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The new wrist swivels are actually becoming standard. (You can see them on "Renegades" figures.)


Dom
-likes the "10 year olds with dreams as cannon fodder" idea....

I hit up a Marshall's today just because, and ended up getting hooked up pretty well. Picked up RTS Perceptor, because while he might not be all that great, I'm sure he's worth seven bucks. And a Solar Storm Grappel for ten bucks? Again, might as well. It felt a little excessive, picking up both of those at once, but at those prices, why not, right? Right.

Gomess wrote:Godzilla vs Biollante. One of the few Godzilla films I'd never previously seen, and the only Heisei era Godzilla film I didn't already own. Two birds with one stone! And a gigantic mutant rose created using Godzilla's self-regenerative cells. Possibly containing the soul of a dead girl.

I've got an intention of buying all the Heisei-era Godzilla films. Gotta get to it. For some reason, they seem like they're the Godzilla films I "remember," even though there's no possible way I could have seen most of them since they weren't really released here in the 90s. I think it's because all the Godzilla-related merchandise that hit in the 90s was based on those films, so the designs feel way more "Godzilla" to me than anything else. (One day I'll also own those neat $20 Godzilla and Mechagodzilla toys they always have at TRU...)

BWprowl wrote:Picked up a Steel Brigade guy myself, yesterday. I was neither around for the original promotion, nor was I ever into GI Joe enough as a kid that it would have mattered, but now there is something appealing about being able to own a toy that’s a representation of every kid’s overpowered fan-character. The bio (which actually has a Name field that’s just left blank, a nice touch)kinda goes the other way with this, describing the Steel Brigade as Joe’s entry-level foot soldiers. Which I think is kinda messed up, that the team takes all these ten-year-olds with starry-eyed dreams of joining GI Joe and shoves them out to act as cannon fodder. I like this guy in that respect though, since the Joes need more generics. If I was into the sort of thing, I might even troop build this one, since it’s a nice toy anyway, giving you lots of options as far as weapons and even a couple of backpacks to choose from, a nice nod to the nature of the character. I didn’t even notice right away that he has these really nice up-and-down wrist swivels, don’t think I’ve encountered that on a Joe yet. Those missiles on his backpack would be lost in an instant if a kid got their hands on this, and I don’t even fully trust myself to keep track of them.

Which version did you grab? There's two. The one on the right is the original release, the one on the left is the variant.
http://generalsjoes.com/wp-content/gall ... ant/01.jpg

I think both of them have the swivel wrists though, but if not then you definitely have the new variant--he's based off the recent Ultimate Snake Eyes mould, which they also used for the new Stalker.

Also, the GI Joe Club had a Steel Brigade set a while back, and their kind-of-wanky way of incorporating the Steel Brigade was to make them entirely seperate from GI Joe--they're a UN private security force that works with various military organizations across the world (including GI Joe and, presumably, Action Force and like, the Argentina guys, I guess) which allows them to be those kind of high-ranking godmod characters while simultaneously taking them directly out of the GI Joe power structure so they don't make a mess of things. It's 'almost' like they were Flint and Lady Jaye's roles in Renegades, except traditional GI Joe aren't dudes on the run, so.

Anyway, while it is a nice toy, my Steel Brigade guy is currently not as cool as most other people’s, since I don’t have a classic version that I invented back in the day for this to serve as an upgrade of. Mine’s just a blank slate, he doesn’t even have a name! I need to come up with this guy’s story, and it needs to be a good one.

There were a few "named" Steel Brigade dudes in the past, mostly from an online exclusive set from 2006--Rook, Checkpoint, and Redzone.

Dominic wrote:The new wrist swivels are actually becoming standard. (You can see them on "Renegades" figures.)

Not all of them though, just a good many. Some of the Renegades guys actually still reuse parts from figures going the whole way back to Resolute, so.

-likes the "10 year olds with dreams as cannon fodder" idea....

It's a funny idea...

138 Scourge wrote:I hit up a Marshall's today just because, and ended up getting hooked up pretty well. Picked up RTS Perceptor, because while he might not be all that great, I'm sure he's worth seven bucks. And a Solar Storm Grappel for ten bucks? Again, might as well. It felt a little excessive, picking up both of those at once, but at those prices, why not, right? Right.

Totally worth it. Perceptor is cool, I don't know what everyone's bitching about. Give him Blurr's rifle, it looks awesome.

Onslaught Six wrote:Which version did you grab? There's two. The one on the right is the original release, the one on the left is the variant.
http://generalsjoes.com/wp-content/gall ... ant/01.jpg

I think both of them have the swivel wrists though, but if not then you definitely have the new variant--he's based off the recent Ultimate Snake Eyes mould, which they also used for the new Stalker.

I got the one on the left, with the tan missiles and the all-black kneecaps. You seem…oddly fixated on this.

It’s entirely likely my guy would’ve been Weaponal, since I hit upon that word/name and used it for a ton of things when I was At That Age. And it fits since he has All of the Weapons. S’yeah, he’s an omni-trained weapon specialist named Weaponal.

Anyway, I grabbed that Marvel Universe pack with Taskmaster and Deadpool. Mainly wanted it for Taskmaster, since I’m not the biggest fan of Dudepeel (the comic they come packed with does him no favors in my mind, coming off like an obnoxious advertisement for a toy I already bought). Tasky’s pretty good, I’m impressed that they thought to specially mold the cape so it wouldn’t interfere horribly with his quiver, and that he appropriately comes with a pile of weapons. I kind of hate his sword though, it needs to be a bit larger. Not only would that mean that he might actually be able to hold it (the handle is way too skinny to stay firmly in his hand), but it wouldn’t look so short either. It’s a bit more secure if he two-hands it, but that just enhances how puny it looks. I should look into finding a replacement sword for him, regardless of whether it can fit into his scabbard. Maybe 25A Serpentor’s sword? Ah well, his shield, bow, and gun are all good, though I feel like the barrel of his gun could break off easily if I’m not careful. So I’ll be careful.

