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Cobra 1983 by HissHissFangFang
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12-14-2020, 01:45 AM
HissHissFangFan
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Those forearms are the work of Bobby Vala. In the effort to make the MCC CT and CO look as close to the vintage figures as possible, he decided to use those forearms instead of the usual forearms that that torso came with. I guess the elbow pads was a deal breaker. That's why the legs are all messed up too.
Anyway, I guess the mustache just used that build as that was the last time that torso was used. Another example not not doing any research on what figures have been out before.
Why spend the time designing new thighs (even though they have messed up engineering) and not just looking at the previous figures.
How many times have we seen that torso, upper arms and lower arms since 2011?
Cobra Trooper, Steel Brigade, Night Viper, etc...
Why not just look at what's out there and use that?
Damnit!!! Here I go again!!! I said I would stop getting upset at these poor builds and lazy work. Ok. I'm done.
I was going to mention [blame] Bobby for the arms, but he was going to best sculpt accuracy to originals on the ComicCon set, and went to great lengths of search and trial/error to get there. For me, size, proportion and of course height must come first--or at least not be sacrificed.
The lower arms of the Retro HISS Driver figure released do have a better/longer cuff to match the original, whereas the POC Shock Trooper arms barely have a cuff. But those are some damn long arms and hands...
Love when you get going--we see the same things on almost all these 2020 releases, where it seems most are pretty content with the offerings.
But I guess it doesn't really upset me at this point. Fixing and tweaking these guys to me liking has been my thing for a few years, and has made the 3.75 modern Joes my all-time favorite toy line due to that interaction with the figures mixed in with the nostalgia of my youth. The only thing that really irked me was Scarlett, but I'm over most of that.
Your own recent fixes have been great, and it had to be kinda fun to figure out, execute, and show off. So why complain, eh?
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