Super7 G.I.JOE Ultimates Crimson Guard Figure
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00:00I see extensive enterprises wanted extra accessories with their figures here's a
00:04look at new Super 7 GI Joe Ultimates Crimson Guard Elite Trooper
00:30these are no mere Cobra Troopers the Cobra Crimson Guard are the highly
00:34trained elite vanguard of Cobra forces and one of the most serious threats to
00:38GI Joe this seven-inch highly articulated GI Joe Ultimates Cobra
00:42Crimson Guard features detailed sculpting and premium paint detail
00:45based on the GI Joe animated series and comes with interchangeable heads and
00:49hands and multiple accessories a squad of these made to order Crimson Guard
00:53Ultimates are domination I don't know is Zaymon and Tomax now enlisting the help
00:57of Super 7 while we try to figure that all out let's take the tape measure and
01:01see how tall the brand new GI Joe Ultimates Crimson Guard stands I
01:04actually found this over at Entertainment Earth if you guys are
01:06interested provide the link down below in the video description that same link
01:09will save you 10% on anything that's currently in stock the Crimson Guard is
01:13gonna stand at 7 inches in height or the figure is gonna be about 18
01:17centimeters tall and to think under all our noses Cobra has been amassing a
01:20large army consisting of Cobra Troopers and Cobra bats Cobra bats kind of also
01:25reminds me that we haven't really gotten much in the way of the 88 series
01:28run a Cobra Viper would be ideal or perhaps a Strato Viper leading them all
01:32into charge of course we got ourselves major blood although major blood tends
01:35to only deal with more of the Cobra Troopers not as much with the Crimson
01:38Guards sucks that we don't have any apples to chuck at it but one of the
01:42included accessories with the Crimson Guard in a small more harmless state is
01:45the germ taken from the episode the same name the germ starts as bacteria X and a
01:49growth serum just happens to be these two test tubes right here and when the
01:52two are dangerously mixed together it creates this globulous mess it starts
01:56granted small but only its size fool you it gets to the point where it starts
01:59overtaking entire cities I think the Geo Joe's realized that pectin may be the
02:03thing that defeats it and they start chucking and shooting thousands of
02:07apples at this thing till finally disintegrates I think at one point
02:10airtight and a Cobra eel are battling inside the germ I hope I can only
02:15describe that as good as the episode actually is it's one of my favorite GI
02:18Joe episodes but though in a small state like this I kind of wish that this
02:21could have been done in a translucent plastic but at least they've purple
02:24little bubbles there in lighter gray you got some lighter pinks added in there as
02:27well the fact that we are even talking about the germ is when they include
02:30accessories thank you super 7 one of the other things that also come in clear
02:34with the Crimson Guard is a partially eaten donut and as well a mug of I'm
02:38guessing coffee perhaps it could even be hot chocolate probably not anything I'm
02:43really gonna I'm actually more excited for the fact that we get ourselves
02:45bacteria X and the growth serum and the germ then I am a partially eaten donut
02:49and a coffee cup when he also included accessories as a reference that only
02:53maybe the casual fans will actually recognize is that we get ourselves the
02:57Fred head the Fred head Fred Brocka was actually part of like the identical
03:02Cobra agents project where they were starting to like just make clones clone
03:05copies of Fred we get ourselves Fred's head now the thing that's interesting
03:09about that though is I'm gonna bring back in Duke Duke we had brought in a
03:12couple of times earlier it's a very similar style of head is what we get
03:15with Fred realizing I'm rhyming several times I'm sure the glasses could come
03:20off actually the glasses is one thing with Fred's head you're gonna have a
03:23hard time with when you're putting it on top of the ball joint here I find a
03:27couple of times this has happened where I put pressure here and not realizing it
03:30right away I almost break the glasses off on Fred's head stop rhyming one of
03:35the other included accessories though with the Crimson Guard is you get
03:38yourself an unmasked helmeted head sculpt nothing at all would be
03:41interesting me to swap out the heads that he has if he did want to see what
03:45it looks like you just basically pop the head off the ball joint replace it
03:48with a head that you want to use so again you got the unmasked head kind of
03:51looks like someone you would see from Mortal Kombat and of course there's also
