Super-DuperToyBox: More White Elephant Toyz

August 25, 2025
Posted by rgrove@shaw.ca

It’s been a couple years since I picked anything up from White Elephant Toyz, the main reason being the long, long wait for Gargon, King of Monsters. The Adventure Command line is based on an obscure offshoot of the G.I.Joe line from the ’70s that I have no real attachment to- but my love for larger action figures with cloth outfits and accessories like Mego attracted me to this independently produced series of action figures.

Gargon is a pretty faithful reproduction of Super Joe’s Gor, King of the Terrons, sans the light-up chest feature the original figure had. White Elephant Toyz also produced 100 glow-in-the-dark version with hot pink accessories, but I picked up the more traditional green version. The box art really captures the look of the 1970s blister cards of the Super Joe line. Mine was a little crushed in the top corner due to a slightly misaligned construction/fit, I believe, but I’m not too precious about that.

Gor from the Super Joe line didn’t include all the accessories that Gargon does, which really make him a deluxe package. He comes with battle armor/helmet and club for warrior mode, and crown/scepter and laser pistol to battle as King Gargon. Like the Gor figure from the ’70s, Gargon has pretty limited articulation- I’d have loved to have had the light-up chest, but that must have been cost prohibitive for such a boutique line of figures.

I picked up a couple Adventure Command Science Division figures as well with the new jumpsuits, a Science Officer (green) and Mission Specialist (red). They both included nifty clear plastic amulets, pistols and knives. Love the vibrant colors on these figures…

This Frightful Fiends Teenage Bog Monster is in a slightly different scale than the Adventure Command figures, but he’ll fit in great with my Mego Horror figures. I know White Elephant produced a Mummy figure, and I did pick up a Lincoln Dracula and Frankenstein last year, but I’m usure if they produced all the figures featured on the cross-sell illustration on the back of the box.

…of course this Teenage Bog Monster glows in the dark …!

And finally, I picked up an Atomic Apeman, also on the 1/9 scale “Type S” body like the Teenage Bog Monster. I actually have a few contemporary Mego Planet of the Apes figures in storage, a couple in this soldier uniform. There are several versions on White Elephant’s website, but I liked “Gravitron’s” blue hair!

Gravitron was bagged with Adventure Command accessories that he holds perhaps more securely than the slightly larger figures, and of course he glows in the dark– a feature I never tire of. What a fun action figure! I can imagine Gravitron was transformed by the same atomic waves that give the Teenage Bog Monster his glow, and that he is the boy’s protector!