Its time for the next Joe!

[teemu]

Did they actually mention Alpine by name? If so, boo ya.

I am not sure if it was Sideshow or the interviewer that mentioned him by name,but it sounded like a name thrown out there to use as an example for 'unique'

 

[snakeeyes171]

80s shipwreck all the way the exclusive can be a blue sweater and tabogan for switch out

 

[Kibagami]

80s shipwreck all the way the exclusive can be a blue sweater and tabogan for switch out

80s shipwreck with, Polly, sleeve tattoos and pea-coat tailored by Kato; sold. Go 619.

 

[Khev]

80s shipwreck all the way the exclusive can be a blue sweater and tabogan for switch out

I'm sure they include his Devil's Due duds (emphasis on "duds") and an alt headsculpt with beanie as a way of keeping the price point above $135.

 

[thenammagazine]

I'm sure they include his Devil's Due duds (emphasis on "duds") and an alt headsculpt with beanie as a way of keeping the price point above $135.

Don't forget about the $64.99 fully articulated Polly parrot with "feed me" expression swapout head they'll include to price match SE.

 

[Khev]

Ah crap, I forgot about the articulated bird.

Oh well, better that than packaging it with a separate $200 polystone palm tree and pirate's chest (with Cobra insignia on the side.)

 

[thenammagazine]

Ah crap, I forgot about the articulated bird.

Oh well, better that than packaging it with a separate $200 polystone palm tree and pirate's chest (with Cobra insignia on the side.)

Disagree. If they went the latter, we could pick up a 1/6 parrot and save half the price for their next Joe release.

 

[MrLawless1]

They could do an oversized Polly, like the "classic" episode where Polly ate some chemical and grew larger and larger...



... <groan>

 

[thenammagazine]

They could do an oversized Polly, like the "classic" episode where Polly ate some chemical and grew larger and larger...



... <groan>

Don't give them any ideas!

 

[Niltusk]

Don't forget about the $64.99 fully articulated Polly parrot with "feed me" expression swapout head they'll include to price match SE.

 

[EVILFACE]

As long as Supersized Polly comes with Boy George Timber.

 

[MrLawless1]

I kinda thought Polly was a cartoon invention, meant to reach out to the younger kids and provide comic relief.

Polly=Orko=Snarf=Teebo (or Teebot or whatever the Hell that little motorcycle robot thing was)

I am surprised that Polly was issued with Shipwreck's first 3 3/4" figure (I never owned him... I'm a Shipwreck hater). So, did the cartoon version influence the figure? Or vice versa?

Which came first, the parrot or the comedic concept?

 

[MrLawless1]

As long as Supersized Polly comes with Boy George Timber.

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[MrLawless1]

Oh, a better Shipwreck exclusive? Adoption papers.... Because he was an orphan. (can't recall the episode...)

 

[thenammagazine]

Oh, a better Shipwreck exclusive? Adoption papers.... Because he was an orphan. (can't recall the episode...)

That was actually one of the funner episodes of Joe. Wasn't it Shipwreck's version of Cinderella?

 

[MrLawless1]

Maybe there were two... I was thinking of the one where Shipwreck was a friend of a kid named Jesse and took him fishing, because the kid was an orphan and 'Wreck had been an orphan too.

(Not even gonna touch that one in regards to a SSC exclusive...)

 

[BuddyGus]

It was the episode where cobra kidnapped the joe's family members.

 

[Jester]

You grow up with these? Or were you born 80's forward?

A little of both, actually. I came into this world in 1985, but my first action figures I can remember were a straight-arm Flash and Cobra Officer (I still have the former but the latter was stolen from me at the age of 5 by a middle-aged woman; it is, as you might guess, a long story), and most of the G.I. Joes I had growing up were 1984 to 1987 releases, thanks to my maternal grandmother and her love of garage sales.

To sum up, I'm far more attached to the state of the line/universe prior to 1987 than anything that came after it, but I make exception for certain elements, notably Shipwreck's role in the cartoon and V1 Ace's Michelin Man flying suit with its awkward-looking helmet and deep-sea diver's weighted boots.

Check the dates on the rest of those releases. With the exception of the wetsuit wearing versions released for the Battle Corps line (which by that time RAH had jumped the shark anyway), most were outside of vintage RAH and well into the Ding Dong Poopy era.

