Skeletron Red Shadows Commander & Red Shadows Assassin Skeledrones 💀 Grind Stone Toys

[@MTB214]

Cool figures! Thanks for sharing

[@aviansavage6338]

I appreciate that. I have more figures to show off,I'm trying to get out at least 1 new video and short a day

[@KaylMacLaren]

I guess the latest thing I "collected" is a kit bash of John Crichton from FARSCAPE from two 90s Star Wars figures that I just finished... I do really like the "invader" Skeletron, the gold reminds me of the Eagle Force figures.

[@aviansavage6338]

That was a Eagle Force figure with a Skeletron head on it. Kitbashed figures are completely awesome. The stores around me, the toy isiles, are pretty quiet. I guess they are waiting for the December releases. No idea if there is any surprises for this December

[@KaylMacLaren]

I wouldn't doubt it. It's practically September, stores'll probably start pushing out the Christmas stuff soon.

[@Sleesus]

They're out of stock now. I know because about a few days ago I went on the site and there were 5 and then 4 and then 3 and then 2 left in stock within the span of a few minutes before I could sit down and place an order for 3 of them. I'm fine with two, saved me money at least lmao. They apperently still have SOME but they're relegating them to con booth only sales from what I saw in the update they posted after the figures sold out. I''m really glad I managed to get this figure. Missed out on the initial release and restock of the standard retro wolf trooper but I got two of this one. Was going to use the second as my wolf trooper but I also wanted two retro wolf troopers alongside the skeletron and the figure's sold out so I'm not sure what to do now. Not paying ebay scalper prices for this so I hope they do a second production run at some point in time. I found out the retro wolf trooper helmet fits on marauder and eagle force heads (the ones without large hair or irregular shapes) and so I've been using the helmet from the one I've opened I'm keeping as skeletron on one of my modern wolf troopers. Might use the modern wolf helmet on a marauder suit body to make some kind of masked mafia/security guy. My backpack on the one I opened seems slightly warped because the sword and double bladed weapon both kinda stretch the backpack plastic and go in with too much force compared to what i've seen online. Emphasizing once again I haven't opened the second one yet so I don't know if the other one has the same issues or not. Before this skeletron box variant of the figure went up on the site I actually found and got a "black major customs" skeletron from 2017 for the same as this one's MSRP used on ebay. That one's basically just an o ring gi joe troop builder figure repro ( think it's either a steel brigade or some kind of pilot ) with a silver recast of the OG palitoy skeletron head as it's head. Speaking of heads I hope at some point they make a modern attachment point variant of this skeletron head as I think it's a bit more striking than the modern styled skeleton robot heads they came up with. Also should maybe mention I have a custom recast of a muton head I bought off someone that I'm going to try and find a body for. It'll be a lot cheaper than importing the OG figure, and since I got a kind of tight budget that bit of money saved via the creative process makes all the difference in the world. Really rambling comment I know but I've been going down the red shadows rabbit hole too lmao. I have a small squad forming of these guys between the eagle force ones I managed to get before they sold out and the retro and modern styled skeletron figures.

[@aviansavage6338]

Thank you very much. I so appreciate your help with that information. I love finding these figures into my collection. I wish that the Red Shadows line was introduced into the TV cartoon show. But I definitely have to Thank Black Major toys for the many cool versions that have added to the 3.75 line. It actually got me excited about G I Joe again. I definitely feel more armies or factions of other teams definitely make me think that my G I Joe and Lanard figures are worth revisiting. I have to say I was excited to know there was a V Visitors line made,,,I was like yes, what other properties can Black Major do with G I Joe bodies. Other types of villains and good guys could be made and be able to fit into my Monster Force collection as well. Thank you for that information and knowing I'm not the only one going down a action figure 🐰 🕳