Kung-fu grip has returned as have the Adventure Team. Unfortunately both are on Sigma Six figures and really sucking! I bought the GIJOE Combat Squad Black Ops guy code named Shockwave because he actually had weapons that were his size. He was also a normal looking figure with somewhat normal hands. He is molded in gray with gunmetal and black highlights. His face is painted in a standard pinkish flesh tone with blond/yellow hair. He has gloved hands. He is Sigma Six.

Shockwave is adorned with a hood, goggles, vest, dogtag, and ball cap. You get one dart launching gun, a static display SMG, a silenced pistol, 2 grenades, NVGs, and a large version of his dogtag for your own neck. It seems innocent enough until you go looking for the Kung-fu grip. I'm not sure what hand it is on.

Is it the spring loaded flexihand that barely holds anything? Or is it the non-flexible rubber hand that doesn't hold anything. I cannot understand this. I am going to assume it is the spring loaded hand. I'll tell you this; IT is NOT your dad's Kung-fu grip. It is the same overgrown meat hook that Sigma Six is known for except it is spring loaded. Is this what the new Wal-Mart sets are going to be like?

It is sad really. He can only hold the pistol, rifle and the SMG as the grenades are to big for his hand but I'm glad I bought him. My son will like him and play with him. He has similar appearences as Thomas so he can put this one next to the bed and dream about being a soldier at night. Atleast he doesn't have the over sized weapons that the others seem to come with.

In closing this is good for your kids but not for you. I was going to put this on my desk at work but I am going to put Sideshow/Hot Toys RoboCop there instead. Hasbro needs to step down off the platform and walk through its toy isles once in a while. Maybe talk to the crowd it had by the painted hairs with the 40th Anniversary line and do the same with the AT version or return to the drawing board and start over...

Sigma Six is great for the kids but not for us adults that grew up on the REAL GIJOE.