 Wait a minute. Wait a minute. What is this? What is this? Why does roadblock have a Narashekage tattoo on his arm? Hello everybody, it's HoodedCobraCommander788 here, and I'm back with another GI Joe Toy review video, and we're changing it up a little bit this time. Normally I focus on vintage GI Joe action figures and vehicles, but I had a chance to pick this up today, and so we are going to do a modern GI Joe action figure. I'm going to be reviewing Battlekata Roadblock from GI Joe Retaliation, and so this is going to be kind of new. Maybe we can compare the vintage figures to the modern figures and just see how they hold up. This should be fun. I'm going to go ahead and open this. I do not collect carded action figures anyway, so I don't really have a problem taking him out of the box. I'm not going to leave him mint on the card. We're going to tear into this and take a good look at the action figure and see if we like him. So here we go. Okay, we've got the packaging open, and we've got a lot of parts. We're going to take a closer look at those. Just a quick glance at the packaging. We have a photograph of the figure on here. We have the typical GI Joe Retaliation card art. We've got some pictures on the back of different ways that you can play with the figure, and a few of the other action figures that you can get in this line. But we've got a lot of parts here, so let's put Roadblock together and see how he looks. And here we have Roadblock completely assembled with all of his accessories. It doesn't look too bad. Let's first of all take a look at his accessories. We always like to look at the accessories first. He comes with lots of little bits. These really large holsters on his thighs here have two, looks like machine pistols, but these actually come apart. These separate both of them. And these little handles serve as handles for his other interchangeable accessories. See, he has this kind of baton thing here. And that connects and connect that to one of these. There you go. And he's got, he's actually got four small blades. These two that connect to his flak jacket here. I'm gonna pull these out. They actually go into the scabbards there, the sheaths. And I like that. I wish that more vintage GI Joe action figures had that feature with holsters for their weapons and, you know, a place to put knives and other accessories. So it's nice that the modern figures do more of that. That's good. This looks a little bit rinky-dink, little stubby, but the larger blade, here's one of them and the other one's down here at his ankle. These look a little bit better. In the handle. There we go. Looks a little bit more amenacing. Still a bit stubby compared to the very large handle. Roadblock, like the original, comes with his 50 caliber Browning machine gun, and that's nice. This was actually kind of hidden in the package. So I was worried that Roadblock, who's supposed to be a heavy machine gunner, was only gonna come with small weapons, but this is nice. I'm glad that they included this. I really would have been disappointed if it didn't have his famous machine gun. Unfortunately, it does not fit very well in his hands. It doesn't fit at all, really. It just slides or pops right out. I guess he could hold it two-handed. And let's see. He's got this flak jacket here. It pegs in here at the side. Pop that out and slide that off of him, slide that over his head. It's a little bit more difficult to get out than I would like for it to be. And there you have Roadblock. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. What is this? What is this? Why does Roadblock have a Narashikagi tattoo on his arm? No. No. Roadblock cannot be a ninja. They didn't make Roadblock a ninja, did they? No way. Let me let me look at that packaging again. Hold on a second. Let's see. Battle-Kata Roadblock. What's that? Oh, no. No, no, no. What is this? Let's see. Roadblock battles evil cobra enemies with his unique Battle-Kata fighting system. Really. The G.I. Joe leader, leader, whatever, uses on-the-fly weapon switching and martial arts moves to take out his attacks. They made him a ninja, didn't they? Look, at no point in the G.I. Joe storyline was Roadblock ever a ninja. He does not need to be a ninja. He kicked Storm Shadow's ass in the comic book using just sheer brute force. He does not need ninja skills. What is the purpose of this? You can't just, I mean, I know that Snake Eyes is popular, but you just can't make all of the characters a ninja. I mean, look here. Roadblock, you want to be a ninja? You know I want to be a ninja. Ninja, congratulations. You're a ninja. Lift ticket, you want to be a ninja? Okay, you're a ninja. General Hawk, do you want to be a ninja? I don't want to be a ninja. Too bad, you're a ninja. All you guys head out to the tattoo parlor to get your Arache Kage Tats, because you're all ninjas now. Everybody's a ninja. Everybody gets to be a ninja. I have to pause the review now. I need a drink, and we're back. Sure, why not? Why not? Everybody gets to be a ninja. Just put the tattoo on everyone. They're all ninjas. Okay, let's look at his articulation. He's