Such a smart, eye-opening review. This old English-Italian Doctor has learned a lot about action figures from your refreshing reviews. Great care and instruction must be taken to inculcate the values and principles of consumers with regard to the action figure industry. How astute! Thank you, 👍✊ Giovanni Marino, M.D.🇬🇧🇮🇹
I even think Helix is average for the line, that's how good classified is. articulation and plastic quality on the new retro scarlett blows helix out of the water. nice to see you covering a classified figure, they seem to get better as sales go up, unlike ML.
Are the weapons in the new retro scarlett gummy? I personally haven't been able to stand the plastic quality in Hasbro stuff lately, and newer Classified has had some really rubbery weapons
Curiously seeing your thumbnail with a GI Joe figure made me do a re-read of the title to confirm what I read. Thanks for your efforts on this. It was a nice surprise to see a positive review on a Hasbro product. Your work on this one certainly raises a lot of questions worthy of discussion comparing the two lines from the same company.
just dont collect the Marvel Legends line from Hasbro and you'll see a lot of positive reviews on a Hasbro product lol, the G.I.Joe line is so much better than Marvel Legends it's crazy
When you bring up Hasbro using licensing as their excuse for making garbage, the Has-Bros always have an answer: Diamond Select: They're 7 inches and the articulation is bad, so it's different. Imports: Well imports are really expensive and ML are way better. LEGO: Those are Legos, so it doesn't count. These guys always have some sort of reasoning as to why Hasbro is the only one affected by licensing.
Hasbro L Diamond Select - their new Captain America, nuff said Imports: All of the new SHF Naruto figures has way better articulation than every ML figure (including Toybiz stuff), also the SHF kid Naruto is $30, same with Shippuden Naruto, SROE Goku, Luffy, etc Legos: completely different type of toy Hasbro just be out there making the wildest complaints
I don't know much about GI JOE, but I still collect some of them because some figures look cool, and some of them looks good for army building, you can even kitbash some of them with Marvel Legends and Star Wars Black Series.
those arm weapons were designed after Cyberpunk. Helix herself has been around since the mid-2000s. She had a 3-inch figure and basically dressed the same way. I don't know much about her other than she has Autism which gives her an ability similar to Marvel Taskmaster. She was in my top ten. I mean my number one was a tie between General Hawk and Snowjoe. Where it was difficult to do a top 10 Legends because of how many bad one....classified was the other way around. It was hard to make a top ten cause of too many good ones.
Rival Clan helped to inspire me into action figure sculpting and we just had our first successful kickstarter, sweet lord its more work than I ever would have imagined. When Rival is readied I will be there to support it dude, I really enjoyed the sculpting process shares you provided and put them into good work with Flip-Or.
Oooh, I actually plan on getting Agent Helix very soon! She’s so interesting to me, mainly because she first appeared in a video game! She was created for the 2009 GI Joe: Rise of Cobra movie game and named after the developer, Double Helix (which is also the name of the shape of DNA). She was then put in the movie toyline and incorporated into the Real American Hero and IDW comic book continuities. She’s also autistic-coded, which is awesome for an autistic person like me! 😊
I enjoy your reviews a lot!!! Reality is a major part of life, The facts tell the story!!! Helix is a good figure, It has its warts, but, for the most part it is fun to play with!!! That's what Toys are for with us oversized Children!!! The upper parts are all new, The legs and hips are re-use...So, We must endure until they do the "Perfect Figure"!!! But, Life will go on and I will keep collecting the Classified figures and enjoying them until I can't!!! Yo Joe!!! Peace!!!
I got the snake eyes and wolf two pack and they comes with another head for the wolf and a tonne of accessories for barely more than one marvel “deluxe” legends. Those arm sword accessories are amazing
Absolutely blows my mind that Joes have been doing the same (and what should be standard) articulation for females as they have for males basically since the line started but 2 cubicles over the ML team just started doing it for females, calls it ‘super articulated’ and have only done it on two characters and both have been Target exclusives but people are losing their minds on how amazing they are.
