G.I. Joe Classified Series

Akatsuki said:
There are a lot of figures I don’t have yet, but top 5 of the year so far might be:

Slice
Desert Scorpion
Ghost Viper
Darklon
Battle Armor Cobra Commander


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Click to expand...

Oh no. I forgot about Rattler Baroness! Yeah, she tops the list.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 
@altcunningham Just looked on ebay and there are a LOT of options for Rattler without figures, so maybe when it first hit I would have had better luck, but I know I'll end up eating a Rattler if I were to buy a complete one now. Eh, ah well once more. Hopefully they release that Baroness in blue, the gunner as a Diamondback pilot repaint, and Wild Weasel as a stripped down version or something.
 
Why-Does-it-Say-Paper-Jam-Office-Space.gif
 
I actually intentionally left Baroness off the list to avoid triggering angry gifs from Ru :) She's a great figure and they'd be damned fools to not release her in blue and yellow ASAP. Arguably their best female figure so far.

I guess the retro line IS more cartoonish, but I didn't notice it as much with Flint and Cover Girl because I thought the first version of Flint, while a GREAT face sculpt, was also over the top in a different way, and that first Cover Girl is... interesting. I didn't have the hate for it so many other people did but the youthful look/bigger features (no, not a euphemism, I really do mean bigger eyes and a broader face) in the retro version is a bit more cartoonish.

I gotta admit, I regretted, financially, the Haslabs I got so far, and I stressed the F*CK out out of where I'd put them, but of all the stuff I've crowdfunded, those packages are the bet bang for the buck I've gotten from a crowdfunded action figure-related set. I thought I might sell stuff off but I have the Dragonfly and Rattler side by side in my dingy little art studio/workout space/board game room of SHAME in the basement and it's hard to not stop and admire them whenever I'm down there. The HISS less so but only because moving the HISS is a PROJECT. It's heavy and finicky where the two aerial vehicles can be picked up and handled easily. I am absolutely having buyer's remorse about the SnowCAT but I suspect I'll have the same reaction, regret turning to just not being able to NOT play with it. (I backed the cat because I thought the economy might tank so bad in the next 12 months we may not see another successful Haslab, too.)
 
The part that is even more ridiculous for me wanting piot Baroness is I'm very happy with the retro figure so the pilot one would have the hair up without glasses and be a different cobra agent altogether. So that's part of why I'm kinda okay with not having her.
 
I felt that way about Retro Anastasia (I gave her double elbows from Shriek) but the Crimson and Pilot blew her away in sequence, each in a more Equilibrium gun kata slow mo fight more elaborate than the last.
 
Y'know what kills me about this line - even the MOVIE Baroness rocks. A throwaway figure from a movie that bomed is honestly good enough to stand in as an alternate version of her. I keep her around as Anastasia's wayward, even gothier, punk-rock-ier younger sister.
 
docsilence said:
Y'know what kills me about this line - even the MOVIE Baroness rocks. A throwaway figure from a movie that bomed is honestly good enough to stand in as an alternate version of her. I keep her around as Anastasia's wayward, even gothier, punk-rock-ier younger sister.
Click to expand...
Yeah, of all likenesses to nail, they got that actress.

Shame about Samara.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top