Definitely looks great, but my issue is probably about making sure I can match the blue. That may be another reason I would go black. 

@leor I've been chased by some mean old dogs, but let me hold onto the one slice of optimism I have left in this world: all dogs go to heaven. Everything else can rot. 

(I have two cats. I love my cats. Cats are in the very least devil-adjacent.)

@docsilence i also love cats and would still have one if not for prejudices and allergies in my house. That said, cats do not go to hell because they have no souls.

yeah the blue hooded head doesn't do much for me, I need that v6 goodness, very nostalgic to me and just looks neat.  I like two looks for CC:  Blue with helmet, black with hood.  I'll buy other versions, don't get me wrong, lol.

@vicious7171 I like that logic.

I probably wouldn't get the battle armor one because he'll always be Fred to me.

@ru1977 Correction: cats don't go to hell because the devil himself is afraid of them. 

(I adore my cats, but the kitten pooped on his own foot last night and ran through the entire house in a panic. I almost wanted to just abandon the whole house and start over elsewhere. He is a creature of the abyss, not of the heavens.) 

Right. When Lucifer was cast out to rule Hell, it was already occupied by cats.

@ru1977 Thus to bring it back to Joes, this is why we need Spearhead and Max, because Max is the deadliest member of the Joes team. The only thing scarier than a cat is a bobcat, aka a murderfloof.

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The only thing scarier than a cat is a bobcat, aka a murderfloof.

My wife had a Maine Coon that I swear was half bob-cat.  That was one ornery bastard.   She was the only one he liked and her arms were always scratched to hell.   I wouldn't get within 10 feet of him.   And I love cats - currently have three in the house now - much to the detriment of my action figure displays.

@panthercult Oh, I caught the kitten trying to eat my Cobra Ferret, and it takes a lot to break out a spray bottle, but chewing on an out of print Classified vehicle? Pspspsp became spritz spritz spritz.

@docsilence brilliant! Even Snake Eyes is intimidated by Max.

@panthercult the best cat I ever had was a Maine Coon. He'd get up every morning to push around all the neighborhood cats. I suspect he had a protection racket. I also, NO EXAGGERATION, saw him beat up a German Shepherd once. For humans, he was a massive teddy bear and loved riding in cars.

Wasn't there some sort of story going around that the problem with Hooded CC is with Lorenzo DiBonaventura?

Something about how he is the one who has been strident in the whole KKK analog with the hooded version of CC.  As such he made a stink about it and Hasbro just doesn't bother because it isn't worth the hassle with the person who basically controls their property on the media side right now?

Because Hasbro hasn't been afraid to do the Red Skull (Nazi), Daimon Hellstrom w/Pentagram (Hell/Devil) and other Nazi/racists with hoods (Zemo, Zola, etc).   So if Marvel isn't kicking up a fuss, and Hasbro has had a new CEO since Classified started.   And Lenny doesn't seem like he would be above doing a hooded CC, where does the reticence come from?

Anyway, hopefully one day they do an official version.

@canprime They did seem to hesitate with hell/devil themed figures for a long time (that whole "we're only doing Mephisto through crowdfunding fiasco) but we just got Daimon (really great figure, too) so I wonder if there's been a shift in their internal culture. I thought they were never going to do a bare-chested Helstrom. Whom I have misplaced in my office, so it's going to be pretty funny when my partner just stumbles across a shirtless guy with a chest pentagram behind a cabinet some time soon.)

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We could just boil down the whole discussion to this...are kids even playing with toys any more?  Are kids playing with $25 G I Joes in 2025?  Like it seems very rare that any kid would be playing with Classified other than kids of collectors.  

Good point, kids dont play with $25 dollar classifieds, its mostly older collectors. kids are too busy on tic tok or playing with Skibidi toilet LOL

I've got a gaggle of nephews. They have toys, but nothing like what we collect in these threads - they have those lower articulation, endcap at Target figures, or Legos. I'd bet there's like four people under 25 in the entire country collecting Classified and most of us are more worried about retirement age than school. 

One nephew DID fall in love with the most recent He-Man variation and his dad and I went to town buying him ALL THE THINGS though. We were so happy one of the kids liked action figures! But the show got canceled, and when my brother showed him the old cartoons the kid could (understandably) not stop laughing at "they're all in their underwear!" 

Honestly, though, I bet the toy soldier bit of Joes would be marketable with the right combination of merch and a streaming show. These kids do buy Fortnite figures. And perhaps the most upsetting thing I've ever seen: Mr. Beast action figures. I almost flipped a foosball table when I saw one of those at Xmas.