029 Booger

Booger is the TDD dried nasal mucus.  

Haha.  Well, he really is a representation of the weird hot rod characters of the 1960s.   

Ed Roth (and other artists) would draw these gross creatures driving hot rods.  They almost always had bulging eyes and dangling tongues like Booger here.  The most well known example is good ol' Rat Fink.  A popular toyline of such characters were the Weird-Ohs.  In the 60s, these crazy characters were found in model kits put out by a company called Hawk.  They even took the Weird-Ohs out of their hot rods and put them on skateboards in 2008.  Though not TDD, we will feature these figures on this site eventually.

Anyway, Booger came out in 2002 as part of Crew 4.  I have seen this G1 figure in orange, yellow, dark green, and purple. The green is his "regular" color, though the orange version is the most common since it came in a 3-pack.

He is also the most impressive of the giant dudes that came with the RC boards.

In G2, they gave the G1 figure some arms.  I have seen this figure in dark green and light green versions.

In G3, he was redesigned with two sculpts.  They first put him in a trucker's hat with a smiley face on it.  His right hand is designed to grip an accessory, but they did not actually give him anything.

This figure has a zood.  He is a little green rat named Fuzz-E.  Man, he looks a lot like Rat Fink.

The second sculpt has a new name: Boog Rogers.  This guy has a raygun in his right hand.  It is not an accessory, but rather a part of the mold.  This green figure came with a pickup truck in the Dude Rides series. Later, a purple version of Boog Rogers came out in a space-themed series of G4 single packs.

The name is a play on Buck Rogers.  This science fiction character has appeared in many forms of media since 1929.  We're talking pulp magazines, comic strips, comic books, radio shows, TV shows, and movies.  When Boog Rogers came out in 2008, there was a new Buck Rogers movie in the works that was going to be directed by Frank Miller.  We know the TDD designers love Frank Miller (see Mickey, Leon, and Fred).  Anyway, the project was scrapped.

The Buck Rogers saga is set in the year 2419.  Buck Rogers is a hero who goes around saving folks with his various rayguns.  Basically what we think of as a futuristic raygun was developed by the Buck Rogers franchise.  Their iconic raygun toys go back to the 1930s.