It is only appropriate and ironic that the G.I. Joe team member named Jinx has had bad luck in the action figure realm. Not only was Jinx chosen to be two different highly expensive SDCC exclusive figures, but her one contemporary figure that was suppose to be available for retail is also expensive, difficult to find on shelves, and to top it off, a bad action figure.
Hasbro blatantly does not care if their products are of high quality. A lot of recent cinematic figure lines are a testament to that fact. Jinx's Retaliation figure is just another victim of Hasbro's corner cutting and down right cheating in order to get an overpriced product released without the expensive of doing good work. I honestly don't understand why G.I. Joe fans put so much value on this figure. She goes for almost $20 on Ebay everyday and yet she is blatantly not worth it. The quality of the figure is that of a $5 figure, and the community is over rating her.
Let's talk about why it's a bad figure. The first and most glaring issue is the paint work. There was minimal effort put into making sure this figure had a clean paint job. There are blotches of black paint in the yellow areas of her suit, and the black stripes have blotches of yellow paint in them.
The areas on her arms where the black stripes meet the yellow portions are not clean. Instead the two paint fields bleed into each other.
Her headband is inexplicably painted yellow on the sides, but black on her forehead, which doesn't make since because the detail there shows that the head band is all one piece and looks jarring. All of this culminates into one of the messiest looking G.I. Joe figures I've ever bought.
Her legs aren't much better about the paint.
I've seen custom figures made by amateurs with cleaner paint work. Unfortunately, the problems don't end at the deplorable paint apps. The next problem with the figure is plastic quality. Most of her body is made of a reasonably sturdy plastic, the kind that most G.I. Joe figures were made from before the Retaliation line introduced figures with a poor, soft, rubbery plastic. Jinx's lower legs and feet are made from a rough feeling plastic that is easily bent and rubbery. It's jarring to feel the pleasant plastic that the head, arms, torso, and upper legs are made of and then suddenly feel the crummy feeling plastic that her lower legs are made of when you try to make her do a ninja pose.
The last major problem of the figure is the fact that her right hand can barely hold the weapons she comes with. She is very frustrating to pose because the ninja weapons fall out of her hand all the time. It's very annoying! She comes with a bunch of different martial arts weapons and they won't stay in her grip. It reminds me of how "ultimate" Duke came with an arsenal of assault rifles but he wasn't pose-able enough to get into a proper firing position, thus defeating the purpose.
She also comes with this folding box that opens up and the weapons can be stored in it. The POC Recondo axes do not fit inside it very well. The instructions mention that a sting unfolds from it so she can zip-line down it. I assume this is so kids could reenact the film. There is a pathetic amount of string. No child could do anything with this. A child would be better off taking the shoe lases out of an old pair of worn out shoes, and then putting a paper clip on it.
This figure is yet another epitome of Hasbro's grievous attempts to cut production costs while trying to rip off their customers. The figure looks messy, the lower legs feel bad, and she can't hold her weapons. She is an ugly inaction figure. Figures like this really make me miss the good old days of ROC, POC, and the 30th lines. We use to not pay more than $7 or $8 for a G.I. Joe. Now Hasbro tries to sell figures at $10 each and the quality of their products have dropped as dramatically as the prices have risen. I can't recommend this figure to anyone. If you really want a contemporary figure of this character, it would probably be a better investment to just pay for one of the SDCC exclusive ones. It would be a waste of time to get this figure.
Hasbro blatantly does not care if their products are of high quality. A lot of recent cinematic figure lines are a testament to that fact. Jinx's Retaliation figure is just another victim of Hasbro's corner cutting and down right cheating in order to get an overpriced product released without the expensive of doing good work. I honestly don't understand why G.I. Joe fans put so much value on this figure. She goes for almost $20 on Ebay everyday and yet she is blatantly not worth it. The quality of the figure is that of a $5 figure, and the community is over rating her.
Let's talk about why it's a bad figure. The first and most glaring issue is the paint work. There was minimal effort put into making sure this figure had a clean paint job. There are blotches of black paint in the yellow areas of her suit, and the black stripes have blotches of yellow paint in them.
The areas on her arms where the black stripes meet the yellow portions are not clean. Instead the two paint fields bleed into each other.
Her headband is inexplicably painted yellow on the sides, but black on her forehead, which doesn't make since because the detail there shows that the head band is all one piece and looks jarring. All of this culminates into one of the messiest looking G.I. Joe figures I've ever bought.
Her legs aren't much better about the paint.
I've seen custom figures made by amateurs with cleaner paint work. Unfortunately, the problems don't end at the deplorable paint apps. The next problem with the figure is plastic quality. Most of her body is made of a reasonably sturdy plastic, the kind that most G.I. Joe figures were made from before the Retaliation line introduced figures with a poor, soft, rubbery plastic. Jinx's lower legs and feet are made from a rough feeling plastic that is easily bent and rubbery. It's jarring to feel the pleasant plastic that the head, arms, torso, and upper legs are made of and then suddenly feel the crummy feeling plastic that her lower legs are made of when you try to make her do a ninja pose.
The last major problem of the figure is the fact that her right hand can barely hold the weapons she comes with. She is very frustrating to pose because the ninja weapons fall out of her hand all the time. It's very annoying! She comes with a bunch of different martial arts weapons and they won't stay in her grip. It reminds me of how "ultimate" Duke came with an arsenal of assault rifles but he wasn't pose-able enough to get into a proper firing position, thus defeating the purpose.
She also comes with this folding box that opens up and the weapons can be stored in it. The POC Recondo axes do not fit inside it very well. The instructions mention that a sting unfolds from it so she can zip-line down it. I assume this is so kids could reenact the film. There is a pathetic amount of string. No child could do anything with this. A child would be better off taking the shoe lases out of an old pair of worn out shoes, and then putting a paper clip on it.
This figure is yet another epitome of Hasbro's grievous attempts to cut production costs while trying to rip off their customers. The figure looks messy, the lower legs feel bad, and she can't hold her weapons. She is an ugly inaction figure. Figures like this really make me miss the good old days of ROC, POC, and the 30th lines. We use to not pay more than $7 or $8 for a G.I. Joe. Now Hasbro tries to sell figures at $10 each and the quality of their products have dropped as dramatically as the prices have risen. I can't recommend this figure to anyone. If you really want a contemporary figure of this character, it would probably be a better investment to just pay for one of the SDCC exclusive ones. It would be a waste of time to get this figure.
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same goes for the NV's,cause I'm gonna start passing on them. I think Ive got my fill,and hooked up enough friends to counter the straight raw dogging Ive been involved in on eBay
