past nastification wrote:
Although I stopped and didn't buy many of them, the Pursuit of Cobra line was a welcomed change with its re-imagining and updates of the character designs.
The detail here is astounding, but ultimately clinging to the lime green of the '86 figure is a nostalgic and bad choice. A little more white to make a paler green or a little black to make it olive drab would have improved this figure so much.
You took the words right out of my mouth. If they had given us this fig in olive drab instead of neon, I would have gotten one. As is, I really don't need one, since this same design has been sitting on my shelf for 30 years.
I wish instead of slavishly copying the old figures, we would instead get some cool updates, as with PoC. But I know there are plenty of fans who want the same designs. So.... wouldn't it be cool if Hasbro put out each of the 30th figs in 50/50 mix of: half of them would be like this Sci-Fi, same coloring as the original. The other half would be more sensible, realistic colors, like this Sci-Fi in military green. I wish they would have done that with Steel Brigade, so we could have gotten him in a color other than that stupid baby blue nonsense, and those who prefer the old blue look could have gotten him that way. And since its a 50/50 mix, these would not be 'variants' harder to find than a regular release.
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O-ring is better. There. I said it.
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