By KansasBrawler When Hasbro created the Crimson Shadow Guard set during the end of the Valor Vs. Venom era, I was pretty unimpressed. It was just six Crimson Guards decked out in black and carrying ninja weapons for reasons that were never adequately explained in the filecard. I wasn’t really clamoring to see this concept revisited (though I did eventually
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By KansasBrawler By the end of the relaunch era, I was a bit tired of the vintage Firefly figure. I’d never had it as a kid, but I had at least three versions of it by the time that era of the Joe line had ended. It’s not a bad mold, but it had gotten awfully overexposed by the end
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By KansasBrawler Last year’s 50th Anniversary assortment was a bit of a high wire act. There were quite a few good figures, but there were also quite a few more head-scratchers than the previous year. I really wanted to like Hit & Run, but there are some strange choices that make me unsure what to think of him. I like
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By KansasBrawler Sometimes the Joe line surprises you. I’m honestly a bit tired of seeing repainted Snow Cats. I’ve never really liked that vehicle, yet I have three of them now. The Wolfhound was a clearance impulse buy (seriously, I think I got it for five bucks somewhere during a post-Christmas inventory sell down), the HAVOC was a brilliant cross-sell
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By KansasBrawler I’ve talked before about how much I love the modern versions of Storm Shadow based on the 1988 Storm Shadow. That was my Storm Shadow so any time I see something that references that figure, I have to pick it up. In the 50th Anniversary line, the Classic Clash two-pack gave us a Storm Shadow based on that
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So…um, it’s basically the last Crimson Guard figure cast in black. Any questions?
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Well, it was worth the wait. Modern Joe collectors have been waiting (patiently?) for an upgraded Gung Ho for quite a few years. When the concept case version surfaced at JoeCon few years back, many were wondering just how and when Hasbro would get the figure to us. During last year’s 50th Anniversary Toys R Us line, we saw other
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By KansasBrawler I never knew about the Cobra WOLF growing up, but the first time I saw it, I was really impressed. I found Justin Bell’s diostories on the Internet when I was in high school but I never read them until I was in college. I grew up with a relatively slow dial-up connection and the phone line at
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By KansasBrawler Baroness has always been a big part of the Joe mythos. She was the first named Cobra agent we were introduced to in Issue #1 of the comic and she played a big role in the cartoon. All that exposure has given Baroness a pretty big fan following, so it’s also no surprise that each time the Joe
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So we’re up to what, four versions of the retooled Skystriker since its release a few years ago? I’m certainly not complaining, as I love the vehicle, even though it’s outdated in terms of modern US air power. The toy just conjures so many memories from 1983, playing with my original in the field next to my parent’s house. Two
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