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07-01-2008, 01:00 PM | #31 |
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I maybe in the minority but I like the greenshirts and the cartoon itself. You have a huge army going against cobra which itself a huge army. I may have to get a couple of these.
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07-01-2008, 01:00 PM | #32 |
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The problem that people who have a problem with greenshirts have is that they diminish the badass factor on the Joe side. Cobra needs the overwhelming numbers because the Joes are so hard just a few of them can take on scores of troopers and be none the worse for it, a rock breaking the waves of enemy attackers. If Cobra already gets their asses kicked when they outnumber joes by however-many-to-one, giving the Joes generic soldier reinforcement just makes it one-sided.
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07-01-2008, 01:05 PM | #33 |
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The problem that people who have a problem with greenshirts have is that they diminish the badass factor on the Joe side. Cobra needs the overwhelming numbers because the Joes are so hard just a few of them can take on scores of troopers and be none the worse for it, a rock breaking the waves of enemy attackers. If Cobra already gets their asses kicked when they outnumber joes by however-many-to-one, giving the Joes generic soldier reinforcement just makes it one-sided.
It always annoyed me that I couldn't "kill" any Joes because they were important characters (well, I could have but I would feel bad about it) while anonymous Cobra Troops fell like ninepins! These Greenshirt sets would have been great back in my 'playing heyday'!
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07-01-2008, 01:12 PM | #34 |
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I'm definitely getting these packs. I wish they were mass release instead of exclusives. Maybe in a year or so Hasbro will release them at mass retail like they have with other TRU and Target exclusive battlepacks.
If not for the fact I already have 3 regular Crimson Guards, a Fred, and this weekend I'll be getting the Crimson Guard Senior Ranking Officer pack then I'd get two of the Crimson Guard packs. I'll probably have to buy another Fred&Scarface pack though to even out the numbers. I wish they had put another greenshirt or a regular G.I. Joe in place of Firefly as I don't want to have too many of the same figure that isn't a troop builder. I can always give him to my cousin though.
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07-01-2008, 01:15 PM | #35 |
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I don't army build at all, but this gives me a good excuse to have a small army of Crimson Guards, my favorite figure, as I've been buying one of everything.
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07-01-2008, 01:19 PM | #36 |
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i really hate the 2-tone greenshirts. i hear that's how they were on the toon, but it just looks silly to me.
if they'd been all olive-drab like Breaker i'd be all over this pack, but as is it's a solid "meh" SieGie pack is a must buy for the redeco'd face plates alone, too bad the "crimson guard immortal" doesn't at least have the originals weapons. kind funny that they are running (and getting blown back) by Barbecue and his fire-retardant foam gun of DOOM.
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07-01-2008, 01:22 PM | #37 |
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The completist in me will buy both sets, but I'm not really excited about either. The greenshirts will be useful to fill spots when I'm posing my main figs in action sequences. The Firefly, he's ok. No better or worse than the original...but you can't get any better than the comic pack Firefly.
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07-01-2008, 01:25 PM | #38 |
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Which one is supposed to be the Immortal CG? They all looked the same to me.
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07-01-2008, 01:30 PM | #39 |
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you can just barely see it. kinda wish they'd gone with the Hiss Driver torso painted silver ~ wouldn't have been perfect but would have been better than this for getting an Immortal.
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07-01-2008, 01:32 PM | #40 |
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