Even though this figure can bent forward for shit, all I need is a exacto knife and 20min and it is as good as any ab crunch and better, since it can also lean and rotate.
I was having the same conversation last night about the discrepancies between Marvel Legends and G.I. Joe classified. It's absolutely ridiculous. That's me being nice about it as well.
Just speculation on my end, the articulation design is being outsourced and is being done by one firm for multiple vendors (Hasbro, Mcfarlane, Bandai) hence the similar design limitations. On a different topic, those drop down hips add a degree of fragility to Hasbro figures that need not be there.
That's not how it works. They all have in house sculptors and designers. Some contract work of course but definitely not the same guy for all companies
Yeah, I've a problem without the extra hands too. Helix needs double fisted sword grabbing hands. Btw, review the recent Red Sonja figure if you haven't already 🗡️
I collect all G.I. Joe Classifieds and also get a select few Marvel Legends, mostly MCU figures, because their design and scale match well with my Joes, but as you point here yourself, although they are from the same company and the same scale, they are most definitely not made by the same designers and probably not made in the same factories. G.I.Joe figures are overall better quality products than Marvel Legends for sure.
Has Hasbro addressed how they dont care about the environment anymore? That was the reason they gave for switching to windowless and it totally wasn't 100% cost related.
You should review the two new GIJoe army builders they have out, they're at a higher price point, but goddamn do they come with a ton of stuff, especially the army guy.
Hi Anthony, great review. Classified are generally way better than Legends. That said I can't abide the dropdown hips. I had to glue the hinges in place on some of my Classified figs. The damn things kept dropping down every time I posed them. Classified have done a few duds. One that springs to mind is the Lt Falcon fig. I'd love for you to review that, though I think if you did I might die laughing with any comment you had on it's face. The stuff of nightmares.😳🤣
I know nothing about GI Joe, but this character design is kinda cool (I have a thing for short hair blondes).. if I find her I might consider getting it.
I’ve liked most of the female figures. Helix is a cool design. Her head might be good for Ghost Spider. Will Rival have a translucent sneaky ninja/cyborg??
Classified figures come with their own set of annoyances, personally I get very frustrated with the lack of extra hands, and the drop-down hips absolutely drive me up the wall for the exact reasons you show in the video! It's definitely cool to get a bunch of guns and equipment, and many of the figures actually have really great and well-executed face/hair/hat options, but personally I would gladly trade a few guns for another set of hands. The trigger-finger hands essentially force you to display every figure holding something in both hands, because they look absolutely ridiculous when they aren't holding anything, which severely limits posing options. Overall though, the sculpt detail, proportions, faces, paint apps, accessory count - by most metrics the average level of quality for this line is undeniably leaps and bounds above Marvel Legends. Judging from your video I would say this one is completely average for the line, nothing really special but a beautiful face and a nice vibrant colour scheme goes a long way. Would love to see more GI Joe reviews!
That's why I keep asking for a Classifieds review - SO MUCH better than Marvel Legends that it's hard to believe they're made by the same company. I think (and I'm just assuming) this is more than just money. Sure GI Joe belongs to Hasbro but this huge difference can't be just that... (That being said I got to be fair and say that in my neck of the woods Classifieds are more expensive than Marvel Legends) BTW: the bad leaning forward with huge leaning back has been an issue with pretty much all figures from all companies. Always considered this to be very weird - why not make it lean forward a lot and barely no leaning back instead? 🙄
Ever thought of reviewing some action force figures? I've kinda been eyeing them for a while. I checked out a podcast of the creator of the line, and he seems pretty cool and passionate about figures.
He is passionate but the quality of the plastic varies so much from wave to wave that it's insane. I stopped buying them because they just could not get their shit together on that front. The SDS wave that came between wave 3 and 4 was the best one, and then wave 4 was back to the brittle, stiff plastic. That was the end of it for me.
