There is a lot of love for the Adventure Team. I venture to say that most of us grew up in the 80s with RAH, not Adventure Team (or Super Joe for that matter).

Just for my own curiosity, I have one question. Why the love?

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The yellow. All the awesome, awesome yellow (yes, I'm serious, that's a big part of the draw for me).

I think a big part of it, too, is that it allows a free-form universe without any real canon to try to follow, so AT can be added into the RAHJoe-verse easily, allowing for expansion of the team. It also allows for non-militaristic endeavors, which leads to some interesting dioramas that just wouldn't work with professional soldier figures in them.

I think for a lot of us, we've been doing this a long time, and AT is something new to focus on if we're feeling a little burnt out on the same characters over and over, but still be 'Joe' oriented.

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I collect both scale. I also love the old adventure and spy shows of the 60's and 70's and the Adventure Team is right in that alley.
Daring rescue, explorations, spies, lost treasures, what's not to love?

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The first GI Joe figure I got was an AT figure, and I love to concept of Joe being an adventurer.

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I think this sums it up for me.

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That is a big part of it for me. They had cool sets and cool vehicles that i think would work much better in the 3 3/4" scale. Those sets still hold up for the most part. The Con sets have a ton of creativity in them to point where I seriously consider buying the 12" set even though I don't collect that size.

I loved the idea of the club's AT sets, but they were hampered with bad base bodies and not good vehicles.

This is true too. Since you're talking about an expansion of characters you can play off that and add characters who fit that mold who wouldn't normally fit into the Joe verse. Everyone from sgartz's Hannibal Smith (A-Team) to chiefs Hank Parsons (Journey 2) can fit into that. You could add real life people like James Cameron to that group too. The possibilities are endless because the adventure aspect doesn't necessarily mean military.

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I can't really put my finger on why I like them. My older cousin had the Talking AT Commander (dressed in Land Adventurers fatigues), and would always show me and Chad when we were little.

I like what pluv said as well. The Club really has done with there 12" sets.

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I have a plastic tub filled with the various 12 inch figures I've gotten. Most are from the 90s.

Although I never got into the AT figures that came out before the 3-3/4 JOEs, I am familiar with them.

I think the AT characters can co-exist with the ARAH and current ones.

There is a lot of 3-3/4 AT customs in the Gallery I like.

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Most of us grew up with the original trilogy of Star Wars also, but buy the hell out Old Republic figures when they get made. OR even - gasp - Prequel trilogy figs.

I think it's the same thing. It also has a sense of freshness to it, since it has not been over-exposed. It's a theme still very relevant (see Indiana Jones, Lara Croft, et al), and yes, it has attractive non-military colors, without being late-80s-Joe level obnoxious.

I will add that I had an older brother whose AT toys were largely decimated by the time I was old enough to play. The limited pieces left over were intriguing, and added something to the mystique for me.

Finally, there's something about the Adventure Team - even the toys were gone by the 80s - that kind of defined an overwhelming amount of the action tv series we loved as kids in the 80s. The inspiration may not have been direct, but the themes were clearly shared.

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I'd like the AT like the Club Exclusives, but that won't happen.

The AT line could be a great idea, it would bring back the nostalgia, also something new to the modern day enthusiast/collector of GI Joe, so much potential can be had like gear packs, weapons packs, vehicle packs. Just like the ARAH line did with their packs.

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I never heard of AT until adulthood. I honestly don't know why I like it. It just has a certain innate appeal. After I get over my current Transformers Crossover phase, I think I am going to do some AT vehicles.

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Another thing I forgot to add, adventure team gives me a use for tiger force. In my 'verse, tf is the military liaison unit that supplements AT when needed.

Due to geography, amongst other things, I had never heard of the Adventure Team until the 2000 Big Ben & Whiteout pack
I was also ignorant of the various Action Man "Adventurer" clothes and equipment that were available here at the same time that the AT were active.
Action Man figures in general were way out of my price range as a child so I tended to ignore them whilst drooling over the more affordable Action Force figures.
In recent years I have gained a fondness for the AT and their Action Man and Geyper Man cousins.
I think it's down to them not having any defined adversary or conflict, there is more scope for the imagination to lead their Adventures.

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In part this is true for me as well, but truly I loved the Adventure team figures.
IMO you youngsters here missed out on the golden age of action figures the mid to late 1970's.

There were more action figure lines then you could possible want. Mego soooo many different megos, Big Jim, Joes ( GI, AT, Super ) Johnny West, Action Jackson, Micronaughts, Lone Ranger, Bionic Man etc...etc...etc... AND I MISS EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE LINES.

Anyway for me personally the Adventure team figures and Big Jim were the best of these non-military type figures. They came with great accessories that could do or be any thing I wanted them to. They could go camping one day, fight a giant snake the next and battle bad guys on the weekends. The accessories and vehicles were a large part of the fun.

I'm not saying that I don't also love ARAH because I do. I was in High school when they came out and back then it was definitely not cool to collect action figures. Never the less I collected every single one I could put my hands on.
I think the line is stagnant, true I still want them but I think the line needs to go in a different direction.

I'd like to see theme based lines and figures made by Hasbro using the GI Joe type figures. All with their own cartoons.
Kids need to get away from video games and start pretending again. Using their own minds to entertain themselves.
Sci Fi space themed...sort of Flash Gordon meets Buck Rogers meets Super Joe.
Western Themed
Definitely The Adventure Team with 18th scale vintage style vehicles. Just this line alone has infinite possibilities.


Anyway I love AT far more than I ever did ARAH. I think in part because it's what I grew up on.