Great review! You covered a lot of details. About her slingshot, I always thought of it not as a weapon, but as a way of distracting an enemy. Like, she's sneaking down a hallway when she hears guards coming, so she (almost) silently shoots a marble off in the other direction, where it lands and makes enough noise to draw them away.
I think they made Scarlett, Lady Jaye & Baroness accidental runners by grossly underestimating the popularity of the female characters. Only reason Cover Girl isn't so rare is because she came with a vehicle. Jinx is the only one I ever remember actually seeing on shelves
I loved Scarlett. Her uniform was a stroke of fortune; like Wonder Woman it just worked. I agree they could have made an improved figure (given it a ponytail and what not) - I would just want them to keep the color and style. I liked Lady Jaye a lot too but Scarlett was my fave.
Great review HCC. Scarlett is a great character and she deserved a better figure, I agree. She is awesome in a lot of ways. She is smaller so she can ride in the back of the Vamp. She looks very cool holding an Uzi and giving the finger to Destro (she does it politely an attribute of her southern manners). She has feelings for Snake Eyes which give her opportunities not get interrupted when speaking her mind. And she is depicted in the comics as very capable and weapon-savy. I just wish the head sculpt would have had a ponytail.
+sam torres Yeah, they just hadn't figured out how to do long hair at the time. I wouldn't want to run into Scarlett in a dark alley. She's someone who has been trained from an early age to beat people up.
The one and only GI Joe figure I would have wanted as a kid--I was tickled at 3, maybe 4 years old to see a girl kicking rear end, taking names, and keeping up with the boys 👍😁 Great review!
i was attracted to the Scarlett figure because she reminded me of the Daryl Hannah fight scene in the original Blade Runner movie- which was precisely the way i utilized her
Any idea how much that error file card with cover girl is worth? A nearby store has a full card available for $1000 Canadian dollars, he says there is less than 10 known in existence and only happened with Canadian cards, can you give me your opinion about this?
I love Scarlett v1/v2 because of her uniqueness. The first (and only) main female character, her design (even without the ponytail), her background... She's sexy without being appellative and also could join frontline missions like any of the guys. She's Emma Peel in tan and her name is a joke with Vivien Leigh's classic role. And her shoes may hide a trick (she doesn't need stand ups, she can be anywhere...). Lady Jaye and Cover Girl looked more "butch" in first versions, and not even Baroness and Jinx came closer to Scarlett's appeal - and it's curious that later mrs. DeCobray became a real femme fatale and Shanna turned into a teenager.
thus was the second figure i got snake eyes was my first gi Joe for the time she was a good figure she should have had a backpack with arrows and a extra gun wouldn't have been a bad thing ..but I did like this figure ..nice work man another time excellent review
+HoodedCobraCommander788 yea she was female and the crossbow she did alot of steath missions I just always wished she had came with extra ammo when the accessory pack came out I gave her a backpack .it matched the tan in her outfit
did it never occur to anyone that so many 1980s-era soldiers would have been trained on a weapon that was last seen in limited service during Vietnam? the M3 was a WWII weapon with limited usage since.
+affoster79 Hm. I never thought of that. Alien came out in 1979, so the creators would have been aware of Sigourney Weaver. Maybe that was the inspiration for the card art.
I didn't get into the Joes until sometime around '85/'86, so by that time the only female figure I recall being on the pegs was Lady Jaye. LJ is hands down a superior figure, though I must say I do love the additional sculpting on Scarlett's gloves/wrists, which makes the figure slightly more dynamic.Also, as a brief aside, I wonder if performance standards were the same for male & female soldiers in Larry Hama's fictional universe. Scarlett, Lady Jaye, and (to a lesser extent) Cover Girl all seemed like exceptional Joes, so were they the only women that passed all the training requirements? I've always been fascinated by who didn't make the cut - the "almost Joes" if you will.
+redvitaminblue That's an interesting line of inquiry. I recall a couple stories that involved training new Joes. They were all men, as I recall. I'm not sure Larry Hama gave it much thought, but it would have been interesting to explore.
