GI JOE CLASSIFIED 29 ALVIN "BREAKER" KIBBEY WITH RAM CYCLE (RAPID FIRE MOTORCYCLE) REVIEW.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ม.ค. 2025
- Join me as we take our first look at the G.I. Joe Classified Series, Starting with 29, Hasbro's reimagining of the 1982 classic (RAM) or rapid-fire motorcycle and operator Alvin "Breaker" Kibbey. From Hasbro pulse to Haslab, Hasbro has been reinvigorating the G.I. Joel line to great fanfare, and with the classified series becoming one of Hasbro's most successful ventures to date. Over the next year I plan on reviewing the entire series, but instead of starting at the beginning, or one of the newest figures, I decided to take my first look at this line starting with the one that was a re-envisioning of my my first G.I. Joe Toy ever, the 1982 RAM (and Breaker.)
So I hope you enjoy this review and stroll down memory lane As we take a look at Classified 29.
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Very happy to see one of my favorite reviewers getting into one of my favorite toy lines. I have been into Classified from the start (hey, it was a pandemic) and am pretty satisfied with its direction. It was pretty astute of you to refer to sourcing accessories and weapons from Action Force; I’m doing the same!
If you are paying the late tax on some of the older Classified releases, good luck. It’s doable (it’s not Mythic Legions hard), but gets annoying with some of the exclusives because the pandemic supply chain woes made some of the releases super elusive.
For vehicles I want to see, I worship at the altar of the Thunder Machine. But if Hasbro does a Rattler, that is a must-buy for me, shelf space be damned
Well, it was our conversations that got me thinking in that direction. It was one of those lines that I held in my hand several times, but knew that it would become an obsession... which it did. The final straw that broke the camels back was the Dragonfly haslab "fundraiser". I really wanted to back the H.i.s.s, but couldn't at the time (something I am now regretting and am hoping to find somone in the community that ordered more than one, because the late tax on that one is going to be ridiculou$) I didn't want to miss out on the Dragonfly as I have fond memories of running around my grandparents property with it. And the nice thing about flying vehicles is that you don't need shelf space, just hang it from your ceiling 😀.
And I know exactly what you mean about the older figures. The walmart figures are a little easier to find, but the target ones are far more annoying. At least the ebay markup isn't that bad yet, but as the line is now starting to explode, the older ones are definitely going to become more scarce. I am lucky as there are a few stores here in mas that have figures all the way back to the first wave still markd below $30 (and they take trade). It looks like the most difficult to find are going to be 43 Dr. Mindbender, 31 Master of disguise Zartan (which still dosen't come with the sled😤), 27 Major Bludd, 12 Cobra Trooper, 04 Duke, and 00 Snake Eyes. Everything else can be found at pretty fair prices if you are patient. The name of the game going forward is pre-order, pre-order, pre-order, as hasbro seems to be engineering a bit of market scarcity into the line as of current.
Rite now, the thing that I have been trying to figure out is how so many of the top classified youtube reviewers are getting figures that haven't even hit pulse yet. I am going to touch on this in the next episode, but what I have found is that hasbro has a store at their flagship factory in China, which puts large quantities of the figures out before they are ever shipped globally. Many reviewers have contacts in China that buy up stock for them (usually having to pay double, if not triple for the figures). To test this I reached out to someone who has gotten me a few hard to find alien things and he was able to get me 76 and 77, which should be here in about a week, and aren't due to be shipped anywhere else until October. So we will see how that goes.
As for the Thunder machine, I bet we get that, we are getting a lot of Dreadnok love, and the soundwave version has been popular, so it will probably make an appearance at some point.
@@strangeform The tricky thing for me is figuring out which Classified I am not getting. I decided not to be a completionist as the sub-lines like Tiger Force, etc. (aka repaint city) do not have a lot of appeal to me. By and large I could see myself buying nearly every figure if I am not too careful.
Adding to that is the Cobra troops are so army-build-able that I tend to buy multiple Troopers, Vipers, BATs, Eels, etc. Hasbro got me good with this line! Very fun
@@schadenfreudeind No I totally get that, and if it weren't for the channel, that is how I would be approaching the line too. But I am reviewing quite a few older items, and for some reason the Aleta community decided to give me a whole bunch of flak on Twitter about being late to the table with that review. I was really searching for something that has quite a bit of popularity and and energized community of old-timers and newcomers... and isn't terribly expensive, like Hot Toys, Three zero, and the like. At first I was gravitating towards transformers but the pricing on those is currently out of control.