@@AlanDavidDoane yeah I know that she's relatively new in that she's about less than 20 years old. I mainly said it because Anthony thought she might have been inspired by cyberpunk. Meaning that she was even newer than what she is.
Yes, they are Scarlett's legs from 2020. Why fix what's not broken? Plus, as you note, they are painless. I've owned them for four years and they haven't caused me one bit of pain!
@@AlanDavidDoanewhoops, autocorrect at work there, pin less! I actually like the details on the Scarlett legs, newer classified figures are more likely to be less detailed to make them match their original designs
@@jonathanhampshire6856 black series gets more paint then marvel legends sometimes from what I see they got the details for sure far as articulation waa never the best across all the lines passable for some characters and lazy for others
Nice looking figure; unique character. But my figure is all loosey goosey. Shit hardly stand up with how loose it was outta the package. It was kind of the figure that made me truly start to despise Hasbro.
And then there’s Transformers the other line Hasbro owns where they keep raising the prices to ridiculous levels for cheap hollow gappy figures with barely any paint, this is all enabled by a fanbase that will dogpile anyone who brings this up, they’d lose their collective minds if there was a TF reviewer as vocal as you are about legitimate criticisms
Nice figure, bad character. Basically the Mary Sue of the JOE team. I bought one to customize into a ninja April O'Neil using the head from the original classified series Scarlett.
For some figures they actually started adding alt heads/hands but honestly that's the only big issue I have with Classified: Not enough of it. Still the best line Hasbro has going right now.
I don’t often collect any Joes, but most of the time I’m pleased with them. They’re never anything “amazing” to me outside of maybe Storm Shadow and Stalker but I’ll always say that Joes’ best will always be leagues above anything ML releases
I bought a G.I. Joe Classified Zarana from Ollie's for $6, and I like it better than 90% of my Marvel Legends. Some of the line even have rubber wigs (like the old Elvis costume wigs) which I find hilarious and awesome at the same time.
With around 120 figures released in the Classified Series so far (and I have bought almost all of them), there have been mediocre Joes for sure, but Helix is about average for the line and I would say on the whole the entire line scores 8/10. As a Marvel Legends collector going back to Toybiz series 1, Legends right now averages 3.5/10 with every new release. The good figures are always a surprise and we get maybe two or three a year, whereas we get dozens of good Joes every year. The difference between the two Hasbro lines is absolutely astonishing and it's inexcusable what they have done with Legends over the past half decade. THANK YOU, Anthony, for making this video. The fact that you did it with an average figure and not a special deluxe release or convention exclusive speaks volumes. Your honesty and integrity have long made you one of my favorite reviewers, and those traits are essential if we're going to properly assess the stone-cold fact that the Legends team is incompetent and needs to be replaced, or at least be held to the same standard the Classified team is. Bravo, Anthony.
I have come to hate the drop down hips and hope it goes away soon. And I truly despise the single joint elbow/knee swivel on figures. Such a cop out. Star Wars is so bad about this and is why I don’t have many of those figures.
I bought Helix a while back. I'm satisfied with her. Her left leg wasn't straight because of bad packaging, but very solid figure. I'm loving the G.I. Joe line. Even the more expensive Joe figures come with a lot of stuff. I believe the Joe line is better because they are competing with Valaverse, which I think is making both lines better.
Competition is better business for all. Competition between rival companies increases the value of employees' human capital and can be a great motivating factor for employees, and ultimately, encourages innovation, thus motivating companies to create products people value at reasonable prices they can afford. Great review, Anthony!
Not always. And it's hilarious how upset some get when there's an extra weapon or something that isn't storable on the figure, instead of just being grateful and giving it to another character.
Great review! I like your review because you have the specific point. Also, you focus on reviewing as the figure with anatomy. I hope you can review more GI Joe series!!
