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157 Dreadnok Road Pig & Rawkus (#135)
() | Oct 2024

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158 Chip "Raptor" Talon & General Ledger (#139)
() | Oct 2024

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159 Storm Shadow (#131)
() | Nov 2024

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160 Iron Grenadier (#132)
() | Nov 2024

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161 Albert "Alpine" Pine (#133)
() | Nov 2024

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162 Iron Grenadier B.A.T. (#134)
() | Nov 2024

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163 Edward "Starduster" Skylar (#136)
() | Nov 2024

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[DarthBrett]

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Originally Posted by DarkLordMordred

Could you explain how you determine their weighted and mean averages? I'm curious.

Sure! Mean average is just the exact avg of all the votes totaled using a simple point system and then divided by the total number of voters who voted. For the point system, I just gave every 1 vote a single point, every 2 vote two points, every 3 vote three points, every 4 vote 4 points and so forth. For the weighted score, I used a a couple of different methods, but mainly a curved scale method and a method that focuses on 1 and 10 votes in order to avoid skewed voting. Hope that helps!

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Originally Posted by captain mal

Fascinating. Thanks for doing this.

You're welcome dude! I'm glad everyone is participating and voting and commenting! Figured it was a fun way to see who all of our favorite Classified figures are as well as a place to discuss the individual figures in their own forums.

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Originally Posted by captain mal

I cannot believe Barbecue ranked so high. Better than Flint, Lady Jaye, Origins Scarlett, Cobra Infantry among others? Weird voting on this one.

He could still drop a bit lower down since he only has about 22 votes. Ideally I'd like every figure to get at least 40 votes, but obviously the less popular ones don't get nearly as many. The next two figures coming will probably knock him out of the top 10 anyways - the B.A.T. and Alley Viper!

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Originally Posted by GoodGuy9

He's someone who needed the dust to settle to get his moment...he's quite good but was overshadowed by more must-haves on release. You're right that's it's quite unusual he won out over some of the other obvious, nicer figures.

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Originally Posted by DarthBrett

Added how many votes the figures got now. Figured it would be nice to see on here. Kind of surprised figures like the Red Ninja have way more votes than figures like Flint or Cobra Commander or Lady Jaye.

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Originally Posted by DESTRO

Nice work just discovered this thread.

Thanks DESTRO! Feel free to vote whenever you want, the polls will never close.

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Originally Posted by 07GT500 COBRA

I had only voted on about half the polls. Found the list in your sig and now have votes on all available.

Awesome! Glad the signature links came in handy. The more votes, the better! I'll update the scores in just a bit. Side note, I also sort of thought these individual figure poll threads could be a good place where anyone can talk about those specific figures if they wanted to since there aren't any real dedicated threads for most of them.

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Originally Posted by Feuergeist82

Thank you so much for doing these. I love this line and to rate the figures and see what people think of them and give my own opinions was a great way for me to expand my love for this line. These are the only action figures I collect or will ever collect. G.I. Joe was my favorite figures as a kid and these came out at a time in my life when there was a lot going on, besides COVID and they've really brought me a lot of joy and happiness during these very difficult past few years.

I really appreciate the hard work that went into these polls and can't wait to get new Joes in hand and also to vote on the figures you haven't gotten to yet.

Awesome dude! It's great to see you love the line so much and I am really glad you're enjoying contributing and participating on the threads/polls. The more the merrier! It's fun to see the list of figures grow and grow and see which figures are everybody's favorites and which ones are not so much lol

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Originally Posted by boygenius

This is interesting. I'm surprised anyone would prefer the Officer to the Trooper, or even the Infantry. Let alone prefer retro Baroness over regular Baroness. I wonder if it's just because they are currently so much less expensive. And it seemed like Spirit Iron-Knife was a huge pegwarmer around these parts, but maybe I'm misremembering that.

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Originally Posted by firmpulse

That surprised me too. As a HUGE Cobra Officer fan I was let down by that figure. Largely due to the the round ass noggin and crappy helmet. They should have definitely used a similar head/mask and the Trooper helmet sculpt yet included an Officer's Chevron. The pointed "widow's peak" of the helmet also sucks. It's just ugly. PS: Welocme to the Tank!

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Originally Posted by captain mal

Kamakura goes down like Trump 2020! Rigged voting! There is no way he's lower than BBQ, Crimson Twins, Beachhead or Retro Lady Jaye! This one is definitely off...

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Originally Posted by Junkyard84

Man, I just don’t get the disdain for PDD. It’s the exact same core figure as standard Destro with MORE accessories in a fandom in-joke deco.

I honestly think a lot of the negativity towards him was due to the fact that the v2 IG version of Destro wasn't done first. I think it was also too soon in the line for a repaint and people didn't really embrace it. I personally was always meh on the Pimp Daddy design, but I get why it's cool or appealing for some.

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Originally Posted by Junkyard84

This got me thinking, DB. What if the brand team plans a line-wide event to drop the Iron Grenadiers? Like a total takeover, and that?s why we haven?t seen a lock of anything IG yet. I think that would be a ton of fun. Not sure how they?d come at it from the Joe side of things, maybe a way to explore some of the more obscure characters sort of in the way of super-specialists?

