[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by MeLikeJinx

Wait... so BATs are more popular that AVs? I'm going with AVs being more hard to find in the short term, but BATS being more popular in the long term.

While both are equally popular, among long time Joe collectors, it does tend to trend in favor of the BATs. The BAT always tends to carry a higher value on the secondary and vintage markets as well over the AV.

I got pretty lucky with troopers once the general release version began hitting stores. In total, I ended up with about 8 of them, the large majority of which I found in Walgreens of all places. While Walgreens has since dried up in general as far as toys go, I was able to find quite a bit of the harder to find figures, such as the Trooper, Zartan, and Duke repaint throughout this past year. Hopefully the trend continues in 2022.

Speaking of army builders, I finally spotted the Night Creeper from the basic line, and while it's a really cool figure for a basic on it's own, I decided to use the headsculpt (which is really good) to cobble together my own Classified version to lead my Cobra Ninjas into battle.





I've thought about adding some silver to the vest to replicate the original figure, but I actually wanted to keep paints off of this for a more classic kitbashed look. It did take some cutting of the gear and some dremeling of the head to get it to work, but I'm really happy with the result. I wouldn't be surprised to see this headsculpt get used again when Hasbro decides to tackle him in Classified, as it's really that good in hand.