Keep checking throughout the week as the entirety of Wave 10 reviews will be posted on YoJoe this week.

Starting today are COBRA Bazooka Trooper and Croc Master (v3). After this week, the onslaught of reviews should continue with Waves 11 & 12! Keep your eyes on the YoJoe Sit-Rep! for all of the latest.

Justin

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Both strong reviews. I like the logic you applied to the Bazooka trooper as a more specialized trooper a level below a specialty Viper. Also appreciate the Tom, Dick, and Harry joke links. I'm looking forward to your review of the Para-Trooper. It will be interesting to compare the "less is more" quality of the bazooka trooper to the "more is more" quality of the para-trooper.

I'm also a big Croc-Master fan and am thrilled whenever he is remembered. The GI Joe TCG, the New Sculpt figure, the 2.5" Sigma 6 design sheet.

He rightly gets clumped in with the "problems with 1987 Cobras" complaints, but there is something more practical and logical about Croc Master. I also liked how he was characterized in the comics, an alligator enthusiast who patrolled Cobra Island as a volunteer. He didn't get paid, he wasn't recruited, he just showed up one day and started doing perimeter security and no one stopped him.

I can't wait to get my hands on my own Croc Master. Repotrs are hitting Joe Canuck that he's being released on International cards up here, so I'm going to need to visit Toys R Us soon.

EDIT: Just noticed that Croc Master has a sculpted knife on his boot. Is that the first non-removable weapon in the 25th line?

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A little more concise than your usual reviews but still better than nothing. Your Bazooka Trooper's netted helmet looks like the paint was applied correctly to the sculpted netting. On the one I have now the paint mask missed BIG time. So much so that I'm not sure I could fix it with a little touching up myself.



Nope. Though nonremovable weapons are a lot more rare than in previous incarnations of Joes. Off the top of my head Tomax and Xamot have nonremovable pistols and knives on their legs, and Beachhead/Firefly has the nonremovable boot knife.

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I always enjoy these reviews. Love the comparison shots from classic to modern

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Duke (Tiger Force) and Mutt & Junkyard have been posted!

Justin

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great reviews all around again - is it because this is hosted on yojoe that you've done away with the 5-star rating?

Another vicitm of the "wide hips" will be Lift Ticket because he also shares the same sculpt but I don't find it half as bad as the slit wrists that they finally fixed on duke.

It's weird, but for the leaps and bounds hasbro has made with the 25A sculpting etc., it seems that they compromised some articulation in the process (elbows that can't bend properly, waists that can't turn 360 degrees using o-rings).

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Mutt's review I bet next your going to tell me Santa isn't real.

Keep in mind that the Cobra Bazooka Soldier is the exact shade of the original Helmetted Cobra Commander, so parts swapping hyjinks can ensue.

The only thing good about crocmaster is that handgun he comes with. It's the perfect handgun for Lady Jaye.

- R

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You forgot to mention Duke's fixed head: it's shrunken, just like the Tiger Force Flint head.

- JM

I liked Mutt, but now that I've read your review, all I see when I look at him is those big thighs!

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Just bumping this thread with an update of all of the reviews that have been posted over the past week:

Wave 10

COBRA Bazooka Trooper
Croc Master
Duke
Mutt & Junkyard
Para-Viper
Wraith (Variant)

Wave 11

COBRA Eel
Flint (COBRA Disguise)
Scarlett
Specialist Trakker

The last two figures from Wave 11, Sgt. Airborne and Zartan will be going up on Monday! Enjoy.

Justin

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You dirty man.



Honestly, I always love reading your reviews. I am still not a fan of the v1 EEL, your review makes me want to get one.

Now if the make a 25th EEL v2.

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The Wave 11 reviews have wrapped up!

Sgt. Airborne (v3)

Zartan (v14)

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There are some characters I have a hard time getting excited about no matter how well they are reviewed. Snow Job was one, Torpedo was another. Add Airborne to the list. It seems that Hasbro goes the extra mile to make characters I found luke warm at best more interesting. I wonder what impact this will have on the next generation of GI Joe fan? Will teens in 2018 look back on the characters I mentioned as what really made GI Joe cool?

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That is a great point, Scramble and one I share. Snow Job, Torpedo, and Airborne never did anything for me as a kid either, and I'm amazed that those three figures are among the best of the line. Are the new designers trying to right past wrongs perhaps?

I don't know...a good topic for discussion, though.

Justin

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