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03-12-2009, 06:56 AM | #51 |
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As I posted in the other thread, Big Boa, Croc Master, and Crystal Ball got a lot of playtime from me as a kid. I fully agree as an adult that Crystal Ball's "filecard self" is pretty stupid, but I always tended to play him as more a "magician/sorcerer/occultist" than a two-bit hypnotist.
Croc Master just -looked- cool to me, and Big Boa filled a nifty role. I never understood the headgear, but I thought it looked cool. I just figured it had a built-in megaphone and gas-mask, so he could hell really loud while he shot tear gas at the wannabe blue-shirts during PT! |
03-12-2009, 07:07 AM | #52 |
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i don't dislike Croc Master or Raptor, but i can't say i'm all that fond of Big Boa. the concepts behind all of them are pretty silly, but that doesn't bother me too much as long as the figure looks pretty cool. i think Big Boa - who probably had the best concept of the three - looks just plain awful. i'd buy any of them if they were released in the 25th... but, if he is made, i'd love to see Raptor with a shirt on this time around.
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03-12-2009, 08:11 AM | #53 |
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I'd buy a Big Boa, I'd pass on a Crystal Ball, and I 'd set fire to a Raptor.
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03-12-2009, 12:43 PM | #54 |
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I actually liked Croc Master, Big Boa and Crystal Ball as a kid. I still would love to see Hasbro make Big Boa. Most people said they hated Croc Master but he's one of the more popular modern figures now. I think the same thing would happen to Big Boa. Crystal Ball is kind of cheesy, but not anymore than Mindbender so I don't see where all of the hate comes from. Raptor was a little more bizarre to me, but I would still buy an updated figure from him.
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03-12-2009, 12:47 PM | #55 |
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BTW, I always thought of Big Boa's mask as a special breathing enhancer so he's getting fed oxygen constantly to help him stay strong while training all of the Cobra grunts. I also I always thought that it was maybe somehow injecting him with steroids or maybe he was inhaling some kind of steroid gas to "juice" him up.
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03-12-2009, 01:09 PM | #56 |
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The OP was 100% right, I hate them all.
Big Boa, Raptor, Crystal Ball and even Croc Master never existed and never will in my Joeverse. To me each and every one of those is more useless than the rest. Those might well have been the first Joes I totally didn't want for Christmas, and thankfully never got (that I remember, if I did get any of them, they never got played with). In the annals of embarrassing Joes they are right up there with the eco-warriors, manimals (or whatever those were) and star brigade. I chalked them up to Hasbro changing over personnel, completely losing their creativity or just plain running out of good ideas so they just substituted crappy ones. |
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03-12-2009, 01:12 PM | #57 |
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Hmmmm, I don't think they are any less cheesy than Zartan, Serpentor, Mindbender or the Crimson Twins really.
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Big Boa: Fight against Rocky (who never became a Joe). Trainer? Okay. But I never played "training". I played fighting. Raptor: Send birds to attack a modern army? Crystal Ball: Do I even need to go there? Croc Master: S & M? Hang out with Dreadnoks? Last edited by thunderdan19; 03-12-2009 at 01:37 PM.. |
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03-12-2009, 01:42 PM | #59 |
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I love all the Ninja force figures....
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The OP was 100% right, I hate them all.
Big Boa, Raptor, Crystal Ball and even Croc Master never existed and never will in my Joeverse. To me each and every one of those is more useless than the rest. Those might well have been the first Joes I totally didn't want for Christmas, and thankfully never got (that I remember, if I did get any of them, they never got played with). In the annals of embarrassing Joes they are right up there with the eco-warriors, manimals (or whatever those were) and star brigade. I chalked them up to Hasbro changing over personnel, completely losing their creativity or just plain running out of good ideas so they just substituted crappy ones. |
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