Yes it did. It used mostly the original figure's body accept for the head and lower legs. The new lower legs and feet have.... Peg holes! It came out in 2005. I have to make a correction the holes are for skis the figure came with. They are not the standard peg hole size.
@HoodedCobraCommander788 I KNOW YOU DONT DO MODERN FIGURES BUT SCARLETT IS REDONE AMAZINGLY IN THE RENEGADES TOY LINE SHES AWESOME YOU SHOULD GET HER AND DO A COMPARISON VIDEO THAT WOULD BE GREAT.
As a kid I saw her at my friend's house and I thought she wasn't Gijoe. No foot hole, no pony tale but her uniform it did resemble the cartoon. However, the face looked like a guy or a man pretending to be a woman. That's why I never bought her as a kid. Later after I did realize that was scarlet. Then I dismissed everything as a mistake from Hasbro. Like I saw millions of mistakes that I expected to be fixed on the next run of toys. To my surprise Hasbro never fixed anything and to top it off they discontinued the figure. BRILLIANT! Look, cobra commander was not fixed until 2022 some 40 years later!!! Now it finally looks like something I recognized. Well, they did the same error with ACE. The Haslab SkyStriker was the perfect opportunity to finally fix Ace to look like the Sunbow cartoon and no! They took great care of to get the plane Sunbow accurate but the pilot???
Great review HCC! i agree that the women of gi joe are waaaaaaay better role models for girls then the lines like barbie and brats ect ect aimed at girls. that said as a kid i did feel the need to have my females romantically connected to male characters so i bought 2 scarletts they were twins in my universe and duke and snake both had 1. what can i say? i was 10! ;)
+Neal G That would have been an improvement on the crossbow. I think back in 1982, Hasbro's designs just weren't that sophisticated. If they were giving her a crossbow, though, they should have somehow given her some extra bolts.
7:48 That looks like a Derringer holdout pistol in a spring-loaded wrist holster - the kind of thing you saw in various Westerns where a poker player has a tiny pistol suddenly appear in their hand from up their sleeve when threatened. Specifically, it looks a bit like a COP .357 Magnum 4-barrelled Derringer pistol, although it's hard to tell as it's a pretty lumpy casting (obviously it wasn't the most important detail on the figure, so they didn't spend too much time getting the detail right). I can't think of a more useful weapon for a counterintelligence agent than a spring-loaded Derringer... although it would be a lot more useful it it were hidden up a sleeve rather than the outside of her glove in plain sight. I imagine it's for use mainly when she's in plain-clothes and wearing a jacket, and needs a concealed holdout weapon.
Maybe... But it reminds me of the Sedley 'Glove Gun' used by the OSS (Perhaps an upgraded version) The idea is that the gun goes off when you punch your opponent. It's literally sewed onto the glove. Though I think you are more likely correct here, the Sedley would have been a nice touch.
I feel like her torso is a bit thinner. Had a difficult time replacing her o-ring the other night. And she still feels loose. Idk maybe I will try again. I hate to pull her apart because she is soooo expensive to buy nowadays. I think my mother thought we'd be perverts if she got us female figures... Probably lol. Didn't acquire them til the late 90s. One of my favs. Really good review... Oddly good. Thanks
+MrGILBERTV Thanks! A smaller gauge o-ring might help with Scarlett. If you browse a hardware store, you may find a size that will work better. She does have a smaller cavity in her chest. I don't know how they got those old o-rings to work with her.
gar·rote ɡəˈrät,ɡəˈrōt/Submit verb verb: garotte 1. kill (someone) by strangulation, typically with an iron collar or a length of wire or cord. "he had been garroted with piano wire"
Knowing Jim Shooter the way I do I'm absolutely sure shooter agreed with hasbro that women toys wouldn't sell. I honestly believe it was Larry Hama who came up with Scarlett and added female characters to G.I.Joe as a middle finger to Jim Shooter and the heads of Hasbro who thought women toys wouldn't sell and I applaud Larry Hama for that.
