1987 Blocker: Eliminator Driver (Battle Force 2000)
Includes: XL-13 light refraction sub-machine laser
Blocker 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: BLOCKER
ELIMINATOR DRIVER
File Name: McCarthy, David B.
SN: 500-63-0163
Primary Military Specialty: Mechanized Recon
Secondary Military Specialty: Special Services
Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts
Grade: E-5 (Sergeant)
Blocker drove a taxi in Boston for three years. After seven armed robberies, three backseat births, and one near-fatal plunge through a collapsing roadway, he decided it was safer to drive something armor-plated with the ability to shoot back. He is qualified to drive every wheeled vehicle in the Army inventory and was the test driver for a half dozen prototype vehicles at Aberdeen Proving Grounds.
"I've seen him go over into a complete roll at high speed, recover and keep on going. He takes on the slalom minimally at 85 mph and doesn't tip nary a cone. The skid pad? Don't even ask. All that and he does it with vehicles built to military specs. Amazing!"
ELIMINATOR DRIVER
File Name: McCarthy, David B.
SN: 500-63-0163
Primary Military Specialty: Mechanized Recon
Secondary Military Specialty: Special Services
Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts
Grade: E-5 (Sergeant)
Blocker drove a taxi in Boston for three years. After seven armed robberies, three backseat births, and one near-fatal plunge through a collapsing roadway, he decided it was safer to drive something armor-plated with the ability to shoot back. He is qualified to drive every wheeled vehicle in the Army inventory and was the test driver for a half dozen prototype vehicles at Aberdeen Proving Grounds.
"I've seen him go over into a complete roll at high speed, recover and keep on going. He takes on the slalom minimally at 85 mph and doesn't tip nary a cone. The skid pad? Don't even ask. All that and he does it with vehicles built to military specs. Amazing!"
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 Battle Force 2000 two-packs. This is obvious because they 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: BLOCKER
ELIMINATOR FOUR-WHEELED VEHICLE DRIVER
File Name: McCarthy, David B.
SN: 500-63-0163
Primary Military Specialty: Mechanized Recon
Secondary Military Specialty: Special Services
Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts
Grade: E-5 (Sergeant)
Blocker drove a taxi in Boston for three years. After seven armed robberies, three backseat births, and one near-fatal plunge through a collapsing roadway, he decided it was safer to drive something armor-plated with the ability to shoot back. He is qualified to drive every wheeled vehicle in the Army inventory and was the test driver for a half dozen prototype vehicles at Aberdeen Proving Grounds.
"I've seen him go over into a complete roll at high speed, recover and keep on going. He takes on the slalom minimally at 85 mph and doesn't tip nary a cone. The skid pad? Don't even ask. All that and he does it with vehicles built to military specs. Amazing!"
ELIMINATOR FOUR-WHEELED VEHICLE DRIVER
File Name: McCarthy, David B.
SN: 500-63-0163
Primary Military Specialty: Mechanized Recon
Secondary Military Specialty: Special Services
Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts
Grade: E-5 (Sergeant)
Blocker drove a taxi in Boston for three years. After seven armed robberies, three backseat births, and one near-fatal plunge through a collapsing roadway, he decided it was safer to drive something armor-plated with the ability to shoot back. He is qualified to drive every wheeled vehicle in the Army inventory and was the test driver for a half dozen prototype vehicles at Aberdeen Proving Grounds.
"I've seen him go over into a complete roll at high speed, recover and keep on going. He takes on the slalom minimally at 85 mph and doesn't tip nary a cone. The skid pad? Don't even ask. All that and he does it with vehicles built to military specs. Amazing!"
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Earlier versions of Blocker featured a visor and a red left wrist. Later versions of Blocker removed the visor and the red paint application.
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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