Jul 19 2009, 12:41 AM
First up!
RoC's NITRO VIPER (aka MOTOR VIPER)
From what i learnt, they reused the Viper's thigh and the HISS Driver's arms and torso, but the head, lower legs and the vest is all new. When i compared the Nitro Viper to the Motor Viper, they are very similar, except for the paint job (Motor Viper's paint has sky blue on his hands and legs, and a silver plate face). It seems okay after a while i have this guy, but seriously, the figure doesn't appeal to me that much. I have to use my extra foot stand for him, as you would have noticed. No weapons whatsoever.
RATING: * out of *****
HoH's BEACHHEAD
I really loved Beachhead's head sculpt, and all his accessories. According to his field card, his military specialty isn't just as a ranger, but a Small Arms Armorer. The man has a lot of accessories and details. His vest shows that he packs up several ammo clips stocked from his vest, alongside with his extra side pack (one of the clip is removable from the side pack), 2 assault rifles, a berretta pistol (which is too big to fit into his gun holster), a crossbow (which nicely fit on his backpack) and a backpack. My only dissapointment is that his posability is hindered by his hips and legs so you can't bend his legs all the way to sit (same with all the variations of Fireflies out there) and his unremovable combat knife. Beachhead's paintjob is excellent, a lot of variations of color that fits well for a jungle camo. Dark green, muddy green, brown, black, a bit of grey and red for his rope climbing gear.
RATING: **** out of *****
RoC's SHIPWRECK
When i first saw this figure being shown in Hisstank forum, i seriously needed to get him. The Devil Due's version of Shipwreck's head is what i really love. Not the YMCA sailor man Shipwreck back in the 80s. The man comes with a surprising number of accessories. A Steyr like assault rifle (which looks kinda weird with very long scope), a handgun, a curved combat knife, 2 webbed flippers, an oxygen tank backpack (hollow from the bottom, which i hated), scuba goggles and polly, his parrot. Polly can only be perched onto the backpack's peg, not like the original figure where Polly can perch on his shoulder. So now Shipwreck can go all commando style in underwater, or remove his scuba gear for land assault. Figure's posability is surprisingly very well, i can pose him in any way fashion with no problems, whatsoever.
RATING: **** out of *****
RoC's M.A.R.S. OFFICER
I seriously like my bad guy grunts. And this guy really blows me away and that i really had to get him. Despite that his arms and legs are reused from the Neo Viper, it doesn't matter anyway. His accessories is decent enough, a strap to hold his handgun (handle's too big though, then again, the gun's too big too), a combat knife similar to Shipwreck's, a MP5 submachine gun (or some variant version of it with the elongated arm stock), removable helm. What i don't like about this figure is that, removing his helm, and underneath it, he wears a sort of a ski mask, that shows his eyes. He looks like he's bored. But i love the figure's posability and the color scheme seems to be alright to fit. At least he's not as bad as Resolute's Crimson Trooper Officer (only difference between the Trooper and the Officer is the Officer's helm with the reverse arrow plat). The MARS Officer has his own difference (despite the uniform's the same). Colors is alright, not as dull as the Nitro Viper. His foot stand is different than the rest of the RoC's foot stands. I noticed that there's 4 variations of foot stands (Duke's has a dog tag with his name and rank, the lego like foot stand as shown in Neo Viper's and Shipwreck, the 25th annivesary's footstand and the MARS boring footstand). The MARS set don't label the figures' names, plus that the pegs is a bit too far back, so the feet is hindered by the "step", so i'm a bit dissapointed.
RATING: *** out of *****
RoC's M.A.R.S. TROOPER
Now, the trooper is another story. He's the same thing, except with a different strap that holds his red grenades and 1 weapon. His assault rifle (i seriously doubt it is), is too damn big! Its so big, that the handle for the weapon can't fit his hands (it can, but you probably do more damage that way), so i had to replace it with my extra assault rifle from Resolute Duke's. I like the figure, i just hated the weapon that came along with it. Color scheme is nicely done, there's red, black and dark grey colors. Removing his helm is the same boring eyes look. Overall, he's okay, just not worth the value with the lack of accessories and a weapon that can't fit properly.
RATING: ** out of *****
RoC's NEO VIPER
At first, i hated his armor vest. But after a while, it grown onto me. Arms and legs is the same molds as the MARS figures. So posability is great. But the vest sort of blocks a bit to the arms. He comes along with 2 pulse rifles (i can't seem to fit his smaller pulse rifle to his hands, so i used the big one instead), a small pulse gun and a backpack with 2 pegs to hold the 2 pulse rifles. He looks very similar to the movie version, albeit just a bit weathered down colored. A bad point is that, underneath the backpack is hollowed. I see a trend going on with hollowed backpacks because Desert Ambush Duke's backpack is ALSO the same, as well as Shipwreck's. I also noticed that they don't bothered to paint it black underneath as well. So you get black on the top, and grey from under. Despite with the armor vest, he can still turn his head, not much though (the armor still hinders the neck). He also can't seem to hold the second handle as shown in the image below, a bad point. Overall, he's an okay figure to me, so i don't know whether if i wanna get more of this guys to make a squad.
RATING: *** out of *****
This post has been edited by Sadistic Reaper: Jul 19 2009, 01:48 AM
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