Still playing a bit of catch up today and yesterday with JoeCon intel as I was on the road for a lot of the excitement, then ended up at work until after midnight with a Firewall/Switch issue. When it rains, it pours…
Anyway, a spontaneous Hasbro round table was held yesterday in conjunction with the Rise of COBRA panel, and they showcased a lot of images of upcoming 2010 exclusive items, mostly available at Toys “R” Us and Target stores. They also talked about some “zipcord” figure/vehicle sets intended for the kids’ market, but those vehicles will come with fully functional Pursuit of COBRA action figures in them. They are listed as follows:
Rip Attack Zipcord Vehicles
- JetStorm Cycle w/ Snake Eyes
- Tiger Snake w/ Street-Viper
Target Exclusives
- RAM w/ Sandstorm (the Joe that Zartan kills and disguises himself as!)
- Trouble Bubble w/ Elite-Viper
- Glider w/ Ace
- Twin Battle Gun w/ Range-Viper (a darker colored Range-Viper from the 7-Pack? SOLD!)
Toys “R” Us Exclusives
- Single Pack Doc (Arctic Threat)
- Single Pack Shipwreck (Arctic Threat)
- Sting Raider w/ Copperhead and Swamp-Viper (Swamp-Viper is an AVAC in green)
And in perhaps, some of the best news of the panel, Hasbro revealed they are retooling the Sigma 6 2.5″ Iron Hammer mechs to fit the full sized figures! Hell yeah!
Images are mirrored below, courtesy of JoeBattleLines.com.
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The panel also discussed Shadow Tracker, who is a COBRA tracker who refuses to use guns, and only uses melee weapons. He was conceived of to work with Jungle-Vipers, who are all macked out on nanomites, and use advanced technology to pin down their targets, then Shadow Tracker goes in to finish them off. A very cool team, and an absolutely bad ass looking figure.
I’m gonna hold on to my S6 Iron Hammer just in case. However, if they put out a 1/18 one, I will weep, openly.
Shadow Tracker has me getting a major G.I. Joe Extreme vibe for the ex-SKAR agent Quickstrike. Now I sound like someone else out there screaming for BLOOD!
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And Arctic Shipwreck with Polly is just plain silly.
Maybe I missed it, but I don not remember most of this from the movie. But i do want the last slide.
I hope Hasbro is considering using other S6 vehicle designs for 3 3/4″ scale use. Especially the Firebat, Street Razor and Night VAMP. The Night VAMP I actually hoped Hasbro would use as the basis for a new COBRA Stinger.
Ummm, Storm Shadow killed the guy that Zartan disguised himself as.
oops, never mind. You were talking about the dude with the camels. That dude was a Joe?
I’m glad there is plenty of 25th stuff I still need to get. I like the current movie toys on the shelf, but this new stuff is getting pretty silly.
Agreed. There are a handful of decent figs in all this new stuff, but most of it is just really “out-there” and has next to nothing to do with GIJoe.
Guess my massive 25th armies are getting another year of recruitment 😀
I’m always pumped to see arctic figures. I’ll definately collect the Joes. As far as the rest… Recondo, Beach-Head… very nice. I’ll be sure to grab. There rest… we’ll see.
I guess this was the disgraceful outcome we’ve come to expect regarding the infamous movie. remember those awful days when kenner released like 8 billions different-colored batman figures that never appeared in the movies, or any cartoon, or comics? well, the same thing will happen to our beloved joes. i can already picture some: “neon night attack low-light”, “deep-sea combat ace”, waffle-throwing waffle viper and “battle talking snake-eyes”.