The ones who don't swivel at the bysept are worth more money? Scarlett is worth money Scarlett is worth money altogether with the errs , he family own a Karate school.
+Chris Michalec She deserved better. The sculpting work on all of the '82s as pretty dismal. If Scarlett had been given a version 2 in, say, 1985, we would have gotten a definitive Scarlett.
Great review! You covered a lot of details. About her slingshot, I always thought of it not as a weapon, but as a way of distracting an enemy. Like, she's sneaking down a hallway when she hears guards coming, so she (almost) silently shoots a marble off in the other direction, where it lands and makes enough noise to draw them away.
Interesting.
Has anyone noticed how the original Joes from 82 (83 swivel) frequently have "lazy" eyes?
I remember finding female Joe's was so difficult back in the 80s. Most of us never even knew a Scarlett figure ever existed for a long time.
I think they made Scarlett, Lady Jaye & Baroness accidental runners by grossly underestimating the popularity of the female characters. Only reason Cover Girl isn't so rare is because she came with a vehicle.
Jinx is the only one I ever remember actually seeing on shelves
The first lady of G.I. Joe! Always a big fan, and I do love the figure as well. The only thing missing is a quiver of sorts.
I loved Scarlett. Her uniform was a stroke of fortune; like Wonder Woman it just worked. I agree they could have made an improved figure (given it a ponytail and what not) - I would just want them to keep the color and style. I liked Lady Jaye a lot too but Scarlett was my fave.
Great review HCC. Scarlett is a great character and she deserved a better figure, I agree. She is awesome in a lot of ways. She is smaller so she can ride in the back of the Vamp. She looks very cool holding an Uzi and giving the finger to Destro (she does it politely an attribute of her southern manners). She has feelings for Snake Eyes which give her opportunities not get interrupted when speaking her mind. And she is depicted in the comics as very capable and weapon-savy. I just wish the head sculpt would have had a ponytail.
+sam torres Yeah, they just hadn't figured out how to do long hair at the time.
I wouldn't want to run into Scarlett in a dark alley. She's someone who has been trained from an early age to beat people up.
Really nice to see someone that understands how wonderful Gi Joe Is/was.
It was always said that Scarlett was a child at heart; 'could say the slingshot validates that opinion.
There is actually a GI Joe commercial, that featured a girl playing with the toys, it aired in '92 or '93
+Byron Kellogg That was after my time, but I'll see if I can find it.
Cool! I love the 1980's G.I.Joe! I do not have this one yet!
very good review! one of my first Joe's!
I never owned Scarlett when I was a kid. I did however have Lady Jaye, Baroness & Cover Girl.
+Galaxy of Toys So you had no problem buying the women figures!
The one and only GI Joe figure I would have wanted as a kid--I was tickled at 3, maybe 4 years old to see a girl kicking rear end, taking names, and keeping up with the boys 👍😁 Great review!
i was attracted to the Scarlett figure because she reminded me of the Daryl Hannah fight scene in the original Blade Runner movie- which was precisely the way i utilized her
The legendary iconic ponytail wearing ass kicking redhead from the ATL
Scarlett had the shoulder pad because she was the unofficial "shoulder to cry on" of the Joe team.
Any idea how much that error file card with cover girl is worth? A nearby store has a full card available for $1000 Canadian dollars, he says there is less than 10 known in existence and only happened with Canadian cards, can you give me your opinion about this?
That's cool. I'd never though of Dianna Rigg as an inspiration.
great review
+Frank Shaw Thank you!
I love Scarlett v1/v2 because of her uniqueness. The first (and only) main female character, her design (even without the ponytail), her background... She's sexy without being appellative and also could join frontline missions like any of the guys. She's Emma Peel in tan and her name is a joke with Vivien Leigh's classic role. And her shoes may hide a trick (she doesn't need stand ups, she can be anywhere...). Lady Jaye and Cover Girl looked more "butch" in first versions, and not even Baroness and Jinx came closer to Scarlett's appeal - and it's curious that later mrs. DeCobray became a real femme fatale and Shanna turned into a teenager.
thus was the second figure i got snake eyes was my first gi Joe for the time she was a good figure she should have had a backpack with arrows and a extra gun wouldn't have been a bad thing ..but I did like this figure ..nice work man another time excellent review
+mgvillanmp478 Thanks! It's interesting that this was your second figure. Do you remember what drew you to this figure?
