{"id":17881,"date":"2014-11-14T00:20:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T05:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=17881"},"modified":"2024-12-31T16:46:55","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T21:46:55","slug":"gi-joe-kre-o-tomax-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/11\/gi-joe-kre-o-tomax-review\/","title":{"rendered":"GI Joe Kre-O Tomax review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Series 3 of Hasbro's GI Joe Kre-O<\/i> blind bags have a lot of very cool characters <\/a>to offer. But it took so long for them to come out that I was no longer carrying around my cheat sheet! I always use our decoder<\/a>, and write down which numbers I want to get, but I'd given up hope of ever finding them in the wild. So I gambled on my memory, and picked up figure #04: Tomax!<\/p>\n

The Joes don't get cute bios the way Transformers do, but come on, you know Tomax: he and his brother's psychic connection is already silly enough that there isn't a lot of room to soften things without getting too ridiculous.<\/p>\n

Tomax gets a new piece of silver shoulder armor, which will be nice if they ever get around to making a Zartan<\/a> Kreon. He has complicated tampographs on his legs, to create those red and silver cobra-head kneepads the Paolis always wore. He has a complex silver belt painted on, and a red and silver codpiece. His red sash is present here, both on the front and back of his chest block - it runs over his right shoulder, and there's a silver Cobra sigil over his heart. They even remembered to make his left glove bigger than his right! The only flaw? A scar painted on his cheek - that was Xamot's thing.<\/p>\n

He comes with a gun, of course, but that's de rigueur for this line. What's really cool is that he comes with two grappling hooks, a length of black string, and a gray handle that can slide back and forth along it. That's a nod to the zipline the original 1985<\/a> versions came with - how fun!<\/p>\n

It's kind of ridiculous that Hasbro would do Tomax, but not Xamot<\/a>. He'd darn well be in one of the upcoming series, or there's going to be trouble!<\/p>\n

<i>And now, some more OAFEry:<\/i><\/H5>