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01-14-2011, 01:59 AM | #1 |
Gary Goggles
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I'm giving the one they call Desert Scorpion top-billing in the thread title tonight. In-hand it's definitely a bit more tolerable than I expected it to be. The mech drivers in POC are pretty weak for the most part. Desert Scorpion... or as I like to call him: Desert Scorpion... is by no means an ample nor acceptable modern era update of its antecedent vintage incarnation... but it's definitely a bit cooler in person I think. It grows on me more and more, but no... it's certainly no Night Fox, as far as POC vehicle drivers go. Take a look at DS's arms/shoulders/elbows. Also if you notice... the paint apps on this figure differ from the convention display prototype. Both of these DSes have what I assume are test-shot markings on their foreheads. NEITHER sample came MIB. No box to be seen. No Alpine and Mech to be seen. The mech is a brown trying to pass for a bronze (intentionally or not). BUT I do like this mech much much more than the first ones. I really hope Hasbro recognizes how much people want a top shelf modern update of Desert Scorpion. They can toss this one at us if they want but if they did one on par with the Wave 3 and 4 POC figures... I think it would leave a crater of joy with the collecting collective.
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01-14-2011, 02:11 AM | #5 |
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And yes both of these are spoken for.
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01-14-2011, 02:19 AM | #6 |
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They didn't paint the shoulder and elbow pieces? Odd, but everything looks good otherwise. I wouldn't mind adding a pair to the collection.
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01-14-2011, 02:20 AM | #7 |
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Those are not the arms we had previously seen on DS.
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01-14-2011, 02:21 AM | #8 |
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Gyre, I love ya man (possibly in a completely creepy and entirely unnatural way) but there is no way you will convince me those things are a poor update of the original. I owned one (admittedly, only for an hour) and it was not that great. Guy wore a yellow leotard.
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01-14-2011, 02:25 AM | #9 |
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C'mon, it should've looked like this:
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01-14-2011, 02:25 AM | #10 |
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you still have a DUSTY!?!?!?!
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