Code Name:

Destro

version seven

Carded Figure (w/Gung Ho)

Destro's Filecard

Figure Description:

Destro was released as part of the eighteenth series (2002), carded in a two-pack with Gung Ho (v8).

Versions of Destro:

• Version One (1983)
• Version Two (1988)
• Version Three (1992)
• Version Four (1993)
• Version Five (1997)
• Version Six (2001)
• Version Seven (2002)
• Version Eight (2002)
• Version Nine (2002)
• Version Ten (2003)
• Version Eleven (2004)
• Version Twelve (2005)
• Version Thirteen (2005)
• Version Fourteen (2007)
• Version Fifteen A (2007)
• Version Fifteen B (2007)
• Version Sixteen (2008)
• Version Seventeen (2008)

Accessories:

Destro came with a black rifle, a black submachine gun, a black walkie talkie, and a black backpack.

The packaging also included a color background.

Variations:

The very earliest carded Destros had slight packaging differences. Among them - the text on the back of the card described Cobra as a "terrorist" organization, and the figures were posed to have the heads looking at each other.

Later carded figures had no mention of the word "terrorist", the figure heads looked out and not at each other, and the packaging included the 2002 figure catalog.

These later packagings also included a new colored background that no longer had the white "explosions" around the figure. The filecard for Destro was also changed by removing the text "The name James McCullen Destro does not apply to any known, living person," and adding the text "Characters and events referenced herein are fictional and are not intended to depict actual characters and events." The text of the body of the filecard was also changed.

Body Construction:

Destro (version 7) has an entirely new body sculpt. The same mold was used to create Destro (v8) (2002) and Destro (v9) (2002).

Note the changes made from previous versions of 3 3/4" figures - including new waist construction.