Heavy Duty GI Joe Classified Series Official Images

Heavy Duty’s trademark was filed for renewal back in July 2023, he was also announced as a name only reveal at SDCC 2024! Flash forward to London Comic Con 2024, they flashed one official image and his file card and, thanks to the thefullforcepodcast, we have official images of the figure and looks outstanding! Heavy Duty is featured in the deluxe GI Joe Classified Series window display box that features his rocket launcher wearable and his alternate head sculpt packed in full view! The Joes are finally getting some firepower to suppress the likes of the Iron Grenadiers Metal-Head so watch out!

Up close we can see the lime green rockets, which pay homage to his vintage figure loadoout, and how they look with the blast effects as they are exiting the shoulder mounted rocket launcher. The launcher is very versatile as it can mount on his shoulder or be positioned below as Heavy Duty grabs the controls! His chest plate from his mechsuit is scarred and pitted with bullet holes, giving it a realistic affect.

He is pictured with his baseball hat backwards head sculpts, which was how the vintage figure was designed so it is nice to see that element retained in his figure design. The dio shot shows Heavy Duty running with his rocket launchers as he gets into position to deliver the payload. There is also an articulated site that can maneuver over his eye, which will make a very cool way to display this figure!

He is pictured with his alternate head sculpt without his baseball cap as he is looking at his time piece as he gets ready ready to deploy the payload! The side mounted rocket luanchers can detach and he can carry one of them and position it on his shoulder! He also comes with headphones to give his hatless head sculpt some more options to work with!

Heavy Duty’s loadout is outstanding as he comes with 8 rockets with accompanying blast effects, 2 knives, a headset, headphones, two extra fists, an alternate head sculpt, and his rocket launcher suit!

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Heavy Duty Digital Render

At London Comic Con 2024, we got to see some product shots of Heavy Duty! His digital render was revealed before but it’s cool to see the pairing of both the production image and the render.

Heavy Duty’s file card photo below.

Heavy Duty SDCC 2024 Name Only Reveal

Lenny said at the SDCC 2024 panel that if there is anything that was not realized in Heavy Duty’s vintage design, it will be in the Classified Series!

Heavy Duty’s trademark was filed for renewal back in July 2023 and he was also announced as a name only reveal at SDCC 2024, Heavy Duty is slotted to come to the GI Joe Classified Series in the future. Thanks to gijoe_forever for posting pics via Shaw Liú, we get to see what Heavy Duty’s head sculpt looks like! Double the pleasure, double the fun, he’ll come with two head sculpts. Featuring his classic baseball cap backwards head sculpt, he’ll also feature a head sculpt without a cap. Given the loadout that the vintage Heavy Duty figure came with, we can expect something similar to how the Iron Grenadiers Heavy Metal was produced so we are looking forward to his release but also more prototype shots coming before he’s officially revealed.

Here are the side profiles of the test shots and you can already see the stitching in the baseball cap.

Heavy Duty Trademark Renewal

We’ve been covering Mattel Masters of the Universe trademark renewals for quite some time. Today, we focus our attention to Hasbro’s trademark renewals and we’ve discovered that they recently started the process for renewing a trademark for the GI Joe character named Heavy Duty. Hasbro filed this application back on June 13, 2023 and this could mean one of two things. First, companies will renew trademarks because they do not want to lose the naming rights to the figure. Second, it could mean that they are renewing the trademark because they have a figure in the works and this is just a formality. We like to think it’s the latter so let’s take a closer look at the Heavy Duty character and some custom concepts

Heavy Duty Vintage GI Joe Figure

Heavy Duty was released in 1991 and his figure was 100% original with no shared parts with other figures. Although the 90’s is where GI Joe went off the rails, the 1991 figure assortment gave us some cool versions of the some characters.

Heavy Duty came with a green backpack, a green launcher base, a red missile site, a black center mount cannon, two green spring-loaded side-mount missile launchers, and two light green missiles. The two missile launchers attached to the sides of the ammo box. The gun barrels attached to the top of the ammo box, the backpack attached to the bar at the back of the ammo box, and the site fit into the backpack’s post.

His file card reads:

“A classical guitarist in his spare time, HEAVY DUTY sees little difference between playing Bach’s “Two Part Invention in D Minor” and operating his Man-Portable Heavy Weapons System. They both require right and left hand independence, exceptional hand-eye coordination and the ability to concentrate simultaneously on two or more complex operations. To him, playing Bach correctly and hitting a distant, fast-moving target are two sides of the same coin. It also represents his cultural refinement.”

“Let’s say you zap a laser-guided missile at a tank. You try to keep your laser-guided designator dot on that tank for the entire run of the missile while that tank commander is popping caps at you. If you move, the laser dot disappears from the tank and your missile wanders astray. Heavy Duty carries enough extra firepower to shut down the enemy while his missiles are running. And Heavy Duty doesn’t duck for ANYBODY!”