I’m particularly excited about today’s review for several reasons. Writing about Exosquad Archive’s excellent (and unexpected) Exo Gear accessory set gave me a great excuse to delve back into the world of Exosquad. I hadn’t really played around with my old Exosquad toys in several years, which is a shame because they are some of the best toys in existence.

Writing about this set also gives me a chance to celebrate Exosquad Archive, which is an amazing website run by great people. The fact that they’re actually releasing new Exosquad-related toys in 2025 is just incredible. I never thought I’d be expanding my Exo Collection with something like this some 30 years past the toy line’s end.

Adding something new to a toy collection really encourages you to go back and appreciate what you have. And since most of the Exosquad pieces I don’t already have are very rare and very expensive, this little accessory pack is very much appreciated.

Today we’re looking at a smattering of newly released rocket launchers, long rifles, holdout pistols, and other assorted blasters for your ExoFleet and Neosapien armies. Let’s jack in.

Exo Gear: Breathing New Life Into Exosquad

I’ve always loved Exosquad and I’ve always loved action figure accessory sets, so this item is something of a match made in heaven for me personally. I also really admire ExosquadArchive.com and everything they do to preserve one of my favorite TV shows and toy lines, so I’m pleased to support them in any way I can.

I’ve been a fan of Exosquad since around 1994, when I first noticed some of the toys at KB in the mall. That Christmas, I received a few of them. Soon after, I started catching reruns of the cartoon on USA Network on Saturday (or maybe Sunday?) mornings alongside now-forgotten shows like the 90s Street Fighter and Savage Dragon cartoons. The Exosquad cartoon only made me love the toys even more.

Exosquad, the show, is one of those very rare All Ages types of cartoon shows. Kids will love it, but it also contains plenty of stuff to captivate adults and teenagers, too. It’s much more akin to something like Batman: The Animated Series or Gargoyles than it is to something like the old Sunbow GI Joe or Transformers cartoons. If you enjoy serialized science fiction, mecha action, or military dramas, then it’s a great fit for you– no matter your age. On the other hand, it’s hard to imagine an adult with no nostalgia for the property getting much out of the old GI Joe cartoon, despite its many funny and inspired moments. You have to look pretty hard to find those moments, whereas with Exosquad, almost every episode is a keeper.

The Exosquad toys are also amazing. When I was playing with them and photographing them for this review, I was reminded exactly why I’ve loved them for so long. As pure toys go, I’d put them up there with GI Joe, Transformers, Lego, MOTU, TMNT, and all of the other toy lines that have captured my heart and imagination over my 40 years on this planet.

That’s why it’s so amazing to get an accessory pack for my Exosquad toys in 2025. To me, accessories have always been an important part of action figures. They allow for more varied story telling and more possibilities for fun. Additional accessories let you make your toys “your own,” as you’re no longer bound by what came in the box with your toys.

From the old GI Joe battle gear accessory packs and weapons trees, to MOTU’s weapons packs, to the minifigure accessory sets you could get in 80s and 90s Lego catalogs, to newer stuff like Transformers Siege Battle Masters, I’ve always been obsessed with separately packaged action figure gear.

So that’s why I had to pick up this amazing Exo Gear set from Exosquad Archive.

Exo Gear from Exosquad Archive Overview

This Exo Gear set was released in 2025 and was custom made by the folks at Exosquad Archive. As of this writing, you can still pick up a set for around $28. That may seem a bit steep at first, but this is a small-run batch of very well made accessories for your Exosquad toys, and no one else is currently doing anything remotely like this.

As of 8/12/25, you can still pick up this set at Exosquad Archive (this is not an affiliate link).

The set contains four E-Frame accessories and six hand weapons for your Exosquad figures. It’s presented in beautiful packaging that will fit in beautifully with any packaged Exosquad toys you have. The card back shows you exactly how everything works, and is designed and written just like something you’d see from Playmates back in the mid 90s. Beautiful stuff.

