Documentary of Every Tech Deck Dude Ever!!
I am thrilled to announce that 5 years after starting this blog journey, Jeff from Reccollect reached out to me to work on a full-length documentary of every dude ever released, as well as every unreleased mold, card artwork, and variant.
Please go and watch this documentary and subscribe to my friend Jeff's channel, he did a perfect job on this. If you are interested or trying to pinpoint variants, it covers the vast majority covered on this blog since the blog is 75-80% dudes and their variants. It also has exclusive info I did not have access to that only Jeff can really highlight thanks to his thorough interviews with the designers of the toyline.
Don't worry! I will keep this blog up for all the hardcore fans and completionist collectors who want to know every minute detail and due to this blog's exclusive content on other X-Concepts lines, competitor company toys, and extreme sports toys outside of the main Tech Deck Dude lines, which we did not include in the documentary.
I will also be completing the gaps between G1 Dudes and G3 Dudes by the end of 2025.
Guide to Navigating This Archive
On the side, we break down specific pack types (ex: single pack, 3-packs, playsets.). We also break down other Tech Deck/X-Concepts toy lines and have fun pages on skateboarding/extreme sports toys.
Our main dude pages are found on the "Tech Deck Dude Archive" drop-down menu in the upper right:
I. June: #0-30: Dudes with no number and Dudes 1-30
II. May: #31-60 Dudes that debuted in G1
III. April: #61-88 Last dudes to debut in G1 (with the exceptions of #117 & #119)
IV. March: #89-137 Debuted in G2/G3, one page for all of the creatures line(#101-112)
V. February: #138-165 G4/Spin Master Era Dudes
Tech Deck Dudes Overview
What does "G1-G4" mean?
"Generation", or the period a figure was released in.
G1 Dudes: Figures with no arms, the early years (2000-2003)
G1 Dudes were initially armless dudes with plug feet and wooden boards that didn't roll (Late 2000-Early 2001). The later G1 Dudes are armless dudes and dudettes with magnetic feet and boards with rolling wheels (Mid 2001-Early 2003).
G1 lines: Crews (single packs), 3-Packs, Deluxe (barrels/ramps/rails), Hot Feet Crews 1-2 (bright-colored variants with light-up boards), Playsets, RCs, TalkBack (boards that talked), playsets, and keychains.
G2 Dudes: Figures with magnetic feet and added arms with static poses (2003)
G2 lines: Evolution Crews 1-3 (single packs now with Trading Cards Series 1), playsets, Hot Feet Crew 3, and Hot Feet 3-Packs.
G3 Dudes: Figures with magnetic feet & bendable arms with perforated holes (2004-2008)
G3 lines: Evolution Crew 4-9 and new G3 versions of 1-3 Crew dudes (each came with Trading Cards Series 1 or 2).
G3 had much more lines: 3-Packs, Toys R Us Exclusive 6-Packs, Zoods Crew 1-7 (dudes that have pets), Blastboards (motorized pull-back boards), Clash Crew 1-3 (buildable dice cubes), Magnetic Action (extra magnets on their hands and backs and accessories).
Towards the end of G3: Blastboards became the bigger Ripboards, and Zoods became gigantic.
Note: The final G3 single packs (2008) had magnetic feet and holes in their backs to plug into a display stand. I call them Generation 3& 1/2 Dudes since they're a hybrid/middle ground of G3 and G4.
G4 Dudes: Figures with bendy arms who no longer have magnetic feet or boards (2008-2009)
G4 had plug feet and plugs in their backs for identical red plugboards. These boards came with a magnetic strip to accommodate the earlier magnetic dudes. They had plug feet and boards and came with an accessory or display stand. G4 only had single packs, a wave of 6-packs, and the Trick Dudes (the first and only line to have dude characters not in their usual plastic, instead being static hard plastic trick toys).
