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03-29-2023, 10:25 AM | #6781 |
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I also prefer the human troopers, and would probably replace the BAT in my display with a Viper if I could find one for less than $50, but it's really not hard to see the appeal. They're basically Terminators, or at least they SHOULD be. They were kind of cupcakes in the cartoon, what with Sgt. Slaughter being able to fight 10 of them at once barehanded, haha.
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03-29-2023, 11:35 AM | #6782 |
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The og color bats aren't my thing but jungle and artic bat from 30th/50th I like. Also I like the Crimson bats way better than the og. I have a thing for crimson things though.
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03-29-2023, 11:41 AM | #6783 |
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Cover Girl is great outside of her left arm continually flying off whenever you move it. Falcon's face is ass but the rest of him is fine. Outback seems no different than the last one. BBQ should be the same thing we already got. The BAT, though, seems like it's total asscheeks. Vala shills are gonna have a field day making videos about that one if it's as bad as the people who already have it say it is. |
03-29-2023, 11:44 AM | #6784 |
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[QUOTE=mistac5050;5636109]Maybe it has to do with when you originally got into G.I. Joe collecting as a kid. I was long gone before B.A.T.'s existed./QUOTE]
I would imagine if you were out by '85 or '86 you'd have a vastly different take on the figures than most. That's only 2-3 years from the start of the line! |
03-29-2023, 11:50 AM | #6785 |
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BATs were cool to me because when I got into Joe fully in 87 there were no Cobra Troopers to be had. Anything pre-'85 was basically $50+ at a toy show.
Vipers were hard to find, too. I remember the only villains I could find in a store tended to be, well, nothing. Wasn't until '87 I believe that I managed to get some actual Cobras, and that was because Raptor, Crystal Ball, and Big Boa were aplenty in TRU. Python Patrol was my first real shot at finding an actual Cobra Trooper and a Viper. And even then it was only one each I could afford. |
03-29-2023, 12:26 PM | #6786 |
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The only correct thing I have read so far about the Crimson B.A.T. is that the regular hand falls out of the back-pack if held upside down. Everything from "they used different cheaper plastic" to "the mold must be warn out" is noise.
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03-29-2023, 12:28 PM | #6787 |
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BATs were cool to me because when I got into Joe fully in 87 there were no Cobra Troopers to be had. Anything pre-'85 was basically $50+ at a toy show.
Vipers were hard to find, too. I remember the only villains I could find in a store tended to be, well, nothing. Wasn't until '87 I believe that I managed to get some actual Cobras, and that was because Raptor, Crystal Ball, and Big Boa were aplenty in TRU. Python Patrol was my first real shot at finding an actual Cobra Trooper and a Viper. And even then it was only one each I could afford.
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03-29-2023, 12:42 PM | #6788 |
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Guess that's tbe final word then, his is good so no one else's has any problems. Even if it is the same plastic, it feels cheaper and lighter when holding it compared to the previous ones, even my girlfriend who couldn't care less about action figures could tell the Crimson BAT was not of the same quality of the previous releases. Not trying to make noise or whatever, just stating how mine are in hand and they are by far the worst gi joe classified figures I have and I have them all. |
03-29-2023, 12:43 PM | #6789 |
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I'm also pretty sure I've heard that modern toys would need over ten runs to "wear out". Those 80s molds supported production runs of millions of units. Some are still in use. What I have heard is that big toy companies slash the QC budget for reissues of molds under the idea that "it worked once, it'll work again". And so you get more of what would have been thrown out as rejects from the first run slipping through. |
03-29-2023, 12:47 PM | #6790 |
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Yeah.
I'm also pretty sure I've heard that modern toys would need over ten runs to "wear out". Those 80s molds supported production runs of millions of units. Some are still in use. What I have heard is that big toy companies slash the QC budget for reissues of molds under the idea that "it worked once, it'll work again". And so you get more of what would have been thrown out as rejects from the first run slipping through. |
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