Awesome figure despite some of it's drawbacks and what a difference from the marvel legends. She looks great next to your figure line as well. I'm also not too familiar with this line but I've definitely picked some up due to the quality and the great character designs looking good for stop motion projects of mine. I even have the small 3.5 inch version of this character which looks neat and will still probably pick this scale up too
Since 2022, I’ve bought more Classified figures than I have ML. Some of them are army builders but they’re fantastic builders. They put in more effort with the figures and a ton of accessories plus no BaF piece when you get a figure specifically for army building.
Love when you take the industry and Hasbros to task, great review 👍 Btw curious but what do you think of the McFarlane Knightfall Batman/Bane two pack?
I agree, I like that Bane comes with fists this time around too which was the biggest flaw with the original Megafig release. The comic book/cel shading highlights don’t look the worst either
The character is older, from the video game from the movie Rise of Cobra. The original didn’t have those weapons though, so if they were pulled straight from cyber punk it wouldn’t surprise me
Would you be interested in reviewing the beefy mullet Superman "Collector Edition" from McFarlane Toys? Considering you're a big fan of the DC Universe Classics Mullet Supes.
To be fair Joes have been cost cut twice lol this isn't the best figure to show Marvel Legends fan what they can do... Their recent figures are getting back to what the line started as though, From the Falcon wave you can see and feel the costs being cut lol.
It's a good figure, but the limited range of motion is insane 🤦🏼♂️ we need a toy veteran or something to help hasbro fix all their future figures. Please! 🙏
Classified continues to blow just about everything else Hasbro does out of the water. This isn't even one of the better figures (she's fine, especially for a fairly obscure character, but nothing special).
RIP Rival Clan member, you will never be forgotten.
Who?
@@venomsjunkmailThe prototype of Anthony's own design that broke, when he tried to demonstrate better torso range.
@@jonathanhampshire6856 I was making a joke of the never be forgotten bit.
Such a smart, eye-opening review. This old English-Italian Doctor has learned a lot about action figures from your refreshing reviews. Great care and instruction must be taken to inculcate the values and principles of consumers with regard to the action figure industry. How astute!
Thank you, 👍✊
Giovanni Marino, M.D.🇬🇧🇮🇹
I even think Helix is average for the line, that's how good classified is. articulation and plastic quality on the new retro scarlett blows helix out of the water. nice to see you covering a classified figure, they seem to get better as sales go up, unlike ML.
was about to comment he needs to review the new scarlett its so good
Are the weapons in the new retro scarlett gummy? I personally haven't been able to stand the plastic quality in Hasbro stuff lately, and newer Classified has had some really rubbery weapons
The weapons are gummy.
Curiously seeing your thumbnail with a GI Joe figure made me do a re-read of the title to confirm what I read. Thanks for your efforts on this. It was a nice surprise to see a positive review on a Hasbro product. Your work on this one certainly raises a lot of questions worthy of discussion comparing the two lines from the same company.
just dont collect the Marvel Legends line from Hasbro and you'll see a lot of positive reviews on a Hasbro product lol, the G.I.Joe line is so much better than Marvel Legends it's crazy
@@cheesuschrists Marvel Legends has devolved into slightly better than bath toys.
Guess I'm not a hasbro hater after all
When you bring up Hasbro using licensing as their excuse for making garbage, the Has-Bros always have an answer:
Diamond Select: They're 7 inches and the articulation is bad, so it's different.
Imports: Well imports are really expensive and ML are way better.
LEGO: Those are Legos, so it doesn't count.
These guys always have some sort of reasoning as to why Hasbro is the only one affected by licensing.
Hasbro L
Diamond Select - their new Captain America, nuff said
Imports: All of the new SHF Naruto figures has way better articulation than every ML figure (including Toybiz stuff), also the SHF kid Naruto is $30, same with Shippuden Naruto, SROE Goku, Luffy, etc
Legos: completely different type of toy
Hasbro just be out there making the wildest complaints
your other prototype is still around don’t worry, it just hasn’t deactivated its active camo yet
That's what I'm thinking
I don't know much about GI JOE, but I still collect some of them because some figures look cool, and some of them looks good for army building, you can even kitbash some of them with Marvel Legends and Star Wars Black Series.
