G.I. Joe Classified One-A-Day Beamish-Style Figure Poll - #149 - Ninja-Ku (International Repaint)

[Ru1977]

Day 148b - Shooter - (Unproduced RAH) (2/7/26)

I may have underestimated the interest the SLUG Driver might gain, but how about a really weird one? Apparently Hasbro produced THOUSANDS of drawings like this for characters that never got beyond the initial design stage. Putting aside how much I'd love to just see those, this is one they did for 'Shooter', which is obviously a name they've since used for someone on the other side. Designed to be the Cobra Sniper, Shooter appears to have a remote controlled, shoulder-mounted rifle. Maybe Classified could make this guy really neat.

 

[Damien]

Slug Driver is an absolute yes. Even without the vehicle. In fact, I kind of want the vehicle and multiples of the driver since he looks like he'd be a great generic Cobra infantryman.


Shooter is dumb and that design can stay where it belongs; in someone's 'this idea sucks' file folder in Hasbro's 3rd lowest basement level.

 

[d2bruce]

I find myself agreeing with Damien. Slug Driver has grown on me. Shooter just doesn't press any of my buttons. The good ones, anyway.

 

[AceofKnaves]

I’d need to see more development on that Shooter before I could decide.

 

[Ru1977]

They'd probably make him look cool and have an alternate head.

 

[The Scream Man]

We're really scraping the bottom of the barrel...

 

[Akatsuki]

Cobra Shooter looks cool to me.

I’d get Sand Viper and Shipwreck.


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[Ru1977]

We're really scraping the bottom of the barrel...

I get why it seems that way but we're only on day 148, and I've got enough for over 900 days, but I also did plan ahead so the lame ones are spread throughout, as are the awesome ones. I didn't want to just focus entirely on RAH for the first year or what have you, though we have already covered everyone from 82-84 and most of 85 already.

 

[docsilence]

I would buy a sniper based off old designs, but that original design is legit awful. It feels like they were trolling Jim with it. Is that a diver's mask and a sniper rifle mounted to his shoulder like closet cosplay Predator?

 

[WrathofTaco]

I don't immediately hate the Shooter design, but it would take a lot of work to make it great. And I would LOVE to see all the designs that never got made, you know there are some real gems.

 

[Chooch555]

Yes to both today. SLUG driver could drive Shooter around, but probably only for 11 miles.

 

[Spongyblue]

Shooter walked so Laser Viper could run

 

[Chooch555]

Laser Viper doesn't do cardio.

 

[DetectiveHoag]

The Shooter they did for the Joes is based off this reference from Marvel’s GI Joe #1:

https://imgur.com/a/QSBon4o

The name was used in honor of Jim Shooter. The character didn’t fully appear until Declassified #1.
This Shooter of today’s offering is… well I don’t know what that is, but it’s a pass for me.

 

[Spongyblue]

I mean, it got potential to be an interesting figure, it needs to be Classified'd up. (Is that used properly? I fell asleep on the episodes of School House Rock that covered adverbs and such)