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General Section => General Joe Talk => Topic started by: Pete The Greek on January 24, 2005, 10:25:15 PM
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GI JOE Greenshirts - due out February 20, 2005 in the USA
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Crimson Guard Tomax pack - due out March 10, 2005
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Crismon Guard Xamot pack - due out March 10, 2005
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I think one greenshirt pack will be fine for me.
As for the Crimson Guard 6 packs, I am not sure if will I will go nuts on them either. Firefly= (http://http://smiley.onegreatguy.net/wtf.gif)
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Someone at Joe Customs mentioned that the Greenshirts look like the "99 cent knock-offs that you can find at Walgreens". I agree. Maybe it's their glossy green paint...I don't know. And the 92 Duke helmet reminds me of a turtleshell whenever I see it. I was hoping the greenshirts would look as nifty as their DD comic counterparts.
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Well I know I'm going to end up buying at least one of each set but they really aren't that great. In fact, I think I like the green shirts more than the Crimson set right now plus I army build in sets of 3 but I seperate figure heads from army builders, so that leaves me with 8 Crimson troops and 2 Crimson firefly figures. Gah! Way to screw up my numbers.
Nice to see the pics included Pete. Good job!
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General Hawk had his theory that Hasbro bundles the budgets on the 6-packs so they end up with one high quality set and one low. I think they took that idea to new heights here.
Three sets. One contains all new head sculpts. The other is repackaged CGs identical to the ones from a vehicle set late last year, a Firefly that matches a rejected colour scheme from the Urban set, and Tomax and Zamot which are identical except the headswap.
I honestly would have bought a whole mess of the Crimson Guard sets if they were identical but with CGIs instead of Fireflies. Even if it was the CAT CGI repackaged. Now I may not even buy the set because of Firefly.
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Oh well, I don't really need more than 12 CGs anyway, so one set of each will be enough.
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thanks for the pics Pete.
I'll probably get one of each...we'll see
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Pass.
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Well I guess I have to get one of each, friend of mine just reminded me that I had him preorder me some back when they were first listed.
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Actually, the Twins look interesting. If anybody army builds these and wants to unload a pair of Twins...
I've just never been enticed by the CG figures and the Greenshirts look awful.
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Actually, the Twins look interesting. If anybody army builds these and wants to unload a pair of Twins...
That shouldn't be a problem.
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It would have been nice if they threw in the second mold of Grunt to go along with the green shirts as the team leader. Sure, I know people don't want to army build "Grunt" but look at the Crimson set with Tomax or Xamot. Can't army build those guys either, same as Scar face.
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The red Cobra Officer from the Cobra Infantry 6 pack was never referred to as Scar Face. No filecard was given to him for that either. Plus that character in the comic book had two scars on his face. Hence, he is a regular army builder for me.
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There just happen to be a lot of Cobra Officers that get facial scars.
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must be part of the promotion...
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Well I'd still like to see Grunt (v2) in the set and we know Hasbro has that mold as Funskool just used it last year or so.
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There just happen to be a lot of Cobra Officers that get facial scars.
I guess one out of every six gets scarred in that "Arena of Death" or whatever arena that Cobra Commander calls it in "Mass Device" and "The Traitor".
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I guess one out of every six gets scarred in that "Arena of Death" or whatever arena that Cobra Commander calls it in "Mass Device" and "The Traitor".
[obnoxious] Well, you should know that it's really called the "Arena of Sport." Get it right next time, buddy![/obnoxious]
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speaking of which... how come they didn't made a figure of that huge barbarian wrestler guy from The mass device...
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speaking of which... how come they didn't made a figure of that huge barbarian wrestler guy from The mass device...
Just use a knock-off Conan/He-Man action figure that you can find in a dollar store. :|
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speaking of which... how come they didn't made a figure of that huge barbarian wrestler guy from The mass device...
As far as the list of "How come they didn't make a toy of that guy" goes, he's pretty far down.
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indeed.... he must be very very far down...just under Flint's red car
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I am glad you guys do not like them...more for me...hmmm...10 each please...no...no 20 each! Just kidding...one of each is plenty...those removable helms are not good...and the green shirts need to be drab.
The weapons are ok for once...I would have much rather had a 5th cg rather than a firefly...whats with him in the set...he is not cg...he works for anyone as a freelance right?
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I for one am happy to finally see a greenshirt pack.
As for the crimson sets, If I can get one, so be it. If not, I'm not going to lose sleep.