1987 Avalanche: Dominator Driver (Battle Force 2000)
Includes: P-480 sub-zero stun gun
Avalanche was one of six Battle Force 2000 figures released in 1987. This six figure sub-set was the first of its kind for G.I. Joe. You can see on the back of the file card below how the six figures were set apart from the rest of the Joes and Cobras. This sub-set tradition would continue in 1988 with "Tiger Force" and "Night Force" and in 1989 with "Python Patrol" and "Slaughters Marauders".
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Filecard information:
Code Name: AVALANCHE
DOMINATOR DRIVER
File Name: Costello, Ian M.
SN: 512-89-8788
Primary Military Specialty: Armored Vehicle Driver
Secondary Military Specialty: Cold Weather Survival Driver
Birthplace: Madawask, Maine
Grade: E-5 (Sergeant)
When Avalanche came of age, he declined joining his family's busi-ness, (poaching, smuggling and bootlegging) and opted for the U.S. Army instead. Having spent most of his youth in the woods with a rifle, he was quite well prepared for certain rigors of military life and totally unprepared for the discipline.
"As part of a survival exercise, Avalanche and twenty other trainees were left in the wilds with a knife and a compass apiece. Most of the others staggered in haggard and worn after a week. They found Avalanche a month later and two hundred miles away, lounging in a motel and spending the money he had made from the furs he brought in..."
DOMINATOR DRIVER
File Name: Costello, Ian M.
SN: 512-89-8788
Primary Military Specialty: Armored Vehicle Driver
Secondary Military Specialty: Cold Weather Survival Driver
Birthplace: Madawask, Maine
Grade: E-5 (Sergeant)
When Avalanche came of age, he declined joining his family's busi-ness, (poaching, smuggling and bootlegging) and opted for the U.S. Army instead. Having spent most of his youth in the woods with a rifle, he was quite well prepared for certain rigors of military life and totally unprepared for the discipline.
"As part of a survival exercise, Avalanche and twenty other trainees were left in the wilds with a knife and a compass apiece. Most of the others staggered in haggard and worn after a week. They found Avalanche a month later and two hundred miles away, lounging in a motel and spending the money he had made from the furs he brought in..."
Filecard variant:
The original six Battle Force 2000 figures were released individually on their own cards. In 1988 they were re-released as a set of three two-packs. The cut-out file card below is from one of the 1988 two-packs. This is obvious because they flipped the artwork and revised the specialty below his code name to be more detailed than the original specialty featured on the single carded figure seen above.
Code Name: AVALANCHE
DOMINATOR SNOW VEHICLE DRIVER
File Name: Costello, Ian M.
SN: 512-89-8788
Primary Military Specialty: Armored Vehicle Driver
Secondary Military Specialty: Cold Weather Survival Driver
Birthplace: Madawask, Maine
Grade: E-5 (Sergeant)
When Avalanche came of age, he declined joining his family's busi-ness, (poaching, smuggling and bootlegging) and opted for the U.S. Army instead. Having spent most of his youth in the woods with a rifle, he was quite well prepared for certain rigors of military life and totally unprepared for the discipline.
"As part of a survival exercise, Avalanche and twenty other trainees were left in the wilds with a knife and a compass apiece. Most of the others staggered in haggard and worn after a week. They found Avalanche a month later and two hundred miles away, lounging in a motel and spending the money he had made from the furs he brought in..."
DOMINATOR SNOW VEHICLE DRIVER
File Name: Costello, Ian M.
SN: 512-89-8788
Primary Military Specialty: Armored Vehicle Driver
Secondary Military Specialty: Cold Weather Survival Driver
Birthplace: Madawask, Maine
Grade: E-5 (Sergeant)
When Avalanche came of age, he declined joining his family's busi-ness, (poaching, smuggling and bootlegging) and opted for the U.S. Army instead. Having spent most of his youth in the woods with a rifle, he was quite well prepared for certain rigors of military life and totally unprepared for the discipline.
"As part of a survival exercise, Avalanche and twenty other trainees were left in the wilds with a knife and a compass apiece. Most of the others staggered in haggard and worn after a week. They found Avalanche a month later and two hundred miles away, lounging in a motel and spending the money he had made from the furs he brought in..."
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All six Battle Force 2000 figures (from 1987) were drivers or pilots. Look at the cut out card above to see what vehicle they commanded. G.I. Joe had never released a driver or pilot as a stand-alone carded figure before, and they never did this again after Battle Force 2000. Below you can see the six figures and the six vehicles released in 1987. The six vehicles combined to form one large "Future Fortress".
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