I looked at Beachhead just a while ago. As I was deciding "who" was going to be on my small team in the collection, Beachhead (as a character) was sitting on my "B" team up until the last minute.
Beachhead is a good figure, and rather popular character. I don't think many would disagree with me on that. It was that very popularity where I was considering not keeping this figure, in some ways I was thinking I didn't want a limited collection that was going to look like just about every one other collection out there.
In the end, I kicked out Duke, though. And it wasn't because Duke was overly popular, but my Duke was at his core, a Ranger. So is Stalker, but, I don't/ didn't have a Stalker figure that I was happy with, and that left Beachhead as my team's Ranger.
I'm mostly happy with the decision, but, just now, I was thinking I should have kept that Night Force ('05) version. At the time of deciding, I didn't want to go all too dark and drab on my figures colors as a whole....
Either way, Beachhead makes a nice, fairly simply soldier looking figure-toy, but also brings a strong media essence of character to my small team.
I suppose in some ways, this figure also reminds me of my best bud a bit. Even though the figure I have might only be just parts of his original figure mixed into it. It is that very connection to the figure/ character that I have that helps to make my reasoning for it being in my collection so much more personal, too. A shared play experience, perhaps, is the best explanation?
