His upper body has been seen a few times but that’s fine. That’s a detail they could have just let slip, but they even made sure that his socks stuck out of the top of his boots like they often do just to add another element of realism to the design. I love the fact they went as far as including the top of his socks as well.
His bare legs are very well-defined and his boots look great. The shorts look great and have all sorts of pockets.
However, with the benefit of coming into the 30th Anniversary line (where he was originally slated to come out), they could afford to spend some money and make Kwinn looks like he should. When the Joe line was winding down a bit, they couldn’t justify investing new tooling dollars to make set of vintage o-ring style legs that were wearing shorts. That was always a bit of a stumbling block for a Kwinn figure and I’m sure that’s why Hasbro only created his parka look from Issue #2 when they did the comic packs during the Valor Vs. Venom Alpine and Sagat if you want to count the Joe Street Fighter line. The only ones I can come up with are Valor Vs. As Rob pointed out during Nice Pants Week a couple of years ago, not many Joes ever wore shorts. First off, I’d like to start with his legs. Though we’ve seen Kwinn’s torso and arms on other figures, they were both originally designed to be used here, so Kwinn is using all new molds. Joe cartoon was a glorified ad, but I feel the comic was something special, and characters like Kwinn were part of what made it so.Īnalysis of Kwinn’s role in Joe media aside, Kwinn looks like he stepped right off the page and the Hasbro team did an amazing job of taking Larry Hama’s artwork and translating it into an action figure. That’s something you definitely don’t see much these days in toy lines that have tie-ins with other media. However, Kwinn and Hama’s other creations, like White Clown, were fully-developed characters, just like the Joes and Cobras on the shelves. The stories could have gotten a little dull if the Joes were only ever fighting against Cobra characters that were either on the shelves at the time or were going to be coming out the next year in the toy line. Hama have a little leeway in universe building. He’s part of a select group of characters Larry Hama invented solely for the comic book. Yes, Kwinn wasn’t initially designed to be part of the Retaliation line, but at least Hasbro got him out. The Retaliation line may have had some problems early on, but the figures in the later waves were absolutely amazing. I am very happy that a version of Kwinn in his jungle duds finally got released and I’m even happier that it’s a great figure. I realize that isn’t as long as some Joe fans have been waiting for him, but he’s still somebody I’ve always hoped would get a figure somehow. Joe comics until I was in high school, so when I say Kwinn is a figure I’ve been waiting to get since I first met him back in Issue #2 of the original comic series, we’re only talking about waiting a little over a decade by the time he finally came out.
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