Not quite sure where you're going with this. Are you trying to say that Shipwreck v2 isn't from the parts-tree-and-missile-launcher era of RAH, or are you attempting to claim that Battle Corps had a dearth of "vintage" characters, like, oh, I don't know, Duke, Keel-Haul, Frostbite, Firefly, Ace, Mutt and Junkyard, Cutter, Iceberg, Bazooka, Gung-Ho, Roadblock, Flint, Stalker, Cobra Commander, Wild Bill, Beachhead, Dial-Tone, Life-Line, Viper, Major Bludd?

Either way, you're just coming off as incoherent.

Wrong. With the exception of Firefly, most have been quite faithful to their Hasbro representations. But I guess if you'd been collecting them all since the beginning, you'd know this.

Sorry, but Firefly's as faithful as any of the others were or have been, which is more-or-less. Perhaps if you had been collecting them from the beginning you would have noticed that the line was essentially kicked off by tributes to the art of Tim Bradstreet.

Start at your first post in this thread and read the replies to it.

Don't be unprofessional.

Age exposed. Looking at the cartoon from a "now" perspective , of course. But as a child watching the cartoon (when it was new), I highly doubt you'd have the same POV.

I first saw the cartoon at the age of 5, so, no, I'm afraid not. It did sell me on the idea of Snake Eyes and Scarlett as a love for the ages though, oddly enough. The scene in the M.A.S.S. Device mini-series where they press hands on either sides of the glass wall that Snake Eyes dropped to prevent the other Joes from being exposed to the radioactive dust, or whatever that stuff was, is one of the few "mushy" scenes I can remember actually shedding tears while watching as a child.

G.I. JOE: #40, 41, 46, 47, 49-52, 61, 63, 64, 67, 74, 75, 83
G.I. JOE Special Missions: #1, 27, 28
G.I. JOE Yearbook: #2, 4

You were saying?

I was saying "appearances of consequence", as in "actually did something other than show up in the background".

Again, Battle Corps was jumping the shark. So you'll have to come up with something better for that argument. Many had bailed on the line by then as the fluorescent figures and vehicles had already started showing up.

Again, why should the fact that Shipwreck only showed up again after an absence of many years at the tail-end of the line when Hasbro was also dusting off many other previously mothballed characters suggest that he was as significant as you seem to be trying to make him out to be? Fluorescence is entirely irrelevant to this question.

Pick whichever you want. Either way, it's not Ace.

Yeah, I bet you said that back in 1992 just before they released him with the HGU-55/P too.

Maybe you need thicker glasses. Clearly that character is Beachhead.

But not a Beachhead "quite faithful to the Hasbro representation", unless you mean the 25th Anniversary figure (and even then...). His gun is different from the 1986 original, his vest is different, his mask is different, his sweater is different, his gloves are different, his crossbow is different, his backpack is different, his camouflage trousers are different, his holster is on the wrong leg, he's short one knife and missing his satchel, etc, etc. It's obviously Beachhead, much as the chap in the grey/white Wehrmacht splinter-pattern camo is obviously Firefly, but it's also obvious that a large number of creative liberties were taken. I just don't see how they'd be able to do the same with Shipwreck while maintaining the "Anchors Aweigh" look, nor do I think that they would in the first place anyway, given past precedent.

Then yours is flawed. The helmets, the key focal point, aren't even alike.

Sure they are. They're black, they've got gold visors, they've got oxygen masks. Honestly, it's far less of stylistic jump from Ace v3 to H.A.W.X. than to Ace v1 to Ace v3.

But as Khev already mentioned, you should be petitioning Sideshow for some 1/6 Street Fighter figs to flank him.

Street Fighter?

 

[thenammagazine]

All those answers tell me you should probably head back to Hisstank.com. You'd be happier there.

 

[Jester]

All those answers tell me you should probably head back to Hisstank.com. You'd be happier there.

Not likely.

I do have a couple of corrections to make to my previous post though. The first is that Battle Copter/Battle Corps Ace's helmet, so far as I can tell, is probably an HGU-26/P, not an HGU-55/P as I had mistakenly stated. The second is that the F-35 HMDS is already a part of Ace's "wardrobe", so really, there's no reason not to reproduce it in 1/6th scale for an Ace figure.