You’ll notice that a few of the items in my set became dislodged from their designated places in the tray. To me, that’s not a big deal, since I always planned on opening this set. MOC collectors may need to carefully shake the packaging or massage the outer plastic bubble to get things back in place, though.

The items are presented in a nice foam (or soft plastic) tray. I found it was a handy way to store things in between photos during this review. Ultimately, though, I’m only keeping the card back and the rest of the packaging is going into the recycling bin.

The set contains:

• 1 Exo-Radar Guided Missile for Alec DeLeon’s Field Communications E-Frame
• 1 Super Encrypted Radio Antenna for Alec DeLeon’s Field Communications E-Frame
• 2 Neo-Blasting Heat Seeking Hip Fired Rockets for JT Marsh’s Aerial Attack E-Frame
• 2 Heavy Blasters for Human Figures
• 2 Light Blasters for Human Figures
• 1 Heavy Blaster for Neosapien Figures
• 1 Light Blaster for Neosapien Figures

That’s a great amount of stuff! Everything is well sculpted and, in a few cases, well painted. I believe these are 3D prints made with high quality resin. Everything feels great in hand, but I wouldn’t be giving these to young kids to play with. They’re pretty sturdy, but not as sturdy as mass-market action figure accessories. They’re very high quality for an aftermarket, third party action figure accessory set.

This Exo Gear set allows you some nice accessory variety for your Exosquad collection. It can also replace some lost accessories, too. The DeLeon E-Frame’s antennae and top-mounted weapon are notoriously easy to lose, and this set can replace two of those. The knee pods on Marsh’s E-Frame (more on that later) are easy to lose and hard to find on the aftermarket, too, and the rocket launchers in this set make great replacements for those, too.

I also want to give a shout-out to the instruction booklet in this set. Not only does it give you all the info you need, but it also perfectly replicates the look and charm of the old Exosquad toy instructions. Very nicely done!

Before we even get into the details of this accessory set, just the packaging makes it clear how much love, passion, and respect the people at Exosquad Archive have for these amazing old toys.

But we do need to get into the details of these accessories. Let’s start with the big ones.

Exo Gear for Alec DeLeon and Field Communications E-Frame

For me, the Alec DeLeon E-Frame accessories were one of the main draws of the Exo Gear set. The set includes a rocket launcher and antenna meant to replace the red weapon and small antenna that normally attach to the top of the Field Communications E-Frame.

These pieces were designed to look like the items you saw in the package photos on the vintage toy. In the first wave of Exosquad toys, the packaging often showed photographs of the prototype figures, which were a good bit different from what you actually got in hand. The cartoon model for DeLeon’s E-Frame more resembled the prototype toy than the actual toy release, as well.

Image courtesy of Exosquad Archive

Above, you’ll see the original Field Communications E-Frame toy box, which shows a few additional rocket launchers mounted on top of the toy.

This accessory set attempts to emulate that look, along with a more detailed radar dish in place of one of the antennae.

To attach the accessories, you simply remove the red weapon and small antenna from the top of the E-Frame. You place the rocket launcher on the peg on the left side and the radar dish on the peg in the middle.

Everything fits on perfectly and the plastic is very high quality. I do advise some caution with the rocket launcher, as applying pressure carelessly could crack or break it. I had no problems attaching anything and had no fear of breakage– I just advise a tiny bit of care.

The dark green of the rocket launcher nicely matches the camo on the Field Communications E-Frame, and the red used for both the radar dish and the rocket are a pretty good match for the red on the toy, as well.

This is a pretty subtle addition to DeLeon’s ride, but I think it looks great. If you’re missing a couple pieces from your Field Communications E-Frame, these pieces will make nice replacements.

This is almost ideal for me, though, because I actually have an extra DeLeon set (which was a gift from a dear friend), and these accessories allow me to display it in a different configuration than my other one. Now I don’t have to figure out what to do with my extra!

