G.I. Joe Classified Series

Ru1977 said:
I'm one of those.
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I lean that way too, and I still enjoy Tom Clancy video games and Joe and idealize the whole white hat concept of cops in media when it works.

A cop figure isn't going to accelerate or decelerate anything. As far as I'm concerned, it's a punch down when there's bigger fish.

Leastways, I really want to throw a poncho on and call one of them Merkel.
 
altcunningham said:
So many things are performative these days. In gaming people will complain about companies and crunch culture and boycotts and then buy the thing anyway because at the end of the day, on our personal day to day - just trying to self regulate and get by. Yeah, my phone was made by kids in Asia. I'm sorry. I need it to post here and chill. I have no actionable solution.
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There is no ethical consumption under Capitalism.
That, however, doesn't mean people aren't going to occasionally let their current state of mind work them up about something.


But yeah -- one of my favorite video game franchises of all time is Ghost Recon. I enjoy the fantasy of the US military just kind of unequivocally being the good guys. Even if I recognize that's not real. But also, I don't know that I'd be able to run out and buy a Ghost Recon game the same week a massive story broke about US soldiers intentionally shooting at civilians. Not because I think it never happens - but because it's the outrage of the moment and it's fresh and raw in your brain.
Just like reading a story about four 9-year-olds in Asia dying on an assembly line from malnutrition might, at the very least, make you put down your phone for a few minutes in disgust, or start looking into ways we can be less prone toward 'gotta have a new phone every year' mentality.

Gimme the toys. Absolutely. Our entire hobby is literally helping to destroy the planet. We can't be TOO precious. But we also have to allow that if it's a fresh, raw hurt... it hits different. That's normal.
 
docsilence said:
In fact, if they stealth-drop the figure and it's already ready to ship? Collectors will be thrilled. What do you mean shipping NOW? Sweet! Sells out in 3.5 minutes and we're only pissed off because we were in a meeting and missed it.
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(memed because it not only sounded like this in my head when I was typing it lol, but also so I don't seem like I'm directing any animocity towards you 🥺)

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Damien said:
There is no ethical consumption under Capitalism.
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Nope. That's why I haven't gotten rid of my Harry Potter books & movies & props & costume, but won't buy anything new.

Why I still listen to Michael Jackson & watch Kevin Smith & Quentin Tarantino Miramax movies, but refuse to eat at Chik-Fil-A.
 
TENIME said:
(memed because it not only sounded like this in my head when I was typing it lol, but also so I don't seem like I'm directing any animocity towards you 🥺)

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I mean, I don't either but you know that's what's gonna happen when this trooper drops. (But no, toys should NOT sell out in three minutes, and troop builders should just be in perpetual production)
 
Damien said:
Gimme the toys. Absolutely. Our entire hobby is literally helping to destroy the planet. We can't be TOO precious. But we also have to allow that if it's a fresh, raw hurt... it hits different. That's normal.
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All true, I've just been in circles the past decade where you can't like anything (oh, you like Red Dead, let's talk about how problematic the West is, oh you like This Artist, check out this anecdote from thirty years ago) and it was too exhausting to live like that.

My personal crisis was Gaiman and I still haven't really reconciled it, but it was the first time I really considered "Should I just get rid of this stuff? But it's too late, I consumed it and it informed me lifetimes ago, it's already part of me, what do I - Scanners Explode".

It's a road I acknowledge and do what I can where I can, but it's like you said at the end there.

Sometimes it feels like Superman in DKR - "Ten million die by fire if I am weak."

But I'm not him and I can't carry it, it kills if you try. Stupid neurodivergent Justice complex.

Re toys: I would like MORE cops just for tactical gear to make Rainbow Six Siege dudes. Unless Vala is just gonna make those too.
 
Action figures of real people can be quite a conundrum. Recently I couldn't complete my WWE referee BAF because the head is included with election denying mayor Glen "Kane" Jacobs. I'm somewhat amused that became a redline for me, but it's true.

@altcunningham Watching season 2 of Sandman is up in the air. If I'm being generous to Neil, I can think whatever happened was between two consenting adults, but then I hear things like it was a well known fact the young female staff needed to be kept away from him at book signings.
 
I'm always a lil iffy on real people as action figures. I can honestly say Sarge was probably my least-anticipated Joe figure. I got him and of course Classified knocked it out of the park, but the more real the person the less psyched I am about it. And Sarge is a funny case cos he was playing "himself" or rather playing his public persona in Joes rather than just an actor playing a part. Pretty sure there's more than one action figure I own portraying a person in-character who was actually not a great person IRL. (Not saying Sarge is or not, don't know anything about him, but the whole "welp, I bought this movie action figure and this guy turned out to be awful" thing happens, cos people are often terrible.)

Probably deserves a thread of its own instead of here, but Gaiman was a tough one for me, too - he was one of my inspirations to become a writer and had had huge impact on my style. It's all about directing the anger, though. Colleen Doran, his frequent collaborator, was mid-process on a Good Omens comic book when that news broke. Neil wasn't making any money off of it and yet people were demanding their money back. Colleen and I worked on a project together a few years back. One of the kindest people in the industry. She was as hurt by the news as any fan. But she also issued refunds if she could, because she read the room. Bringing to back to the topic at hand though, similarly to how I don't think Colleen deserved the ration of shit she got for working on that project, Hasbro doesn't really deserve a backlash for making cop action figures in their toy soldier line... but it IS smart of them to read the room. Sometimes you just gotta acknowledge people are angry and ride the storm as best you can.
 
There are a few Classified figs up for prime day. I nabbed the sniper pack on sale. Was thinking of getting a couple more but there was Marvel stuff I wanted. And feeding Amazon as little as I can.

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