G.I. Joe Classified Series

DarthDre758 said:
More likely it's here...


I found the newest Snake Eyes at GameStop while at lunch. I'll open him whenever.
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Actually according to Amazon it was on a truck yesterday, like physically en route. Buuuuuut who knows. I assume that's where my Cover Girl and TeleViper is though, bottom of the ocean.
 
I'm not really into the whole ninja thing. My Snake Eyes is the commando version, other than that all I have are Storm Shadow v1 & v2, and Jinx. I skipped Sean, Ralph and all the others but I did make an exception...

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I think they could have done with maybe some regular swords, plus the plastic on Slice's is kinda low effort but other than that, they're great.
 
Without being too much of a negative nancy, I'm feeling opposite of that. I'm usually into ninjas but Classified hasn't been doing a great job with all of them. Nunchuck and Retro Storm Shadow being the only ones I think are up to par with the best Classified figures. Hoping Slice and Dice bring back the ninja love into my heart! I'll keep buying them to support ninjas either way. I'm not counting Snake Eyes here since even his most-ninja looks so far have been very commando/tacti-cool.
 
I liked the lady ninjas and the night creeper. I do have a red ninja too that I'm happy with. I would like a Retaliation Jinx though.
 
Yeah the lady ninja was ok but her butterfly joints didn't really work, especially on the Vypra alt. I couldn't get hers to budge at all. Articulation overall just not good, which #1 priority on a ninja. These butterflies on the female bucks function so oddly. Like I can't get Quarrel's shoulders to move forward or back very much on any of my four copies, but the butterflies work great after popping Jinx's arms on instead. Makes zero sense. Maybe it was all the hot water soaks and aggressive pulling?

And Night Creeper, forgot about him, he's solid and up there with my favorites. Yellow Retaliation Jinx is a must-have! She'd look so good next to Helix.
 
Revox said:
I think they could have done with maybe some regular swords, plus the plastic on Slice's is kinda low effort but other than that, they're great.
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I'm really sad to see on a few recent releases that the Joe team is taking the play from the Legends team and going with 'almost translucent gray plastic' for sword blades. It looks fuckin' terrible.



So I did an irresponsible today and went to EB Games when I was at the mall grabbing something for my wife. They had precisely one each of v4 SE and armored CC. So.. I own those figures now. Definitely some mixed feelings here.

Armored CC is the better figure, I think. Extra head, extra hands, the silver armor looks a lot better in person than in any pics I've seen (something everyone always says about stuff, but you can never be sure if it's true until you also have it in hand). I wish the neck/head had better ROM. And as with too many action figures in general these days, the ankles seem to want to settle into a position where the feet are never perfectly flat. He's always wanting to lean just slightly forward or just slightly back, and there seems to be detents in there so you can't get it in between. I've got him standing fine, but it was more of a chore than it has any right to be.
Besides that, I really like him.


Snake Eyes just has some fucking bewildering decisions, to me. Why the FUCK are we this many years into the line and they're still making excuses for horizontal wrist hinges on right hands? It's beyond the point of just letting it go. It was 'whatever, things happen' like 3 years ago. No reason for it and the Joe team should be incredibly embarrassed that this is still happening.

The gun holster and sword.. .holder... are well-understood to be trash, so I pulled those off right away. He looks better without it anyway. Covering your ninja figure's butterfly joints entirely with a sculpted vest is bizarre. I feel like they definitely could have designed the vest to be fairly ARAH-accurate AND allow more ROM for the butterflies and they just... didn't.

As with Armored CC, he feels like he doesn't have the ROM in the head/neck that he should have, but I can't get it to do more, so....

I also think it was incredibly bizarre to put his forearm guards on the undersides of his arms instead of the outside of the forearm. It looks kind of dumb like that. Also, the Japanese characters on his forearms make the figure look cheap.


Maybe the smallest of nitpicks, but big to me because I'm a sword guy -- I understand the reference of having the red (or orange, or whatever) on the sword blade. But it looks stupid as fuck. Like.. what's that supposed to be? In-universe, I mean. Two completely different PARTS of the sword, that are not even traditionally made of the same type of metal, are that color together. Why is the cutting edge of this sword a funky color? Why not make the 'fabric' part of the sword a fun color and leave the 'metal' part of the sword an actual fucking METAL color? Fucking dumb idea by someone trying to be cute and I hate it.

I'm not upset that I have him, because this has always been one of my favorite versions of SE. But I am disappointed in the figure itself and disappointed in myself for not waiting for a sale. This guy isn't worth 40 bucks. They did SE dirty here with a bunch of just absolutely boneheaded decisions, probably by someone that didn't like this version of the character and decided they could make it better - just like V2 Storm Shadow.

I LOVE this line, but goddamn the Joe team really insists on fucking up only my -favorites- and that's starting to wear on me a bit I think. Hence the crankiness.
 
Could anyone who bought multiple Falcon/Quarrel sets spare one of the Falcon heads? Please message me if you can help out, thanks!
 
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