I'm sure they will blame it on the factory like always.

Does anyone feel this figure lived up to the hype that the club created by making it a secret for so long?

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Probably not. However, I think this figure does a decent job of balancing the need to have a decent incentive figure for those that subscribed but to also not be an important enough character to get the fandom angry for not having subscribed and having to pay a higher price than a figure they'd find at Ross.

looks like a LBC.

I mean a modded head and then... just black parts that have already come out in black, with silver on the metal bits....
underwhelmed.

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Be neat if 13 in FSS2 is Bombstrike. If they can do her justice. I'm if the mind that this figure is a turd.

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Uh, those are Black Out's colors, daniel. How else would you expect them to color him?

Eeeeeh. I've seen so many Blackout customs that were just so much better than this...


EDIT: Also, Aly did yours come misassembled or something? It looks like he has two left biceps...

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Think he just has the upper arm turned around backwards.

Decent, not great. Easy enough for people who missed it to make their own. Some arms with the updated wrist articulation would have been nice.

I actually really like this figure. Since so many others don't, I'm sure that means I will be able to get him for cheap, right? Hahaha. Yeah, right.

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Okay, I'm impressed. This guy was one of the more interesting individuals from the newsculpt line, not to mention creating a rather interesting family unit with Barrel Roll and Bombstrike that I really with something more had been done with in the comics, and the overall look of this figure is (a) very impressive for a Cobra individual, and (b) an improvement over the original. Nicely done!

I wanted to be surprised as I was, amazingly enough, with every other figure, then some jerks on a few of the Joe related FaceBook pages had to go and plaster pictures of this guy all over.

I wish they'd have updated the head a bit, but over all I like him and am pleasantly surprised that this was the character. Not necessarily the parts I'd have chosen, but not bad ones either.

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One more reason I'm glad I'm not on Facebook...

I am fully aware those are blackouts colors. I wouldn't expect them to color him any other way. I would however preferred a different character chosen something more interesting. If blackout was their fore sure choice of character though, then maybe pick more interesting parts, or at least ones we haven't already received in those colors.

I think Renegades Tunnelrats legs would have been good, interesting design, and so far only seen once I believe. Maybe the renegades/poc firefly torso and arms... heck maybe that entire figure in black, dark grey and silver, with a newly sculpted head, as opposed to that Spytroops one... Which even for the time I found hideous.

toss in that firefly vest, maybe some sort of holster belt, and then the sniper gear update the wrist to the modern balljoint ones he'd be a pretty slick figure.

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I didn't think he was disappointed in the color scheme so much as the parts selection, and I totally get that reaction.

With the exception of the accessories, which are quite cool, this is a figure just about any fan whose been collecting recently or who has an eBay account could go and make themselves with very little difficulty. They wouldn't even have to paint anything (they could use a metallic sharpie to get the same effect on the armor bits and boots).

I'm not saying a figure has to be difficult to customize to be visually appealing, and I'm not even saying this is a bad looking figure. But there were two ways the Club could've gone with this -- quick and easy, low impact Frankenfigure or something more imaginative and visionary. They've shown they can do both.

For what this was supposed to be -- this super premium reward for folks who paid a lot of money for the FSS -- it's a pretty big comedown.

Also, have to disagree pretty ardently with Trekker about it being an improvement on the original design. Go back and look at new-sculpt Blackout. Sure, it suffered from the proportion issues that plagued the entire line at the time, but the sculpt was very detailed and unique. It was one of the more visually interesting designs to come along in a long time.

It just seems ironic to me that the only element of that design this version preserved was one of the doofiest looking head sculpts in the history of Joe.

I sure do!