Anthony that rival clans figure looks actually really awesome looking I'm with it .
those arm weapons were designed after Cyberpunk. Helix herself has been around since the mid-2000s. She had a 3-inch figure and basically dressed the same way. I don't know much about her other than she has Autism which gives her an ability similar to Marvel Taskmaster. She was in my top ten. I mean my number one was a tie between General Hawk and Snowjoe. Where it was difficult to do a top 10 Legends because of how many bad one....classified was the other way around. It was hard to make a top ten cause of too many good ones.
Rival Clan helped to inspire me into action figure sculpting and we just had our first successful kickstarter, sweet lord its more work than I ever would have imagined. When Rival is readied I will be there to support it dude, I really enjoyed the sculpting process shares you provided and put them into good work with Flip-Or.
That is awesome! Thanks for the support
Oooh, I actually plan on getting Agent Helix very soon! She’s so interesting to me, mainly because she first appeared in a video game! She was created for the 2009 GI Joe: Rise of Cobra movie game and named after the developer, Double Helix (which is also the name of the shape of DNA). She was then put in the movie toyline and incorporated into the Real American Hero and IDW comic book continuities. She’s also autistic-coded, which is awesome for an autistic person like me! 😊
I enjoy your reviews a lot!!! Reality is a major part of life, The facts tell the story!!! Helix is a good figure, It has its warts, but, for the most part it is fun to play with!!! That's what Toys are for with us oversized Children!!! The upper parts are all new, The legs and hips are re-use...So, We must endure until they do the "Perfect Figure"!!! But, Life will go on and I will keep collecting the Classified figures and enjoying them until I can't!!! Yo Joe!!! Peace!!!
I got the snake eyes and wolf two pack and they comes with another head for the wolf and a tonne of accessories for barely more than one marvel “deluxe” legends. Those arm sword accessories are amazing
Absolutely blows my mind that Joes have been doing the same (and what should be standard) articulation for females as they have for males basically since the line started but 2 cubicles over the ML team just started doing it for females, calls it ‘super articulated’ and have only done it on two characters and both have been Target exclusives but people are losing their minds on how amazing they are.
Even though this figure can bent forward for shit, all I need is a exacto knife and 20min and it is as good as any ab crunch and better, since it can also lean and rotate.
Yep. Almost always better to use ball pegs.
I was having the same conversation last night about the discrepancies between Marvel Legends and G.I. Joe classified. It's absolutely ridiculous. That's me being nice about it as well.
Honestly Helix is still my favorite Gi Joe figure from last year. Good thing Valaverse has weapons packs that i can use to upgrade my Joes.
Just speculation on my end, the articulation design is being outsourced and is being done by one firm for multiple vendors (Hasbro, Mcfarlane, Bandai) hence the similar design limitations.
On a different topic, those drop down hips add a degree of fragility to Hasbro figures that need not be there.
That's not how it works. They all have in house sculptors and designers. Some contract work of course but definitely not the same guy for all companies
I wish this was the face they used for Scarlet.
Yeah, I've a problem without the extra hands too. Helix needs double fisted sword grabbing hands. Btw, review the recent Red Sonja figure if you haven't already 🗡️
I collect all G.I. Joe Classifieds and also get a select few Marvel Legends, mostly MCU figures, because their design and scale match well with my Joes, but as you point here yourself, although they are from the same company and the same scale, they are most definitely not made by the same designers and probably not made in the same factories. G.I.Joe figures are overall better quality products than Marvel Legends for sure.
Cool, please continue reviewing this line 🙏🤞
Has Hasbro addressed how they dont care about the environment anymore? That was the reason they gave for switching to windowless and it totally wasn't 100% cost related.
Lol. And all the HasBros bought it... Until the figure quality got even worse and people started swapping the figures.
