G.I. Joe Classified Series

Preternia is also on every other social too if you aren't on X. I get my news from him on Bluesky mostly (though a few times I've had to log back on to Facebook because that's the easiest way to get to my family and boom, there was a post that something new had dropped. I just follow him everywhere and hope I see his stuff pop into my feed when I need it wherever I am.)
 
Apparently that Brazilian Big Boa with the Kangaroo was called Kangor... and now I'm going to need an extra Big Boa to repaint as Kangor and pair him with that Roo figure. I've seen it a couple of times at Wal Mart but didnt think twice about buying.
 
PantherCult said:
Apparently that Brazilian Big Boa with the Kangaroo was called Kangor... and now I'm going to need an extra Big Boa to repaint as Kangor and pair him with that Roo figure. I've seen it a couple of times at Wal Mart but didnt think twice about buying.
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As long as Lenny still has input into the line I am sure we'll see Kangor sometine soon. They need to get more use out of the Big Boa specific mold parts and a Kangaroo pet (with punching bag/speed bag) would justify the pricepoint.
 
As an aside... anyone that bought extra Falcon/Quarrel sets interested in off loading a Quarrel figure? I find myself in need of one for something.
 
Considering they made Snow Job, the Arctic joe with the most name recognition, a Pulse exclusive and not a main line figure makes me feel any Arctic character is fair game for Haslab tiers. Unless they’re going to do another Snow Job and commit to the theme more with supporting figures and vehicles.
 
Frag Viper has some weird design decisions. Like his torso webgear connecting to his belt via thin straps that are already stretched/lightened from basic posing. Or having a left horizontal wrist hinge when he doesn't need it for that hand. Maybe the worst part is how his backpack sticks out too far because it has too much allowance for the sash. They really should have cut into the backpack for this and other web gears. It's not any more work than the rest of the sculpt. This line has evolved but here we are, complaining about backpacks like day one; these things need to fit tighter.

Overall he's a fun figure though, better than the sum of his parts.
 
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Pulse sent so many separate shipping notices the past few days I had a mystery box arriving today that could've been one of like, five figures. So every box is a surprise! It was frag viper. Won't have time til tonight to open him up but looking forward to it. (Were frag vipers robots or cyborgs? The lines on his face are something I don't remember from previous iterations.)

Rereading Footloose's bio yesterday since he's somewhere in transit too, and while I find his design to be so straightforward and tidy that I don't find his LOOK memorable, the fact that he of all people is on some wonky spiritual journey/existential crisis makes me like the charcater even more. There's a kind of Tao of Joe thing happening with him.
 
I read it relative recently as well and appreciated that take. And seems like the cartoon took it to heart too. I remember him having a California accent, "You are deeply deluded, man!"
 
docsilence said:
Pulse sent so many separate shipping notices the past few days I had a mystery box arriving today that could've been one of like, five figures. So every box is a surprise! It was frag viper. Won't have time til tonight to open him up but looking forward to it. (Were frag vipers robots or cyborgs? The lines on his face are something I don't remember from previous iterations.)
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Lenny said during the live stream reveal he thought it would be unrealistic (ha!) to have normal soldiers carrying so much weight in grenades on their backs so to him it made sense to make them cyborgs from injured or fallen cobra troopers. So even in death, one’s service to Cobra is not over. Kinda dark but it adds a nice layer to an otherwise silly colored trooper. Color wise, they seem like a natural pairing with Alley Vipers.
 
I keep waffling on Footloose and Leatherneck (and Grunt, and one or two others). They look like such good figures. But at the same time, as a kid I didn't have too many of the more 'military-looking' figures, I guess you'd say. So I have no nostalgic connection to them and I'd only be buying them just to have them for modern 'it's a cool toy' reasons. And that's a reason I'm trying to avoid using as justification to buy something because it results in buying fuckin' everything these days.

...But they look like cool toys, goddamn it.
 
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