I was so impressed with these accessories that I wanted to try out a few different things with them. On a lark, I decided to see if the rocket launcher would work with the Special Missions All-Terrain E-Frame, since it shares many molded parts with the original DeLeon E-Frame.

Look at that! The launcher looks great with it and fits perfectly. The dark green is an excellent match, too, and the red adds another little pop of color.

I really like the Special Missions series, but all of the ExoFleet E-Frames are pretty lacking when it comes to real weaponry. I love a utilitarian labor mech like a Mobile Worker from Gundam or the Power Loader from Aliens, but I always felt like the Special Missions Frames were missing something.

The All-Terrain E-Frame’s packaging mentions that it has a machine gun, but it really doesn’t unless the box info is referring to the tiny turret on the toy’s left shoulder. Otherwise, it’s just equipped with a pickaxe/location marker, a probe, a saw, and a winch. It’s a cool set of gear, but it’s seriously lacking in firepower. With the addition of this top-mounted rocket launcher, though, it at least has a fighting chance while it’s conducting geological surveys and rescuing Little Timmy from the well.

Initially, I was planning on keeping the launcher with my extra Field Communications E-Frame, but now I’m actually planning on keeping it with the All-Terrain version. It just looks so perfect with the toy, and that E-Frame never had anything to mount on those top pegs in the first place.

Regardless of how you choose to use them, these E-Frame accessories are excellent.

Exo Gear for JT Marsh and Aerial Attack E-Frame

Now we move on to the other big draw of the set– a couple of missile launchers for JT Marsh’s iconic Aerial Attack E-Frame. As with DeLeon’s original toy, Marsh’s packaging showed a prototype toy with knee-mounted rocket launchers the final figure never came with.

This Exo Gear set remedies that problem.

Image courtesy of Exosquad Archive

You’ll notice that, on the packaging shown above, two rocket launchers are shown instead of the cylindrical thruster pods the final toy had. Had in theory. I own a boxed (opened) and, what I thought was complete, version of the original toy. The guy who sold me that toy and the rest of the first two waves kept all of his original packaging, including the plastic trays for the boxes. All of the toys were complete and meticulously kept. But my toy never had those thruster pods.

If you look on eBay, you won’t generally see complete toys include those little thruster pods. You’ll see the larger, more rectangular thruster units that mount to the toy’s ankles, but you won’t see the smaller pods. I’m not convinced they actually exist in any real numbers. In fact, Exosquad Archive’s JT Marsh page was the first proof I ever saw that those parts are actually real.

So, yeah, these rocket launchers replace those pods. Which is a godsend, because I don’t believe most people actually own those thruster pods, even with their “complete” Aerial Attack E-Frames.

As with DeLeon’s E-Frame, you just remove the pods (if you have them, which I doubt) and replace them with the missile launchers.

The fit is perfect and the launchers look amazing when attached.

You’ll notice I’m not using an original JT Marsh Aerial Attack E-Frame for these photos. Pictured here is a 2001 Tech Wars Aerial Attack E-Frame, which uses the exact same body color. All of my boxed Exosquad toys are in storage right now due to a problem with my home storage shed (the ceiling collapsed a while back. It’s fixed now, but I still need to move things back from my storage unit), so I’m using the hodgepodge of Exosquad toys I still have at home for this review.

The Exo Gear launchers match even this Tech Wars E-Frame perfectly. The peg fits effortlessly where it’s supposed to and the weapons rotate freely.

I imagine this toy would look even cooler if I had its thruster units to go underneath the rocket launchers, but we have to just make do with what we’ve got.

Finding Tech Wars parts is even tougher than finding Exosquad parts, though, so we’ll just have to settle for updated photos once I pull the original JT Marsh out of storage. Still, this should be a good enough demonstration of what the Exo Gear set has to offer.

Of course, I also tried these rocket launchers with the JT Marsh Special Missions Deep Space E-Frame. Unsurprisingly, the launchers fit well because that toy uses much of the same mold as the original Aerial Attack E-Frame.