Yeah, they said they switched to windowed packaging that is more eco friendly but (surprise) costs more. Part of the price increases
You should review the two new GIJoe army builders they have out, they're at a higher price point, but goddamn do they come with a ton of stuff, especially the army guy.
I have one of them
Hi Anthony, great review. Classified are generally way better than Legends. That said I can't abide the dropdown hips. I had to glue the hinges in place on some of my Classified figs. The damn things kept dropping down every time I posed them.
Classified have done a few duds. One that springs to mind is the Lt Falcon fig. I'd love for you to review that, though I think if you did I might die laughing with any comment you had on it's face. The stuff of nightmares.😳🤣
If you're a GI Joe fan, you should leave a like on this video so Anthony will consider doing more Joe reviews.
I know nothing about GI Joe, but this character design is kinda cool (I have a thing for short hair blondes).. if I find her I might consider getting it.
I was really holding back on collecting action figures until the classified series.
I’ve liked most of the female figures. Helix is a cool design. Her head might be good for Ghost Spider.
Will Rival have a translucent sneaky ninja/cyborg??
11:35 & 12:05 ouch, but kudos cuz a number of others wouldn't have included that in their vid.
Breaking the prototype? Meh. No big deal. Need to add those video links in though
Classified figures come with their own set of annoyances, personally I get very frustrated with the lack of extra hands, and the drop-down hips absolutely drive me up the wall for the exact reasons you show in the video! It's definitely cool to get a bunch of guns and equipment, and many of the figures actually have really great and well-executed face/hair/hat options, but personally I would gladly trade a few guns for another set of hands. The trigger-finger hands essentially force you to display every figure holding something in both hands, because they look absolutely ridiculous when they aren't holding anything, which severely limits posing options. Overall though, the sculpt detail, proportions, faces, paint apps, accessory count - by most metrics the average level of quality for this line is undeniably leaps and bounds above Marvel Legends. Judging from your video I would say this one is completely average for the line, nothing really special but a beautiful face and a nice vibrant colour scheme goes a long way. Would love to see more GI Joe reviews!
Hasbro's Fortnite figures are really good as well. Shame they're letting the license die.
One of the figures I bought two cuz of display options and accessories
The videos are back on pace! Nice to see so many uploads thanks Anthony great reviews and fair critiques
Not quite but I'm getting there. thanks
That's why I keep asking for a Classifieds review - SO MUCH better than Marvel Legends that it's hard to believe they're made by the same company.
I think (and I'm just assuming) this is more than just money. Sure GI Joe belongs to Hasbro but this huge difference can't be just that...
(That being said I got to be fair and say that in my neck of the woods Classifieds are more expensive than Marvel Legends)
BTW: the bad leaning forward with huge leaning back has been an issue with pretty much all figures from all companies. Always considered this to be very weird - why not make it lean forward a lot and barely no leaning back instead? 🙄
Please make more classified reviews!
Legends should copy Classifieds homework
Why do you prefer pins?
Ever thought of reviewing some action force figures? I've kinda been eyeing them for a while. I checked out a podcast of the creator of the line, and he seems pretty cool and passionate about figures.
He is passionate but the quality of the plastic varies so much from wave to wave that it's insane. I stopped buying them because they just could not get their shit together on that front. The SDS wave that came between wave 3 and 4 was the best one, and then wave 4 was back to the brittle, stiff plastic. That was the end of it for me.
@@AlanDavidDoanehey, thanks for the input on the line.
I think Hasbro’s better than McFarlane at proportions honestly. Most McFarlane DC figures suffer from “leg-too-long and arm-too-short” syndrome
What I hate about this line is that it's not available in France
You don't have eBay and Amazon in France, or are they not allowed to sell them there?
@@AlanDavidDoane they're not at retail price on eBay and Amazon, they're much more expensive
She's not a new character. She first showed up as a 4-inch figure as part of the first live-action movie toy line.
She's relatively new in the six decades of GI Joe or even the four decades of the ARAH universe.
