Teaser : Doctor X develops a supergun and unless he gets his ransom he's going to blow up the Earth, city by city. Suddenly, everyone's relying on the bravery of Action Man and the Action Force to stop a disastrous takeover. Can they save the day?
Review done by: Raymond Blakey
Everything seems peaceful on planet Earth. Then, out of nowhere a huge meteorite, which Astronomers refer as a rogue moon flies down from the heavens and strikes a small area. Suddenly Doctor X appears and tells the world that he now has the power to send down rogue moons whenever he wishes unless the world bows down to his rule.
In Action Force HQ it doesn’t take Jacque long to figure out the “rogue moon†is actually some sort of advanced projectile weapon cooked up by Doctor X. Once he computes the trajectory of the weapon he is able to trace it to the Gobi Desert and the Action team is off on their new adventure.
Action Man splits the team up, sending Knuck and Natalie together off on their own while he explores another part of the desert. I’m not really sure why he does this. It seems smarter to either stay together or split up in 3 different directions instead of two.
Special note by Jamar Miller: Notice Natalie putting her hand on Action Mans Leg displaying thier relationship ever so subtly
In any event Action Man finds that one of the sand dunes in the desert is a hologram. Once he passes through the hologram he discovers a hard sand fortress built by Doctor X. Fortunately he came prepared, he is wearing the “Mission Extreme†climbing outfit that was one of the nicer (and expensive) Action Man figure sets of the time.
As he attempts to climb into X’s fortress, the Doctor triggers a booby trap and Action Man is suddenly dropped into a pit which is slowly being filled with sand. Doctor X appears as a large Hologram of his own head telling AM that his death is imminent. It is then that AM has the second in a series of flashbacks relating to the beach. “I went to the beach, onceâ€
I guess sand = beach.
In any event, Knuck arrives and rescues Action Man. The flashback gives Action Man an idea and he has Jacque use jet-extreme to seed the desert clouds and create rain.
[center]Below is the Obligatory New Uniform for Action Man in this episode, Its the Mountain Climber uniform/Toy.
Since it rarely, if ever, rains in the Gobi desert, X was unprepared and his fortress melts away causing the gun to misfire and a rogue moon to destroy his own base.
Finale Thoughts: This was a great episode of Action Man. The show worked at its best when it was as pulpish and comic booky as it could get. Pure adventure stories with really over-the-top plots were a hallmark of this series and it defined the best episodes.
Doctor X finds a way to shoot large, laser proof, boulders out of a gun built on a fortress of hard sand. How insane is this idea. And when he traps Action Man he appears as a huge floating head to gloat at him. This is the Doctor X that I really like…the complete loon who would never stoop so low as to simply take hostages. Doc X should always be about insane plans for world domination, such as shooting Washington DC to the moon, etc.
Then you have AM decked out in the coolest outfit he wore. The mission Extreme set was the FLAGSHIP Action Man toy of the era. .
He had the cool green coat, the climbing rig gimmick, the hat, the little microphone. He looked ready to fight evil, and in my opinion should have always worn that outfit
Special Note By Jamar: In the picture above you see Natalie React to the possible death of Action Man. You actually see Tears on her, thus again Showing more of a relationship or at least want of a relationship with Action Man
If you want one outfit that totally defines the DIC Action Man series, in my opinion , this one is it.
Now that you read it and seen pictures, go watch part 1 here:
and Part two here :
