The Guardian Fury Files

Does this happen to you?

You look for information on the internet and are unable to find it.  You give up.  Weeks later, you try again for the hell of it and find it within two minutes. I don't know how that can be.

It happened to me again a couple of nights ago.  My original failure took place while I was looking for  info on the action figure below while creating the Collectibles page.

I bought this guy on ebay and when I received it, the packaging looked like it might have been tampered with.

As indicated at the bottom left of the box, the figure came with a S.H.I.E.L.D. file and a "secret code".  It seemed as though someone had tried to slip the file out of the package then reseal it.  It wouldn't matter a whole lot, as the Fury Files website is no longer active, but nonetheless.  I had paid for the whole package and wanted the whole package.  So I went looking for what I might have been missing and crapped out until just a couple of days ago.

If you're already a fan of Alpha Flight in general or Guardian in particular, you are likely aware of the information below.  For those who refuse to take an action figure out of its packaging and who may have similarly struggled in a search to know what you're missing, I'll share my findings.

The images below are from the Cool Toy Review website.  I include them in case the page is taken down at some point (the toy is from almost four years ago now), but as long as it's active, you should visit it for a much greater variety of photography and scans.

The first is a fact card of dubious accuracy...

Wormholes?

The next is a communication between S.H.I.E.L.D. Commander Maria Hill and some guy called Anthony Stark.

Apparently, based on a comment I've seen on a message board, entering the secret code into the furyfiles.com website would reveal a response to the message above.

I wonder if Stark took Hill to task for her terrible grammar and spelling?  This has the feel of something that was written in another language and translated to English.

I don't buy action figures often, but when I do I always find myself debating whether to take them out of the package.  The accessory ideas are neat for this one, but the execution is rather poor, so in this case I'm glad I left it as it.