Totally. Road Pig looks great! It takes body weight to move weight. In the open classes for Strongman and powerlifting, you see guys packing a lot of weight on their frames—both muscle and fat. I was way stronger at 20% body fat than I am now at 12%. Not fat, just thick and strong.I don’t quite get the griping over Road Pig. Yeah, he has a little different body type than the original, but also every figure in the line was roughly the same size. Classified lets the team play around with different heights and builds to add more character to the figures.
It’s not like he even has a big gut hanging over his belt. He just looks like a power lifter. He’s much more interesting looking than if he was just a new head and parts on the Gung Ho body. He’s one I probably wouldn’t have gotten otherwise.
Although now they can’t use the exact same parts for an eventual Guile and Blanka in the Street Fighter Classified line that I’m willing into existence.
Back to Road Pig. He definitely seems like the kind of character who would care more about strength than conditioning and having a healthy diet!
Got two Night-Creepers from Amazon. Such a cool figure! The original was one of my favorites back in the day, and this update came out really nice. I love all the gear the figure has—allows you to kit him out with at least two distinct looks. It is so cool that Night-Creeper also comes with his v2 Ninja Force helmet as an alternate head sculpt! I think the v2 helmet looks better in the v1 colors.
...but thankfully I'm not champing at the bit.
Friend this makes me very happy. One of the few times I've seen the correct word used here. I dunno why it is a pet peeve of mine but we all have them I guess.
Daniel Tosh brings this up every couple of months on his YouTube show. (If you're a fan of his humor, give it a watch.)
@red_ogre that is a blast from the past that I haven't thought of in a long time. I didn't realize he had a YouTube show now.
@justice It's surprisingly fascinating. The list of guests he's had is absolutely gonzo. Only a couple of people that could be considered celebrities, and then just a bunch of interesting people with professions that you don't think about.
His wife's gynecologist.
A professional creator of fictional languages.
A casino pit boss.
Blake Leeper (His favorite legless athlete.)
The doctor that does his hair plugs.
I love the show. I've watched every episode since the first one.
It's technically a podcast that he films, but I don't listen to podcasts, so I'm happy staying on YouTube lol.
Picked up Gnawgahyde at Target this morning. Like the previous ‘Noks, I’ll be waiting to open him til I get Road Pig.
Just shipped my PoL with Torch, Jinx, and Gnawgahyde (though I did see a bunch of the latter at Target yesterday morning).
I didn't mind Tosh.0. But his stand up left alot to be desired.
Deep Six is starting to become one of the bigger names we’re still missing and outside of Golobulus, presents maybe the most unique figure of the original line.
How are you guys envisioning him in Classified? A full figure that fits inside an armored suit? A human head in a fully articulated robotic body? A human head on a robot suit with only swivel shoulders?
@boy_wonder Maybe a deluxe 2 pack, with a base figure, an articulated armored suit & swappable heads to name it look empty, or in use?
I think they could get some mileage out of an articulated “mech-suit” body to use variously for Deep-Six and the S.N.AK.E. armor and also Star Brigade Armor Tech guys like the B.A.A.T. and Robo-J.O.E.
The kind of people that say the only time Snake Eyes was good was v1 before he was considered a ninja.
Hey, now. I'm one of those people.
I grew up with Joes as sincere military figures and had aged out by the time we got to the more outlandish stuff. It was a time when the strangest thing in the Joe arsenal was a guy carrying a laser and maybe the jet pack.
My point is, there ARE people who prefer G.I.Joe how it was when they were kids regardless of how it evolved after. And they're no more wrong than somebody who doesn't think the line's complete without a tax consultant with a bird fetish.
And yeah, Snake Eyes was cooler (to me) when he was a mysterious commando than he was as a ninja with a dog, and my shelf reflects that.