Marsh’s Special Missions E-Frame also has greatly reduced weaponry compared to his original ride. He downgraded his two turbo missile launchers for one single arm-mounted launcher and lost his heavy laser and gatling gun. All that remains is the small blaster at the top of the E-Frame. Of course you can imagine the large “solar collector” arm attachment (pictured here) as a larger version of his signature gatling gun, and many people do, but the packaging lists it as a tool instead of a weapon.

While the rocket pods do plug into the Deep Space E-Frame just fine, there are some other issues. This Frame has way larger arms than the Aerial Attack version does, so they will bump up against the launchers if you’re not very careful. It’s a bit awkward, but it does work.

That’s not Exosquad Archive’s fault, though, as these rocket launchers were designed for the Aerial Attack E-Frame, not the Deep Space E-Frame. The fact they work at all is a cool little bonus miracle.

The launchers do not work with the JT Marsh Exoconverting E-Frame (I tried), but you can’t have it all.

Overall, I’m pleased as punch to own these cool missile launchers. They can complete an E-Frame that’s missing its little thruster pods or just add a nice bonus to any Aerial Attack or Deep Space E-Frame you own, regardless of completeness level.

Exo Gear Human Weapons

Human characters in the Exosquad cartoon used a variety of hand weapons, many of which were different from the guns the actual figures came with. The Exo Gear set gives us some cool designs from the cartoon, which can also double as replacement accessories for incomplete figures, or just bonus gear for any extra figures you might have. I know I have a ton of them lying around.

This set contains two different light blasters and two different heavy blasters. Let’s start with a familiar-looking light blaster, modeled by Captain Avery Butler, commander of ExoFleet’s JumpTroops.

Upon first glance, this gun looks exactly like the pistol that came with Wolf Bronski (pictured on the right) but, upon close inspection, I think this is an entirely new mold. One of the “rings” on the back of the Exo Gear weapon is larger, and the indent in the “magazine” section also has a different shape.

Even if they did just use the Bronski mold, though, I wouldn’t hold it against them. That weapon is from an ancient toy that’s already in short supply, and the coloration on this gun doesn’t match anything from the vintage line. There’s no mistaking them for each other.

Bronski’s pistol was always one of my favorite Exosquad weapons and this is a great version of it. It always reminded me of Han Solo’s blaster, and seemed like something your average scoundrel or mercenary might use. Bronski is a no-frills kind of guy, so it makes sense that he’d use a readily available weapon.

Something like this seems like it would be a mainstay of both ExoFleet troopers and human resistance forces, so I’m glad it’s included here.

Most figures I tried this weapon with tend to hold it quite well, too. Exosquad figures have all sorts of different hand shapes, so not every figure can hold every weapon, but I found good success with this one.

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Next, we’ll move on to our second light blaster, modeled by my knackered old Maggie Weston. She’s seen better days, but she’s been with me for over 20 years now, so I still think she deserves some time in the spotlight.

This gun looks like it packs a slightly bigger punch than the one above. It seems more like a compact submachine gun or a carbine (minus a stock) than a pistol, and that’s something I can totally get behind.

This piece isn’t modeled after anything that came with a pre-existing Exosquad toy. Instead, it’s a design from the Exosquad cartoon. Exosquad Archive’s Instagram account has some pretty good screenshots of various weapons used in the cartoon, which they painstakingly modeled these after.

All that to say, I don’t have any cartoon screenshots for you, but they do.

I think this is a great weapon for both your ExoTroopers and your resistance figures. I like its utilitarian look, and it also fills in a SMG-shaped gap in the vintage Exosquad gun lineup. It’s something totally different and I appreciate that.

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Speaking of something totally different, here’s Second Lieutenant Colleen O’Reilly with our first heavy blaster.

This long rifle looks like it packs a serious punch. Again, this is modeled after weapons from the cartoon, and there’s no piece in the vintage toy line that even remotely resembles this gun.

Upon first glance, the weapon seems like it might be awkward for a figure to hold, but it actually worked really well with a variety of loose figures I have hanging around.

