 Hello everybody hooded cober commander 788 here welcome back to class of Friday It's time to look at another GI Joe classified series six inch action figure this time We are looking at scarlet. This was among the first wave of GI Joe classified series figures There was a later variant of this figure with slightly different colors This is the earliest release looking at the packaging. We have the window pane that shows the figure and the accessories We have the logo GI Joe classified series. This is scarlet We have the artwork on the front of the box, which is entirely adequate that artwork continues to the side of the box And again, it's fine. Here's something interesting. We have scarlet in martial arts gear We also have scarlet in combat gear wearing a scarf that is very similar to the scarf that will come with the new Classified series stalker. This is number five in the series on the back of the box We have the generic poster artwork. We've seen on other GI Joe classified series figures And on this side of the box, we have these symbols which represent her specialties This one means she has the key to the syringe cabinet. This means things are looking up This means she lifts her leg to pee and this means she deleted that file folder But she forgot to empty her recycle bin I understand why they do these symbols instead of actual file cards if they printed the file cards on the box They'd have to do multiple languages There's like five languages on these boxes and they are not going to print separate boxes for each country But I don't think they should print the file card on the box I think they should make the file card and insert in the box with a separate file card for each of those languages So each language would have its own actual file card and not just rely on these symbols Now let's open the box and see what's in there Let's pull out the figure and take a look at it. Here is scarlet outside of the box This figure is meant to evoke the general design aesthetic of the first scarlet action figure from 1982 But this classified scarlet is heavily updated, which is good The figure needed an update and maybe some more details looking at scarlet accessories She has this black crossbow and this is meant to be a callback to the crossbow on that 1982 figure there is no bolt on that crossbow, but there is a lot of detail. This is a two-piece Accessory it does come apart It's not a bad accessory and doing it as a two-piece allows them to do a bit more with it But these two pieces don't always fit together and stay together very well scarlet version one included only one accessory So the rest of these accessories are new for the classified figure in the package She is wearing a belt with a pouch on one side and she has this Bandolier which has on the back a backpack with bolts for the crossbow These bolts are not removable now the bandolier and the belt could be removed with some effort In addition to the belts and the straps she has three knives One of them is on the bandolier in this sheath with a red paint application that knife is Removable it fits in pretty tightly, but it can be removed and it is a simple black knife on the backpack There are two additional knives they fit in this slot at the top here and they can be removed like the other knife They do fit in pretty tightly, but they can be removed They are larger and slightly more elaborate than the small knife on the front of the bandolier and that's it for accessories This belt is very loose and will turn around on you This bandolier should fit just like this right across her chest But it very easily slips out of place and kind of wraps around her neck as far as articulation She has her head on a ball joint so good range of motion there But she has this ponytail which kind of interferes with this backpack and does limit her head motion a bit Her arms move up at the shoulder on the left shoulder She has this armor piece, but that doesn't necessarily interfere with movement at the shoulder Swivel at the shoulder all the way around She has a swivel at the bicep and she has single jointed elbows That's a bit of a disappointment most classified figures have double jointed elbows the lady j figure We've already looked at had more articulation than this She has a swivel at both wrists and on the right wrist She also has an up and down hinge. She has a cut at the rib cage Which allows for some movement at the torso and an ab crunch It's not the greatest range of motion But I do like that the design kind of hides that articulation point The chest armor ends right at that cut so that articulation point is kind of disguised and I like that a lot She has a swivel at the belt cut She has a leg split that is not the best that we've seen Her leg movement at the hip forward and backward is a little squishy She has a swivel at the thigh cut. She has double jointed knees She has a swivel at the boot cut and she has hinged and rocker ankles looking at the design of the figure Well, it does look like scarlet back in 1982 scarlet had short bright red hair They just didn't have the means of giving scarlet long hair back in 82 But in the gijo animated series and the comic book she had long hair So this update on the classified series is a good update on her face. It looks like she has freckles I don't know that those are coming out on the camera, but yeah a red head with freckles. She also has earrings That's a nice tiny detail She has a blue uniform undershirt and over that she has chest armor and that chest armor has Gold and yellow and looks like kind of a metallic pewter color And she also has that red shoulder detail that's from the first version of scarlet She also has this blue communication device that we saw on other early classified series figures Her arms have that blue uniform color. She has yellow elbow pads She has this additional armor piece on her left shoulder this red with a white star right in the center She has forearm armor with gold and yellow and on the left forearm She has these silver three prong throwing stars her waist piece would be rather plain if not for that belt That's in gray plastic that gray continues down to the legs and she has red stripes on the outside upper legs She has yellow gold and blue knee pads She has yellow gold red and blue shin armor and she has some very high tech boots Are those Jets does she have jet boots? There are a ton of colors on these boots. There's black yellow blue red Gold lots of effort on these boots. Well, that's scarlet It may be unfair to compare this figure to later classified figures The figures did get more elaborate with better accessories and this was in the very early stages of the line I just feel like this figure needs something the accessories are okay, but a little underwhelming I mean three knives are not very impressive Especially considering all the amazing accessories included with lady jay some fans have commented about her blank expression And I think you do have to be careful about having overly expressive faces But her face is rather blank and mannequin like still I would prefer this over an expressive face That hair color is a bit soft and orangey, but that's okay with me. I can live with that It's the pony tail. This should be a good detail and I'm glad she has it But man, it really does run into that backpack and limit her head movement That was my review of classified series scarlet not the best classified figure, but not necessarily the worst This was very early in the classified series and the series has evolved quite a lot since then If you like this video, please give it a thumbs up on youtube and subscribe to the youtube channel for more gi jo classified series And vintage gi jo toy reviews, you can find me on social media on facebook and twitter and I have a website HCC788.com I can only continue doing these videos with the support of my friends on patreon If you'd like to support the channel, that's a great way to do it I'll be back soon with more gi jo classified and vintage gi jo toy reviews I will see you then and until then remember only gi jo is gi jo