Deadpool, meanwhile, is an annoyingly good toy of a character I don’t like. I guess appropriately, he’s rather expressive with good amounts of personality (I like the hand-sculpt with the extended pinky finger). He’s actually a weird toy, with all his articulation being set up completely differently from the other MU toys, particularly the biceps (which are more GI Joe-ish) and the hips, which are those weird independently-rotating ‘ball’-type joints. Plus his hands are rigid plastic, no kung-fu grip (he still holds his weapons securely, though). He feels like he was imported from a different line, which makes sense, since I’m gonna go out on a limb and assume this is a tweak of that Wolverine-line Deadpool that came out a few years ago. Only issue I have (besides that it’s a toy of Deadpool) is that he only comes with one gun (other gun in the box is Taskmaster’s). This isn’t a problem for me, since I own GI Joes, so I grabbed a spare pistol from whoever and bam, now Wade can duel-wield. Or shoot himself in the head twice as fast, I don’t care.

(Hasbro’s kidding themselves if they don’t think this set was made at least partially to appeal to the MvC3 fans.)

Also, swung by TRU and found a lone PCC Undertow hanging out! Sweet, been hoping I would run across the last wave of PCC Commanders at TRU like others have. And Undertow’s a boat, which has a lot of appeal for me, since we need more boat TFs. His robot mode is *awesome*. Not quite chaingun hands, but he does have chainguns underlsung on his hands, they look cool as hell. I like the boots too. And those chainguns rotate around and get used on his shoulders for torso mode, which totally has Octopunch’s diving helmet. Torso mode is okay otherwise, the actual middle torso portion is kind of undersized, but it looks okay (Dude, chainguns and diving helmet!). Boat mode is cool enough, being a shpeedboat with a shiv-ton of weapons all over it (more if you tack on Waterlog). Watelog’s a decent little Mini-Con. I like that his wings can fold around, and that a few bits actually peg into places for his different modes. And that his head turns, letting you hide it a bit better in gun mode. He kinda reminds me of Manta Ray from the BW Happy Meal toys, actually, which I guess would made him a her, but whatever. This set is really cool and I’m glad I found it. Wish I’d run across the other last-wave PCC Commanders now. Or the ferking Dinobots.

BWprowl wrote:

Onslaught Six wrote:Which version did you grab? There's two. The one on the right is the original release, the one on the left is the variant.
http://generalsjoes.com/wp-content/gall ... ant/01.jpg

I think both of them have the swivel wrists though, but if not then you definitely have the new variant--he's based off the recent Ultimate Snake Eyes mould, which they also used for the new Stalker.

I got the one on the left, with the tan missiles and the all-black kneecaps. You seem…oddly fixated on this.

I dunno. It bothers me that they changed it, I think? It's not immediately obvious that there's two versions, they just kind of sneakily threw them in there.

since I’m not the biggest fan of Dudepeel

No, man: Dudepeel is Movie Deadpool.

Deadpool, meanwhile, is an annoyingly good toy of a character I don’t like. I guess appropriately, he’s rather expressive with good amounts of personality (I like the hand-sculpt with the extended pinky finger). He’s actually a weird toy, with all his articulation being set up completely differently from the other MU toys, particularly the biceps (which are more GI Joe-ish) and the hips, which are those weird independently-rotating ‘ball’-type joints. Plus his hands are rigid plastic, no kung-fu grip (he still holds his weapons securely, though). He feels like he was imported from a different line, which makes sense, since I’m gonna go out on a limb and assume this is a tweak of that Wolverine-line Deadpool that came out a few years ago. Only issue I have (besides that it’s a toy of Deadpool) is that he only comes with one gun (other gun in the box is Taskmaster’s). This isn’t a problem for me, since I own GI Joes, so I grabbed a spare pistol from whoever and bam, now Wade can duel-wield. Or shoot himself in the head twice as fast, I don’t care.

Those weird hip joints actually used to be the standard for the MU line, when Wolverine was out.

I grabbed a few Legends figures at Marshalls.

-gold Bumblebee.

-extra Optimus Prime, TrailCutter (TrailBreaker), and Megatron. I am willing to trade these if anybody wants them.

-Marshall's also has plenty of PCC Combiners. I picked up Wave 2 for a toy drive. But, if anybody wants them in the next week, I can work something out and buy something else for the toy drive.

Onslaught Six wrote:

BWprowl wrote:since I’m not the biggest fan of Dudepeel

No, man: Dudepeel is Movie Deadpool.

Eh, whatever. They both annoy me pretty much equally.

Hey, thanks for the tip, Prowl. Hit up a TRU on the way back from work, and scored Skyhammer and Airlift, as well as Undertow and Waterlog. Only fooled with Undertow so far, he's pretty dope. And the combiner mode works surprisingly well with the Dinobots. Gonna have to get my other PCC dudes out of storage now, I guess, fiddle with more combinations and whatnot.

Kind of relieved, too, that I'm not the only one that absolutely can't stand Deadpool. High five or somethin'.

I like Deadpool 'conceptually.' Before he got all super-popular and written stupidly. He's just a fucked up dude in a fucked up world. And yes--he speaks to the edgy 13 year old inside of me sometimes.

-customizing yielded a new "Legends" scale Detritus figure.

-the "Hello.jpg" image. Yes that one. On my phone. From Scourge.


Dom
-going to cry in a corner now.