G.I. Joe Classified Series

At least they got better about making both wrists gun-worthy vertical hinges. It's funny, I just got curious and looked through a gallery to see how many figures had their GEAR set up for lefty and just taking a quick and dirty count, maybe ten that are exclusively lefty, a bunch who are ambidextrous, and the vast majority have their side arm on their right and their knife etc., set up to reach for with their right hand, but like, the first 30+figures had their wrist hinges set up lefty. That makes me think it was a misunderstanding of design, because if they intended the characters to be lefty Snake Eyes, Duke, Flint, Cobra Commander, Destro, Mutt, Breaker, Leatherneck, Cloudduster, Spirit, Lowlight, Doc, both Hawks, Grunt, Big Ben, Rock n Roll, Cover Girl (both), Scarlet and Quarrel and Glenda, Stalker, Major Bludd, old school Roadblock... like damn near everybody has their sidearm on their right.

It's more the inconsistency between hinge and gear set up that's the problem instead of everyone definitely being one-handed.
 
Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the first designer, who was let go, thought the "left-handed" setup was better for figures holding a two-handed rifle right-handed with a relaxed pose. I feel like this is something I heard from him in an interview after the fact.
 
vicious said:
With the Retro greenshirt figures, Zap, and Short-Fuze shipping out soon, it's a great time to stock up on figures that are virtually the same toy as Stalker, a figure that came out 3 years ago.

The biggest shame is that they don't rerelease the Snake Eyes Retro, arguably the best figure on that buck and a stupid Walmart exclusive!
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I'm one of the folks who wants these fairly accurate to the original figures, particularly the original 13. Minus the reused heads that the originals had, I'm all about getting that Stalker figure a few times.
 
@docsilence no sarcasm, thank you for looking into that.

vicious said:
Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the first designer, who was let go, thought the "left-handed" setup was better for figures holding a two-handed rifle right-handed with a relaxed pose. I feel like this is something I heard from him in an interview after the fact.
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This reminds me of the bit from Real Men when Jim Belushi tells John Ritter to keep his spare weapon ready for a left hand draw in case they shoot his right hand off. "Thanks, yeah, that helps a lot!"
 
vicious said:
The thing that makes me annoyed with Joes being lefties is that their sidearm holsters/sheathes seldom match the figure. But the best figures have both hands with vertical joints. It really means a lot to me, although not so much that I will or pass on a figure for it (I can swap hands if it's a huge deal).

Crystal Ball has both verticals and I find him much more fun to pose than the Ghost Vipers who are lefties.

Slice has both verticals and for that reason alone I enjoy posing him more than Dice who has both horizontal hinges.
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I was finally adjusting my Budo. Also playing with my new action figure.

And I had to come here because I wanted to know what you guys thought about the wrist joints. I'm done with the horizontal. Everything needs to be vertical. Both hands. All holding hands.

Sick of this asymmetrical garbage.

I don't miss the ammo boxes, but I do miss the bespoke art for each character. There were a lot of artists I already admire getting the job and then I found some new ones. The new artwork is not it for me and I also think it all just blends together on the EB shelf.
 
altcunningham said:
And I had to come here because I wanted to know what you guys thought about the wrist joints. I'm done with the horizontal. Everything needs to be vertical. Both hands. All holding hands.

Sick of this asymmetrical garbage.
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Perfect world we'd get sets of hands, given what these figures cost versus how much it costs to do an alternate set of hands. Lacking that - I've said plenty of times that this line came out late enough in the history of action figure design that I'm still stunned we got horizontally hinged wrists -at all-. It's already been well-established that vertical hinges are better. I've been banging that drum since fucking 2004 and here we still the fuck are.
 
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