03:54Fred's head but let's put back the superior head we're gonna be popping it
03:59back into place of course with the Crimson Guard you also get yourself some
04:02gripping hands I I've are in preparation to getting this review started I swapped
04:06the hands that he had out the figure comes also include well he comes with a
04:09trigger firing finger hand on this side stop pointing it also comes with a hand
04:13for better holding the undercarriage of the gun but if you did want to happen to
04:17have a trigger finger hand on this side then they also include that as well the
04:21figure also comes included a pair of closed fists like that like those I
04:24think it gets a couple of blasters now I guess the smaller pistol when you're
04:28looking at the figure two and you spinning them around there is actually a
04:31place on the side there's a hole right here now I thought for a second that
04:35that would be good for holding the pistol and yet it doesn't there's
04:39nothing really that I can see at least that's supposed to suggest why that that
04:42hole is there unless there's a holster that came off and I'm just looking
04:46around the packaging I don't see the holster if I happen to find that holster
04:50I mean we'll probably could be coming back revisit that before we get to the
04:52final looks of the figure I would imagine that there probably was a
04:55holster there at one point to accommodate the pistol and I just don't
04:58happen to have it on the side of my figures like one of the things though I
05:04at least can say I have is more trademark kind of Crimson Guard gun
05:08notably by the fact it has the little blade on the bottom of it cast here in
05:12the black plastic it's cast in the exact same black plastic as the pistol
05:15QQQ and because I've already taken the liberty of swapping out the hands you
05:19just easily take the gun and put it into his hand and because he doesn't grant
05:22grant unfortunately have double hinges in his elbows but he has more than enough
05:25if you want to hold the undercarriage of the gun with the other hand yeah there
05:28you go that's what the Crimson Guard would look like with that lastly of all
05:33the things we've talked about the figure does also come included not to remove
05:36his hand pop that back in place there we go the Crimson Guard also comes
05:41included with speaking of trademark things like no more trademark than this
05:44the figure does also have his backpack now with the original vintage toy this
05:48would have only just been plugged on the back of the figures torso with the hole
05:51there oh this at least does have straps a little less painful for the Crimson
05:56Guard just put his arms back like you're dressing a small toddler how small are
06:01those toddlers that you dress probably not the size of a GI Joe figure but
06:05basically you're just gonna bring the arms back like this feed the straps up
06:08the arm like this until finally you have this attached in place you may want
06:12to even adjust the straps Emily obviously it does add a little bit of
06:17extra things on the front of the figures body I mean the original vintage toy
06:19would have only had this just plugged in place but love the idea that they
06:22actually include the backpack I would just feel really that the Crimson Guard
06:25was lacking something if he didn't have this there's a Cobra symbol there right
06:28in the middle nicely sculpted overall it kind of reminds me of the arena of sports
06:32I don't know why I always feel the need to reference the arena of sports let's
06:36just move the arms back down here just so we can get this off again I'm like
06:40looking around here I don't see a holster I'm gonna have to even go back
06:43and check when I was first unboxing this guy maybe the holster was supposed to be
06:47there it came off I don't think so I don't think so I'm gonna have to go back
06:51and review the footage again anyways though while I'm wondering the whereabouts
06:54though of that holster let's get a closer look at the defaulted head sculpt
06:57for the Crimson Guard ideally it could be really anybody underneath that head
07:00whether it's a Fred head or not I overall like the head although I do kind
07:05of feel like the front of the face is a little bit bulbous I feel like it should
07:09be a little bit smaller in size I don't know something's proportionally throwing
07:12things off for me it's fairly cartoon accurate for what it is of course you
07:16got the little blue highlights there the accents there on the top of the helmet
07:18some blue accents also added there to the front of its chest it's a step
07:22certainly up from the traditional Cobra Trooper which I just happen again bring
07:26back in the Cobra Trooper it's buried by debris there you guys can see again like
07:30the Cobra Trooper was a very more simple blue costumed character for Cobra
07:34Commander the Crimson Guard certainly more the elite I hope though we are
07:38going to be getting a Tomac Tomax and Zaymont obviously those two the Crimson
07:42guards to leave the Cobra Troopers Cobra symbol there is nicely printed there on
07:45the front you have this one little thing on the side that would be like also what
07:49it would have in the cartoon it's just sort of I don't know what you would call
07:52it just like a little bit of roping that's on the side of its shoulders you
07:55want to really be careful when it comes to rotating his arms around a couple of
07:58times I've done this where when I went to move the arm out I kind of clip this
08:01with my thumb and thought for a second what am I doing what am I doing what am
08:04I doing I want to make sure I don't pull that off in the process you want to
08:07make sure you're doing that as well it's not molded actually to the body it's a
08:10separate floating piece just be careful of that of course the belt is also
08:13something else down below that is a separate piece from the rest of his body
08:16nice color overall for the colors for the red I mean you got the blue there
08:19panel lined on the side all those very accurate to the way it looked in the
08:22cartoon I also like that they sculpted this in and just didn't feel the need to
08:25rush in a few painted in lines they actually sculpted it and that's nice
08:29little touch I've got the figures articulation though while of course the
08:32germ is in the background let's just move everything out of the way here the
08:35head sculpts gonna be on a ball joint so it rotates the head all the way around
08:38you have to do it as slow as I'm doing right now the head looks down that far
08:42and looks up you can also move it back and forth as well uh-huh uh-huh as to
08:46the arms again just be careful of the roping on the side here this one arm
08:49rotates all the way around which you also believe yeah this other arm rotates
08:52around the exact same way it also hinges out I would also be amiss to not mention
08:56the fact that this that does also have a little Cobra patch there on the sides of
08:59his arm nice little touch and I'll actually when you bring the arm up like
09:02this it connects to that of the shoulder I'm sure it's just intentional
09:05the there's a swivel of course in the bicep a swivel there as well a single
09:09hinge which again I know a lot of people just don't like the idea that they put
09:11single hinges they really need to put double hinges on these elbows they keep
09:14saying you were we're doing it for seamless bodies seamless bodies bunny
09:18ears bunny ears I think it's just a way to actually save the cost of not
09:21producing a figure with double hinges in the elbows I mean with this with a
09:24single hinge at least it does the job that needs to do but if you are one
09:28that's a stickler for double hinges on the elbows you're gonna be really
09:30disappointed that's this guy doesn't have it and really like all the GI Joe
09:33ultimate figures don't have them either there's a swivel there on the forearm a
09:37swivel in the hand that hinges back and forth as well upper torso is gonna be on
09:41a ball joint this has happened to me a couple of times it's not broken it seems
09:45to pop off frequently from this ball joint and I don't know why every time I
09:50keep the pop in it back in a place I think it's maybe if you just move the
09:53torso far too far back that seems to be the thing that always pops it off the
09:56ball joint at least it's something that's serviceable and fixable just pop
10:00it back onto the ball joint but a and now you've got the ball joint right
10:03there legs split out there on hinge joints you can take the legs and move
10:06forward you can move them back there's a swivel there at the top of the thigh
10:08single hinge knee lower lower rotation not really all that much there but it
10:12does have an ankle pivot back and forth and a nice ankle rocker there as well
10:16you know I again like I like so far what we're seeing here with the the Cobra
10:21troopers but I can't help but feel like really the Cobra bat seems so now out of
10:25place because of course we got ourselves the Cobra trooper and we got ourselves
10:27the Crimson Guard both from like the more earlier runs of GI Joe and also
10:31like smack dab in there like one of the earliest waves we got ourselves a Cobra
10:35bat I feel like we need to get some of the later 80s characters you know like a
10:39doctor mind better like a serpent or someone along to go with the back as I
10:42just feel like the bat is that a place right now in my shelf these two
10:45characters work well and together of course the Crimson Guard and the Cobra
10:48trooper are all ones that would kind of inhabit the world of GI Joe during the
10:51early 80s run of the cartoon episodes but then you got the Cobra bat it just
10:55seems so out of place speaking of Cobra troopers though I mean now that we have
10:59ourselves three other ones I would write fairly high up on my list would be like
11:02a tele viper I like we'll love to get a tele viper a viper would be all like one
11:07of my all-time favorite Cobra troopers even like a strata viper would be fun as
11:11well what are the Cobra vipers or Cobra troopers would you guys like also like
11:15to see from super 7 let me know down below the comment section but though for
11:18the Crimson Guard all in all not a bad-looking figure I feel like he didn't
11:22necessarily need some of the accessories that he has I mean like I don't know
11:24anybody that would probably say to themselves I need to have the amassed
11:27unhelmeted head sculpt or even like Fred's head for that matter which again
11:31just kind of for me like looks like Duke would they have need necessarily need to
11:35include that no but but the saving grace in all this is the fact that they
11:39actually include the germ that's one of my favorite accessories we've gotten so
11:42far from the super 7 GI Joe's line as we now jump over whoa what are you doing
11:45bacteria X don't you know you're gonna grow a germ of city size while the
11:49Crimson Guard is making poor choices in life one poor choice unfortunately was
11:52taking this guy out of his plastic prison and not realizing right away that
11:55he was missing his leg holster thinking it was first gonna be black I looked
11:59online and it looks like it's a little loop of red plastic very similar to the
12:02plastic that they molded for his leg I would imagine that that's the thing that
12:06holds his pistol in place unfortunately though mine is missing I say that now
12:10until look until I look at the footage that I've recorded earlier and realized
12:14that maybe he came out of the packaging and I may have banged it if that's the
12:17case I'm gonna have to comb the area all around my camera here to see if I can
12:21find that little bit of plastic no harm no foul I mean it's not necessarily
12:24gonna be something I'm gonna display with the figure it bothers me more so
12:26the fact that there's that little square peg that's now missing there I mean
12:29obviously if you have picked up this figure for yourself let me know if yours
12:32is also there or if yours is missing too the character does come and close some
12:36decent accessories some of which though I mean it generally is the lay of the
12:39land when these super 7 releases that it's fine to look at things and say oh
12:43cool he comes with a donut oh that's neat he comes with a cup of coffee will
12:46I ever really display a Crimson Guard with either of those things no what I
12:49will though display him with is the germ small in size but don't again let his
12:53size fool you GI Joe's have to beat it with apples I know I've kind of given
12:58away the episode I mean to be fair the episode came out in the early 80s I
13:00don't think by now a spoiler I think we've passed past that area of spoiler
13:05territory but yeah if you guys want to check that out one of my favorite GI Joe
13:09episodes they battle a germ with giant with apples if I by the way though if
13:13you one thing you guys are interested is to get your hands on the Crimson Guard
13:16here I did actually find this one at entertainment earth same place that I
13:19grabbed also a major blood and also roadblock so if you guys are interested
13:23the stock is available I think on all of these the only one I haven't yet
13:26picked up is covergirl I don't think entertainment has it yet but I keep
13:30checking back to their site and when they do I will also be ordering cover
13:33girl as well what do you guys think of Crimson Guard let me know down below in
13:36the comment section if you are also an avid GI Joe fan what are their Cobra
13:40troopers would you like to see super 7 release next I already say like Viper
13:44Viper by far is my favorite but I think they could also have a little bit of fun
13:47with a tele Viper where you'd be able to room with remove the goggles and have
13:50different words on the front of it and it can be a fun release if you guys did
13:54enjoy this video do a solid oh throw it alike you guys want to stick around for
13:56more so even if you're inside of a germ or not throwing apples at it I hope you
14:01guys are certainly gonna be coming back to this channel keeping your peepers
14:04peeled at all times and as always thanks for watching see you guys next time
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