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You'd get no argument from me! WM shipped my two retro CGs, saying that they are going to arrive tomorrow (as if!). Two of my retro SEs shipped earlier in the week and actually should arrive tomorrow. My other retro SEs were officially delayed until mid-Aug. Such an odd way WM operates!

I keep thinking there must be some wacky prototypes of stuff developed in the last 40 years that never actually got produced that Joe could adapt. VAMP, Wolverine, MOBAT.... all based on real-world prototypes that never saw wide deployment. I agree that current military gear would yield...

Did we ever get that other "name only" reveal that day to go with Airborne? If so, I didn't catch it. Just like a lot of ARAH stuff was based on real world prototypes, maybe they're wanting to adapt some vehicles that have been invented IRL since the prime of ARAH. But the military has gotten...

I thought they were just soliciting input on "new" vehicles. They still fail to understand that if you were collecting Joes in the 80s, then you're currently somewhere in your mid/late 40s, and the whole reason for collecting this shit is a steaming scoop of nostalgia that comes with each and...

Wider release of the existing figures or "new" retro releases? I don't need the WM figures again... WTF Mattel! I always considered '85 the peak of my Joe love, although I had most of the '86 figures, and quite a few from '87 and even '88. I had every figure from '85 after getting Lampreys...

I assume Mindbender would be the movie purple winter overcoat, much like the club did in 4" a few years ago. Or it could be a VvV lab coat version. I would probably buy the winter coat version, but I would skip the lab coat version only to turn around and buy three of them for generic...

Yeah, it appears they gave him Beachhead's vintage gun for some reason rather than his normal weapon, but there are several third party options for the classic, so no biggie. I like my mods on the CI Firefly, but the torso on the new one is better than anything I could have cobbled together.

I'll get the new Firefly, but I have no use for Nunchuck or red vipers. Heck, Nunchuck doesn't even have any useful parts that might get me to pick one up on clearance. Totally worthless... and I can normally find a use for almost any figure. I think that new FF looks like it stepped straight...

A retail HISS? Wonder what that would cost. Even if they held back all the extra goodies, ditched the electronics, and no figures, it'll still cost $175. How much demand would there be for a non-classic repaint? I'd be more inclined to buy a stripped down black tank than some weird color...

I saw that too. I don't know what that actually means. They can't use the HISS driver mold for a retail figure this quickly, as it would really piss off the backers. So does that mean just three blueshirts? What does a tank strike team consist of? Where will they go, as the HISS already...

"Hasbro today in a round table Q&A confirmed that the 3rd stretch goal for the Dragonfly Haslab campaign would NOT BE a G.I. Joe Classified Airborne figure and that he would be released in the line some other way down the road."

Yeah, those are certainly fan edits. GS never had a stache... but I kinda like the Timothy Olyphant-as-Flash vibe going on there. Plus, this Flash doesn't come with his traditional gear that we know is getting tooled to come with Glenda. Mostly, hasbro has NEVER used the terms "O13" or "OG13"...

To be fair, the implausible surgically twinned blonde guys were always referred to as "the Fred series" of CGs, implying that there were plenty of other non-Fred CGs, or maybe 50 other series/groups of surgically twinned dudes with different names. It's just that the Freds were the only ones we...

Not sure if this is confirmed, but I've heard something about the SDCC exclusive being "crimson" Crimson Twins and crimson Baroness. If that's true, I'll be saving money there, as those are hard passes. I'll be skipping the crimson viper whenever it shows up, and I wish I hadn't bothered with...

So, are we still thinking Firefly and Shadow Tracker, and the Steel Corps for tomorrow? I haven't heard any solid rumblings to the contrary, so that's going to be my assumption going in. DF is over 14k... so I think it's well on track to hit the 19k goal if the pattern holds over the next...

For those wondering how the DF was doing vs the HISS, a fellow nerd is tracking it for us. DF is lagging the HISS overall but if it gets anywhere near the final push of the HISS or Skystriker, it'll easily clear the third stretch goal. The steady growth in the middle of the campaign is...

I would never use her that way. The version in my head is far more tame and realistic. In my noggin, all that talk of her abilities is just to scare the opposition, make her sound larger than life. In my world, she's just a talented spy/infiltrator type, but that's the extent.

Yeah, Helix was a mainstay in the IDW comics' first volume, and she's since had a mini series or two and then made her way into the classic Hama series. She literally has f#$%ing super-powers. Without being a cyborg or having a computer in her head, she can "see" the probability of what her...

I want to like Helix, but they immediately went and made her the ultimate psychic ninja warrior woman who cannot be defeated, but she's also a victim of massive childhood trauma, so we're supposed to feel sorry for her too. So angry, so virtuous. It's just too much. If she had just been...

That seems like a reasonable/possible list. I'll get one SC pack just to go with my Vala Steel Brigade troops. They'll be just enough different to give the group a little variety and not be completely identical. While I like the improvements I made to CI Firefly, I'll gladly take a...