Nice review. I have the Funskool version. It was sealed mint in the box, but the random figure was long gone, snatched away from its previous owners. The paper stickers still worked and I applied most of them. I like the radio and missile control seat, it's a nice touch of "realism". I used to have it on my display cabinet with my Threadmark (Skidmark version for the GIJoe Collector's Club exclusive figure subscription) on the driver seat and some of the desert themed Rise of Cobra joe figures (like Dial Tone) riding along. I didn't have problems in putting a figure on the machine gun. The modern hands can hold well enough and won't fall easily (well, depends on the figure hands; I wouldn't trust most of the 25th Anniversary figures to hold well or permanently warp in the handle bars).