I'm not sure that I'm going to keep every figure. Through the life of the channel I've sold quite a few of the items I reviewed ( which is how I keep it all going). Someday I'm probably going to do a "things I didn't sell" episode. The G.I. Joe figures tend to have thousands of views, and I saw a unique opportunity to do a very uniform visual checklist. Every episode is going to explore and compare the same aspects, such as the iconography and history of the figures, as well as my personal experiences with their original counterparts. Hopefully this will be a big enough property to boost the channel numbers enough so that the algorithm will start suggesting other episodes.
By the way, what's your take on the "Plastic-Free Packaging" debacle. Personally I don't like it at all with the transformers, but I am kind of digging the G.I. Joe un-boxing experience, and uniformity of the package design and artwork. I just get nervous as I have gone through an entire rack of cross eyed Destos before finding the one that didn't have the farsighted assembly line worker. Though I do wonder if this inspires better quality control, as Hasbro would be scared of a plethora of "fishing for the right one" exchanges. I think the one thing that does irk me is that the boxes aren't the same size, as the windowless boxes are about an inch shorter.
@@strangeform Yeah, getting stock for a review channel is grind as you end up getting things you don't necessarily want to keep and, as you mentioned, you have to keep up with other reviewers who are getting advance/leaked products. I have seen some other reviewers get "loaner" figures from non-reviewers that the reviewer unboxes/reviews then returns to the owner. YMMV on that depending on who is near you.
I don't love the plastic-free/window-less packaging thing that Hasbro did for the reasons you mentioned. I also collect Marvel Legends, and it was a hassle. Between Hasbro QC challenges (which, to be fair, any company can struggle with) to ne'er do wells trying to swap contents, it creates more stress. The whole thing smelled of green washing to me. Also, in-box collectors have challenges with Classified because the boxes have changed so much through the years. In some ways that is cool and they are showing gradual signs of improvement. I guess if you align them like books, you have a row of spines with numbers on them. How exciting!
Oh, if you want yet another challenge, try finding the Walmart exclusive Classified retro cards in good shape. Those have the flimsiest packaging. They look pretty sweet in-box though. However, if you open them, they are opened for good. I heard somewhere that the retro Duke and Scarlett will come on improved retro cards and not be Walmart exclusives, so fingers crossed
Yeah, I grabbed this as soon as I saw it. I think I had a couple of these (and the silver one, which I forget.) The VAMP is preordered... now give me a MOBAT with a HAL to tow (and Steeler and Grand Slam) and I'll be happy... well, broke. And yes... had the Dragonfly, had the Rattler, Had, and want, the FANG as well.
Mezcos Gi Joe line is off to a good, slow release schedule but Destro is so nice I can only imagine the rest. Only thing is ofocurse Declassified is going to have a much much larger roaster, but mezcos quality and shelf presence is still very nice
I agree, I wonder how they display together (classified and mezco). I also am quite impressed with Three Zeroe's 1/6th offerings. I just saw a few in person and they were a lot more detailed than I was expecting.
That may come of as heresy but I never was into G.I. Joe for some reason😅 I'm just a few years younger as you (born '84) but for some reason that was a franchise that totally passed by me. A lot of Toys you mentioned I had too as a kid, like Turtles, Transformers, a lot of Batman TAS figures, Star Wars, Star Trek but never G.I. Joe.
So I actually bought my first 2 G.I. Joe figures like 2 years ago, as 'prey' for my Alien and Predator figures, Snake Eyes and Scarlet from the first live action movie - not that I cared about the movie, but the figures looked great and where on sell out for very cheap (like 10€ each) and I needed some items more on my order to safe on shipping costs😁
I'm very impressed by the quality, articualtion and looks of them, Scarlet looks really great, even if not like Rachel Nichols who portrait her in the movie at all, the figure has a totally nice face sculpt, and same for Snake Eyes whwich was played by Ray Park, ofc best known as Darth Maul, his face sculpt looks way more accurate to his real likeness, I repainted it white to look more like kinda WY special operative mutilated the unmaksed head to display it as prey🤦😅
Still again fanatstic figures, great articulation, it's very much the same like your Kibbey figure is and it took me a few days to realize all the more hidden articulation points, which I found just wow in this price range, and still do. So much clever concpetual design that flown into it and greatly manufactured as well, just impressive!