This gun seems like it could be either a heavy assault rifle or a light machine gun. I love the trigger guard and the magazine poking out near the front. I was expecting this to be one of my least favorite weapons in the Exo Gear set, but I ended up liking it quite a bit.

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Finally, we come to an Exoconverting JT Marsh (with extra Avery Butler helmet) modeling our second heavy blaster. I know this is an odd figure, but it’s a parts combo I’ve always liked because of the color match. It takes the toy from being another JT Marsh clone into something that could pass for an entirely different character.

This is a cool weapon! But it looks a bit familiar, too.

Image courtesy of Exosquad Archive

Yep, it’s based on drunk/corrupt cop-turned resistance hero Sean Napier’s signature rifle. Again, I’m not sure if this toy uses the same mold as the vintage Napier weapon, but I also don’t mind either way.

Not-JT holds this rifle very well in a variety of poses. In fact, this weapon worked with every single figure I tried it with. It’s an iconic Exosquad weapon, too, so it never hurts to get an extra.

This heavy blaster’s green coloration means you’ll never mistake it for a vintage Napier (or Tech Wars) gun, which is an added bonus. I love this weapon and wish it saw wider use in the old Exosquad toy line, so it’s a true delight to get another one.

Exo Gear Neosapien Weapons

Unlike many of our human friends, Exosquad Archive doesn’t discriminate. They also armed the “enemy” of mankind– the Neosapiens!

The Neos don’t get quite as many weapons as the humans do, but that’s okay. Our model for both guns will be Special Missions Typhonus, both because he was readily available to me and because I really enjoy the figure.

The Exo Gear Neosapien light blaster is something I’m very pleased to have. This gun was featured prominently in the cartoon, but no figure in the vintage line included anything even close to it. Most of the Neo weapons in the vintage line tended to look very curved and organic (bulbous, even), but some of the standard issue weaponry seen in the cartoon looked very different.

The figure holds this weapon flawlessly, and so did the other Neosapien figures I tried it with. I absolutely love the look of this thing. It screams “90s sci-fi rifle” at the top of its lungs and I am fully here for it.

Red might seem like an odd choice for these Neosapien weapons, but they were often colored that way in the cartoon. It’s one of those things where the coloration seems odd at first glance, but the cartoon pulled it off so well that you didn’t even notice the non-traditional color.

This is a great weapon, and it’s probably my second favorite of the individual guns included in this set.

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Next, we move to the Neosapien long rifle. This is a very off-kilter, quirky design, but it’s true to the cartoon. Like every other piece in the Exo Gear set, the sculpting is excellent and the quality is high.

Despite the odd handle shape, it’s easily held by any Neosapien figure. Getting it into a convincing firing pose is pretty tough, but that’s just due to the figures’ articulation limitations.

I find this heavy blaster really stands out among other Exosquad weapons and, if you have extra figures that aren’t assigned to an E-Frame, it makes for a really unique photo or display piece. This is another one I thought I might not absolutely love, but it proved me wrong. I’m quite enamored with this red weirdo rifle!

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Overall: Hopefully I’ve done the Exo Gear set some justice with my words and photos. I bought this set to support the Exosquad Archive and to add some extra accessories to my Exosquad collection. I didn’t expect to love every single piece included in this set, but that’s what ended up happening. I actually found some surprises along the way, too. If you’re an Exosquad collector or enthusiast, then the Exo Gear set is Highly Recommended.

Closing Thoughts on Exo Gear from Exosquad Archive

I’m so happy I reviewed this set. Every single included piece was made with the utmost care and the quality is top notch. It also gave me a great excuse to play with my Exosquad toys again, and I still have not put them away. Don’t be surprised if you see a lot more random Exosquad photos from me on social media in the coming days.

What’s your favorite Exosquad accessory? What’s your favorite E-Frame? What would you change or add to the vintage Playmates toy line? Let me know in the comments!

Next time: Another brightly-colored 90s GI Joe figure.