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POC STING RAIDER (JUNGLE ASSAULT) TRU EX. Pics & Review!!
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12-02-2009, 01:22 PM
Mandingo Rex
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I love the original Copperhead—despite the tacky colors he's wearing—but he remains my default nonetheless, stuck in his 80s glory. The Wal-Mart exclusive and the PP Copperheads both look atrocious, but this new one looks really cool in that scheme, and I think the knife and pockets are a little cooler than his original gear on the first 25th version, and work well for a 2009 update. The sculpt itself still works today.
That repainted Water Moccasin looks terrible though, I have no idea how you guys even think it looks remotely good. Their design team simply has no clue, honestly. The first WM re-sculpt was very cleanly done, and then they put the garish PP Copperhead with it. Okay, I can go with "hey, better than getting the comic pack one again" and they threw a bone to the PP fans. That didn't work much as a set, but there's a bit of a strategic reasoning behind it, I guess.
Here, they have a chance to start fresh, and make a cohesively designed set, but instead we get a more muted, real-world colored Copperhead, and then they throw in lime green AVAC (which wouldn't look bad if that terrible lime green was closer to one of the tones on Copperhead) and a paintjob that didn't look like piss.
The individual items could work separately I guess, but they don't really go together as a set. The boat would look much better with a better camo pattern, or simply one solid color that doesn't make your eyes hurt. You simply can't focus on anything, it's just too busy. You can't go with the "realistic swamp camo" defense when there are bright red flame graphics all over the sides, which stand out like a sore thumb.
This is just a poorly designed
set
, all around, with the only positive things being the Copperhead figure and the sculpt of the Moccasin, which is fantastic, but completely wasted in that godawful pattern. The AVAC repaint is so close to the Target exclusive that it just shows how lazy they were being with this one, and actually close to being decent, but the plum/brown color combined with that neon green just do not work at all.
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