Traditional or Modernize the Joe line?

[thenammagazine]

I just ran across a Lanard figure in my collection, that I think would be a fine "modern" update for Sideshow Beachhead, following the trend started with Firefly.

Don't let the overly nostalgic whiners tell you otherwise, Sideshow, this is what Beachhead was always meant to be.

WTF is that?! A Castro district bike cop?!

 

[Shai]

Rise Of Caca...

 

[FLOSI]

Voted RAH, but I do like small tweaks, such as knee pads etc.

 

[LipSmack]

I love what sideshow is doing with these, makes them available to a broader range of people who werent particularily interested in ARAH.
Like me, im buying cuz they look sweet. and can remeber a name instead of needing to have the same outfit a character has always had to be able to "identify him"
welcome to 2009, things change.

 

[IrishJedi]

I love what sideshow is doing with these, makes them available to a broader range of people who werent particularily interested in ARAH.
Like me, im buying cuz they look sweet. and can remeber a name instead of needing to have the same outfit a character has always had to be able to "identify him"
welcome to 2009, things change.

That's all fancy fruit and all, but if you want that then just have your own modern military line with fantasy elements. Let G.I. JOE: ARAH be G.I. JOE: ARAH. That is, afterall, what this line is supposed to be. Accept it or GTFO. That goes for Sideshow, too.

 

[LipSmack]

That's all fancy fruit and all, but if you want that then just have your own modern military line with fantasy elements. Let G.I. JOE: ARAH be G.I. JOE: ARAH. That is, afterall, what this line is supposed to be. Accept it or GTFO. That goes for Sideshow, too.

You need to realise its different interprtations, like they've been doing over the last 27 years

 

[Cobra King]

traditional for me

 

[DPrime]

I love what sideshow is doing with these, makes them available to a broader range of people who werent particularily interested in ARAH.
Like me, im buying cuz they look sweet. and can remeber a name instead of needing to have the same outfit a character has always had to be able to "identify him"
welcome to 2009, things change.

But they still could have done that and, I don't know, at least given him a camo balaclava and/or a Cobra patch on his arm.

They've managed to keep things modern while staying true to the character so far. I still love this figure, but it does skirt the line and I hope they don't continue to push it too far.

 

[LordAzrael]

WTF is that?! A Castro district bike cop?!

Its like GI Joe meets The Village People. Special variant sold only in San Francisco.

 

[EVILFACE]

Good old Lanard. Funny though, for a while there, Lanard figures were built out of better material that GI Joes were for a while.

 

[IrishJedi]

You need to realise its different interprtations, like they've been doing over the last 27 years

Like I don't realize that. I just recognize which "interpretations" are popular.

 

[LipSmack]

Like I don't realize that. I just recognize which "interpretations" are popular.

so pass on this one and wait for the next
sideshow said they would do characters in different outfits

 

[Khev]

so pass on this one and wait for the next
sideshow said they would do characters in different outfits

SSC said they'd be doing different versions for main characters that had more than one iconic outfit. FF only had one so unless they do a "concept art" variant as a convention exclusive down the road this figure will most likely be the only FF we'll see in this line.

Maybe the concept art they previewed will be for the PF instead.

 

[LipSmack]

SSC said they'd be doing different versions for main characters that had more than one iconic outfit. FF only had one so unless they do a "concept art" variant as a convention exclusive down the road this figure will most likely be the only FF we'll see in this line.

Maybe the concept art they previewed will be for the PF instead.

yeah but look at the cobra soldier variants, i think there is room for anything with this line. wait till you guys see what is coming

 

[devilof76]

Maybe the concept art they previewed will be for the PF instead.

Not funny at all Khev.

yeah but look at the cobra soldier variants, i think there is room for anything with this line.

No, there isn't. If that's how they intend to treat it, then like the frauds who made the movie (as well as the frauds who are fans of it), they need to change the name they are putting on it.

I don't think this is how they see it, and thankfully they aren't taking their lead from opinions like yours or this line would already be dead.