Tag Archives: Valor vs Venom

2004 Venom Striker ATV

Posted on March 26, 2024 by Nekoman

2004 Venom Striker ATV If you’d believe it, at one point in my life I felt really bummed out that I didn’t pay more attention to the Spy Troops and Valor vs Venom figures. When I started in on 25th … Continue reading →

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2004 Cobra Infantry Forces Trooper

Posted on February 12, 2024 by Nekoman

2004 Cobra Infantry Forces Trooper I sometimes have wondered what there is for me to say about the Toys R” Us Cobra Infantry Forces, that hasn’t already been said more cogently by someone with more relation to it as an … Continue reading →

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2004 Black Dragon Ninja

Posted on October 24, 2023 by Nekoman

2004 Black Dragon Ninja The Ninja Cobra Strike Team set from 2004 should’ve probably been Hasbro’s second best 6-pack from the era. Sadly though, poor mold choices, bad accessories and most of all, absolute shit quality control takes what should … Continue reading →

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2004 Viper (Python Patrol), Valor VS. Venom

Posted on July 11, 2023 by Nekoman

2004 Viper (Python Patrol), Valor VS. Venom Filler week! I have some good memories of Valor vs. Venom, but not so many that it’s really worth talking about the VvV Viper sculpt again after I already wrote about the red … Continue reading →

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2004 Quick Strike

Posted on March 27, 2023 by Nekoman

2004 Quick Strike New-Sculpt era vehicles often presented some interesting ideas, but fell flat on execution. That’s somewhat the case with the Valor vs. Venom Quick Strike, which is a nice looking and mildly fun vehicle, though flawed, in several … Continue reading →

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2004 Red Ninja Viper

Posted on November 8, 2022 by Nekoman

2004 Red Ninja Viper Most of the TRU exclusive 6-packs from ‘03 through ‘05 were invalidated by the Black Major. Many of these were and still are cool figures, though often flawed in enough ways that a few years of … Continue reading →

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2004 Tele-Viper (Python Patrol)

Posted on September 12, 2022 by Nekoman

2004 Tele-Viper (Python Patrol) It’s been a while since I’ve posted about a New-Sculpt era figure, though as always I know only a very, very small contingent of people still care about these. The modern attitude towards these figures seems … Continue reading →

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2004 Crimson Guard

Posted on January 25, 2022 by Nekoman

2004 Crimson Guard There’s a lot of bad you can say now about 2000‘s GI Joe toys. Namely, the sculpts are weird, the plastics are degrading, and many other design choices were flawed, to put it lightly. Still, there was … Continue reading →

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2005 Frostbite (Valor vs Venom)

Posted on February 10, 2020 by Nekoman

2005 Frostbite Normally, I might’ve not thought to write about a figure this odd from the New-Sculpt era, but, a brief and sudden snowstorm gave me an opportunity to explore him for a bit to take some snow photos before … Continue reading →

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2004 Big Brawler (Version 4)

Posted on March 19, 2019 by Nekoman

2004 Big Brawler Big Brawler’s a name pretty infamous to Joe collector’s who were around in the early 2000‘s. At best, I think he could sort of be described as a meme that represented the low-quality characters that were being … Continue reading →

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