got modern G.I. Joe articulation. He does not have the traditional o-ring construction, so he can't do the waist bendy thing, but he can turn side to side. Arm goes all the way around, up and down. You could do this kind of almost ratchets a little bit, doesn't move very well. Has wrist articulation, turns at the wrist, which is actually kind of nice. I wish that some of the vintage figures did that. That would have saved a lot of thumb breakage, I think. Let's see. Legs kind of go like that. He can do the splits about that far. His knees. He's got a nice little double joint thing at the knees, which I like. Allows more realistic knee movement than the vintage figures. He's got ankle articulation that nobody asked for, and it just makes him more awkward to pose. His head turns side to side, does not go up and down. So, hey, there's a little bit of the throwback to 1984. He has less articulation at the neck, and really less articulation at the torso than the vintage figures. So, whoopie-doo, there's modern roadblock. Okay, so let's compare modern roadblock to stand up. You stand up. Come on, roadblock. You've had too much to drink. Stand up, man. Stand up for yourself. Let's compare modern roadblock with the original, version one from 1984. The roadblock we all fell in love with. There we go. First thing that is immediately apparent is the scale is totally different. This roadblock is like eight feet tall compared to the first roadblock. He doesn't stand up very well. But, I mean, there are some good points. There are some points in the new roadblock that are really much better than the original. For one thing, let's look at this head sculpt. Let's take roadblocks helmet off. And he has a milk dud head. I don't know what else to call it. His head was sculpted in a really odd shape, and it just doesn't look right. It looks like like an alien head. At the time, they were not really good at sculpting, you know, musculature into the figures. They tried to make him look bulky and muscular, but, you know, it just ends up looking kind of odd. I do like the original uniform that he was wearing. The kind of brown pants and the camouflage shirt that's kind of opened the tank top with the straps. I mean, it's a classic look, but I've got to admit, it does look a little bit odd, especially around the head. The arms, I mean, supposed to be stronger than your average G.I. Joe, but the arms really were not any bigger than any other G.I. Joe figure of that era. And so, yeah, there are a few knocks against the original that the new one improves. It would be nice if they were in the same scale. I am disappointed that the modern G.I. Joe figures don't keep the same scale, make it a little bit awkward to use the modern figures with the vintage vehicles. So that kind of sucks, I guess. Hold on. Head sculpt is better. His head isn't shaped weird. He looks like the rock, so I guess that's something. Maybe you like that kind of thing. I like the more military look of the uniform. You know, he's got a shirt on this time, so that's all right. And yeah, I mean, some great points about the modern figures, the ankle, or I mean, I'd say the wrist articulation. You know, I don't care what you say. You know, I like to put the guns in the vintage figures with the buttstock of the gun inside the arm, but that's kind of awkward because really, if you don't want to put any strain on the thumb, they end up going in this way, and it just looks like they're holding their guns wrong. So some wrist articulation on those guys actually would have helped that a little bit, so I'm actually happy to see it in the modern figures. They are made of a much more pliable plastic than the vintage figures. This vintage figure is, you know, much more solid and can be brittle compared to the modern figures. This is not likely to crack and break nearly as easily as the original roadblock, so that's a plus. We have a backpack. The backpack I don't believe will fit the vintage action figure backpacks. Nope, so another thing you cannot use with the vintage figures. It has a foot peg, but it does not fit the vintage, it has a foot hole, it does not fit the vintage figure stands, so that's out. So, I mean, they really made this to be its own thing. It's not a continuation of the vintage line at all, and I guess that's good in some ways and bad in other ways. Let's put the accessories back together and look at these guys side by side. And here we have battle caught a roadblock side by side with vintage 1984 roadblock. There's the modern roadblock who cannot hold his 50 caliber machine gun, vintage roadblock can. We have modern roadblock with his itty bitty dinky winky little knives and swords. And there you have it. I hope you liked this video. Don't forget to smash that subscribe button so you can keep up on new videos and new awesome GI Joe reviews that I will be posting. And make sure to like this video. Or if you just love Ninja Roadblock, don't forget to dislike this video. Let's get lots of thumbs down for everybody who loves Ninja Roadblock. Yeah, that'll be awesome. Thanks for watching and catch you again later.