With all this new product hitting, seems like old friend of GeneralsJoes “Alexx” has his hands full! This weekend, we’re getting a feature on the Wal-Mart exclusive Outpost Defender w/ Roadblock and Tripwire. Excellent choice. 🙂
Check out the original thread on JBL here, and take a peek at the gallery below as well!
This one definitely tops my list of most wanted from these latest Wal-Mart exclusives. Love the Outpost Defender, and LOVE that Roadblock. Tripwire is a bit sketchy, very obviously using the old Tiger Force paint apps, only done up in the slightly overdone black and silver movie paint scheme, which doesn’t look nearly as good. I guess I don’t really understand…if Roadblock can be done in various shades of brown and green, why not Tripwire? That would give the vintage fans their Tiger Force homage they want, while still getting some neat movie product out there, too. I can understand the desire to use the movie paint scheme, but if Roadblock can be in different, more jungle themed stuff, why not the other figure? It would bring the whole set together a lot more cohesively, and this is coming from someone who normally doesn’t give a crap about old school homages…
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If you get Grand Slam and Tripwire (and the upcoming Target Ace)together it looks like Hasbro is going for a common uniform look for tech specialists that could almost pass for Greenshirts. No harm or foul there if you are buying all or more than one of each.
I was thinking of using Tripwire as a substitute for Blades of I can’t get my hands on the con set.
Oh, I didn’t know the Tripwire sorta followed the Tiger Force scheme. Yeah, with that in mind, I’m not sure why they went with silver (you’ll see it again in Grand Slam in the L.A.W. set; he’s silver again. They also gave him Flash’s hair color…)
I still like the colors for Tripwire, but it certainly would have brought it up even farther if they had made him match Roadblock.
This set is excellent – best of the four. I have zero interest in the two Cobra sets, maybe on the Hawk/Grand Slam set.
Roadblock is just pure awesome. I like the paint job on Tripwire – different enough from the original that he can become a new character.
This one is either the best or second best, imo. The one I bought, the Cobra survailance post, is pretty neat. Keep in mind I didn’t have either figure, so that helped make it enticing, as the others of these.
But in general small playsets like these are really neat, and I’d like to see some new ones. I’d much rather have 8 sets of these size that I could scatter about and make a whole battlefield than one of those $130 mobile Pits!
I like this one and the Cobra survailance post which I bought. Not having either figure already upped the value for me personally, but I’d prefer eight sets of this sort to one of those $130 mobile Pit monstrosities for setting up a battlefield.