Light grey on dark grey: is this an intentional reverse colors 1984 Firefly? Actually, that’s a pretty cool concept. It’s certainly a more useful alternate color scheme for the character than the Joes in the same multi-pack. By far my favorite figure in the Sneak Attack pack, I’m glad to see this mold version return. I’ve been a little hard
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How many times do we need to see Bazooka, considering he’s always seemingly based on a 1980s figure design? Actually, I take that back, as he did get a re-design for the Battle Corps series and during the new sculpt era. Yeah, both of those are pretty cool figures. Which makes me wonder, where the heck is our modern interpretation
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When I first saw press photos of the 50th anniversary’s Sneak Attack set earlier this year, I thought oh wow, Hasbro is totally ripping off NECA’s 8-bit video game paint job deco. Then I realized Dusty and Bazooka were simply outfitted in a new type of night-fighting garb. That’s cool too, I suppose. I’m all for new and different paint
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From the Vanishing Act set, it’s the subject of the vanishing himself. Pursued by Hit & Run and Torpedo, the master of disguise makes for the swamp, his home turf. Like yesterday’s subject, I found myself asking do I need another classically inspired Zartan figure? The answer turns out to be yes, since he’s different enough to stand out from
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The coverage of 2015 product continues as we focus on the second figure in the Vanishing Act set, Torpedo. When I first saw the figure was going to appear in one of the multi-packs, I thought why are we getting another modern Torpedo? Then I checked around and remembered that we really don’t have a version created using the most
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Its time to get back to coverage of 2015’s exclusive sets, and over the next few days we’ll be looking at the Toys R Us multi-packs. Up first is the Vanishing Act set featuring Hit & Run, Torpedo and Zartan. This isn’t the only version of Hit & Run to be released this year, as the Collectors’ Club has its
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By KansasBrawler It’s no secret that I love when the Joe brand creates new characters. Add in the fact that the new character in the Rise of Cobra Senior Ranking Officers Joes set was also in an Accelerator Suit, and I’m a sucker for it. There’s not really too much to Speed Metal, but his simplicity works for him and
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By Jason Royalty Jason’s back, and he’s taken some of the early 80s Joes, Cobras and MOBAT out for a photo shoot. Click through the gallery, and also look for a sneak peek from his next set…
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I initially thought the vehicle in the Construction Commandos exclusive set was going to be an afterthought. Having bought all of the regular release Kre-O sets and vehicles, I figured the final product would be something along the lines of smaller builds like the pseudo-VAMP or mini-Water Moccasin. Boy, was I wrong. This is a really nice vehicle build. This
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Continuing with coverage of the SDCC exclusive Construction Commandos set, we’ve got the villainous side today. Destro and his Iron Grenadiers are ready to take on the Marauders in brick form. It’s interesting to note that the Grenadiers are making appearance in Kreon form for a convention exclusive, as in 2012 they were the subject of the JoeCon villain offerings.
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