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I believe alot of the guys you see today carrying assault rifles and living off the land , shacked up in the wilderness had to have been inspired by movies like Rambo and Commando. Both were bad ass and let's face it, we all wanted to be that bad ass ! Me? Hell, I have a hard time putting a worm on a fishing hook so as much as I wanted to be like John Matrix, it wasn't in the cards for me. I could only hope to  live vicariously through this action figure as a kid. Great fucking times, tho. 

Schwarzenegger / Commando Vintage 3 3/4 Figures

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The Mandela Effect?Or something like It.I don't actually have any memory of these toys ,although, apparently , they released at the height of my childhood toy acquiring days.Diamond Toymakers was the name of the company responsible for producing these paramilitary half pints.They released In 1986 along with a six inch line of the same figures and sculpts.Playing with these for a little while on my toy shelf,I would have definitely dug them as a kiddo.The following MOC pics are not mine.I snagged them off of ebay to show an example of the carded figure.I'm looking at the packaging and wondering If I saw these at one point In my childhood on the Chuck E. Cheese wall of prizes. Here we have Sawbones,John Matrix and Psycho.All sculpted differently ,standing at about the same height.What's strange about these figures Is their arms and head sculpts,which are made out of  a soft rubber.It works,but I still find It a bit odd.Actually ,Sawbones arms are hard plastic,so he...