GI Joe: Search for the Sasquatch

Sean Whitley, writer/director of Southern Fried Bigfoot, has run across a couple new items of interest.

The first is a limited edition “Search for the Sasquatch” set (see above). It was an exclusive item sold at the Official GI Joe Convention held in Dallas, Texas, which Sean and his brother attended last weekend.

At $270.00 (that’s not a typo), the set was too expensive for Sean, but he snapped some pictures he wanted to share with Cryptomundians.

The second item (below) is a custom-made diorama called “Escape from the Sasquatch,” which was also on display at the convention.

In line with the theme of G.I. Joe, I have attached images of the recent and older (1973) versions of G.I. Joe’s “Search for the Abominable Snowman” items.

This is one of the culturally important items shown at locations like Henry Stokes’ “I Love Yeti” site, as in this photo above.

The “white Abominable Snowman” (looking more like an albino gorilla) is infrequently found alone on eBay, unfortunately slightly yellowed with age, more often than not. Such are the hazards to this replica Yeti from too many adventures with GI Joe out in the backyard on holiday weekends, I suppose.

In an update to an entry linked to this posting, David Pescovitz at Boing Boing notes that one of his comment makers has pointed out that the “G.I. Joe Adventure Team has the exact same logo as the Appalachian Trail. How odd.”

While the International Cryptozoology Museum has an individual 1973 Abominable Snowman figurine and the “Search for the Yeti” item, it does not have for exhibit the historically significant complete “Search for the Abominable Snowman” set or the new “Search for the Sasquatch” set. An additional fund-raising effort would have had to occur for those to be obtained.

(I am on the road soon, traveling up the coast of Maine, speaking at the Fort Knox celebration. News items shall be posted remotely, fear not, if there’s any wi-fi available up that way. I’ll watch for megafauna like moose.)

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Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct). Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015. Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.

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