I love that idea and tt would be really cool to see that happen, or something like it! I feel like 2024 is either going to see the introduction of the Iron Grenadiers in Classified, or maybe Cobra-La.

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Originally Posted by DarthBrett

A new champ is in town...Sgt. Slaughter joins the list and de-thrones the B.A.T. for the #1 spot! Kind of fitting.

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Originally Posted by TheOverlordCorp

Sarge is looking more like Mr. Perfect on this poll.

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Originally Posted by DarthBrett

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Originally Posted by TheOverlordCorp

He's all out of bubble gum.

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Originally Posted by DarthBrett

Dr. Mindbender joins the list! Interesting to note that the top 3 figures right now are all originally from the 1986 lineup.

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Originally Posted by GoodGuy9

Oh my goodness, shake-up going on here....Mindbender has surpassed Bludd, Slaughter is now on top

'86 is representing! I'm kind of curious where Zarana is going to end up on here.

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Originally Posted by GoodGuy9

Zarana's going to do well I think

I agree

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Originally Posted by DarthBrett

Zarana has joined the rankings! She seems to be one of the more popular figures on here, which isn't surprising at all.

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Originally Posted by GoodGuy9

I'm not surprised by the new rankings, Zarana's one we predicted to do well but I disagree she is higher than Mindbender, Dusty seems low, but in comparison to the figures over him it makes sense. Who's up next in the polls?

I think Dusty may still climb up a little. Maybe? lol He only has 21 votes, so he could gain or lose ground, depending on how those votes go.
Next up after Dusty will be the CG! And then I think after that it's Serpentor before we finally start knocking out 2023 releases! Yeah, Zarana sort of surprised me by overtaking Mindbender. She got a huge surge the last few days that were mostly 9 and 10 votes that helped her shoot past the old Bender of Minds. Mindbender still only has 24 votes though, so thinking he could pass her if he gets some 10s. Personally, I think Dusty is a little bit better than where he currently sits on the list too. He'd probably place closer to 20th on my own personal list.

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Originally Posted by GoodGuy9

Interesting, I don't know how I feel with the CG tying with the BATs, can't say I disagree, they're both fantastic troop-building figures

Yeah, I figured he would be pretty popular, but wasn't expecting him to rank this high either. But seems like most people on here really love the figure, including myself. Hoping he gets at least another 10+ votes. I feel like it takes about 30+ votes before a figure really has an accurate score on here. I'm curious if the CG will pass the B.A.T. or drop down a little.

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Originally Posted by DarthBrett

Wow, the CG is closing in on Sgt. Slaughter now for the #1 spot!

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Originally Posted by DarthBrett

Saw a decent amount of voting activity in the past 24 hours, so lots of shuffling happened. Dr. Mindbender has fallen out of the Top 10 to #12 now after he had been hovering around the #5 and #6 spot.

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Originally Posted by GoodGuy9

That's outrageous

lol Well, he could easily move back up 3 or 4 spots. He would only need a handful of 9 or 10 votes to get back there. Those #8-#12 figures all have very close scores.

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Originally Posted by DarthBrett

Serpentor debuts on the list! A little surprised he isn't #1, but he only has 19 votes at this point too.

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Originally Posted by TheOverlordCorp

I could be mistaken but it seems like the younger Joe fans who grew up on Season 2 era Sunbow are all-in on Slaughter and Serpentor. Makes sense that both figures would rate so highly in that regard, plus the line was much stronger by that point. The early era Classified Joes were more divisive.

Yeah and there are probably a lot of people, like myself, who kind of grew up with both eras (I was 5 when the first series hit in '83 and was 8 by the time ssn2 hit in '86, so I was all-in for the '82-'85 years as well as '86-'91). I know 16 yrs ago when I joined the 'Tank, overall Serpentor was not well-liked by a lot of fans at that time, but I think a combination of him growing on people as well as the older fans sort of moving on and the younger fans replacing those people has made him more popular. There are still people who dislike him, but I think he is more accepted in 2023 than he was in 2006, 2007.

[QUOTE=DarthBrett;5668245]SERPENTOR UPDATE - he shot up to #2 already and is on the verge of taking out Slaughter now!

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Originally Posted by TheOverlordCorp

For me, it's more comics vs. cartoons. I love both, but the differences have tainted some characters. Serpentor, Wet-Suit, Lifeline, Slaughter, and Hawk were better in the comics (IMO) but their cartoon versions are some of my least favorite characters. But, the cartoon made me like Footloose, Lowlight, Iceberg, and Mainframe more.

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Originally Posted by GoodGuy9

I'm devasted Mindbender fell so low, he deserves the top ten for sure, that presentation was spot on

I hear ya, but he definitely could shoot back up with more votes. I noticed the list is now over 60 figures, so as we progress and approach 100, I think the Top 20 will be more or less become the new Top 10. I look at this way, Mindbender is still ranked higher than 80% of the line - that's really good! If it makes you feel better, he's still in the Top 10 for figures released in 2022! It just goes to show how truly incredible of a line Classified is when figures like Dr. Mindbender, the Alley Viper, retro Gung-Ho and Croc Master aren't even in the Top 10.

