Overview: I became a member of the Hasbro club pretty much exclusively for this and the Masters of Evil team pack (I ended up also buying the team pack through eBay so I have two team packs sort of by accident). I kind of waffled back and forth on if I really wanted to buy it but when they went up on the Hasbro website for an actually reasonable retail price, and the not the insane scalper eBay price, I just decided to go for it.
From the moment I saw it I immediately thought it was the USS Flagg for the current generation of kids. I never had the USS Flagg but I knew someone who did and they were the popular kid at school. Everyone wanted that thing but very few parents could afford it. My parents didn't let me play with/buy me military toys so I was lucky to have the 6 or 7 Joe's I managed to scam from my friends or get from my aunt (who either didn't know or didn't care about my parents no military rule). So I would go to this friends house another friend would bring their Terrodrome and we would all huddle around our respective sides and play sometimes in the sandbox and sometimes in the basement. So this is sort of my chasing the USS Flagg and I wanted it mostly for that reason. It's not as robust as the USS Flagg so it's not anywhere near a substitute but, let's face it, they ain't going to make anything like the Flagg ever again so this is as close as it's going to get. All in all a good purchase, it's a little flimsy at the joints where the sections connect but when it's on a solid surface it doesn't really matter. It makes a great resting place for my Costco exclusive Quinjet.
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The outside box. I immediately saw it at the FedEx place holding it for me and I got a little giddy. |