+HoodedCobraCommander788 yea she was female and the crossbow she did alot of steath missions I just always wished she had came with extra ammo when the accessory pack came out I gave her a backpack .it matched the tan in her outfit
did it never occur to anyone that so many 1980s-era soldiers would have been trained on a weapon that was last seen in limited service during Vietnam? the M3 was a WWII weapon with limited usage since.
She looks a lot like Sigourney Weaver on her file card.
+affoster79 Hm. I never thought of that. Alien came out in 1979, so the creators would have been aware of Sigourney Weaver. Maybe that was the inspiration for the card art.
I didn't get into the Joes until sometime around '85/'86, so by that time the only female figure I recall being on the pegs was Lady Jaye. LJ is hands down a superior figure, though I must say I do love the additional sculpting on Scarlett's gloves/wrists, which makes the figure slightly more dynamic.Also, as a brief aside, I wonder if performance standards were the same for male & female soldiers in Larry Hama's fictional universe. Scarlett, Lady Jaye, and (to a lesser extent) Cover Girl all seemed like exceptional Joes, so were they the only women that passed all the training requirements? I've always been fascinated by who didn't make the cut - the "almost Joes" if you will.
+redvitaminblue That's an interesting line of inquiry. I recall a couple stories that involved training new Joes. They were all men, as I recall. I'm not sure Larry Hama gave it much thought, but it would have been interesting to explore.
Great review man! I have a later comic pack version of this figure. They gave her a much different head.
+Thor13332 The figure needed a different head! Did it still have that slingshot?
Yes it did. It used mostly the original figure's body accept for the head and lower legs. The new lower legs and feet have.... Peg holes! It came out in 2005. I have to make a correction the holes are for skis the figure came with. They are not the standard peg hole size.
Peg holes! So they did manage to fix that problem!
HoodedCobraCommander788
I have to make a correction. The holes are not traditional peg holes. They are there for a pair of skis the figure came with.
Oh! That is... different.
@HoodedCobraCommander788 I KNOW YOU DONT DO MODERN FIGURES BUT SCARLETT IS REDONE AMAZINGLY IN THE RENEGADES TOY LINE SHES AWESOME YOU SHOULD GET HER AND DO A COMPARISON VIDEO THAT WOULD BE GREAT.
As a kid I saw her at my friend's house and I thought she wasn't Gijoe. No foot hole, no pony tale but her uniform it did resemble the cartoon. However, the face looked like a guy or a man pretending to be a woman. That's why I never bought her as a kid. Later after I did realize that was scarlet. Then I dismissed everything as a mistake from Hasbro. Like I saw millions of mistakes that I expected to be fixed on the next run of toys. To my surprise Hasbro never fixed anything and to top it off they discontinued the figure. BRILLIANT!
Look, cobra commander was not fixed until 2022 some 40 years later!!! Now it finally looks like something I recognized. Well, they did the same error with ACE. The Haslab SkyStriker was the perfect opportunity to finally fix Ace to look like the Sunbow cartoon and no! They took great care of to get the plane Sunbow accurate but the pilot???
the comic pack version corrected a lot of problems with the original head sculpt.
Great review HCC! i agree that the women of gi joe are waaaaaaay better role models for girls then the lines like barbie and brats ect ect aimed at girls. that said as a kid i did feel the need to have my females romantically connected to male characters so i bought 2 scarletts they were twins in my universe and duke and snake both had 1. what can i say? i was 10! ;)
cool video review of the first 3 3/4 inch GI joe female figure
+james strickland Thanks! Yes! She was a trailblazer!
Wow. Another awesome review. Thank you. It would have been nice if Hasbro workers were able to design her crossbow with a bag peg. What do you think?
