHOST
11:01
Well, because it was G.I. Joe, wasn't it? Yeah, but we never got a G.I.
Adrian MillsHOST
11:05
Joe in the UK.

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Adrian MillsHOST
28:11
grip.
Adrian MillsHOST
28:11
The grip.
Adrian MillsHOST
28:12
I went down, basically, because I was reading about G.I. Joe, I ended up going down a bit of an action man wormhole this morning, today as well, and reading about other innovations and the grippy hands.
Graham RaddingsHOST
28:21
What do they call them in the UK, that grip? I don't know.
Christopher McLeodHOST
91:16
There's more.
Christopher McLeodHOST
91:18
Classified Mask, Action Man, and any other Hasbro-owned IPs are on the table.
Christopher McLeodHOST
91:24
So, again, I would take that as, yeah, we'll probably like to see more Action Man characters and Mask introduced at some point into Classified.
Christopher McLeodHOST
91:35
Now, obviously, they're in the Energon universe.
Christopher McLeodHOST
91:36
So maybe there's a tie in there.
Christopher McLeodHOST
91:39
You know, it kind of depends on what the plans are going forward.
Christopher McLeodHOST
91:43
But I'd be very surprised not to see, you know, the mask team and like any other, you know, action action man characters, Micronauts, you know, all that stuff is all possibility or possibilities.
Christopher McLeodHOST
91:58
Now, of course, we have seen Marvel Legends sort of take rom and also the micronauts now so you know maybe it's not necessarily worth it for them to do those sort of characters but where you know you've got mask where you've got even void rivals um and and elements like that i can see those particular characters you know finding their way into classified um you know definitely but then you know not even just comic related elements but like just brand ownership visionaries um trying to think of other ones they've got uh there's a lot but you know it's one of those things where i think it's we'll have to wait and see but they're definitely on the table and that we also talk collaborations as well and uh that that's another thing that you know i think we can expect to see more of going forward for sure even stuff that isn't necessarily hasbro owned as well is what i'm getting out there The other point is that more Lara Croft Tomb Raider classified figures will be showing up in store at Walmart.
Nick AlvianiPANELIST
59:24
Wow.
Nick AlvianiPANELIST
59:25
I've still got Action Men toys somewhere lying around.
Nick AlvianiPANELIST
59:28
Do you remember them? Yeah, I remember the Action Men.
Nick AlvianiPANELIST
59:29
That was the male version of a Barbie.
Nick AlvianiPANELIST
59:32
You used to dress it up, didn't you? In the Barbie club.
Nick AlvianiPANELIST
59:38
Ahead of your time.
Nick AlvianiPANELIST
59:39
Were they
Holly Edwards-SmithPANELIST
59:39
different action men or just one?
Andrew WildmanHOST
11:39
But, no, I didn't approach them at all when the kind of mid-'90s disaster happened, but did work back in British comics.
Andrew WildmanHOST
11:50
So it was Action Man and Power Rangers and bits and pieces like that.
Andrew WildmanHOST
11:54
But Action Man was a good one to do because, you know, when I was a kid, of the things that interest me, there was the Beano and the Dandy and Action Man being a huge one.
Andrew WildmanHOST
12:04
I mean, I've still got...
Andrew WildmanHOST
12:05
We've got some Action Man stuff, and then obviously Action Force is something that was relevant to our careers as comics creators and G.I. Joe.
Andrew WildmanHOST
12:16
So those things, they're kind of always there, but there are other people who are far better suited to it.
Andrew WildmanHOST
12:23
In fact...
Simon FurmanHOST
12:48
And the same with Lou Stringer, who worked on obviously Robo Capers and Combat Colin for Marvel.
Jon LangfordGUEST
54:53
yeah.
Jon LangfordGUEST
54:54
My grandmother bought me an Action Man from Cardiff Market, which was actually like a Barbie doll with an Action Man head stuck on.
Jon LangfordGUEST
55:04
So it had little breasts and funny legs and the joints didn't move.
Jon LangfordGUEST
55:09
Yeah, and she put a little...
Christopher McLeodHOST
54:37
Thank you very much, guys.
Christopher McLeodHOST
54:39
Now, this is again, multiple people have asked this question, but with Action Man's recent release, does that open the door for other Action Man characters? Or was it just sort of like a one and done scenario?
BMACGUEST
54:53
That's a hard to say.
BMACGUEST
54:54
Yes, they're on the table because we do own it.
BMACGUEST
54:59
I understand everybody's like, hey, Lara's a perfect retool or redeco and new head to make Natalie pool would be great.
BMACGUEST
55:07
Where's all the villains? it's just a matter of where does it fit in with the line and how are we going to do it? It was kind of a, we wanted to show all the fans in Europe that like what classified is.
BMACGUEST
55:19
So like the backpack shows like from the makers of GI Joe classified, but it's fully action man branded and it's bright orange and it looks like that.
BMACGUEST
55:27
So it was kind of a way for us to learn from our, our fans in Europe, like, Hey, is there more of this that you're interested in? Should there be a sub line that is action man? Um, And I think the response has been overwhelmingly positive for everybody who is an Action Man fan.
Mark StuckeyGUEST
66:18
And I can't really tell you the reason why.
Mark StuckeyGUEST
66:20
My friends across the road from me at the time, they had Action Man toys and the rest of it.
Mark StuckeyGUEST
66:24
My father was, they're dolls.
Mark StuckeyGUEST
66:28
Can't have them, son.
James IrishHOST
60:00
Onigiri, what's that? What? But one of the changes actually was baked into the original toy's production history, where in the 1960s, when the 12-inch G.I.
James IrishHOST
60:11
Joe toys were released in the United Kingdom, they were dubbed the less region-specific Action Man, which with the 1980s incarnation became Action Force, which is now a separate group in the G.I. Joe pantheon, as is the adversaries, the barren iron blood led red shadows what a great name for a villain faction this would affect comic book releases which had their own continuity and the cartoon would be renamed and edited accordingly to fit the marketing in that region and telly toon was the guy who turned me back on to this fact so thank you telly
Krissi HardingHOST
60:51
thanks telly Yeah, it's really interesting how they had to, because it's kind of like, it's like, well, we're going to move it outside of the United States.
Krissi HardingHOST
60:59
Really, how are you going to do that? This is very Americanized that most places are going to be like, why would we want to read about these guys? Good job.
Emily MaitlisHOST
2:51
You, you pulled-
Jon SopelHOST
2:51
I had Action Man.
Emily MaitlisHOST
2:52
Okay.
Emily MaitlisHOST
2:53
So this...

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