Helicopter Pilot

Code Name:

Wild Bill

version five

Figure Description:

Wild Bill (version five) was released as part of the eighteenth series (2002), carded in a two-pack with Neo-Viper (v4).

Wild Bill (version five) was also released in 2003 with a Mission Disc as part of the second series and again in 2004 with G.I.Joe Shaped Gum Pieces..

Versions of Wild Bill:

• Version One (1983)
• Version Two (1992)
• Version Three (1993)
• Version Four (2000)
• Version Five (2002)
• Version Six (2003/2004)
• Version Seven (2003)
• Version Eight (2004)
• Version Nine (2004)
• Version Ten (2005)
• Version Eleven (2008)
• Version Twelve (2008)
• Version Thirteen (2008)
• Version Fourteen (2009)

Accessories:

Two Pack

Wild Bill came with a brown hat, an olive brown Sound Attack machine gun, and a pair of graphite gray revolvers.

The packaging also included a color background.

Mission Disc

The Mission Disc version of Wild Bill came with two black pistols, a black knife, a black rifle, and a brown hat.

The Mission Disc pack also included Mission Disc 3 (2nd series), featuring two episodes of the cartoon, a game, and a comic. The same disc was also included with the Mission Disc version of Firefly (v6).

Gum Bits

Wild Bill (with Gum Bits) came with an olive brown Sound Attack machine gun.

Variations:

No variations of Wild Bill are known to exist.

Some versions of the carded figure two-pack came with a sticker promoting the G.I.Joe cartoons on Cartoon Network.

Body Construction:

Wild Bill (version 5) has an entirely new body sculpt. The entire mold was used to create Wild Bill (v6) (2003), Wild Bill (v7) (2003) and Wild Bill (v8) (2004).

Note the return of the O-ring design absent from earlier new figures from 2002.