The great guys over at Tri-Gate have always really impressed me with the level of work they put into the 3 3/4″ scale. The sculpting, detail, and articulation rivals that of many Hasbro offerings I’ve seen, and I’ve often longed to try some of their product, but just somehow have never gotten around to it.
That might have to change.
With the JoeCon 2010 set featuring the Red Shadows, obviously a big focus is on the European enemy of Action Force, but lots of that attention is directed towards the 80’s model, somewhat overlooking what Devils’ Due did to update the group for the twenty-first century. Well, not one to forget G.I. Joe history, Tri-Gate has pulled out all the stops on some absolutely INSANE offerings that are pulled straight from the pages of Devils’ Due! These figures look absolutely sick. I never would have thought the DDP updated designs for the Shadows would have translated to cool toys, but damn, I was wrong.
Dave from TriGate has been gracious enough to share some in progress work with the Action Force/Red Shadow junkies over on BloodfortheBaron, and I’m mirroring some images below. Warning, these will almost make you love the Devils’ Due Red Shadows! Almost. Damn cool stuff.
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Really impressive looking sculpting and they translate the comic images very nicely. The Tri-Gate store is currently down as they build up their stock, but keep your eyes on ’em, as the next round of pre-orders starts shortly. Big thanks to the always enthusiastic jamarmiller for pointing this out to me in an email! Good stuff, man.
That’s pretty killer. Still want some new-sculpt Red Shadows, but maybe I’ll have to just order those heads and make my own.
Now that’s what I wanted to see, (25th styled Red Shadows)…….Thanks for sharing that story with us.
This is totally awesome. Thanks so much for posting this Justin. I’ve been pretty bummed about the upcoming Red Shadow figures as they just feel “old” to me. This will at least help me make them look how they should of looked all along. Great find!
isnt this awesome! man Im so glad you put this up on your page,it so deserves a HUGE following. THANK YOU for spreading the word on these awesome toys!
first round of parts are up, with more to come I am told!
http://trigatecreations.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=51
Yes! These are some wicked cool sculpts…And WHY aren’t these guys on Hasbro’s payroll/design team?! They should be, but then Hasbro should also try releasing some Red Shadows offerings amongst some of their upcoming product, for those of us here Stateside-ish without direct access to the European market figures.
I’d love to see more Red Shadows stuff as well as more of the DDP troops created for Serpentor’s Coil faction. If I could afford these guys it would be like Christmas to the extreme. Even more to th epoint, if Hasbro would release cool stuff like this, I could almost forgive them for RoC…well, the toyline anyway.
Thanks to both Justin and Jamar for sharing this!