Stretch Armstrong conducted reconnaissance on heroes from Earth and beyond (including characters from "G.I. Joe", "Transformers", "MASK", "Battleship Galaxies", "Action Man", and even "Candy Land") to help fight against Baron Karza (the enemy of the Micronauts). In September 2017, IDW Publishing announced a new comic book based on the Netflix series "Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters" for January 2018. Stretch Armstrong Stretch Armstrong is a large, gel-filled action figure first introduced in 1976 by Kenner. In 2016, at the New York Toy Fair, Hasbro announced the return of the Stretch Armstrong toy in its original 1976 design. Stretch Armstrong is an
Action figure the assumption it will be bought solely for display as a collectible and not used as a child's play toy. The term "action figure" was first coined by Hasbro in 1964, to market their G.I. Joe figure to boys who refused to play with "dolls", a term primarily associated as a girl's toy. (A similar toy named Johnny Hero was introduced by Rosko Industries for Sears in 1965, but was known as a "Boy's Doll" since the term action figure had not gained widespread usage at that point). G.I. Joe was initially a military-themed 11.5-inch figure proposed by marketing and