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Wasss once a man
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I took the customs to be Hasbro's answer to fans' fears that the new figures wouldn't have the same customizing possibilities as the old line (it came up in those Q&As they did). So these are saying "Look, you CAN customize them, look who you can make!" -- hopefully this won't be their way of excusing themselves from properly making some characters. I guess these customs show us what's possible if they do decide to produce Slaughter, Pythona, etc, but they'd still be WAY off as there's a huge difference between making a 1-off custom at 4" scale and creating a figure for production.
I'm pretty much unmoved either way from my existing feelings by the new pics. Some of them look really nice as representations of the characters (Beach Head in particular) but I have a few issues -- Lady Jaye apparently still doesn't get a removable cap, Serpentor's torso looks rather weird/bland considering the detail elsewhere, and the lack of cobra "hood" looks wrong considering the rest is pretty much a v1 update. I think the promised "army builder" pack with the VvV color-scheme CC & SS is stupid of them and what the hell's with that "Air Trooper" - gas-mask trooper with a JUMP repaint? They're already making up stuff to reuse parts instead of what they promised which was meant to be delving into the 25-year history... And on a semi-related note, I see the single-card Trooper is indeed a Viper Pilot -- I'd rather army-build the red logo...
Interesting that they used the Satan artwork and called it a Red Ninja. They also appear to have done a new head for him with the pointy "ears" on his mask making him more comic-accurate. In that vein, making his arms all-red too would have been nice.
Meh. The Marvel Legends previews have me more interested than the Joes, and even those are looking a bit dodgy in places (cutting back on articulation horribly). The JoeCon set seems to be the upcoming toys I'm most excited about at the moment!
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