My first inclination would be that it would basically put the club on life support, but if the whole credit card fiasco didn't do it, they might well be bulletproof.
Oktober Guard!?!
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Well, hopefully the biggest turds are out of the way. At least it's named characters to go, which is all I care about from this set.
He's a bit... Elvish? Looking? I never gave two half shits about the character, but I despise those Accelerator suits. Not a bad sculpt for the noggin, though.
Holy crap, you're right.
Now that you mention it, I can see what you're talking about him having slight elven features. Not sure why, but I always dig outlandish villains (except for Raptor,
). However, I bought Bad Sociologist's custom Voltar in IG colors last year (looks much better than that purple crap) and am satisfied with it. I hate the Accelerator suit as well. I don't know who they have sculpting the Subscription head sculpts and others like Voltar, but they are doing a really good job. My suspicion is 2dtoys...
Well, I think the OG heads are all more recent sculpts from ARAH molds (like late '90s, early 2000's comic packs or some shit?) that have been retooled. The same as Dr. Venom was a retool of some Street Fighter head. But they still work.
Yeah, the OG sculpts are retooled, except for the chick I think. If my memory serves me correctly, the Subscription figs like Topside, and Cover Girl had new head sculpts. I know 2dtoys sculpted the Dial-Tone, and Claymore/Footloose heads for the club. He's also the one that gave us "Perfect" Snake Eyes and sculpted the new heads for the BBTS 7 packs last year.
So when did the OG fight the IG? I'm not seeing where this all works in together. Maybe they could make a new figure for the set. The First Assault Grenadier.
UGH!!...I loath that ROC mold too...it was actually the thing I hated most about ROC...man they had to go and f*@# up a figure I used to like...I know I shouldnt, he's awful really, but I had him when I was a kid and LOVED any figure that came with a pet...
Speaking of, where's his vulture?
Also funny that they can Vultars gold to show up just fine, but that IG trash is "hard to photograph"...lol
Oddly enough, I bought that stupid Vulture from SDS! I liked the sculpt and just bought it. Now, if I can find where I put it, at least Voltar will have him?
The Gi Joe Special Missions Comic where the October Guard and IG mixed it up for those who don't know http://www.yojoe.com/comics/sm/sm26.shtml
Voltar is probably the best IG in this set so far. That's not saying much but I personally don't have a big issue against the use of that ROC tooling on him. It will probably be the closest thing to proper use that thing will ever get. That head sculpt is wicked. Too bad most of the set has already been fucked up.
Con brochure:
http://www.gijoecon.com/no2012/2012brochure.pdf
The other figures will be Horrow Show and "General Iron Bear".
For those not attending:
Homefront hero package will be $345. Base commander is $315. Not sure what the difference is yet...
EDIT: duh, the homefront heroes is the 3 3/4, and the base commander is the 12". Additional packages are $210.
http://www.gijoecon.com/no2012/2012brochure.pdf
The other figures will be Horrow Show and "General Iron Bear".
For those not attending:
Homefront hero package will be $345. Base commander is $315. Not sure what the difference is yet...
EDIT: duh, the homefront heroes is the 3 3/4, and the base commander is the 12". Additional packages are $210.
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Yeah, I would have preferred Dragonski or Gorky, but it's probably supposed to be Big Bear. I'll bet that name had legal issues or something.
I'm not going. Don't want to, either. So I'm assuming they'll show the other 2 missing OGs by Monday?
Which HTers do you want punched?
You want us to be specific?! Punch one, punch all... kick them all in the vagina.