G.I. Joe Classified Series: The Chatty Pointless Thread & Performance Art

[altcunningham]

You could do like Hendrix and just set up the bridge for left-handed on a right-handed guitar and swap out the nut then string it the opposite way.

That's what I did originally because it was cool, but now I can just get lefties that suit me.

 

[docsilence]

My work boots have a side-zipper and are still factory-laced. Hahaha.

THIS is how to do it. I was just looking at a pair of winter boots I've been wearing a lot lately and the laces look like someone caught them in an egg beater because I just don't tie them right. I tie them to STAY TIED, but it ain't pretty.

But it's a selfish thing, too. I just like right-handedness aesthetically. It makes sense to me because we're talking about activities that -I- do right-handed, despite BEING left-handed. Because of being forced to do both my entire life, I think I've mentioned this before, I actually have some weird lefty-righty issues where I do X with my left, but Y with my right.

Yeah, I'm selfish in the inverse. Like I would never ASK Classified to make lefty figures, or EXPECT it. I fully expect Nick Fury to have a holster on his right, for He-Man to have his shield set up for his left hand, for Nightcrawler to only come with a grippy right hand for his sword, for every Jedi to have their lightsaber hand be the right one. But if a company intentionally or accidentally makes lefty figures, or better yet, gives us the parts to do either (One of the few things Mythic Legions didn't screw up in the early days was making sure every figure was customizable for handedness, for example)? Selfishly I love it. Though honestly ideally give me ambidextrous figures. Every Spidey and all but one Wolverine I own isn't handed. That works best for me.

 

[Damien]

That works best for me.

I think every action figure should be -mechanically- ambidextrous. After that, it really just depends on the design itself if it can be made fully ambidextrous or if it needs a decided handedness, or if it can be designed to be customized.

Every figure that has a holstered weapon has an implied handedness unless you can customize where/how the weapon is holstered. That's a lot more possible now than it was 10 years ago even, but most companies still won't bother.

 

[Ru1977]

That sounds like way more effort than I was ever going to put into my daughter's newest fad interest (which she has already quit after about a year of doing it, mind).

Awwww man!

That's what I did originally because it was cool, but now I can just get lefties that suit me.

Heh, yeah... the cutaway is always gonna be a pain when you go high on the fretboard, but still 'neat' to me.

 

[docsilence]

I wonder if they’ll ever do equipment packs. I just stuck a righty holster on Falcon and for most of these guys, those thigh holsters require no pop and swap to get them on, just slide it over the boot heel. The vertical vs horizontal wrist hinge thing remains a problem but easy-to-buy packs with holsters and sheaths would let folks customize their figures’ handedness so easily.

 

[Damien]

Awwww man!

Tell me about it. The cost of shipping my old guitar up from my mom's place in Florida, and the cost of then buying her a brand new guitar for her birthday when she realized she liked it, and then a year of guitar lessons.... just for her to go full ADHD and basically pull the 'it's stressing me out and I'm not immediately good at it and also it's a demand on my time and I hate being forced to do anything.' So now she has a 1300 dollar guitar collecting dust in her bedroom because she is also a fucking hoarder and won't get rid of anything.

I wonder if they’ll ever do equipment packs. I just stuck a righty holster on Falcon and for most of these guys, those thigh holsters require no pop and swap to get them on, just slide it over the boot heel. The vertical vs horizontal wrist hinge thing remains a problem but easy-to-buy packs with holsters and sheaths would let folks customize their figures’ handedness so easily.

I imagine we will get equipment packs eventually. They even talked about it once or twice and trying to find the right way to make it happen. But I'd be surprised if that includes extra holsters or other wearables. Probably just weapons and little dio bits like the SnowCAT comes with.