![]() ![]() ![]() In the end the figure was in about 15 pieces and was relegated to the trash when it just didn’t interest me anymore. I had already ditched the mask so I think at this point I was ready to give up on keeping the figure intact, and decided to do an autopsy to really see how this figure worked. This was cool at first but then it broke and now I had a new rip in the rubber that was spreading.Īt this point I just threw the mask away, I mean the lizard head underneath was cooler anyway right? Well at some point in the next few weeks I started getting curious about how the tongue mechanism worked. My mask also had a thin spot of rubber on the front where a bubble got into the mold, thin enough so that the green skin would sort of show through like on some of the TV episodes. The next thing I knew it was all the way up and over to the hairline in the front so that the mask would stay on properly anymore and needed the sunglasses (which wrapped around the entire head) to keep it on. But when you start a rip in rubber it just keeps getting bigger and bigger. Well every time you do that the rubber on the mask would tear a little because it isn’t slit far enough up. There is a slit on the back of it from the neck up to the middle of the hairline so you can open it wide and put it on the figure’s lizard head. ![]() I think I had the V doll for a couple of weeks before the head mask started to tear. I was pretty good about taking care of most of my toys, but some just were not meant to last. Actually destruction is the wrong word as it was more of a dissection. It’s a mystery to me how a lot of my toys became lost to time, but the destruction of my V doll is pretty much burned into my memory. Add to that a black vinyl Michael Jackson vest and attachments that made the laser pistol into a rifle and were talking male doll nirvana. I mean a doll with a removable head mask as well as a cool black helmet would be like four times as cool. The only thing this doll was lacking that would have made it the best doll ever are shock trooper accessories like characters have on in the pictures printed on the box. Not only did he come with a removable head mask (yet another in a long line of awesome figures with removable headgear), but he also had a pretty darn accurate laser gun (I’ve always loved the design on the V laser), nifty sunglasses and tongue flicking action. In fact if you were lucky enough to have some of the Indiana Jones figures you could probably have this figure mixed in as the result of the Nazi’s contact with the alien visitor race and the Zentradi, and Harrison Ford still would have beat the crap out of them.)Īs far as dolls go though, the V figure was pretty cool. It says action figure on the original package, but in a time where the standard for action figures was between 4 to 6 inches, the V doll just didn’t fit in (unless you assumed that all alien races were three stories tall like the Zentradi in Robotech. But lets be honest and call it what it really was, a doll. My family didn’t have a VCR when it was aired originally, so I never had a copy of my own when I was a kid, but I did have the next best thing (at least in my weird young brain), the official V action figure. I remember watching it every time it was on TV either first run or later re-run on Saturdays on the more local channels, and then being so jealous of my friend Jeremy who had a copy of both the original mini-series and the Final Battle on VHS recorded from when he was living up in Route Island. Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rodgers, the Last Starfighter, etc., etc., etc.), and was the closest thing to a huge cultural TV event that I experienced first hand in the 80s. It’s one of those things that I’ve been meaning to make my fiancee sit down and watch, but it’s hard to get someone to commit to 27+ hours of TV, especially when they think it’s going to suck and take a day away from a life that could be spend doing anything else.Īnyway, for me (and a lot of other geek/nerd/dorks who grew up in the 80’s) V was the next best thing to Star Wars, which is probably the best way to describe anything Sci-Fi related in the late 70s and early 80s (e.g. Finally, after years of putting it off, I broke down and bought the entire V television series on DVD, both the mini-series (including the Final Battle) and the regular TV series. ![]()
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