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G.I. Joe Valor vs. Venom Green Shirt Infantry Division 6-Pack

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this is a great package to pick up for the hardcore childhood GI JOE fan like me, or great for a JOE fan bridging the gap to a younger generation.

Make no mistake, GI JOES are the substitute of choice for the long overdue and tired green army man, and its good to see these vanguard action figures from the eighties making a return just in time for the next generation of boys to play with.

whats great about these guys in particular is that they all look like normal everyday army men, with the same uniform and gear, as opposed to the traditional GI JOE rule of every man being a combat specialist and having a radically different look to his gear.

this uniformity is comfortable and fantastic for a military family raising kids on base, as it provides alot of familiarity with the real military environment that they might not get from the normal 80s 'lone wolf' GI JOES.

the joes themselves have their skin and hair colored differently to represent a handful of different ethnicities.

How many times have you read the comics or seen the old tv show and seen about a load of these guys just running around? Almost everytime they were in the background somewhere. Well now we can give the GI Joe team the backup they need. You get 6 greenshirts that each has a different military specialty (no none of them are on KP duty either). Now there are some good things and some bad things about the set that kinda throws you off. First I have to throw this part in there because in a way, it annoys me but I guess its not too bad. Ok if you look at the picture of the figures you'll see 2 dark figures that look identical, as well as 2 other figures sharing the same mold, one with red hair and the other with brown hair. The other 2 figures are a black haired guy with a mustache and a blonde guy. Well first off if you tried to compare these guys to the filecards on the back you can't since all the guys on the filecards are clean shaven and have helmets covering their hair color (funny thing is if you look real close to the file cards, 2 of the guys appaer to be blonde with the hair you barely see). It only annoys me cause we have a marksman, communications, vehical, counter intelligence, heavy weapons, and infantry specialist that I have no idea which guy they go to. Though I made up my mind who is who (blonde is leader of this group while the 2 dark guys are twins) other people might want to know a bit about them. You can put on the filecard a code name for these guys, but as I said earlier, hard to match up filecards and figures. My other gripe is that one of these guys is suppose to be a communications specialist but there is no computer or any telecommunications equipment here at all. You do get those is all the guys in basic green with the same helmets, same standard backpack, all 6 with the same rifle and a bunch of other weapons. Yeah I know I put this set down a bit, but those don't matter since this set is still a winner with the load of weapons, endless possibilities for these guys, plus a customizers dreams since you can replace heads if you don't want the same guys or even paint these guys cobra blue and make them Cobra troops (which i started doing to one set I have and they look great). Definately check this set out and get your hands on it before they are gone!

This is a real american hero toy. Valor vs. Venom green shirt infantry division 6-pack. the set comes with six different action figures from all races of people. Weapons and accessories are very abundant with this set. For example, every soilder in this set comes with a green helmet,black rifle,back pack,figure stand for the figure to be displayed. in addtion to that, there is "addition weapons for these green shirt guys to use as well" or you may want to "arm some of your action figurs laying around with some of these "spare weapons".To make them more interesting,you can take the heads off the body and put them on other bodies of the green shirts or spare joes laying around.the possiblities with these action figures seems endless. a child or colletor alike can never truly get bored with them. now that is impressive. The action figures are fully articulated.file cards come with them that talks about the figure. what makes this set quite unique,you can assign a name to each one of these green shirt gi joe soilders. Unlike the other gi joes that have names to them,these really don't have any so,it is up to the colletor to assign names to them that's neat!. The set really can relate to all races that have fought and died in the armed forces of gi joe. Now that in itself makes the toy educational.So it really is teaching the children something as well. this is one of the most impressive sets they have made to date. I would highly recommend it. the child is not only playing with toys he or she is being educated as well. Now that is a great toy A+ for this toy

As a fan of the old 80's Joe cartoon, I can recall hordes of these 'Green Shrirts' running around in the background. Finally, Hasbro has given the backbone rank-and-file their own figures.

On the whole, these six figures are much like any of the others being put out today in the Valor vs. Venom and the new Real American Hero lines in terms of quality. In other words, they are more likely than any other 3 3/4 inch figure to hold up to years of harsh play.

As for uniqueness, I'd have liked to see a bit more variety and new equipment. 90% of the weapons in this set are repros from the 80's line- there are only 2 new weapons that I could determine. Even the backpacks are copies and the body molds appear to be retreads as well. However, the head sculpts are new and the helmets, as best as I can tell, are new. One major knock: though all of these six soldiers are supposed to have a specialty, such as communications, there is no equivalent gear supplied for them. That is, a communications trooper has no radio, an anti-armor trooper has no bazooka, etc.

All this said, I would have to recommend this set to the adult collector as well as to the child who will play with it as it was intended. It allows much flexibility in the naming of the troopers as well as the possible scenarios they can be put in to back-up their veteran Joe brothers. Who knows, maybe these guys are actually Cobra troopers...Now go get yours before they are sold out!

THis new GIJOE 6 pack of figures is splendid.......I haven't picked it up from toys r us or got it on EBAY yet but I have all of the other ones since Hasbro started releasing these in 2002. (...) I love GIJOE and have been a fan and have hundreds of 80's and 90's figures in my collection.......AND I AM OVER 13


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JEROD <end of the brainwashers>