G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero

[Eternal Padawan]

I saw the new 25th anniversary figures this past week, and while they look awesome, I have decided to pass on getting them. I can see this "Limited Edition" set turning into an ongoing new series (especially with all the "prototypes" they showed in San Diego) and I can't afford to buy 200 little Joes and god knows how many army builder COBRA troops.

But DAMN they look great. Best 3.75 inch figures I've ever seen.

[anarky]

The construction and quality control are shit, though. I bought the entire first wave. Snake Eyes (II)'s hand broke off right after I opened him, and the Cobra Officer is missing his knife.

[jjreason]

I passed on Snake Eyes and the Cobra Trooper because of your post here, Chux. I was slightly (but only slightly) put off by the shape of Snake Eyes' head - it looked skinny or something. The Cobra Officer was awesome looking however... but the joints all looked a bit gappy around the knees, and I could tell the plastic was "bendy" just by how they looked in the package.

[Eternal Padawan]

Apparently there have been some issues with their hands and crotch areas which are being addressed in upcoming batches. I saw my friends on Sunday. He has yet to take them out of the package. I said he should set them up to reflect how they look on their file cards.

Yo Joe.

[Ran]

I was in KB recently and they had a Joe and Cobra 25th anniversary multi pack. 5 or 6 figures for $30. You can push a button on the GI Joe logo and it plays the theme song from the cartoon.

Are they really going to re-release the 25th anniversary figures in SW Comic book-styled 2-packs? I saw some pictures of a Duke/cobra commander pack in a Vegas just found thread on another site. It looked kind of fake.

[shroba fett]

GIJoe is cool becuase it's like Star Wars on Earth with Snake Eyes is like a good Darth Vader that fights the Emperor who is Cobra. My mom let me buy some of these the other night at Wal-mart but I haven's seen any of them anywhere else. I think I would make my GiJoe guys like Jedis who fight with the ninja clonetroopers on Gonisis. I got Snake Eyes and Shipwreck and Duke. Duke is like ObiWan with a gun and Shipwreck is like a navy ninja jedi with a talking bird who is a telepath. That's what I pretend! I think a GiJoe/Star Wars movie would be cool![/i]

[anarky]

On Friday, I found some new Joes. Buzzer, Beach Head, Lady Jaye, and Serpentor. Oddly, there was a Flint and two Storm Shadows, but no Snake Eyeses. I didn't buy them, though, since the line was fucking insane. I figure if I don't get them, I don't get them.

Buzzer looks pretty good, and Beach Head is quite bitching. Serpentor is a piece of shit, and I don't say it because the character is a piece of shit. He's one of the worst figures I've seen, and looks like he belongs in the crappy comic 3-packs where they used 1980s mold and did only slight re-tooling.

I was really pissed about Lady Jaye. The figure is horrible! There are four fucking women on the team, and you're only probably going to make two. Don't fuck them up! It's even worse because Flint looks so cool, but I guess my Flint is going to have to be celibate since I ain't paying $6 for that piece of shit.

(Don't give me the bullshit about her being dead. Nothing from the Devil's Due run past #25 counts. It turned into a ridiculous piece of crap then, and I don't know how anyone can defend this turd and complain about the story in the original series.)

I've also passed on the second Cobra pack a few times. The characters aren't as iconic, I'm seeing it in crazy huge numbers, and I smell a Target clearance.

Besides, it looks like they're going to keep doing these. Twenty-five figures for the 25th anniversary is cool. It makes them special, even if you don't agree with the 25 they chose. Doing them all makes them far less special.

[Ran]

If I see Beach Head, I might get him. He was one of the few Joes I had as a kid. Are they going to make Torpeedo or Rock n' Roll? (I think the guy's name was Rock N' Roll. He was a blonde guy with a beard and a big ass machine gun)

[anarky]

Rock n Roll's coming next year. I understand he's a re-used Duke mold with a new head and Roadblock's ammo belt. I think Torpedo's coming, too, but I'm not sure.

[Ran]

Kewl.

I had those three and the white medic in the red uniform, the mine detector, and the black artic Joe. I doubt any of those guys are worthy of a new release. They all had cool accessories at the time, but are all kind of lame figures overall.

[RoIIo Tomassi]

The Red Medic was Lifeline. I always thought he was cool because he was a doctor, but he was sporting a pistol. Cappin bad guys and savin' lives! Yo Joe!

The arctic guy's name was Iceberg, I think. My fave arctic guy was Avalanche(?) He had a cool removable helmet , skis, and a machine gun wrapped in white cloth for camouflage.

[vynsane]

The arctic guy's name was Iceberg, I think. My fave arctic guy was Avalanche(?) He had a cool removable helmet , skis, and a machine gun wrapped in white cloth for camouflage.

and a rockin' red beard, to boot.

he had climbing spikes and a backpack as well, right? and the skis could attach to it for storage or he could ride the backpack on the skis like a tobaggon. it had bicycle style handles on it.

man. the shit you remember.

[anarky]

So close... so close and yet so far.

Snow Job was the guy with the red beard. He didn't have a removeable helmet. It was permanently molded (along with the goggles) to the head.

[RoIIo Tomassi]

The guy I was thinking of was Blizzard. Avalanche was the Battleforce 2000 guy.

[anarky]

Avalanche was the fucktard who was all dressed up for Arctic-condition combat and got killed when he was totally ambushed when driving through a oilfield... in the fucking desert.