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I am weak. :LOL: Breaker is up for pre-order at Target, who also happens to be running a 20% off sale on Joes and ML. So... I pre-ordered Breaker and ordered ML Falcon (who will become my Grand Slam). Total with the sale was $25 per figure w/ tax and free shipping. If you are getting more than...

https://toynewsi.com/278-56865 I don’t think I’ll be preordering tomorrow, but I’ll likely end up with all three retros and Breaker from this wave. Hasbro did a nice job on all, particularly Cover Girl. Had she come with that face with red hair originally, there’d be no need for this one, and I...

Good to see all that product there on display! Looks like the SNAKE is huge as expected. Law & Order, Breaker, Blowtorch and Footloose (despite the backwards mag 🙄) all look as good as I hoped. Tele-Viper is as expected as well. Frag-Viper needs to leave that helmet on. CG looks better than the...

Yeah it was crazy how little Duke’s actual head looked like his portrait or the cartoon. He wasn’t the only one. There had to have been some serious challenges with getting the figs mocked up and approved back in the time before easy global communications. I do remember the Art of GI Joe book...

So I found myself at Target this evening and got my first look at a couple things. First, I saw the Duke and Serpentor Reaction+ figures. They are pretty spot on replicas of the original O-rings, but with more vivid paint colors. Not worth the $21 price to me (even if I were interested in them)...

I suppose it’s not too different from the 5 poa Reaction figs’ relegating Joe figs to glorified paperweights. There will always be people that will buy them. Not that many, but there will be some.

Yep, I think a big reason I never really got that far into Transformers back in the day was the clunkiness and immobility of the actual toys versus the characters in the cartoon, which I generally enjoyed almost as much as Joe. If I did have the bandwidth for Transformers these days, I would...

I just wish the figures themselves looked a little less... frumpy. Ever since we got the 25th, POC and now the CS, I can't look the same way at these or even the original O-rings (though I loved them when that was all we had). I can't go back to the less detailed, limited articulation figures...

I hadn't realized S7 had fully stalled like that. You gotta wonder if they saw the CS offerings and decided to cut bait, knowing that those could undercut future, more expensive, cartoon-based figures. Just from the sales I had seen, it seems like they may have had some trouble selling the...

It is really interesting that the CS is leaning into the cartoon so much all the sudden. That feels like territory staked out by S7, and would seem to invite competition for customers, particularly with a relatively expensive product (at least from the S7 side). I hope it's good for the fans...

I think this definitely qualifies as "We are popular and well supported enough now, so why not?": https://toynewsi.com/278-56752 Breaker is looking pretty good too: https://toynewsi.com/278-56749

So… I bet you didn’t see this coming, but I need Cobras. I got a gift card and he was reduced to regular figure prices, so I basically got the guy for free. Hear me out. I liked that they gave him an actual mechanical jet pack with mechanical maneuvering wings (similar to Marvel’s Falcon)...

While not my cup of tea, I’m glad you were able to painlessly acquire these rare pieces. I do give them credit for going all in on these unique cartoon characters. I would never have expected Joe to get this deep cut of a treatment for collectors. Shows just how beloved the line has become more...

He's definitely established himself eternally as the trust fund nerd in the nice house that has the coolest toys. I'm sure all his friends (oh, wait :LOL:) love to come over and play! Nah, to each his own. It is impressive, and I'm happy for him. I think I would have opted for true to scale...

Yep, Hasbro always manages to get their pounds of flesh. Gotta make up for all that absolute crap that won't even sell at Ollie's somehow. They better be careful though, as the fandom may eventually go all Marv/Wars on them if they don't produce product deemed worth the cost. Not that I'd...

https://toyhabits.com/crystal-ball-gi-joe-classified-series-preproduction-leaked-images/ I would say my interest in this figure could be characterized as less than zero. :wtf: And... son of a nutcracker: https://toynewsi.com/278-56652 I guess they weren't lying about everything being delayed...

Lol, I thought that looked familiar! I'm guessing yours may be the only 1:12 scale MASS on the internet, and now becoming famous! As for the Flash mold, I completely agree that he was very streamlined back in the day, and shouldn't be stay-puffed at all just for the convenience of reuse. I...

More interesting rumors (skip over the argument over Darklon at the end :rolleyes:):

Just ran across this: Walmart has a number of regular and deluxe figs discounted right now, including some at lower than half price. https://www.walmart.com/search?Find.x=23&Find.y=9&ic=48_0&q=g.i.+joe&search_constraint=0&sort=price_low&facet=retailer_type%3AWalmart&page=1&affinityOverride=default

I think a decently kitted out Mauler is way better than a redesigned SC or HAVOC for sure. They should just do a mainline retro-ish SC and skip the HAVOC. I'd say the way to go is to basically build out the Mauler as a fully man-able (hull and turret), multi-mission battle tank, taking the best...