|
Flint - Ninja Commando
Parts Used
Nunchuk head, Rayden (Mortal Kombat movie edition)
Appearances
None
The Ninja Commandos, with the possible exception of the Manimals, are
the most notorious of those figures Hasbro planned but never released.
Originally, plans called for them to be released in 1994 under the name
"Battle Corps Ninja Force." For whatever reasons, they were delayed for
release until 1995 and given the new name Ninja Commandos, but by then
the 3 3/4" GI Joe line had already been cancelled. Rumors continue to persist
that these figures DO exist in mass-produced form, and are currently in
storage somewhere. The best evidence for this lies in the Mortal Kombat
movie figure line. Three different figures have parts from three of the
proposed Ninja Commandos, proving that molds were created for this lost
chapter of the GI Joe story. Whether the molds were actually utilized to
produce the 10,000 figure output of each Commando rumored to be in existence
somewhere remains unknown.
Five different figures from the proposed line are shown in the 1994
convention issue of Action Figure News & Toy Review. The proposed characters
are: Budo, Storm Shadow, Road Pig, Flint, and Knock-Out. Packaging for
these resembles that later used for Mortal Kombat with figures "action-posed"
inside the bubble rather than in the typical thin bubble used with GI Joe
figures.
As only Storm Shadow is shown with any accessories in the AFN &
TR article, I have no idea what weapons Flint would have had in his arsenal.
They probably would have been some of the typical weapons packaged with
the Ninja Force figures of years past, as these are what Storm Shadow has. |