Adventure Team Plus

In playscale miniaturism, I have encountered three types of Adventure Team type collectors:

1. Purists: Those who only use Hasbro-brand figures and accessories,
2. Expansionists: Those willing to include AT knockoff figures and accessories, and
3. Coed Inclusionists:* Those who will accept any reasonably articulated figure (male or female) who is properly outfitted for the genre. And any accessories from any source that is close enough to to work.

Adventure Team Gold...?

"Doc" Savage and his Fabulous Five strike me as the prototypical Adventure Team of their day.

Even though I consider Fuzzhead Action Man to be the founder of the international order of Action & Adventure Teams, it seems very likely that their secret investor would be none other than The Hidalgo Trading Co. (That was Doc Savage's company, who made his money from a Mayan gold mine. Could that be why most of the AT's equipment is yellow/gold? Hmmm...)

AT Sets Yet to Be Done...

Proposed GI Joe Adventure Team playsets:

SEARCH for the UNKNOWN McGUFFIN,

HUNT for the ELUSIVE WOOD SNIPE,

STALKING the EQUATORIAL SEA BAT

MORE Rare and Elusive Species to Consider...

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Meeting in the Middle: The Desexualization of Playscale Miniaturism

This hobby isn't new, it's playscale miniaturism. It is a combination of dollhouse miniaturism (with or without the dollhouse) and scale modeling. It's population and accessories just happen to hail from both the green and pink aisles. Barbie established the scale in modern times (which is why it is sometimes called Barbie-scale), but, when Joe became a civilian --and got hair!-- with the advent of his Adventure Team (or earlier in individual collections), the scale became irreversibly co-ed; it married the two camps. Prior to this, most adult collectors were polarized into military & fashion (or domestic) miniaturism, largely along gender lines.