+Neal G That would have been an improvement on the crossbow. I think back in 1982, Hasbro's designs just weren't that sophisticated. If they were giving her a crossbow, though, they should have somehow given her some extra bolts.
Good point as well.
HCC, do you need a crossbow for your other Scarlett? I have a spare
+Byron Kellogg I could always use another crossbow. I have one original crossbow. My others are accessory pack.
HoodedCobraCommander788 awesome, here is my confidential email bookaner74@gmail.com, let me know the address I could send to.
I always thought it was cool that they had a female character, who was a vital part of the team, from the very start.
Do u have funtack of something like that on there feet to help them stand up ?
I use mounting putty. It works well and doesn't leave any residue behind when you take it off.
7:48 That looks like a Derringer holdout pistol in a spring-loaded wrist holster - the kind of thing you saw in various Westerns where a poker player has a tiny pistol suddenly appear in their hand from up their sleeve when threatened. Specifically, it looks a bit like a COP .357 Magnum 4-barrelled Derringer pistol, although it's hard to tell as it's a pretty lumpy casting (obviously it wasn't the most important detail on the figure, so they didn't spend too much time getting the detail right).
I can't think of a more useful weapon for a counterintelligence agent than a spring-loaded Derringer... although it would be a lot more useful it it were hidden up a sleeve rather than the outside of her glove in plain sight. I imagine it's for use mainly when she's in plain-clothes and wearing a jacket, and needs a concealed holdout weapon.
Maybe... But it reminds me of the Sedley 'Glove Gun' used by the OSS (Perhaps an upgraded version) The idea is that the gun goes off when you punch your opponent. It's literally sewed onto the glove. Though I think you are more likely correct here, the Sedley would have been a nice touch.
I feel like her torso is a bit thinner. Had a difficult time replacing her o-ring the other night. And she still feels loose. Idk maybe I will try again. I hate to pull her apart because she is soooo expensive to buy nowadays. I think my mother thought we'd be perverts if she got us female figures... Probably lol. Didn't acquire them til the late 90s. One of my favs. Really good review... Oddly good. Thanks
+MrGILBERTV Thanks! A smaller gauge o-ring might help with Scarlett. If you browse a hardware store, you may find a size that will work better. She does have a smaller cavity in her chest. I don't know how they got those old o-rings to work with her.
I just got a Scarlett. Lady Jaye is probably the best female figure. The Baroness too.
That's not a slingshot... It's a Garotte!
gar·rote
ɡəˈrät,ɡəˈrōt/Submit
verb
verb: garotte
1.
kill (someone) by strangulation, typically with an iron collar or a length of wire or cord.
"he had been garroted with piano wire"
Must also be why Scarlett's secondary military specialty is: CLASSIFIED
Counter Intelligence, I think that’s a camera on her leg.
Knowing Jim Shooter the way I do I'm absolutely sure shooter agreed with hasbro that women toys wouldn't sell. I honestly believe it was Larry Hama who came up with Scarlett and added female characters to G.I.Joe as a middle finger to Jim Shooter and the heads of Hasbro who thought women toys wouldn't sell and I applaud Larry Hama for that.
It's a time explosive..
i still have my straight arm scarlett. her waist is broke in half, not the crotch i mean the front broke off from the back vertically.
Shock red hair; you could see it from outer space;-p
The ones who don't swivel at the bysept are worth more money? Scarlett is worth money Scarlett is worth money altogether with the errs , he family own a Karate school.
I want to point out that sometimes your camera/mic pics up "t" and "p" sounds heavily. Just so you're aware for future reviews and videos!
great review of a great figure with the ugliest face sculpt lol.
+Chris Michalec She deserved better. The sculpting work on all of the '82s as pretty dismal. If Scarlett had been given a version 2 in, say, 1985, we would have gotten a definitive Scarlett.
I always liked Lady Jaye more than Scarlett
The figure always angered me. She was cooler than that.
She ain't need no man, just her 13 cats.