Continuing where my adventures in acquiring G.I. Joes ahead of release date left off with
Reactive Armour Duke, today I'm going to take a look at Agent Helix, which a number of people have reviewed thus far but none with her full compliment of accessories so far as I know.
Well, here she is, gentlemen.
Helix is quite the looker with her nicely-sculpted face and strikingly contrasted two-tone hair falling over one eye in the manner of a perky Goth Veronica Lake, and her shapely figure sports an eye-catching and intricately detailed outfit which seems to be comprised of a grey trousers with black kneepads, a grey top with yellow panels across the arms and shoulders, tall black boots with small pouches to the sides, various straps across her arms and legs, black, wrist-length gloves (which, unfortunately, are angled in such a way that gripping her pistols is somewhat awkward), a belt with a large number of what are probably ammunition pouches, what might be an airlift harness around her shoulders and most strikingly, an odd, corset-like row of plates across her belly and the small of her back.
She's quite tall too; nearly as tall as Duke.
As for her accessories...
...she comes with the same sort of dog-tag stand as Duke and most of the other Joes, and more interestingly, what the comic covers we've seen so far imply to be her signature weapons; a pair of what appear to be Browning-type automatic pistols, heavily customized with extended magazines, underslung laser aiming modules and what look like Trijicon -style reflex sights.
That she'd carry such heavily-modified handguns as her primary weapons is interesting, and suggests a sort of modern gunslinger motif for the character...
However, handguns are far from the only weapons in her arsenal, which includes the obligatory oversized bazooka...
...a blade that seems to have been borrowed from Sweeney Todd...
...and what I'm sure must be the first-ever 1/18th scale HK G11 assault rifle, an experimental weapon from the 1970-1980s that fired caseless ammunition.
Unfortunately, the length of the stock, combined with her rather short arms means that she's unable to properly brace the weapon against her shoulder.
Articulation, as with Duke, is excellent, though the belt obstructs the movement of her legs somewhat, but the rubbery nature of the plastic means that the problem is not insurmountable, and she can assume quite a number of poses.
All in all, one of the best female Joes Hasbro has yet produced thus far, and certainly the most visually striking.
