20th Anniversary Key Moments - 2004 Unproduced Cau.2005 Comic Pack Short Fuse - By Past Nastification.But, boring figures can still be nice figures and I do find this version of Double Blast useful to have around for background filler and other mundane uses. He's not interesting enough to track down for anything other than completion. Double Blast is definitely a release that, were I not collecting and buying Joes at retail during his release window, I would not own. And, the price isn't too high where the figure no longer makes sense. But, as a new version of Roadblock done in softer plastic, it works perfectly. He's one of the worst releases of the repaint era.) As a Roadblock clone, this figure is relatively worthless. So, you're far better off buying and opening up a carded sample to get the figure.

Left to the open market, he's about an $8 figure. Yet, at the same time, dealers sell a metric butt-load of mint and complete with filecard Double Blasts for the same price. Joe world of 2020, carded Double Blast and Crossfire packages sell for about $15. But, if you want a good Roadblock, this is about your only non-vintage option as all subsequent releases were missing gear and had limiting paint jobs. All of these uses in a short time oversaturated the mold and it lost much of its vintage luster. The arms appeared on too many figures for me to bother to look up.

On top of that, Roadblock parts were cannibalized for many other figures including the 2001 Leatherneck, 2004 Flint and even the 2006 Tommy Arashikage.

But, both the BJ's Roadblock and the Night Force Roadblock have alternate, unproduced variations. After that, Hasbro got the 1992 Roadblock mold back from Funskool and used it for the character with a break in 2005 when the body was used for a terrible Comic Pack figure that featured a new head. He appeared again in the 2004 Night Force set. The character was then finally changed to Roadblock in the 2002 BJ's Gift set. But, truthfully, it saw two vintage uses: in 1984 and in 1988 for the Tiger Force version. It is my perception that this Roadblock was done to death. This isn't a huge deal as the ammo pack didn't really work and was a fairly obscure feature of early Joe figures. The second change is that the ammo pack that was removable from the bottom of the pack has been either glued or fused into place. No longer can Roadblock realistically carry all his gear. First, the peg on which the tripod was hung for easy storage is gone. Now in an olive green color, the backpack mold was modified. (As far as I can remember, too, this was the final appearance of any helmet based on the original 1982 design.) Roadblock's backpack is included. With it, the massive cranium of the Roadblock figure is less of an issue. A facsimile of Roadblock's original helmet is included. You get the tripod on which Double Blast can mount the weapon. But, this was the first appearance in this dark color. Subsequent to 2001, this weapon would become ubiquitous. Double Blast's gear, ostensibly, is the same as Roadblocks.

Gi joe roadblock with 50 cal and tripod