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Opinion time!
Here's what I think of everything I bought:
Deep-Six: Hug you, Hasbro, this is TORPEDO! Never owned the 25th Torpedo mold before. Love the colors they used, although I'm disappointed they didn't do the camo on the lower body, especially when the sculpted details were already there... I can't help but feel like to have TRULY been in the spirit of the movie, they should've gone with the Cobra Diver's fully-masked head. Oh, and even 26 years later... that harpoon gun of his still sucks. They should've given him an MP5.
Still, this was my first ROC purchase so if you don't own the Torpedo mold yet (or love it), pick it up!
Paris Pursuit Storm Shadow: An awesome figure, although the paint on the head, especially the hair, is disappointingly lacking, not even getting to the border of the sculpted details. Although I was initally unreceptive of Stormy's movie look, it's grown on me and I like the white jacket and pants. The dual scabbards, ninja swords and sais are great, although I'm a bit disappointed his gun is a weird ray gun instead of an actual handgun. I still fail to understand the purpose of that suction cup with motorcycle handlebars.... Disappointed he doesn't come with the giant shuriken launcher the masked and skirted Stormy has.
In spite of its flaws, though, it's thus far the best ROC figure I've bought.
Neo-Viper: Interesting design, although his chest armor's collar gets a bit too high. Both his rifles can peg into his backpack, although he has no intentionally-designed place to store his raygun pistol, which is the same one Storm Shadow has. Fortunately, since it's hollow, you can fit it in the backpack. Rifles are very sci-fi esque, and I'm not sure what they're intended to be... I love that they painted lines in the helmet's sculpted details though.
Cobra Viper Commando: Same base mold as the Neo-Viper, with a different head, armor and weaponry. I like the head and armor better here, the "snake scales" look works wonders. However, attaching the shoulderpads to the arms instead of the chest armor makes it look goofy when his arms aren't straight down to his side. Points down here, Hasbro. His backpack has a grappling hook that's oversized, and a winch system, so it can work nicely. There's also a place to store an icepick-style knife. His rifle is huge, and looks intended to be an assault rifle, but he can only hold it over his shoulder like it was a rocket launcher. Disappointing. He also has a raygun pistol, smaller than Storm Shadow's and the Neo-Viper's, which can fit in a holster on his removable belt. I like this guy better than the Neo-Viper but honestly I don't get the army builder bug from either of them.
Steel Crusher: Big officially-licensed Humvee that can go from civilian to assault in a heartbeat. I kind of wish there was a way to hide the giant plow, but at least they made it removable. Gunner's hatch has a hole, possibly for a machine gun or launcher but thus far nothing wants to clip. Love the transformation aspect, though, it's like MASK minus all the suck of MASK. Tiny missiles in the rear doors are very oldschool. Overall a great urban assault vehicle, perfect for sneaking in and unleashing the hardware.
Nitro-Viper: On this toy we see two of Hasbro's flaws: 1) picking a body+armor thinking no one will want to take off the armor, because the HISS Driver's armored chest is right under the Nitro-Viper's Motor-Viper armor, and 2) Not bothering to paint. This thing is incredibly barebones, it's disappointing. With his new head and armor this guy had the potential to be great, but sadly a poor body choice coupled with a complete lack of paint apps makes this one a downer.
Rockslide: Interesting snowmobile design, with the driver well-protected and in the warmth of a cockpit, unlike the Polar Battle Bear/JvC Rockslide. Very nicely armed with two machine guns, two torpedo launchers and two missiles, the latter which are sadly stuck to the torpedo launchers and can't be removed at all. The rear treads can readjust to the terrain, and the front skis can turn side to side in unison. I love this little toy and look forward to using it in winter dios... only downsides I can think of are the non-removable missiles, and the fact that the cockpit is so darkly tinted the driver can never be seen, which is disappointing from a dio standpoint.
Snow Job: Cool redeco of the original figure, although apparently we're going to get one single-carded with the rifle and ski gear, so there's some redundancy. I like the green straps and grey camo, although I question what good a revolver is in sub-zero environments. Since Snow Job is a sharpshooter, I was disappointed to see he didn't have a rifle (although I expected it). Fortunately I had a few of his original rifles leftover from the Joe 5-pack so I gave him one, even though I hate that rifle with a passion it is better than nothing.
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Last edited by Jay : 07-12-2009 at 10:39 AM.
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