G.I. Joe Classified Series

vicious said:
Dang, mine are just shipping out from Las Vegas today, slated to arrive next Monday.

I'm torn on the drop-down hips. I do use them, often. I'd say 15-20% of my posed figures are utilizing them, hitting some fantastic low crouches I wouldn't be able to hit without them. But I do agree they seem to make the figures a lot more fragile; the hip rods in particular could be thicker but now they have premade "weak points" essentially. Luckily I haven't had a lot of issues with the drop hips, not since the first year or two. But my worst nightmare is picking up one of these figures on a cold day and just have the leg snap off. Always warm up and do your leg circles (with your toys, too).


Lightly sanding those nubs on the hip balls is a much better solution. Just be careful on the nub opposite the hip rod, that one keeps them from doing the splits. But yeah, heat and pop the legs off, lightly sand the nubs, clean them, test, repeat. I give this advice a lot, has anyone tried it and found it useful?
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I've often given the advice that you gotta rub your nubs off, but all it gets me is weird looks on the bus.
 
How hard is it to pop the legs off entirely to fix those nubs? I have a stuck figure or two I'm willing to sacrifice to the heated plastic gods to try it out, but I'm always afraid I'm gonna snap the bar inside in half.
 
Interesting news on the Rattler.

I am slightly worried that we'll get an email tomorrow that they made a mistake and please ignore the previous email. It has happened before.

On the other hand if this is true that is great news. I guess the factory they were using for the Rattler was not part of the problem for production that seems to have arisen in the past year. I will say I am a little concerned that they may have rushed this to get it out before any more possible tariffs get slapped on product. That could be a troubling sign for QC.
 
canprime said:
I am slightly worried that we'll get an email tomorrow that they made a mistake and please ignore the previous email. It has happened before.
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Maybe they'll accidentally send extra Rattlers to some customers and then other customers won't get any Rattlers and Hasbro will have to both beg and threaten people to send back the extra Rattlers they got by mistake so Hasbro can send the now-pre-owned Rattlers to the customers that never got any. And in the end everyone will just be angry and some people will never get their Rattlers.
 
Damien said:
Maybe they'll accidentally send extra Rattlers to some customers and then other customers won't get any Rattlers and Hasbro will have to both beg and threaten people to send back the extra Rattlers they got by mistake so Hasbro can send the now-pre-owned Rattlers to the customers that never got any. And in the end everyone will just be angry and some people will never get their Rattlers.
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Pffffft that could -never- happen. No company would treat their customers that way!!
 
So I just finished the new season of Love Death + Robots and one of the shorts involves the crew of a bomber fighting a demonic presence, and now I'm obsessed with figuring out what demonic action figures I can use to square up with some Joes. I wonder if I can figure out a way to have one of the winged Mythic Legions horrors attack the Dragonfly.
 
Ukh, that HasLab campaign was so long ago. Back when I imagined I could find display space and was afraid of missing out.

Now I am just dreading the arrival of the Rattler and that Ramen tank, knowing they're just going to sit in boxes somewhere until either one of my kids moves out or the aftermarket price goes up high enough to entice me. Given how things are going with my Thundertank, I'm not optimistic.

The idea of them rushing shipments to avoid tariffs at the cost of QC had occurred to me too. I was going to make a joke about it until I realized it wouldn't be a joke.
 
docsilence said:
So I just finished the new season of Love Death + Robots and one of the shorts involves the crew of a bomber fighting a demonic presence, and now I'm obsessed with figuring out what demonic action figures I can use to square up with some Joes. I wonder if I can figure out a way to have one of the winged Mythic Legions horrors attack the Dragonfly.
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Sounds like they were either consciously, or unconsciously, influenced by one of the scenes in the 1981 Heavy Metal movie. The one with the Bomber who has to fight off the reanimated bodies of his fellow aviators during a bombing run thanks to the evil following the plane.
 
Fletch said:
Ukh, that HasLab campaign was so long ago. Back when I imagined I could find display space and was afraid of missing out.

Now I am just dreading the arrival of the Rattler and that Ramen tank, knowing they're just going to sit in boxes somewhere until either one of my kids moves out or the aftermarket price goes up high enough to entice me. Given how things are going with my Thundertank, I'm not optimistic.

The idea of them rushing shipments to avoid tariffs at the cost of QC had occurred to me too. I was going to make a joke about it until I realized it wouldn't be a joke.
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"Future Us" sure do get a lot of problems we have to solve, thanks to that little devil on the shoulder of "Past Us".
 
canprime said:
Sounds like they were either consciously, or unconsciously, influenced by one of the scenes in the 1981 Heavy Metal movie. The one with the Bomber who has to fight off the reanimated bodies of his fellow aviators during a bombing run thanks to the evil following the plane.
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This was absolutely the case. It was also influenced by all the stories of Nazis delving into the occult. It's a very cool short. (I love Love Death + Robots.)

Fletch said:
Now I am just dreading the arrival of the Rattler and that Ramen tank, knowing they're just going to sit in boxes somewhere until either one of my kids moves out or the aftermarket price goes up high enough to entice me. Given how things are going with my Thundertank, I'm not optimistic.
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This was me with the Dragonfly. I did manage to save a spot for the Rattler intentionally (which I never do!) but I also want to keep the packaging and THAT worries me more than the aircraft itself. I'm still trying to work up the guts to throw out the Dragonfly box.

Justice said:
"Future Us" sure do get a lot of problems we have to solve, thanks to that little devil on the shoulder of "Past Us".
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This is me every time a preorder shows up. "Dude, STOP IT."
 
Past Me really fucked up by not preordering the HISS and has vowed to never make that mistake again on the GI Joe Haslabs.
 
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