There's a lot of V1 '90s Joes I love, but speaking JUST about ones that were getting v2+ in the '90s...
V2 Storm Shadow
I LOVED the first version, and I'm glad I don't need to choose one over the other, but if I HAD to, I would go for V2 for sure. And I think if V3 was done today, they would have knocked it out of the park. Probably. I dunno. They did some stuff with V2 I didn't think was necessary. But the original design, just going off the card art, is perfect as is.
The Sky Patrol, I believe, isn't the same character as original Airborne. And not just different hair color etc, but I believe he is intentionally meant to be a different person.
I feel like that Mutt is better than original Mutt, in the old line, but in Classified they did original Mutt so well, I wouldn't care as much.
I actually would probably be more into that than the original one, yeah.
I intend to have both. Both are badass and quite different.
Is that the one with that was armed with patriotism?! Heh
V2 General Hawk (Talking Battle Commanders)
I could see that one being great, but also would want to treat him as a separate guy. Probably Hawk's superior.
V3 Stalker (Talking Battle Commanders)
yeah, okay, I remember that one looking pretty good.
I will agree on this one. I actually had both versions, but this one was kinda cooler. Even aside from the removable helmet.
That was a good figure, I'll give you that. Nice in standard Ranger kinda way. Which I do get the appeal of. I think we've even discussed, hundreds of pages ago, the idea of Classified doing a standard Ranger, standard Delta Operator, standard SEAL etc. Even if they just make these new characters with neat codenames.
Yeah, that one may have been cooler.
OK all of those are awesome but this guy was such a major personal favorite. Really looking forward to them getting to him.
I'm really curious what his big weapon looks like when not having to be able to hold a spring and launching mechanism.
I think you might not have much trouble sellling the scorpion - I could see people army-building the monster but not wanting to buy the whole set multiple times.
Oh surely. Probably make half your money back on that set. Aside from shipping costs.
I'm not always making "the other version" a new character, but bearded black haired Low Light would ABSOLUTELY get his own file card. I'd get him for sure, but my Low Light is always blond and no beard.
So far, I don't think I've done that at all really, but that one I would. As far as Joes go, yeah, I have yet to double up on anyone. Even Snake Eyes, I sold my second one.
Typing too fast as always. At least this time I can't blame my failing vision. Obvi I meant Rock n Roll. (Speaking of Roadblock though, I never had the original green tank orange pants version but somehow that one remains my favorite version, even though the V2 one was the only one I had.)
Same here, but I have the Tiger Force version. Right outfit, tigerness is more subtle than some of them can get, and right weapon.
GODDAMMIT. IF they do that I'll get two, one to be the new guy, one to be the original.
Right, sometimes, not always, in the military, they have these guys use similar if not identical equipment, so it's not that outlandish.
RnR gets so much tail it's ridiculous. He's not even sleazy about it, the chicks just dig him.
And that's part of why he gets all that play. They can tell he's a genuine dude.
I would buy Love Stink the Dreadnok. I would DESIGN Love Stink the Dreadnok.
You
should design Love Stink the Dreadnok. Maybe he's Zarana's fucktoy.
