G.I. Joe Classified Series

Fletch said:
Guys, I'm going to need some "fer instances" here. How do people turn their toy reviews into political rants?
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By bringing up political issues and commentary and dropping their opinions on things and preaching a sermon to the chat for a block of time when the usual content is unboxing a plastic man and complaining he can't kick his own butt or showing how tall a 6" Classified is against a coffee maker and 12" line.

Generally in the toy field it will be complaining about Woke people and Censorship because of women's costumes and (lack of) tits and asses, or posting an entire video about tarriffs while qualifying "let's not bring politics into the discussion", then discussing nothing but politics given what's up with tarriffs.

This really winds itself around the Star Wars scene because of that fandom and their hatred of Kennedy and Disney and DEI and ruined childhoods. Shows up in Joe and Valaverse because they are military industrial complex porn toys, and there's quite a few never even were weekend warriors in that scene who would buckle under the weight of dog tags, and military and guns crossover with some special demographics.

Particularly Tydirium Hangar has taken to conspiracy theorizing and general bad faith about anything in the hobby because it caters to the crowd that wants to be put upon and oppressed by these disrespectful toy companies who exist only to slap you in the face.

Or, as above, diving into health care discussions and opinions when your content is mostly regurgitating YakFace news.

Specifically this Shark video, he just goes on a bit too long about "someone else in comments earlier" being concerned about cops and cop figures being problematic, then making his own stances on the subject known. When, y'know, you could just show if it kicks its own ass out of the box.

I'm never "I don't want politics in my content" because I think it's inevitable and informs any storytelling. Movies, games, comics, toys. Of course politics will be there. You can't avoid it when you're going to make masked vigilantes or paramilitary forces. Some of the very best things in pop culture require politics as fuel, Star Trek to RoboCop to Dune.

There are creators I still enjoy even if I'm at odds with some policy opinions.

But it does get old when someone is early to the scene with a new figure, and they have to get their clever little shots and insights in. That's just social media these days. Know your audience, or at least cater a wide net and bet on performative outrage by stoking it and claiming good faith.

Was this particular Shark video bad? No. But I bet we don't get a single review for this cop without anybody doing a song and dance about cops are bad but toys are good so toys beat cops, given the debates this figure has already brought.
 
It's certainly an annoying soapbox. Paying extra to get a toy early, knowing people will watch, and then using that as your opportunity to put in your 2 cents about X going on. We really just want a review of the toy, not your opinion. Imagine just posting that opinion without the figure everyone wants and doesn't have. Nobody would care.
 
mrboshek said:
Lol, he opened his video saying he expected to lose subscribers and I obliged. I couldn't help myself and had to read his replies to comments. He's one of those types that thinks only the lazy will be affected by the health coverage changes in the bill. Personally, I think you should have health coverage even if you don't have a job and I hate how much employers are involved. I guess that makes me a radical leftist lunatic.
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Or Canadian like me.

I am lucky to have been born and raised in a country where healthcare has been somewhat universal. I know I can get healthcare and not have to pay insurance to get that coverage, or that I'll risk losing everything to pay my medical bills. Of course there are still cases like that in Canada from time to time when a treatment isn't authorized in the province/country and you have to pay for it elsewhere. However a lot of standard care doesn't cost anything out of pocket.
 
I actually don't care if people put politics in a toy video. In fact, I welcome it. Tell me who the cunts are so I can block their channels from my feed. The only thing that actually annoys me is pissy little bitchbags that say 'guys, can we leave politics out of this?' before or after making sure to make their politics known or go on some political rant. At least have the intellectual honesty and, dare I say, fucking balls, to just admit you have political opinions and you're going to express them, and then stop pearl-clutching when others do the same.

The ONLY thing wrong with politics in ANY video, really, is pretending it isn't what it is, or that you have some special dispensation to do it for X reason, but no one else should. Fuck those people. Australian dipshit (who can actually shut the fuck up about anything involving Americans talking about anything cop-related) could have BEEN the change he wants to see by just not bringing up any of the controversy at all and doing a toy review.
But he just HAD, in absolutely bad faith, to get his little opinion in there while pretending to be above the entire situation. People like that are useless.
 
Heheh, and all this is why I stay the hell away from social media influencer videos of all stripe.
Photos and facts only, please.
 
Man, I love how detailed this line is and the way they kit out every character, but nothing drives me crazier than losing ONE little piece. Lowlight's phone fell out of the baggie I keep him in and now I need to try to either figure out if it's rattling around in a box, mixed in with someone else's gear, or on the floor never to be seen again. And trying to find ONE replacement part for these guys is quite impossible.
 
vicious said:
Looks great but I am struggling to get over the black arms with black hands.
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That's where I'm at. This is what drove me away from Trouble Bubble Tele Viper (and holding out paid off with a 10/10 retro card version). I'm fine with African American/caucasian alt heads, but if you have exposed skin other places it gets problematic. I don't know, I might end up getting him. He looks pretty great otherwise.
 
Yeah, I love that they are putting in a good faith effort to add diversity at any opportunity but the bare arm thing is giving them a lot of trouble.

I actuallywent with the no visible skin tele-viper look for the trouble bubble head intentionally because if the sleeves were going to be weird, why not be weird all the way. I'd happily pick up multiples to add diversity to my army builds as long as they look nice. (I definitely bought too many shield/hydra packs so I could use all the different head options and now I just lament that those heads don't fit on other bodies.)

Speaking of, if ANYONE knows a good swap for the spare Rattler copilot/gunner head, I'm dying to use both heads but haven't found a good alt body for the secone one.
 
docsilence said:
(Sidebar, who has two thumbs and spent two hours looking for a plastic satellite phone smaller than a pinkie nail and successfully found it tonight? This guy! My Lowlight is now complete again and my RIDICULOUSLY OBSESSIVE perfectionism about this line is healed.)
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I had Dragon Man's glasses pop off his face WHEN NOT TOUCHING HIM the other day, and spent 45 MINUTES frantically rummaging around my plush living room carpet trying to find them before i vacuumed (thankfully found them).
 
docsilence said:
Man, I love how detailed this line is and the way they kit out every character, but nothing drives me crazier than losing ONE little piece. Lowlight's phone fell out of the baggie I keep him in and now I need to try to either figure out if it's rattling around in a box, mixed in with someone else's gear, or on the floor never to be seen again. And trying to find ONE replacement part for these guys is quite impossible.
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lol it can be so stressful. one minute you are happy with your $25 toy, then you lose one tiny piece of plastic you weren't even using and it's like, "now I have NOTHING!"
 
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