Jake has an interesting journey. As we knew him for most of our collecting, years 1996-2023, we knew him as the smaller “JAKE” and larger “BIG JAKE” who was also called “SUPER JAKE” early on. The first big surprise was when “JAKE JR.” popped up in 2017, he was a big surprise for us although he was mentioned once before back in 1999. He was first named “JAKE JR.” and then later changed to just “JAKE”. The EARTH SHAKING find by Chris was in 2023 when a small heart “SUPER JAKE” with tag surfaced…. only that on the tag it is named “JAKE”?!?!? Aha! LOL it was the fact the smaller Jake was named “JAKE JR.” that it only made sense “SUPER JAKE” was just “JAKE” at the beginning. So it appears the names transitioned as follows: