tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8607162899803883062.post7786272895632719453..comments2023-12-18T21:04:53.693-05:00Comments on Toys and Tomfoolery: Alexx Shorts: 30th Cobra Trooper (12/8/11)Alexxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09467443844522666834noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8607162899803883062.post-24978140037973753642017-06-19T23:42:35.197-04:002017-06-19T23:42:35.197-04:00Oh, no that was Past Alexx! I don't agree wit...Oh, no that was Past Alexx! I don't agree with that old statement - those old Troopers are a goddamn dumpster fire. The hands, the arms, the articulation, the everything everything everything uuuuugh.<br /><br />I'm glad I injected that idea all that time ago! I had sort of forgotten about it myself until I reposted this review. <br /><br />Well, it was the 80's, so "Russia is the badguy" was kind of the THING, back then, wasn't it?Alexxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09467443844522666834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8607162899803883062.post-72192750787828989362017-06-19T17:44:27.242-04:002017-06-19T17:44:27.242-04:00"It's not like they're suddenly crap ..."It's not like they're suddenly crap when compared to these guys"<br />You're being too nice here, so, yes. Yes, they are crap. Throw them all in the trash. I'd rather own twenty 1982 straight-arm Troopers than one 25th Trooper. But that doesn't matter, because 30th Trooper is here to save the day. Or ruin it, I guess, because they're Cobra.<br /><br />But hey, y'know, I'd latched onto the idea of the Troopers being the sort of "badass mercenaries" compared to Vipers, and I'd forgotten where I'd read that concept first. I guess it was this review! I like how you can peg the RPG into the Trooper's back to give them a "loaded with firepower" look. <br /><br />Oh yeah and I think it's still pretty weird, but also cool, how the standard Trooper armament is a Soviet sniper rifle. Like, that's a VERY specific choice, and I wonder how they decided on that back in the 80s. It seems like they put a lot of thought into stuff like that, so I'm sure they had some reason. (The officer came with a Soviet gun, too, so it was probably "communists.")Draculahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00587852177919783864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8607162899803883062.post-63683184880126512872017-06-06T22:52:23.861-04:002017-06-06T22:52:23.861-04:00All the PoC/30th/50th Cobra trooper needs are bett...All the PoC/30th/50th Cobra trooper needs are better Webgear/chest rigs (like say the wonderful Retaliation Beachhead's) and an AK rifle instead of the undersized Dragunov Sniper rifle.Dr Synhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11662331056153128519noreply@blogger.com