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:

• Destro (1983)
• Destro v2 (1988)
• Destro v3 (1992)
• Destro v4 (1993)
• Destro v5 (1997)
• Destro v6 (2001)
• Destro v7 (2002)
• Destro v8 (2002)
• Destro v9 (2002)
• Destro v10 (2003)
• Destro v11 (2004)
• Destro v12 (2005)
• Destro v13 (2005)
• Destro v14 (2007)
• Destro v15a (2007)
• Destro v15b (2007)
• Destro v16 (2008)
• Destro v17 (2008)
• Destro v18 (2008)
• Destro v19a (2008)
• Destro v19b (2008)
• Destro v20 (2008)
• Destro v21 (2008)
• Destro v22 (2009)
• Destro v23 (2009)
• James McCullen XXIV (2009)
• Destro v24 (2009)

In 2009, Hasbro released a figure named "James McCullen XXIV", the actual name of the "Destro" identity.

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.