{"id":42462,"date":"2025-09-26T00:56:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T04:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=42462"},"modified":"2025-09-02T15:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T19:27:09","slug":"soon-forget-gi-joe-battlefield-messenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/09\/soon-forget-gi-joe-battlefield-messenger\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: GI Joe Battlefield Messenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figure today is... a GI Joe.<\/p>\n<p>This piece of art was done by Ron Rudat, and was apparently identified as a \"Battlefield Messenger\" (it would have fallen to Larry Hama to give him a name and story):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/rudatjoemessenger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/rudatjoemessenger-225x300.jpg\" title=\"click to embiggen\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Considering that Doc was a 1983 figure, but Rudat was already working on that design <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=37035\">in 1981<\/a>, it's possible the reason we never saw this guy in production is that he was simply too plain for the line by the time he would have been made - the most \"grounded\" figures of 1987 were Falcon, Outback, and Tunnel Rat, while we were also getting things like Psyche-Out and Fast Draw.<\/p>\n<p>The important thing is the sticker down in the corner, which shows that the drawing was accepted on 9-26-85 - or exactly 40 years ago today. Happy birthday, Unknown Battlefield Messenger; may you someday become a real boy!<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin' through Previews - December '11\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/12\/flippin-through-previews-december-11\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' through Previews - December '11<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin' through Previews - November '11\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/11\/flippin-through-previews-november-11\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' through Previews - November '11<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Law &#038; Order addendum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/11\/law-order-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Law &#038; Order addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"McCullen Clan Family History addendum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/mccullen-clan-family-history-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">McCullen Clan Family History addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #230\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2023\/02\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-230\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #230<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figure today is... a GI Joe. This piece of art was done by Ron Rudat, and was apparently identified as a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/09\/soon-forget-gi-joe-battlefield-messenger\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[331,8],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-42462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancelled-toys","category-hasbro","tag-gi-joe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42462"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45310,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42462\/revisions\/45310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}