As many of you loyal readers know, I have been eagerly anticipating Funko’s expansion of Super 7′s retro ReAction line of 3-3/4″ action figures. One of the figures I was most looking forward to was The Rocketeer, based upon Disney’s 1991 movie of the same name (which was, in turn, based upon Dave Steven’s amazing comic book).

I absolutely love The Rocketeer movie. I so wanted figures back in the day, but there was nothing. Well, there was a bendy figure…but, I wanted action figures! Over the intervening years we’d hear snippets of how the rights were a mess, or Disney wanted a ridiculously high amount of money for the licensing rights. Then a few years back Toy Biz announced plans to include The Rocketeer in their Legendary Comic Book Heroes line of 6″ figures…right before Toy Biz shut their doors. It seemed like The Rocketeer, as an action figure was not meant to be (well, as an affordable action figure anyway)

Funko to the rescue!

The release of the first ReAction figures was looming nigh, and Entertainment Earth just showed The Rocketeer as “in stock” a few days ago. But, imagine my surprise as I stopped by Things from Another World here in Portland, Oregon earlier today and saw they had the figure on the shelf!

Of course, I snatched him up without hesitation!

I love this figure! I dig the retro look. I love the little details that are still present on the figure (look closely at the rocket pack for a fun surprise). Yeah, the helmet is a bit big…but, that’s to accommodate the removable helmet. This is a fun little guy I’m super thrilled to have on my shelf!