@@AlanDavidDoane yeah I know that she's relatively new in that she's about less than 20 years old. I mainly said it because Anthony thought she might have been inspired by cyberpunk. Meaning that she was even newer than what she is.
Her legs are all from the first wave of the line years ago. New ones are painless.
Yes, they are Scarlett's legs from 2020. Why fix what's not broken? Plus, as you note, they are painless. I've owned them for four years and they haven't caused me one bit of pain!
@@AlanDavidDoanewhoops, autocorrect at work there, pin less! I actually like the details on the Scarlett legs, newer classified figures are more likely to be less detailed to make them match their original designs
Do the new figma guyver from max factory
I've always been amazed how with the hasbro star wars and gi joe classified line is so much better than marvel legends even with the issues it's sad
The main downer with Hasbro's Black Series figs is lack of accessories, paint and hampered articulation. The sculpts are generally superb though.
@@jonathanhampshire6856 black series gets more paint then marvel legends sometimes from what I see they got the details for sure far as articulation waa never the best across all the lines passable for some characters and lazy for others
Also I don't collect black series Hasbro are gi joes I do look for good fodder are passable fodder for customs
Hasbro owns the right to G.I. Joe
They own gi joe completely
Nice looking figure; unique character. But my figure is all loosey goosey. Shit hardly stand up with how loose it was outta the package. It was kind of the figure that made me truly start to despise Hasbro.
Hey Anthony When will you be RELEASING your Action Figure?
Why is "releasing" in all caps? Lol but i don't know. whenever I'm ready to is the most i can say. Better to be later and better than early.
And then there’s Transformers the other line Hasbro owns where they keep raising the prices to ridiculous levels for cheap hollow gappy figures with barely any paint, this is all enabled by a fanbase that will dogpile anyone who brings this up, they’d lose their collective minds if there was a TF reviewer as vocal as you are about legitimate criticisms
The consumers dictate what happens with luxury goods. No way around it.
Nice figure, bad character. Basically the Mary Sue of the JOE team. I bought one to customize into a ninja April O'Neil using the head from the original classified series Scarlett.
For some figures they actually started adding alt heads/hands but honestly that's the only big issue I have with Classified: Not enough of it. Still the best line Hasbro has going right now.
I don’t often collect any Joes, but most of the time I’m pleased with them. They’re never anything “amazing” to me outside of maybe Storm Shadow and Stalker but I’ll always say that Joes’ best will always be leagues above anything ML releases
hasbro owns gi joe though.. so they don't have to pay licensing..
That's correct
I bought a G.I. Joe Classified Zarana from Ollie's for $6, and I like it better than 90% of my Marvel Legends. Some of the line even have rubber wigs (like the old Elvis costume wigs) which I find hilarious and awesome at the same time.
With around 120 figures released in the Classified Series so far (and I have bought almost all of them), there have been mediocre Joes for sure, but Helix is about average for the line and I would say on the whole the entire line scores 8/10. As a Marvel Legends collector going back to Toybiz series 1, Legends right now averages 3.5/10 with every new release. The good figures are always a surprise and we get maybe two or three a year, whereas we get dozens of good Joes every year. The difference between the two Hasbro lines is absolutely astonishing and it's inexcusable what they have done with Legends over the past half decade. THANK YOU, Anthony, for making this video. The fact that you did it with an average figure and not a special deluxe release or convention exclusive speaks volumes. Your honesty and integrity have long made you one of my favorite reviewers, and those traits are essential if we're going to properly assess the stone-cold fact that the Legends team is incompetent and needs to be replaced, or at least be held to the same standard the Classified team is. Bravo, Anthony.
The marvel team are trash and always have been .
I have come to hate the drop down hips and hope it goes away soon. And I truly despise the single joint elbow/knee swivel on figures. Such a cop out. Star Wars is so bad about this and is why I don’t have many of those figures.
