 Hello everybody hooded Cobra Commander 788 here welcome back to class of Fridays where we look at a GI Joe classified series figure every Friday this time we are looking at Flint I thought that made sense since we looked at Lady J last time Flint is a popular character He had many appearances in the GI Joe animated series and he had a good run in the GI Joe comic book series as well Most GI Joe fans will be very familiar with Flint. Let's take a look at the packaging The packaging has a window showing the action figure and accessories We have the logo GI Joe classified series Flint We have some artwork of the character here this artwork is pretty good But I do notice a difference between the art and the figure on the artwork This chest panel is green and the pouches below it are black on the figure that is reversed That artwork continues to the side panel and it looks pretty good It looks like Flint has a scar and that is reflected on the figure This is number 26 in the series and on the back of the box We have the generic poster artwork with see on other classified figures on the other side of the box We have these symbols which represent his specialties This one means he is a member of the United Federation of Planets. These are suppositories this means he is a fan of the movie crawl and this is a chess night piece Which is inaccurate because Flint only pawn in game of life Let's pull the figure out of the box and take a look at it Here is Flint outside of the box This figure is clearly inspired by the original Flint action figure from 1985 A lot of design elements are copied over This is Flint's iconic look We would recognize this as Flint even if it wasn't labeled as Flint Let's take a look at Flint's accessories Let's start with his beret The beret is black with a red beret flash looking very much like Flint And that beret is removable The beret is made of a soft flexible plastic which is great Previous GI Joe hats were made of a harder plastic and did not stay on the figure very well This works a lot better and fits more securely Flint's next accessory is his shotgun This is a callback to the original Flint shotgun accessory But it looks very different This shotgun is intricately detailed with gold and brown paint applications It has extra shotgun shells on one side And it has a hole in the barrel if you want to add blast effects The shotgun will fit in a holster on the back of the figure Based on the shape of the holster I believe it's supposed to fit this way There is a bit of an indent here for the trigger guard That looks like it would be a bit awkward to draw But I think it is supposed to fit that way I am happy to have storage on the figure for the accessory That's always a bonus Flint's final accessory is his pistol The pistol fits in a holster on the right leg The pistol itself is pretty generic looking It has a square barrel for square bullets It's a Liefeld special Flint has a couple extra pieces that you could count as accessories That are not really intended to be removed He has a flak jacket He has a belt with a couple devices that look like high tech grenades And he has that holster on his right leg Looking at Flint's articulation He has great range of motion on the head With articulation at the base of the skull and at the base of the neck So you can get lots of movement on the head He has butterfly joints at the shoulders But they are hindered a bit by his flak jacket He can lift his arm up at the shoulder And swivel at the shoulder all the way around There is a twist at the upper arm He has double jointed elbows He has wrist articulation with a swivel at the wrist And a hinge at the wrist The left wrist is hinged up and down The right wrist is hinged side to side He has the brutal chest cut at the rib cage You can't see it because of the flak jacket And the flak jacket does get in the way of articulation That makes sense if you were wearing a jacket like this in real life That would also hinder your movement The torso will twist at the waist He has a leg split He has forward movement of the leg at the hip Not so much backward movement, not very much He has a twist at the thigh cut He has double jointed knees He has a twist at the boot cut And he has hinged and rocker ankles Looking at the details of this figure It's very impressive The face has a lot of character The very subtle smirk on his face is a bit lopsided As it should be for Flint He has that scar over his left eye And his hair has a fade effect That's really good He's wearing a black shirt which is appropriate for Flint He has a flak jacket over it And that flak jacket has some black paint applications So it can replicate the look of that original figure While adding additional details On the left shoulder strap of that flak jacket He has this blue communicator thing That we saw on earlier classified figures This is a unifying element of the series That I think they've mostly given up on I think we will see fewer of these in future figures His flak jacket has green straps that go over the shoulder On the front of those straps He has gold and black shotgun shells And I think this is excellent This is a great way to bring in some of the details On that 85 figure But also add something On that test armor There is a bullet strike right over the heart It is subtle But it's a really good addition And adds some character to the accessory On that black shirt just behind One of the green straps He has a gold parachutist badge I thought they just copied the same torso from Duke But there are some minor differences For instance, they eliminated the white undershirt That Duke has So he has a bare chest And that's not just a paint difference That is a sculpting difference as well The arms feature black sleeves Rolled up to his upper forearms His forearms are bare He has brown gloves And on his left wrist He has a wrist watch And on his left elbow He has an elbow pad If these arms look familiar They should They are the same arms used on Duke Around his waist He has two brown belts They are made of a single plastic piece On the upper belt He has a belt buckle That is a dull metallic silver On the lower belt He has a belt buckle That is offset And it is gold On that belt He has what looks like Maybe bullets for his pistol He has a brown pouch And he has a couple dark green grenades The lower half of the figure features a light green And dark green camouflage pattern That's a little different from the version one figure Which had a green and brown camouflage pattern But this still looks really good He has pockets on the outer upper legs He has black knee pads He has brown boots and black shin guards These legs are pretty generic These are the same legs used on Duke The only difference is he uses different shin guards So what do I think of classified flint? I think it looks great I think it looks like flint And in one sense It is in keeping with the spirit of the original figure But in another sense It's a complete departure from the spirit Of the original flint figure Yes, a lot of design elements were copied over from 85 flint You can tell this is flint at a glance But 85 flint was made in the golden age of vintage Gijo It was made of entirely unique parts Classified flint is made up almost entirely of reused parts from earlier figures Which is starting to become a hallmark of the classified series On the one hand, this is kind of bad It's awfully early in this classified series To get quite so many reused parts We have a lot of figures now But a surprisingly narrow library of parts On the other hand, this is a cost-cutting measure It keeps the price point of the classified series low And I do not want these figures to be more expensive And although the base figure is reused It does have a new head, a new vest, new belt To try to make it look unique How do you feel about the reuse of parts in the classified series? It's not a big problem for me But I could see why it would be a problem for some collectors That was my review of Gijo classified series flint I hope you enjoyed it Please check back every Friday for Gijo classified series figure reviews I do full detailed reviews of vintage Gijo toys Please subscribe to the channel And check out my huge back catalog of vintage Gijo toy reviews I am on social media, on Facebook and Twitter And I have a website, hcc788.com Support from viewers like you is the only way I can continue doing these videos If you'd like to support the channel, Patreon is a great way to do that I'll see you next week with another Gijo classified series review Until then, remember, only Gijo is Gijo