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Originally Posted by DarkLordMordred

I haven't voted on the Doc yet. I'll likely give him a 9, if I have cape bleeding, or a 10, if not.

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Originally Posted by GoodGuy9

#1 - Sgt. Slaughter (53)
#2 - Serpentor & Air Chariot (57)
#3 - Crimson Guard (50)
#4 - B.A.T. (33)
#5 - Spirit Iron-Knife (36)
#6 - Zarana (48)
#7 - Cobra Officer (37)
#8 - Snake Eyes & Timber: Alpha Commandos (30)
#9 - Major Bludd (27)
#10 - Tiger Force Stuart "Outback" Selkirk (39)
#11 - Croc Master & Fiona (38)
#12 - Master of Disguise Zartan (31)
#13 - Dr. Mindbender (43)

What's so difficult is every one of these figures is so well deserved that's it's tough to be bothered over my own personal preference...
-Slaughter's suprising but he is so well done especially when we didn't think he was coming due to the Valaverse licensing
-Serpentor's one of my top 3
-CG, they're flawless updates to the og figures
-BATs, just the like CG
-Spirit's one of the most fine-tuned, well sculpted figures who should've been deluxe
-Zarana's one I voted for top tier
-Officer's very well done but does he deserve to be so high up?
-SE/Timber, I'm sorry but this delivered for someone tired of Snake-Eyes
-Major Bludd's one of my top figures I don't own but in my opinion the top 2 with Serpentor/Mindbender
-Outback's 10 for sure
-Croc-Master was one of those unexpected surprises in the line that was just pure fun
-MOD Zartan's everything you want from the figure though I thought the coloring was off

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Originally Posted by DarthBrett

Serpentor finally overtakes Slaughter for the #1 spot.

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Originally Posted by GoodGuy9

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Originally Posted by GoodGuy9

Here's some scans of the field guide that cover his lore, like referrenced on his box

Thanks for posting those! Wow, the field guide lists way more historical figures that Mindbender used to create him! That's pretty interesting to see.

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Originally Posted by DarkLordMordred

Rasputin's inclusion was always interesting, to me, because he was not a military leader. He wasn't military, at all. He was just an insane, religious fanatic and that seems like the type of personality you WOULDN'T want in your Emperor. There's also a few that aren't based on any actual person from history, like Xanuth Amon-Toth, Ulrik the Batterer, and King Takshaka. Further, there are several military leaders listed whose remains have been lost to time in our reality, such as Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, Hannibal, Erik the Red, Montezuma, and Phillip II. It would be interesting to see which military leaders Cobra would choose to incorporate into Serpentor if they had to create him in our reality... in which the location of the above mentioned historical figures' remains were unknown?

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Originally Posted by GoodGuy9

Mindbender still needs to be in the top ten, though I'm not sure who to bump down one.

Mindbender needs a few 10s to get his score up on the rankings. Maybe he'll see some more votes come in now that Europe is getting their shipments in of him.

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Originally Posted by DarthBrett

So apparently this site only allows 30000 characters max for a single post, so the list will have to be split into two separate posts in order to avoid that limit. I may create a new thread so I can post 4 or 5 replies in succession really quick so I have placeholders for the future when the list grows to over 100+ (each post can only handle roughly 65 figures with the 30000 character limit in place).

So if you see a new ratings results thread pop up, now you know why! lol

Outback joins the list!

[DarthBrett]

Lots of movement today

- TF Outback getting votes and dropping from #13 down to #15 and allowing Mindbender and the Alley Viper to overtake him

- Classic Outback catapulted to #8

- Mad Marauders Barbecue also dropped from #46 and down to #50 now after getting a few more votes in

[DarthBrett]

Mad Marauders Barbecue drops even lower to #53 now

[captain mal]

I love lists. Hard to argue with this. Thanks for putting in so much effort doing these polls. Definitely interesting. I find it a huge testament to the line - seeing how far down you have to go to begin to get figures that are less than 8's.

[DarthBrett]

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Originally Posted by captain mal

I love lists. Hard to argue with this. Thanks for putting in so much effort doing these polls. Definitely interesting. I find it a huge testament to the line - seeing how far down you have to go to begin to get figures that are less than 8's.

Me too! You're welcome, it's a lot of fun doing these. I get a kick out of seeing how everyone reacts and responds to the figures and to come on here and sort of go over the figure's strengths and weaknesses. I love to see every single figure released in the line all stacked up against each other. It really does show how strong the line is, like you said!


BTW, Marauders Barbecue dropped again to #55 lol

[DarthBrett]

Outback's spot in the Top 10 was short-lived, he dropped down to #11 now.

[DarthBrett]

Falcon added to the overall rankings

[DarthBrett]

Poor Falcon has dropped down to the bottom 5 of Classified now. I don't think he is as bad as what a lot of the votes are saying, but I kind of figured he would get lots of low scores with the voting.