Surefire is a great figure and you're a jerk.

From the desk of the Esteemed Henry Edward Miller:

The 2000-2001 line of figures produced some real gems, figures that are sadly forgotten among the dulluted "50 figures a year!" trend we suffered through 02-06. Back when the line was being relanched for real, not just a couple TRU packs a year, there was a couple figures that made waves among the Joe fandom. Those two figures being Big Brawler, and the subject of this profile: Surefire. Now I won't touch on Big Brawler other then this: From the neck down he was a great figure, and the entire retarded Brawler joke was old four days after my distant cousin Jose' "Stiches" Cordarez III started it.

With that out of the way, these two figures were named on the filecard and had faces molded after two members of the Steel Brigade GI Joe fanclub, or whatever the fuck it was, all I know is they got in good with Hasbro somehow and ended up on the filecard and it made a lot of people mad for whatever reason, the jerkoff who used to run that "Sgt Savage" site, you know the bald guy who yelled at people all the time and made "~INTERNET TOUGHGUY THREATS~!" He has been completely ran out of the fandom because people finally got it that he was a shmuck. That guy seemed to be the beacon of hate for these two figures and it never made sense to me.

So what, somebody's name ended up on the filecard, who the hell reads those anyway? It was a whole lot of fanboy rage, and because of that nonsense, an amazing figure falls to the wayside, Steel Brigade isn't even relevant anymore for fucks sake! Get over it, your missing out on a great figure!

Onto the figure:

Surefire is painted in an ultra realistic law-enforcement blue, complimented by black highlights, his tactical vest is the proper tone of black, with two sliver smoke grenades molded on. This figure takes the 92 Shockwave mold to another level. This figure can be used as a stand-alone character, or army built as a generic swat-officer. He came packaged with the 90's Low Light mold, who was also painted in the great blue color, parts can be mixed and matched between the two and heads added, and with a couple packs you have a SWAT-team for Cobra to cut down. I once LBC'd an entire SWAT-team together using just those two figures, this was easily the best two pack from the entire 00-01 run. If you're missing out on this figure because of some kind of fanboy hate, toss that hate aside, and learn to love.

Heres a picture with shitty lighting:



The Doctors Final Thoughts: Surefire is one of the best repaints Hasbro has ever produced, and among all this 25th nonsense and new sculpt crap he is a rare gem. If you don't have him, go and pick him up, bonus points if you get the Low Light along with him.