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12-09-2022, 09:41 AM | #21161 |
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Oh, wow, this is contentious. Not saying I disagree with you, but remember the hullabaloo over not making him a Tracker and not having the additional cloth as an accessory?
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Retro Gung Ho ..... A+
Retro Baroness ..... B- Retro Lady Jaye ..... D Overall you grade far too easy. I wish I had professors like you in undergrad.
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12-09-2022, 09:42 AM | #21162 |
Crimson Guard
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Dusty showed up last night, making Amazon's cancellation of Zarana all the weirder (and meaning that I now have to kill my BBTS pre-order).
He certainly looks better than he did in that early picture, and I think I was right about the knees and elbows being unpaintable plastic. The elbows I can live with, but I might try a bit of marker on the knees because there's a bit too much of a gap in the camo otherwise. Now, I just turned 44 so the eyes don't work as well as they used to, but... are his legs below the knee asymmetrical? I could swear that the right boot is slightly lower than the left. The one down note is that I finally got a stuck joint on a figure - his upper left knee is immobile. So he's in the freezer at the moment. And even that's liveable. Anyway, he went from "oh oh, this is a bad figure" to pretty much as expected for the line, and he probably only suffers in comparison to the other outstanding figures released around the same time. |
12-09-2022, 09:47 AM | #21163 |
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12-09-2022, 09:50 AM | #21164 |
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12-09-2022, 09:57 AM | #21165 |
Cobra Soldier
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I could not rate Gung Ho an A+ due to the boots. If they designed him from the ground up, they would not have used those boots.
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12-09-2022, 10:41 AM | #21166 |
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Oh, wow, this is contentious. Not saying I disagree with you, but remember the hullabaloo over not making him a Tracker and not having the additional cloth as an accessory?
Okay, show your work. Gung Ho is A+ but LJ is a D? Overall you grade far too easy. I wish I had professors like you in undergrad. Lady Jaye is completely unnecessary. The new face paint doesn't help. The brighter green doesn't help. The couple new accessories don't help. D is being generous. I have zero complaints about Spirit. That's the criteria for A+. Zero Complaints = A+. |
12-09-2022, 10:57 AM | #21167 |
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That may also have something to do with the age of the figures.
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12-09-2022, 10:59 AM | #21168 |
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Okay, you've make a good point. Gung Ho is excellent - but I should have deducted for the stupid tattoo. He's still an A.
Lady Jaye is completely unnecessary. The new face paint doesn't help. The brighter green doesn't help. The couple new accessories don't help. D is being generous. I have zero complaints about Spirit. That's the criteria for A+. Zero Complaints = A+. It's a shame she's retail poison. |
12-09-2022, 11:08 AM | #21169 |
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I don't see that much difference, personally, but what I do see is one of the greatest figures ever made in the Joe line
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12-09-2022, 11:12 AM | #21170 |
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Are we still debating this when an actual Native American was consultant on the gear/uniform for the figure? Sure it's not accurate to the OG figure, but in today's heightened socio-political climate a rewrite of that uniform seemed in order. Obviously Wehr you're entitled to your opinion and I'm not likely to change it (or anyone's), but I personally have zero issue with an update for a uniform that might be dicey, insensitive or just plain tone deaf in today's culture.
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