Hasbro; what the fuck were you thinking?

Tiger Force is a controversial sub-team in the G.I. Joe most people think "Damn man those yellow fatigues aren't good for Jungle warfare" but there's a few who go "Damn, do we really need a version of Lifeline that's gonna rape and kill a teenage girl and cut off her ears and wear them on a necklace?"



"Take that you little lemon bastard!"

While I realize "Hey, the Tiger Force war crimes stuff wasn't discovered until like 2003" but there are people who go on about G.I. Joe being state of the art and incredibly chock full of Military Realism, so wouldn't Hasbro a multi million dollar corporation have been able to do some homework and realize "Hey maybe this isn't such a good idea?" Of course they could have but damn those cardbacks are a little harder to replace than stigma of war toys not being neccesarily a healthy thing for children to play with.

Shit, it just dawned on me that Hasbro released the TRU Tiger Force 5 pack after the "Uh hey, you guys, we did some really really horrible things to a lot of innocent people forty years ago" news coverage, now that doesn't really seem to be a smart thing to do. I'm surprised more people didn't go "Hey why are toy companies releasing toys celebrating war crimes?" but people are usually too busy to notice that shit I guess. Fanboys should probably rejoice at that as if people made that connection which may be untrue (I for one sure hope Hasbro didn't call them Tiger Force in tribute) the newly relaunched Joe probably would've died a quick death and wouldn't be brought back to the extent it has, oh well would we have lost all that much?

The Tiger Force figures were hit and miss though. Half of them were terrible with yellow pants and chest armor (You know the real common military equipment) and those who were released after 1988 were bad too. But Duke and Flint were really decent figures, Roadblock v2 was pretty rad and had the coolest Joe Helmet ever. And atleast Tiger Force Stalker didn't have the usual "Subject served in the same LRRP unit as Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow during the South East Asian conflict" Stalker FC's usually have.