Zartan? I don’t know any Zartan. I don’t either, at least not one that rides a Power Wheels version of the Chameleon. Sorry to start out with that observation, but it is the poorest excuse for a vintage homage in all the 25th anniversary line. Zartan can’t even sit on this truncated mess of a swamp skier without looking like
Read moreKansasBrawler is delving into the modern era with a new vehicle Field Report featuring the Crimson HISS and its driver, the Crimson Horseman. Check it out here.
Read moreThe Eaglehawk was a pleasant surprise when it was revealed earlier this year. The prospect of getting a shot at a new version of a classic GI Joe vehicle brought back good memories of 2011’s Skystriker release. Having the product in hand now, I can see more than one comparison to that remake of an old favorite. I don’t normally
Read moreJust a bit of a teaser tonight of what’s to come tomorrow. I broke out the newly arrived Eaglehawk today and threw it together to take a few pics. While doing so, I was quite impressed with its pilot and thought he deserved his own spotlight. Lift-Ticket is, as I said, included with the highly anticipated Eaglehawk helicopter. I’m glad
Read moreHere’s a first, both for the blog, and for Nice Pants Week. It’s one of the few 25th anniversary figures that I don’t have loose. Back when the series was going on, I was buying one to keep carded, and one to open. This is from a time before I had two children, by the way. These days, I’m much
Read moreI have to say that I’ve been somewhat disappointed in the amount of Retaliation product on the shelves so far. Maybe that will change in the weeks to come, but it sure doesn’t seem like retailers are very high on ordering mass quantities. Can you blame them, considering how the Rise of Cobra performed, and then last year’s delay for
Read moreCobra’s basic troops are still an iconic image to me, almost as much as the original Grunt card art. If Cobra Commander was the face of the named villains, the trooper was the face of the organization as a whole. The look varied from figure to package to cartoon to comic, but the essence remained. Character designs were my favorite
Read moreHere’s another figure that’s been sitting in my queue for entirely too long. I’ve promised myself that I would clear out all these figures in the on-deck circle before the year is out. It’s not that I don’t like this version of the Commander, but I just haven’t been able to think of much to say about it. The figure
Read moreYesterday I covered a modern interpretation of a classic Cobra trooper, one that wasn’t a direct copy of an old figure into the modern aesthetic. Today’s figure goes a different route towards remaking something that came before. The Alley Viper of 1989 was an odd duck, to say the least. Not a bad figure, just incredibly outside of the norm
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The original Tripwire was one of the first Joes whose accessories impressed me more than the figure. I remember creating a little mine field on the carpet and searching them out using his detector. The mines were soon lost in the carpet, by the way. That was about the extent of my play with him. I don’t think I ever
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