Mattel's Big Jim line may have been gone from US toystores in 1977 but he had a long and prosperous life in Europe up until the mid 1980s thanks to some very creative moves.
Big Jim was no longer just a sportsman/spy in this new world but a character free of the constraints of time, he was a spy, an explorer, a pirate, a cowboy what ever you wanted him to be.
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It loooks like, in addition to the Old West stuff, Euro Jim looks to have borrowed heavily from the GI Joe Adventure Team in its adventure sets. I see a Secret Mission to Spy Island, a Capture of the Pygmy Gorilla, A White Tiger Hunt, the arctic dog sled one whose set name escapes me, and other bits and pieces. Also, didn't the Euro Joe have western outfits/sets, too?
ReplyDeleteAlso, I always thought Torpedo Fist looked very piratical. And then there is Warpath. I wonder, did these figures come from European pirate/Old West lines before coming to the US to join the PACK?
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