Mini-Review of the RoC Artic Snake-Eyes

I was going to avoid it at first. I didn't like it. The hood just seemed weird on a SE figure. Then I saw the movie. Okay, the outfit makes more sense.

Now I saw it in the stores. There was no hesitation, it was in my hand. The figure is awesome.

One of my favorite figures. It just looks like a snow commando should.

Great paint job, great looks. Yeah, it suffers the same fate as all those figures with the skirts, but I don't care. It's great.

The accessories.. He comes with a sword, a pistol and an ice pick for climbing. Wish he came with a rifle, but Marauder's can fix that.

The Resolute/ME Arctic SE ice shoes would have been perfect to put with this figure but that's okay.

But the backpack... OMG....

It's a string that runs thru it with 2 hooks on either hand. Yes, he can slide down the rope. There are knots near the ends so he won't go flying into stuff, couple inches away, so you can let him go and he'll stop before he hits anything (yes, I did test this real quick).

It's a new style backpack. It just doesn't go into the peg on his back, but it fits around him. More realistic. Also makes sense to help hold the backpack onto SE.

This guy gets a 4.5 out of 5. Iceshoes and a rifle would have made this a perfect figure.

Mattel's Monkeying Around

So have you heard this yet? Probably have.
Mattel's Monkeying Around

So where to begin with what's wrong with this...

1 - Not telling people BEFORE the show that they weren't making enough Gleeks to match the Wonder Twins set
2 - Not making enough Gleeks to match the amount of the Wonder Twins sets at SDCC
3 - "Finding" a box and just giving it out to a website at "random" (yeah right, does anyone believe that?)
4 - Just giving a big F-U to the fans with their explanations from "toyguru"


Look, exclusives are by definition "rare" and "hard to get" but this is just ridiculous. If you're a toy company and you release an exclusive figure and say it's only going to be available at the show, you damn well better make enough to go around. ESPECIALLY if it's part of a set.

What good is the Wonder Twins set (available online) without Gleek? It's just completely missing something.

And to top it all off, you limit people to 6 ON AN ITEM THAT IS ALREADY VERY LIMITED!! What the hell are you thinking? Limit it to 1 a person. HELLO!! It doesn't take a genius to figure out what's going to happen to the other 5 and or 6.

EBay here we come and scalpers prices will go thru the ROOF!

Damn, nice way to work with the collectors.

Mattel just looks horrible, and rightly so. What a disaster. I'd be incredibly pissed off if I went to SDCC and bought a set expecting a Gleek and got none. And to then have to go and pay EBay Scalper prices (and hold on scalpers, I'll get to you on this fiasco later, I just have to look up the words to describe the way I feel about you...) to get something you were told you would get anyways?

Good way to lose the fans and the market.

On Record For the G.I. Joe Sequals (and yes I think there will be some)

I would just like to go on record as to what I think the plots of the next two G.I. Joe movies will be, pure guessing on my part, I don’t have any insider knowledge (but if someone wants to give me some, I’ll be more then happy to accept it).

G.I. Joe #2 – Will be a more “classic” look (letting all the hardcore fans of ARAH get their day in the sun). A Joe will get captured (probably Duke, cause that’s what Duke does). Flint and Lady Jaye will be the new big Joes that show up. Duke will get injected with the nano-mites and will be made to fight the Joes but he’ll rebel agaist the control and we’ll find out that the nano-mites can’t make you do something you wouldn’t already be inclined to do (hence the Baroness still being bad even when not controlled by the nano-mites). Storm Shadow will return and become a good guy (blah). The main plot will be around Cobra Commander’s latest “take over the world” invention, which of course the Joes destroy.

G.I. Joe #3- Cobra Commander’s starting to lose focus. His troops have low morale (this gets into the whole thing of what happens when evil always loses, see the posting on that topic…), they’re questioning his leadership. All that kind of stuff. So Dr. Mindbender (who’s got a cameo in the first movie and has slowly been working his way up the main character ladder) comes up with the idea of creating the ultimate genetic soldier using the nano-mites and DNA. What CC doesn’t know is that this ultimate genetic soldier is also supposed to be the ultimate leader. And so Serpentor is introduced into the RoC universe. The usual stuff happens, Serpentor triumphs and gets his butt kicked at the end.

Now, I’m no Serpentor fan, but I think it makes a logical progession based on what the main focus and main tech of the new RoC Cobra organization is.

Only time will tell if I’m right.

Of course this is all null and void if the movie bombs (which I don't think it will)