Sunday, April 24, 2011
Playing with, er, customizing your figures
Anyway, while a whole lot of you mix and match body parts like underroos, I threw away 2 figures I had trashed. Others of you, do incredible jobs painting your figures. and then you don't touch them again because the paint comes off. Me? I'll just customize my guys constantly while watching videos on my pc.
Saturday, April 23, 2011
GI Joe Artwork
This is the cover art from the "Jungle Terror Twin Battle Gun" set. What kind of name is that? Anyway, it's a decent picture, captures the purpose of the "Jungle Terror Twin Battle Gun." Wnat is really cool about this picture, is the background - there are two Cobra gunships headed toward what is probably a Cobra base. * Hey Hasbro!! How about a new Cobra Terror Drome!!
This picture is from the Cobra Flight Pod w/ Elite Viper. Let's not talk about the Elite Viper - we've discussed him before. What is really cool about this picture is the Joe infiltration team that the flight pod is headed for - looks like Snake Eyes, Kamakura and maybe a couple other G.I. Joe ninjas?
Cool stuff!
Friday, April 22, 2011
A Great Day at Ross!
Luckily, I was at lunch so I could respond - quickly. After several frantic texts, with her telling me what she was seeing and what I would be interested in getting. I finally settled on two HISS tanks and two "Terror Twin Battle Gun" sets! Sweet!!
This actually brings me up to potentially four HISS tanks. Would I like to keep all of them? Duh? But I won't, they are actually pretty big out of the box once you get them built. I just don't have the room for four HISS tanks.
A review of the "battle gun" set next week. The cannon is kind of lame, but the figure is cool as hell! I saw the same set at Joelanta for $20.00. Patience paid off!
So I'm probably going to help out some fellow Joe buds. My co-host here on this sad little blog gets first dibs on one. Right, Wess?
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Jungle Vipers
Scalper evidence?
But why is the corner damaged? Here's my theory. A local scalper bought the trooper and put a jacked-up price sticker on it. And it sat and sat and sat. Finally the flea-bag fleamarket scalper needed his money back, so back to the store it went.
No profit for the scalper. Actually a loss - gas money to go to the store to buy and then return to get a refund! Sweet!
That's my theory and I'm okay with it!
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Pursuit of Cobra Snake Eyes Review
So what do I think? Is he the ultimate Snake Eyes? Is he the perfect G.I. Joe figure? Pretty dang close! The figure is impressive in the package, but then the Pursuit of Cobra figures look great in package anyway. Snake Eyes is loaded with gear. Two swords with sheaths, one larger sword, two pistols. one with a silencer, an Uzi with a silencer, a SCAR assault rifle, two knives, an explosives pack and an extra head sculpt. Plus there are two elastic straps that hang from the web gear between his legs. I tugged briefly on one of them to straighten it out and it pulled free. So I pulled them both out. No loss, I like him better without them.
He has the standard G.I. Joe articulation, plus the added bonus of swivel and pivot wrists. The only issue that I have is the right elbow, it doesn't bend up as far as I had hoped. Just a minor issue. Other issues that I have with this figure - minor, but just a little bothersome. The knife scabbard on the shoulder is cool, but just too bulky for the location - so I removed it. The pistol that can use the silencer is too thin for the hoslter and Snake Eyes can't hold it. The other pistol is a better fit. And those silencers - cool idea, but so dang tiny! Easily lost! I almost lost one of the knives. POC figures have some damn cool accessories, but some bits are just so small! Not really interested in the second head sculpt. I like the original style mask over the ninja visor. It's cool, just not essential to me. I'll post pics of it later.
Hasbro could get a lot of mileage out of this body sculpt. It is extremely well done and lends itself to covert ops customs with various other characters.