G.I. Joe Classified Series

I think I will get 8 Craaaazy Legs because for some reason I am a sucker for red helmets. It's why I got Tiger Force Bazooka instead of the regular.
 
I'm colourblind. The thing about being colourblind is you can think you know what colour something is for your entire life, because we don't really describe things we're all looking at in terms of colour as often as you might think, and then have someone just blow your fucking mind.
 
So... got a box from Pulse today. Thought it was going to be my Starfox 2-pack. Instead it was 4 retro generic Joe troopers. I honestly forgot i didn't cancel the Pulse order since I have 4 pre-ordered at Amazon. Love these dudes in hand. can't wait to start dropping extra heads onto the bodies. Got a Joe Colton head from FMF that is going right on one. I can relive my brother's seventh birthday when he got a classic 12 inch Joe with that iconic Joe Colton head and kung-fu grip. I was so jealous.. but too young for war toys according to my hippie mom.
 
Good gawd I cannot get the barbell pegs out of the soldier or cop heads to pop one on Law. I got the necks off with heat and pliers but the damed pegs stayed in the heads. I may just surrender.

Swung by Target tonight to see if Sci-Fi et al were on the shelves, but they only had cops and divers. My area always gets Hasbro stuff months after everyone else though.
 
Damien said:
I'm colourblind. The thing about being colourblind is you can think you know what colour something is for your entire life, because we don't really describe things we're all looking at in terms of colour as often as you might think, and then have someone just blow your fucking mind.
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Totally understandable. No one that I have ever encountered spoke of things emphasizing colour.
Now it will probably happen tomorrow.
 
Revox said:
This begs the question...just what colour did you think his helmet was, @Damien ?
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I don't know.

Being colourblind is really, really weird. Especially at my age. You develop a lot of assumptions about colour that exist outside of your actual perception of colour. Like, do I SEE that a stop sign is red, or do I just KNOW that a stop sign is red? Does that make sense?
If you had given me a square tile the colour of Bazooka's helmet and said 'what colour is this?' I have no idea what my answer would have been. IF I could have answered at all.
But when you give me the actual helmet in the context of the figure it goes on; military dude in tiger stripes? I always -thought- the helmet was either brown or green.
 
Color interpretation in general is a mystery to me. Like even for the non-colorblind, how do I know that the way I interpret BLUE is the same way another person interprets it? As an art teacher, I have had colorblind students and they have explained to me some of their limitations, their inability to see the differences between blue and violet being that they are similar in value, being unable to see the difference between red and green, also being similar value (darkness or lightness of a color). Like if you took a black and white photo of something red next to something green, they’d appear a very similar shade of gray. There are some colors that the colorblind have less trouble seeing like yellow, or seeing the difference between yellow and blue.

@Damien, have you ever tried on those color spectrum correcting glasses? The ones that show you how true colors appear to the non-colorblind? I’ve seen videos of people putting them on and their minds are blown or they get really emotional at seeing the full spectrum of colors all of a sudden.
 
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