Does he move? Listen bud. No, he doesn’t. Not really, and not practically. He’s got the most Big Boy of Big Boy articulation, making figs like Hulks and Rhino look crazy mobile by comparison. He’s less posable than the Diamond Select Juggernaut, which is NOT easy, but he pulls it off.
But. He can hold his cane, and he can stand good, and he can hold one fist up and have Spidey cling to his forearm in a pose I’ve had in my head my entire comics-reading life and realized a previously unknown wish when I not only got him wrapped around it, but found that Kingpin STILL stood strong. So this is one shot, with Amazing Friends Spidey and Animated Style Daredevil.
Also, this fills a key void in my Spidey classic villains collection. I still need re-releases of Electro and Mysterio. I need a comics-style Kraven because the one from… this spring? The weird Wal-Mart one? Didn’t do it for me at all. . And I need a comics-style Vulture and an animated-style Chameleon. So, get on those re-releases and upgrades, Hasbro.
I piked up the GI Joe Classified Retro-Card Scarlett at the Target where I got my Carnage. I’d passed her up twice on normal shelves and once at the Mall of America Toys R Us where it was thirty five fucking dollars and the FOMO finally won out. I mean, I could have gotten her from BBTS, but the extra buck plus the tiny fraction of shipping when I’m on the fence on a toy generally dissuades me.
Funny story about this picture - I decided to have her chasing Destro because my assortment of big-name Classified villains is pretty short and I didn’t want to mess with the scale and style difference between Scarlett and my Super7 Cobra Commander. So while I’m working on this picture, the Scarlett prompted me to start watching the original Mass Device GI Joe miniseries on Tubi, and there’s a scene where Scarlett.. GOES CHASING AFTER DESTRO. So there you go.
Anyway, she’s an excellent Classified figure, especially a retro-card style, retaining most of the design elements of the animated character with some slight modernization and refinement like the sling-quiver for the crossbow bolts.
Another funny story. Writing this post made me remember how I missed out on the pre-order of the retro card Cobra Commander that Classified is putting out this year, and made me look to see if it had come out and if maybe it was available anywhere, and preorders were back up for October. So it gets added to an October release list that’s gonna carry me through to Christmas with all the photography. It’s gonna be nuts, y’all.
Finally, when The Arena was up over Labor Day week, I got some shots of Grimlock vs. Dragonzord, something I’ve been wanting to do for a while.
I started with Dragonzord doing the only move his articulation allows - a knife-edge chop. But after I took The Arena down and looked at the shots in detail, I realized he was blocking the view of the chop with his other arm. So I went with the Big Splash, which was my backup plan, but which for obvious reasons had to be a composite shot. And the lighting was weird on Grimlock and I couldn’t really fix it in post, and just overall this didn’t come out the way I thought it would in my head. Although this was a pretty good successful attempt at using the hand-crafted ring aprons I made to turn into physical LED board aprons for my ring only for AEW to abandon the LED aprons before I could get around to it So now they’re digital overlays. That at some point I need to lower the brightness I amped up on them and maybe try to add some fabric wrinkles to somehow. Oh well.
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