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06-13-2010, 10:42 AM | #1 |
Cobra Soldier
Join Date: Oct 2007
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ACTION FIGURE REVIEWS
Hasbro has been on a roll making quality GI Joe's since the GI Joe 25th Anniversary action figures. Even though I am not into the movie characters and designs, I still think Hasbro did an overall good job executing them. Nevertheless, GI Joe is back with a post movie toy line, "Pursuit of Cobra" that I was too excited for them to start hitting the states before I got my hands on one. I have always been a Duke fan. I make no bones about it. He is a pretty cool team leader to me. When I first saw pictures of the new POC Duke, my biggest concern was the head sculpt. It looked a little to cartoony for my taste and the headband was hard to get used to but I am happy to report that the head sculpt is perhaps my favorite aspect of this action figure. Hasbro really captured the look of this Joe leader. He looks far less generic than expected. Actually, there is only one aspect of this Duke action figure I don't care for and that is he is wearing the chest armor from the silly movie. This seems rather lazy to me for Hasbro to do this but now that I think about it, I believe POC was initially intended as an extension to the movie series. Thankfully, the chest armor can be covered by the great utility belt, straps or whatever you would call it. You can still see a little of the armor but other than the little gold GI Joe emblem, it is not too distracting. However, knowing it is there sort of takes a little away from this otherwise brilliant action figure. Other than Duke's belts, he includes some great accessories such as: a huge backpack, knife that fits nicely in its holster, two big guns with 2 clips, pistol and flashlight. Perhaps it is a slight accessory overload but I really like how Hasbro seems to be starting to give the figures personal accessories again. Also, it looks like Hasbro has returned to the 25th anniversary style stands. I just hope the cobra figures have two pegs like the Joe's do. The paint applications really impressed me. Hasbro could have easily cheesed out (as they have been doing with Transformers) and skimped on the paint but instead he is loaded with paint details. What I was most happy about was Duke was not given yellow hair. Hasbro went with a normal more realistic blonde color. The camouflage is very nicely done both on his skin and pants. He does seem to feature more brown on the lower legs to emulate dirt. I am generally not too crazy about these kind of paint applications but it certainly does not look bad. Articulation really is a non-issue with GI Joe. Hasbro has consistently done a fine job with their GI Joe figures and Duke is no different. The chest armor upsets me because without it this could have easily been one of my favorite Duke figures ever. With it, it is still excellent, just a step away from the realism I prefer. However, if Duke is any indication of how POC is to shape up, I think I am going to be incredibly disappointed when the new GI Joe Renegades toys start up as POC may turn out to be some of the greatest and refreshing GI Joe designs to surface since the originals from the early 1980's. 4.5 out of 5
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09-06-2010, 11:43 AM | #2 |
Cobra Soldier
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Crete
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Interesting review.
I'm with camp POC Duke however. I LOVE THIS FIGURE! Yes it uses the ROC torso, but I feel the execution of the final finished product is truly ACES! Hasbro really went all out with this one. New legs, feet, arms, head, accessories and weapon! OH YEAH! |
09-06-2010, 05:03 PM | #3 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: quad cities
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I'm never taking the guy's chest gear off anyway, so the ROC chest isn't a big issue to me. It's like worrying about what undershirt a guy is wearing under his dress shirt.
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09-06-2010, 05:06 PM | #4 |
Cobra Disinformationist
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: New York
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I didn't know you could remove the clip from the machine gun! How cool! Thanks for the great review. I too was surprised by how much I like this figure.
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