Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Battle Damaged Snake Eyes

This Snake Eyes is part of the Comic Pack that includes Storm Shadow. Wait, what's that? There's two? Well this one is the battle damaged one. This Snake Eyes is like version 30 something. He has tons of figures over the years.

Snake Eyes is the same figure as the GI Joe 5 pack, except this one has a bit of minor sculpting on his chest and arms. They include rips and tears, and a nipple! heh...This is the Commando version so he has the goggles and the ski mask with six slits. I prefer the Visor version since that's the most iconic and he looks cooler, but since I don't own him yet, I will stick with this one until he is rereleased or whatever.

His body is sculpted nicely, it looks almost the same as the original figure. He has a sculpted sheath on his thigh for his machete/ knife. He has a removable harness that has a holster for his pistol, and I believe it is the same exact pistol that comes with Firefly. He has a man purse with the Cobra Symbol on it, maybe symbolizing, whatever is in this bag is for Cobra, it's hard to take it seriously calling it a man bag though. His right hand can hold the Uzi, though on my figure it looks like his hand is fully connected, so it's not open handed.

The paint is dark grey, but I think it looks blue at times. He straps, goggles, pouches, boots, and gloves are black. My figures leg strap on his left isn't fully painted, well it's painted then it fades into the grey, damn Hasbro why my figure? The little grenade on theharness is a bright lime green, isn't he supposed to be a ninja? Green is so easy to spot. The cobra symbol is red and the arashikage (I think that's what the symbol is) symbol is red on his right forearm. The guns are black as well as the knife handle. The blade is silver. The skin is that of a Caucasian with greyish scars. He must've been beat up pretty badly.

Articulation is the same old same old. He moves nicely and can pull of ninja moves. My only problem is the shoulder hinge. The shoulders are on a slant. Raise his arm straight so it levels with his shoulder, the bend it out wards to it looks like wings. You'll see the arm slant down, plus the joint is clearly seen on an angle. I have no idea if this is part of the style.

I really like this figure despite the faults. He's pretty cool looking. The whole battle damage is good. Rips, tears, everything. He's fit in well with any collection and face off against Storm Shadow. If you could get him get him, he's pretty decent.

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