173: “Ghostrider”, G.I. Joe ARAH S7, 1988
//Quick Personal Note: No posts in a long long while, I realize. I also know that 2020 has been a rough year for all (to put it mildly), myself included. I hope you are all doing the best you can out there. I feel like I might be back in the saddle, and will hopefully be able to post more frequently now.//
Ghostrider* is the pilot of the Phantom X-19 Stealth Fighter (one of my personal all-time favourite vehicles - I will make a separate post just about the vehicle tomorrow).
(*not to be confused with the Marvel character Johnny Blaze, aka “Ghost Rider”)
His only accessory (aside from a super bad-ass stealth fighter) was a red scarf made of a cloth material. This red material is actually extremely similar (maybe even identical?) to the red cape of 171 Destro v2.
It wasn’t a new idea for cloth to be included in some capacity with a figure, but with this figure it was one of the smallest pieces to be included as its own unattached accessory. For example, 058 Dusty had a bit of cloth around his helmet, but it was attached. (Sidenote: I THINK that was maybe the first usage of cloth on a figure) As another example, 082 Dr. Mindbender had a detachable cloth cape, but it was fairly big and thereby more difficult to lose. What is my point? Just to say that this scarf was best left tied around Ghostrider so as to avoid it disappearing forever.
So much scarf talk. All in all, I liked Ghostrider, even independent of his super cool jet plane. I liked the colour scheme and design quite a lot.
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