By Past Nastification Cutter was one of my favorite early ARAH characters. So when Hasbro got around to phoning in the modern era version, it was a letdown. Released as “GI Joe Cutter”, the parts used to create the figure’s body were fair enough. Flint arms and everything else from the neck down from Shipwreck create an adequate uniform for
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Operation Crimson Sabotage was a boon for o-ring army builders, and it even hooked me, a guy who hadn’t dipped his toe into the craze. Between the OCS and the Cobra Infantry pack, I amassed a decent army in a short time. The same mold (minus the Cobra head under the helmet) was also available as the Agent Faces mail-in.
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By Past Nastification There are figures that Hasbro absolutely got right. This modern era Zap is one of them. The first year or so of the modern era figure had a few issues, such as arms with a limited range of motion at the elbows or peculiar sculpting. By the time Zap was released, Hasbro had these kinks ironed out
Read moreTalk about the early days of online GI Joe exclusives. The BAT pack was offered way back in the comparative dark ages of the early oughts. Okay, maybe that’s an exaggeration. It’s not like the set was an alt.toys.gijoe exclusive or something. Regardless, it’s crazy to think that the set is nearing fifteen years old. Dang. That means I’m old
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By Past Nastification With this figure, Hasbro winked at us and said it was “Skyduster”, but we all know it’s Starduster and will be referred that way in this review. The re-naming is just Hasbro’s way of getting out the figures while avoiding any legal headaches, so it doesn’t irk me. Fair enough. Aside from the clever use of the
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By KansasBrawler I’ll admit, I was kind of torn on the Silent Strike set. I really liked the HISS, but I felt a little bored by the Skystriker. I already have the 30th Anniversary version and I really only need one Skystriker in my collection. The Wolf Squad concept has made it grow on me, but I’m still just a
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By KansasBrawler I know Hasbro always takes a lot of grief from fans (myself included) for so vehemently sticking behind their “girl figures don’t sell” line when we question their decisions to make sought-after female characters like Zarana and Jinx convention exclusives. Unfortunately, for me, Resolute Scarlett does kind of prove their point. I really wanted to like this figure.
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When GI Joe transitioned to the Adventure Team, Hasbro maintained the basic figures’ breakdown into what previously represented the four main armed services. The army, navy, air force and Marines were reconfigured into a less overtly militaristic organization. In what surely must have been a cost-cutting move, the four main figures retained their original uniforms. The Land Adventurer then would
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By KansasBrawler When Hasbro created the Crimson Shadow Guard set during the end of the Valor Vs. Venom era, I was pretty unimpressed. It was just six Crimson Guards decked out in black and carrying ninja weapons for reasons that were never adequately explained in the filecard. I wasn’t really clamoring to see this concept revisited (though I did eventually
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By KansasBrawler I don’t know why, but I’ve always had more of an affinity for the Cobra figures than the Joes. Don’t get me wrong, the Joe characters were great, but I thought the Cobra figures looked more striking. I always liked the more fantastical elements of the Joe line and, generally speaking, the Cobra figures were allowed to be
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