Flashback Friday Figure Addendum #0097: B.A.T.

B.A.T. G.I. JOE: A REAL AMERICAN HERO (HASBRO) Hey there, it’s Friday. Well, that sure is nice, I suppose. Made it to the end of the week and all. Aren’t we all so proud? I am. Okay, so let’s do that whole Flashback thing I like to do at the end of the week, once more jumping back into the world of G.I. Joe, with a return look at the original Cobra B.A.T.! After being a fairly straightforward military-based line of toys, and then a mostly down to earth adventure series for the first 20 years of its life, in the 80s, G.I. Joe gave up on that whole real world thing and threw caution to the wind. Okay, that’s not true. The first year of the 3 ¾ inch line was actually pretty modest. Then 1983 added Destro and Gung-Ho to the line and all bets were off. Prepare for the neon colors, the wacky specialists, and even the Battle Android Troopers! THE FIGURE ITSELF The B.A.T. was released in the 1986 series of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (which, as I noted in my Lifeline review, was a pretty…