G.I. Joe Classified One-A-Day Beamish-Style Figure Poll - #273 - Beachhead (Resolute)

I didn't watch the stream but I actually respect them differentiating. We knew a beige Clutch had to be on the way, but I always found the two figures who felt too... I guess too much like I've met this guy at a bar type actual desert storm (or more more recent conflict) face sculpts were the first Breaker (that guy looked too much like Bradley Cooper in a war movie) and Clutch, though Clutch had so much personality in that sculpt it didn't bug me much.

The more retro/anachronistic/not-from-our-real-world the Joes look the better for me.
 
I'll admit I go the other way. I get the reflex of this reminding you of the ugly, traumatic thing, but they're very separated in my head. But I am also the guy who is utterly unable to picture Hayden Christianson in the Vader suit during the OT. Just a different character for me.
 
Ru1977 said:
admit I go the other way. I get the reflex of this reminding you of the ugly, traumatic thing, but they're very separated in my head.
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It’s more that I just don’t have any connection to nor care for the real-world military, except for the “ick” of “modern warfare”, which is definitely largely connected to that modern casual-desert-gear, Chris Kyle look that is so popular with the sniveling cowards of MAGA and ICE.

So I’m not even really looking for any military realism at all, honestly. And I never was, even pre-Desert Storm. So I don’t “miss” it when it’s not there, and when it *is* there it’s gonna be filtered through my modern lens.


Ru1977 said:
But I am also the guy who is utterly unable to picture Hayden Christianson in the Vader suit during the OT. Just a different character for me.
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Ha ha definitely agree with this, but that’s a VERY different breed of trauma.
 
Day 272 - Destro- (Resolute) (6/11/26)

Continuing with Resolute Week!

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Oh, complicated reaction from me on this one. You know Destro's my favorite and I'm very biased on him. And I like him in long coat. But I don't like the robo-hand. And I don't like that THIS long coat feels very Reich-coded. I prefer my Destro a bit flamboyant and not a true believer, and this specific look feels too fasc-fash for me. Treachcoat, sure, tits out, sure, but that high collar and gold braid make it a yuck for me. Which is weird cos I generally like the Resolute looks a LOT.

Ru1977 said:
I'll admit I go the other way. I get the reflex of this reminding you of the ugly, traumatic thing, but they're very separated in my head. But I am also the guy who is utterly unable to picture Hayden Christianson in the Vader suit during the OT. Just a different character for me.
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Hayden has grown on me over the years, and the Clone Wars have changed my overall opinion on pre-Vader Anakin, but I absolutely don't picture him beneath the helmet watching the OT. (That being said, his face to face scene with Obi-Wan in Kenobi where he says he's not Obi-Wan's failure? Fucking staggeringly good performance and writing, and the editing weaving both voices together based on who is in control down to the WORD is worth the price of admission. But OT Vader is a whole other thing.)
AceofKnaves said:
It’s more that I just don’t have any connection to nor care for the real-world military, except for the “ick” of “modern warfare”, which is definitely largely connected to that modern casual-desert-gear, Chris Kyle look that is so popular with the sniveling cowards of MAGA and ICE.
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Yeah, it's this. Chris Kyle was the name I couldn't come up with earlier in the thread, actually. Basically everything you said here perfectly mirrors my feelings. I mean I also find rivet-counting WWII zealots annoying, too, but it's that generation of Blackwater military contractor scumbags who led to where we are now that gives me the ick.
 
docsilence said:
Oh, complicated reaction from me on this one. You know Destro's my favorite and I'm very biased on him. And I like him in long coat. But I don't like the robo-hand.
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Yeah, I wasn't into that either.
docsilence said:
And I don't like that THIS long coat feels very Reich-coded.
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Definitely. He feels more Hydra than usual.
docsilence said:
I prefer my Destro a bit flamboyant and not a true believer, and this specific look feels too fasc-fash for me. Treachcoat, sure, tits out, sure, but that high collar and gold braid make it a yuck for me. Which is weird cos I generally like the Resolute looks a LOT.
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I think that's all fair.

When I was a kid I always thought his red collar was like a Cobra hood. Is that what they were going for?
docsilence said:
Hayden has grown on me over the years, and the Clone Wars have changed my overall opinion on pre-Vader Anakin, but I absolutely don't picture him beneath the helmet watching the OT.
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Yeah, I'm not even commenting on his performance or anything. I just can't see them as the same character at all.
docsilence said:
(That being said, his face to face scene with Obi-Wan in Kenobi where he says he's not Obi-Wan's failure? Fucking staggeringly good performance and writing, and the editing weaving both voices together based on who is in control down to the WORD is worth the price of admission. But OT Vader is a whole other thing.)
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I completely agree. I enjoyed the show overall anyway but that scene, yes, was just incredible.
 
Missed a few.
Resolute Destro is a HARD pass. Maybe the worst Destro design in Joe history.
Resolute Roadblock is a maybe. IF they were doing other Resolute designs, I'd want to grab him for the group. But if he was just a stand-alone, I wouldn't really be interested.
Resolute Zartan is a no, because I DGAF about Zartans beyond Ninja Force.
 
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