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In recent years, GI Joe has really upped the ante for its toy lines, giving updated sculpts and improved articulation to a whole cast of nostalgic characters. I watched GI Joe as a kid, and though it was a far cry from the comics it was the cartoon and its outlandish plots that shaped what I remember of that franchise.

I’m not a huge fan, but I remember it. And that’s half the battle!

You know what I don’t remember? Anthony ‘Flash” Gambello.

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Animated Arcee owners have been reporting stress marks on her hands, and while most figured this was just because of a tight fit with the swords, people are starting to report the problem right out of the package.

My Arcee has this problem, even though the swords fit fine if you slide them in from the top (which I do). I even very very lightly shaved off some plastic from the handles, just to make it less stressful.

So did my Arcee have stressmarks right out of the box? I don’t know. I didn’t even look until Luke pointed it out.

Thankfully, it’s hardly a stress mark at all, and is just a faint discoloration at the base of her thumb.

So what’s the moar you know about Arcee about?

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Welcome to a special Christmas edition of The MOAR You Know!

While browsing through a recent Walmart circular,  I found a particularly unsettling Christmas Ad. It’s a thing so disturbing, it may take multiple viewings to fully grasp the depth of it.

Are you ready?

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Potty Humor.

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Storm Surge is a redeco of Cybertron Short Round,  and as such he’s a triple changer.

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Step 1, Put your stereotype in the box.

“Oh no he dih’int!“

“He done did!”

“I say, wot, were you expecting some spotted dick joke? I can assure you lads I’m quite above that sort of tomfoolery.”

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Classics 2.0 \ Universe Hardhead really is a nice redeco of Onslaught, and while many have compared him to a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Party Wagon, few know the real truth behind the character.

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If you read reviews of ROTF Jetfire, you’ll hear about how the SR71 Blackbird mode is impressive (it is), how it’s friggin huge (it is), and how it’s basically a robot stuck under a plane (it kind of is).

I say ‘kind of’ because it’s quite a bit of kibble, but it’s not entirely obvious that it’s a robot. He’s more complicated than Silverbolt, but the alt mode is almost completely separate from the robot. If things were detachable, you’d have a Big Convoy situation going on.

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When I collect transformers, most of the time I get them MISB, or Mint In Sealed Box. Often they’re that way because I get them from a store, but if I’m buying off of ebay I don’t mind paying a bit more for something hard to find if it’s been nicely preserved in package.

I can understand misb toy collectors for other lines, like action figures or hotwheels. It’s not for me, but I can understand it. Those things are nicely displayed in package already, and the main thing not being used is the articulation. But Transformers… Transformers are the rubiks cube of the toy world, leaving them misb is to ignore half of their design and most of their fun.

Once I get them, they don’t stay MISB for long… but some of them would like to.

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Hello again, dear readers, and welcome to another segment of The MOAR You Know. Today we’ll be examining mini figures and what they’re made of.

You might at first think “That’s easy! They’re made of chibi and cute with just a dash of awesome!”

The more sensible among you would answer, “plastic.”

While the first answer is acceptable, the second is not. Obviously you haven’t been paying attention, or you just weren’t raised on the likes of Lego.

But how many of us were raised on the likes of Lego, and never knew the interesting actuality of their composition, or the terrible truth of their secondary purpose?

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