What Modern Takes Do You Want To See?

MMorelock66

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I've seen plenty of cool figures that I would love to see brought into the modern light.

Some off the top of my head

Cross hairs ( I really liked the character, plus in the Modern Era Low light can't do everything).

A realistic Beachhead. Hell, use the Concept Case version we saw without the turquoise coloring.

Hit and Run would be a nice choice, along with a better Shock wave.

The 2000(ish) Green and Brown camouflaged Firefly. That figure would be so bad ass using the recent 3 pack buck.


What about you guys?
 

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Hit and Run was already done, but Shockwave could be AWESOME with the way they do their SWAT stuff, especially the shock trooper.

A modern Muskrat (cause it's my fave dammit!)

Keelhaul would make a nice addition to those with Flaggs. (plus it would give us hours of enjoyment watching HT'rs speculate on a Flagg return.
 

MMorelock66

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Hit and Run was already done, but Shockwave could be AWESOME with the way they do their SWAT stuff, especially the shock trooper.

A modern Muskrat (cause it's my fave dammit!)

Keelhaul would make a nice addition to those with Flaggs. (plus it would give us hours of enjoyment watching HT'rs speculate on a Flagg return.

I know he's already been done in that 25th pack, yet I want that concept case!


Shocky was also done in a Reso comic pack, but that figure sucked all kinds of ass
 

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Tracker...I know hideous colors and an orange inflatable boat, and ridiculous Dennis Rodman inspired shoes.

He was one of my last, favorite Joes before I exited out of purchasing the Space and Aliens stuff.
 

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I wanna see this version of Roadblock

http://www.yojoe.com/action/92/roadblock4.shtml

but NOT with the movie head




 

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There are a lot of the 25th figures that I'd like to see totally redone in the more-detailed 30th style, but a lot of them were pretty decent, to be honest. We've gotten newer versions of guys like Duke, Flint, Beachhead, and Destro, and we'll no doubt keep getting more modern updates and redos, but there are some who either still need to be made, or need to be remade entirely because of how awful the first versions were.

For me, they've pretty much gotten passable "ARAH" modern versions of most of the Sunbow guys I want to see with the exception of:

Cross Country
Frostbite
Tollbooth

Keel-Haul (Not technically in Sunbow, but we need the USS Flagg's "driver" since it was a staple of the cartoon)
Law & Order
Big Lob
Ace (I know it's dumb, but I want one in that puffy Michelin-looking suit)

And these guys were bad Frankenjoes that sucked:
Iceberg (Club's sucks so far, but there's likely not a chance to see him any better at retail)
Thunder (ROC was tolerable)
Slipstream
Crankcase (25th one's Frankenjoe sucked)
Cutter (Same)
Monkeywrench

And while these were decent when they first came out in their 5-packs, they all need to be redone badly due to their importance in the line, in the same way that the 5-pack Trooper, SE, Baroness, Storm Shadow, and CC have been totally redone:
Duke
Scarlett
Roadblock
Gung Ho
Destro


Plus Leatherneck, Falcon, and General Hawk. Their 25th figures are so dated now, and to me, they seem like pretty prominent characters (or their figures weren't done well to begin with). God, do we need a good Leatherneck and Gung-Ho in proper Marine gear. Hopefully with similar uniforms, just with different load-outs. And there are some other late-80's and early 90's guys whose outfits or specialties weren't too ridiculous that I'd prefer to see too, like Repeater, Muskrat, Spearhead, etc, but I expect to see the Club do them. Guys like Recoil, Freefall, Colonel Courage, Heavy Duty, Arctic Stalker were pretty cool designs with a color edit or two, and maybe some updated gear.

As far as other figures, I'd love to see modern takes on old, silly characters like these guys:
Tripwire (modern EOD suit... The ARAH one sucks big time, just like the 25th redo)
Bazooka (maybe based off that ARAH "fisherman" design?)
Blowtorch
Mainframe
Tele-Viper
S.A.W.-Viper

...And any of the ARAH drivers and sub-teams like Battle Force 2000 who were kind of stupid. It'd be cool to get those as updated designs since I'm not tied to their vintage looks so much, but it's always cool to expand the modern Joe roster with old school characters.

Plus, new guys! There are some of the newer characters that weren't that bad, like Nightfox and White-Out, even though they were mostly FrankenJoes. Mouse isn't half bad, except for the blue and that stupid codename. New Cobra characters like Night Adder, Para-Viper, Bazooka Trooper, Shadow Tracker, Data-Viper, Zombie-Viper, Storm Rider, Shock Trooper are all decent-to-awesome additions. More like that, versus half-ass rehashes like Iron Grenadiers.
 
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Mandingo Rex

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I wanna see this version of Roadblock
http://www.yojoe.com/action/92/roadblock4.shtml

but NOT with the movie head

We need a good ARAH Roadblock to begin with. Resolute is probably the best so far, but the head is a tad Wolfman to me. I'd love to see them reuse most of the "Ultimate" Roadblock, but with the skin-tone black and with a really mean-looking ARAH-style head. The 25th one was simply awful. And while I don't care about getting one for myself, they REALLY need to make a Roadblock for Renegades fans. I still can't believe they were so lazy to not make him, and he was a main character.
 

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Also, they either need to make a Kamakura that doesn't suck, or stop fucking making him because all of his variations so far are obviously just SE/SS kitbashes, and he has ZERO character. At least give him a new head or webgear that makes him unique. Instead, he's just some repaint.

I'd kind of like to see a Commando version of Storm Shadow to be honest. And a President Zartan!
 

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President Zartan. That would be awesome. They could give him an alternate head with the likeness of any real president. Like that new Batman anime did with former President Reagan. Made him look the part, talked the part, but never called him by name.

Law and Order is one I want a ARAH version of badly. Bikini Baroness too but that will never happen. Can't even get many females clothed in the line.

Maybe a modern version of Scoop too with all the modern video gear.
 

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Oh, and Rex. Along the lines of the civilian figures we were talking about in another thread. Public service announcement sets would be awesome exclusives IMO. Could use a main character and put him with 4 kids, heck, slap a PSA dvd in it to boot.
 

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Oh, and Rex. Along the lines of the civilian figures we were talking about in another thread. Public service announcement sets would be awesome exclusives IMO. Could use a main character and put him with 4 kids, heck, slap a PSA dvd in it to boot.

Package them with a white van