I bought Helix a while back. I'm satisfied with her. Her left leg wasn't straight because of bad packaging, but very solid figure. I'm loving the G.I. Joe line. Even the more expensive Joe figures come with a lot of stuff. I believe the Joe line is better because they are competing with Valaverse, which I think is making both lines better.
Competition is better business for all. Competition between rival companies increases the value of employees' human capital and can be a great motivating factor for employees, and ultimately, encourages innovation, thus motivating companies to create products people value at reasonable prices they can afford. Great review, Anthony!
Yea I started collecting GI joes recently. One thing fans always love about these figures is how you can store all the weapons they come with
Not always. And it's hilarious how upset some get when there's an extra weapon or something that isn't storable on the figure, instead of just being grateful and giving it to another character.
@@AlanDavidDoane I had no idea that upset some people lmao. Seems such a minor gripe
My snake eyes and the wolf came with a big blue box that fits a tonne more than came with the original figure
You should review The Last Ronin Leonardo. I've heard really great things about that figure.
Great review! I like your review because you have the specific point. Also, you focus on reviewing as the figure with anatomy. I hope you can review more GI Joe series!!
There will be more. Thanks
Awesome figure despite some of it's drawbacks and what a difference from the marvel legends. She looks great next to your figure line as well. I'm also not too familiar with this line but I've definitely picked some up due to the quality and the great character designs looking good for stop motion projects of mine. I even have the small 3.5 inch version of this character which looks neat and will still probably pick this scale up too
Since 2022, I’ve bought more Classified figures than I have ML. Some of them are army builders but they’re fantastic builders. They put in more effort with the figures and a ton of accessories plus no BaF piece when you get a figure specifically for army building.
I know the character. The design is strickly the same since the first release, in the 3 3/4" Rise of Cobra line. She should come with more firearms.
It’s my favourite thing when you dunk on Legends
That’s actually not shading, her hair is dyed
Love when you take the industry and Hasbros to task, great review 👍
Btw curious but what do you think of the McFarlane Knightfall Batman/Bane two pack?
Unique enough. Good way for people to get what they missed. Nice enough idea for weirdos like me to have another Batman
I agree, I like that Bane comes with fists this time around too which was the biggest flaw with the original Megafig release. The comic book/cel shading highlights don’t look the worst either
here's hoping it looks good in production
The character is older, from the video game from the movie Rise of Cobra. The original didn’t have those weapons though, so if they were pulled straight from cyber punk it wouldn’t surprise me
I love that prototype
love the gi joe figures. i have the posed in a display going against neca predators.
Would you be interested in reviewing the beefy mullet Superman "Collector Edition" from McFarlane Toys? Considering you're a big fan of the DC Universe Classics Mullet Supes.
I didn't have any plans to buy it unfortunately
For some reason Hasbro gi joe department is better than marvel department.
How much does licensing cost?
It's different for every license. Usually a small percentage of expected profits
To be fair Joes have been cost cut twice lol this isn't the best figure to show Marvel Legends fan what they can do... Their recent figures are getting back to what the line started as though, From the Falcon wave you can see and feel the costs being cut lol.
And yet it's still miles ahead of marvel legends
@@AnthonysCustoms Yup but could be better still! Check out Retro Scarlett.
It's a good figure, but the limited range of motion is insane 🤦🏼♂️ we need a toy veteran or something to help hasbro fix all their future figures. Please! 🙏
You should review the new Gi Joe retro Scarlett next its even better than this one but spectacular review as always 🏆
Completely agree. Scarlett is on point and needs to be the standard for female Joe figures as well as for accessories.
Wish they would stop giving us warped gummy guns though, it's annoying.
@@SuperAllelujah Yeah, that sucks too.
Hi Anthony ,u getting the Zabu wave?
Yes
Not gonna lie, Im getting this to make cyberpunk mantis arms
Classified continues to blow just about everything else Hasbro does out of the water.
This isn't even one of the better figures (she's fine, especially for a fairly obscure character, but nothing special).