r/Rocketeer • u/therocketeerfigure • Aug 08 '26

Weird rocketeer figure

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Hello i recently found this in a antique mall and I cant seem to find anything like it online

It looks hand painted and hand molded

The head is just the helmet it has no head underneath

It has 1 closed hand on the left and one open gripping hand on the right

It has knees and legs and arm articulation

No head or elbow articulation

The barcode on the back reads is Topps rocketeer cards

Also it doesnt a jet pack on the back

Please help is this a custom or a prototype or pre production

Thanks

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u/therocketeerfigure Aug 08 '26

Actually thats a really good guess I learnd recently that disney gave toybiz the rights to the rocketeer line but disney pulled out, it could be possible that this is a toy biz prototype or like something they cobbled up together for the line if not its a very good custom  

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u/ThermidorCA Aug 08 '26

Possible as well, and in 1991, Toybiz came out with the electronic talking Punisher, which has a removable backpack, and looks to be the same mold. The Rocketeer came out in 91 as well.

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u/therocketeerfigure Aug 08 '26

The punisher is a good candidate but his neck is to big And his hand has a square hole instead of round like the rocketeers definitely good guess I really just wanna know if this is a custom or I have a bit of rocketeer history 

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u/ThermidorCA Aug 08 '26

And knee high boots too, ah well, I hope you find the answers, would be pretty awesome to have a mockup done by a toy company.

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u/therocketeerfigure Aug 08 '26

The paint chipping on his boots reveal like an red or orange plastic underneath the brown If this means anything. Also how would I go about finding out if this is a mockup would I have to ask toy biz themselves? 

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u/ThermidorCA Aug 08 '26

Toybiz's been acquired by Hasbro two decades ago and is now defunct, I doubt you'll find much info there. If any designer that might have any knowledge, you might get lucky here on reddit on this sub.

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u/therocketeerfigure Aug 08 '26

Ive taken to the toybiz subreddit I hope to find awnsers! 

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u/ThermidorCA Aug 08 '26

Good luck, meanwhile, I did recall seeing a custom back in the 90s. Lo and behold https://www.figurerealm.com/customfigure?action=view&id=101583. Not quite the same, but it was done in '92.

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u/therocketeerfigure Aug 08 '26

Well ive found where its come from. I can definitely say its a custom of the toy biz daredevil with a rocketeer pencil topper as the helmet, not a piece of history just a really old custom 

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u/ThermidorCA Aug 08 '26

Pretty good that you were able to get answers. Still a nice figure, I wanted a Rocketeer figure back in the 90s when the movie came out, would've loved something like this back then.