Just as a reminder, Hasbro is holding their latest round of G.I. Joe themed Q & A’s, and feel free to use the comments section of the forums to post any questions you want considered. Deadline for question submissions to Hasbro is noon on September 5th. Get those thinking caps on, and try and figure out what we saw at JoeCon that we don’t know the answers to!
Are we going to see a Reactive Armor version of Breaker anytime soon? It seems a shame that he should be the only main movie Joe not to have his primary battle outfit not available.
Sledge: Hasbro already answered “Are we going to see a Reactive Armor version of Breaker anytime soon?” at Joecon. They said, no, he isn’t planned. Which is unfortunate.
My own question submissions:
1- Given the new international focus of the GI Joe movie continuity, will we see a revisitation of older, preexisting non-American Joes in future releases? Characters such as Backstop, Big Ben, or even the Oktober Guard characters such as Red Star, Brekhov, Shrage, Daina and Horrorshow are from NATO countries (or future NATO countries), which seems to be the primary recruitment base of the Movie’s GI Joe team.
2- The spring loaded missile launchers in the RoC line are quite large, and quite a bit larger than similar spring launchers included in recent Star Wars and Transformers figures, meaning that safety restrictions can’t take all the blame. Can you explain why it was decided to make them as large as they are?
3- The Howler was the Joes’ main vehicle in the movie, and is significantly missing from the release schedule, why does it seem like this perfect-for-Echo-class vehicle isn’t coming out?
My one big question: Why is it that the releases seem to be hit and miss? IE some places are seeing figures like the Pit Commando, the Doctor, ect, whereas other locals have yet to see these figures.
In relation to the Howler question, which I second, are there any plans for a Joe answer to the Steel Crusher, a Joe humvee of any kind?
There seemed to be a lot of positive buzz about all the un-released Sigma Six figures a few years back (Joe Colton, Short Fuse, Dusty, Scarlett, and Zanzibar to name a few), any chance of seeing these out at retail (or released through the club)?
Ok, my big question here would be: if hasbro manages to “control” the star wars line with the default movie figures, clone wars and comic packs in a single wave, why isn’t the same with gijoe? the roc figures, 25th anniversary, resolute and comic packs? why does EVERYTHING need to be ROC-based?
Will you make a Steel Brigade figure now that you have all the parts available?
Parts list:
RoC PIT Commando Steel Brigade helmet
RoC Flash head or any head the helmet fits on
Duke torso
Duke upper arms
Flash lower arms
Breaker(25th)upper legs
Cobra trooper lower legs
Duke web-gear
Tiger Force Duke backpack
Crimson Guard gun