G1 Talking Dudes

These are the Electronic Voice Command Talk Back Motorized Skateboard figures. What a mouthful. These came out in 2002, distributed by Jazwares.  To be clear, the figures are standard dudes in every way, it is just the boards that "talk."

It turns out that these are indeed exclusive figures, even though they are not promoted on the packaging as such.  They are exclusive only by extremely small details -- usually just the shade of the shoe color.  It is surprising that they did not make obvious color variants like all the other package types.  Oh well, more "collect them all" minutiae to decipher.