The first pick today in The 2025 PopCult Gift Guide is a really cool recreation of a rare 1970s action figure, available in two cool versions.

Gargon The King of the Terrons
Part of the Astro Command/Adventure Command line
$49.99 to 74.99
available from  Vintage Toys and Trains and White Elephant Toyz.

I did a full photo-review of these figures back in August. This is the perfect gift for collectors of vintage toys, space toys and Super Joe, but they’ll also appeal to collectors of new toys who don’t often get to see something this wild.  He towers over 1/12 scale figures, which makes him a pretty impressive and opposing alien menace.

A couple of years ago when Steve Stovall (of VT&T and Kentuckiana GI Joe Toy Expo fame) and Jason from White Elephant Toyz teamed up to realize Steve’s longtime dream of reviving the late 1970s Super Joe action figure, the idea of it being successful enough for them to revive his arch enemy, Gor: The King of the Terrons, was just a pipe dream.

However, the Super Joe Unlimited revival was successful enough to not only bring down the wrath of Hasbro, causing them to change the name to Adventure Command and Astro Command, but also to invest in the considerable tooling required to make a new incarnation of King Gor.

Like the Adventure Command figures, the newly-rechristened “Gargon” is not an exact reproduction. The construction is vastly superior, he’s a bit bigger, and he lacks the light-up function that won’t be missed by many. I think he has a couple of added points of articulation at the wrists, too.

Gargon is available in the same shade of green as the original Gor, but he’s also been made in a very limited Glow-In-The-Dark version, with accessories that glow as well.  The Glow version costs more, but hey, he glows, and that’s pretty cool in and of itself.

This could figure would look right at home on a shelf filled with collectible vinyl monster toys. These are a godsend for collectors of the original Super Joe toy line, but they are so freaking cool that, even for someone like me who grew up before that line hit, they are well worth collecting on their own. I’m not going out on a limb to say that Adventure Command is a huge improvement over the Super Joe line, which may be the most fragile action figure line in history.  These new figures are built like a tank.

You can order Gargon at White Elephant Toyz or get one from Steve’s eBay store.