Let's not talk around each other. I would say there's a vast gulf between what you're saying "Some people prefer certain eras of G.I. Joe" and what I brought up people saying: that Joe became 'awful' and the later stuff 'ruined the brand.' An -example- of that is typically begun with the 'Snake Eyes was only good before he was a ninja.' But that's not a statement that encompasses the entirety of what I'm talking about. It's about the prevailing attitude among a certain segment of fans that G.I. Joe is -bad- after their preferred date. Snake Eyes being kind of a lynchpin for them because they see his turn into a more ninja character as the beginning of an -overall- decline rather than it being specifically about SE.
I'll note that you said Snake Eyes was -cooler- as a mysterious commando. What you didn't say was 'Snake Eyes sucked after v1.' Very different attitudes. And while I may be wrong, I've also never seen, as far as I can remember, you claiming that later eras of G.I. Joe 'ruined' the brand or that nothing worthwhile came from them. You just have a preference. That's cool. No shade here.
Hooooooooowwwwever... What I do take issue with is anyone saying Joe was ever not strange. '82, right there at the beginning, had a female soldier with a crossbow wearing a fucking gymnast's leotard. And the main bad guy is wearing Luke's blast-shield helmet painted blue. Both of those things are, if I may be so bold, objectively silly.
Destro is ridiculous. Gung-Ho looked hilarious. They named a character Snow Job - all in '83. And a year after that we got fucking Zartan. Zartan. Possibly the best most ridiculous character in G.I. Joe to date. And this was all by 1984 -- what most people still consider the good ol' days of Joe.
Not to say don't like those things. Not at all. Just like.. recognize that it's not really about Joe being fantasy and ridiculous and silly.. it's about which version of the fantasy silly ridiculousness you prefer. I just absolutely hate when the statement of 'I like this better' is used to recast the very nature of the thing someone likes. Like saying 'I always liked space ships and to me that's what Star Wars is about -- none of those silly laser swords that came later.'
The Dreadknoks, much beloved, are insanely ridiculous as a concept and as figure designs, and they were a complete faction, unless I'm remembering wrong, before we ever got Hit N Run or Repeater. I have a hard time even believing people when they say they have a preference for an era of G.I. Joe. I think what they usually mean is they have a preference for a -style- of Joe. Those ninja-haters don't seem to have a problem, after all, with General Flagg or V4 Duke - that are part of a 'post-Ninja' era.
Anyway.. like I said - let's not talk around each other. I agree that people can like the parts of Joe they like. Obviously. But people can do that without pretending that the thing they like didn't always have elements of what they don't like.
The great thing about GI Joe is that there is enough character representation for both the "realistic" and the "sci fi/fantasy" fans. If you really dislike one or the other, you can ignore those figures and you will still have plenty, PLENTY of characters to choose from to fill a shelf. That was true for the vintage line and it is now also true for Classified. I'm glad this line has gone deep enough for this to be the case.
Yeah, absolutely! You just can't (shouldn't) pretend the sci-fi stuff or the silly stuff simply didn't exist and was added at some time 'after' you became a fan of the brand. That's what gets me. People saying G.I. Joe started adding goofy fantasy in later years and they don't like anything after '86, when fucking Serpentor came out in '86. Like..come on. Just say you don't like the fantasy stuff and you collect the more grounded 'military' stuff. That's totally fine. But don't go 'oh, Joe was ruined in '88 because of the goofy stuff' like the Dreadnoks weren't goofy as all shit nearly the entire time before that.
Got shipping notice for Doc! Psyched to have him joining the crew on the shelf. And got Night Creeper yesterday. I completely forgot he was shipping with two helmets/masks, and now I kinda want two so I can display both looks at the same time. Tempted to pick one up since he's in stock in a few places, but maybe I should wait for a price drop.
Great question about Deep Six. I could see them making a really great armored version, maybe even making it a vehicle pack with the SHARC since that falls under the size of vehicles they've been making (and I think other than the Target trouble bubble the vehicles seem to have been selling pretty well, right? Both jeeps sold out on Pulse). I'm gonna say something sacrilegious though: I'd buy an homage to his V2 look. I liked that one more as a kid because of the articulation so I've got a soft spot for him. (Though of course the technology has changed so much a fully armored suit would have tons of articulation now.)
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