The Terror Drome has scored some nice high resolution pictures of the soon-to-be-released COBRA and G.I. Joe 5-Packs coming to a Toys “R” Us store near you. The COBRA one leaves me very cold, being pretty much a pack full of straight-reissue troop builders. The G.I. Joe pack, however, rocks my world. I’m not a fan of desert figures in the least, but the wealth of new characters, the very unique reuse of parts, and the impressive paint apps all come together to make one slick looking set. Dial Tone, Law, Footloose, and Repeater are all very cool additions to the growing cast of characters, even if two of them look somewhat out of place compared to their vintage look (and one of them even had an operation… :shifty: ).
I love the female Dial Tone concept, and this figure looks great. Footlose, I think, looks absolutely awesome, even in the desert colors. Ironically, Repeater is probably the closest to his vintage look uniform-wise, but apparently had a race change along the way. Oh, those Hasbro designers, how they love to drive the vintage purists crazy…
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How is the COBRA set not awesome? I didn’t army build the Vipers, so I get a shot at a pair of them from the COBRA gang, and since the MARS set never came to any retail, I also don’t have the MARS Trooper or Officer, and finally, how is it that you didn’t notice the blonde Duke is actually Blackout? Pure win!
The Joe set is boring and useless. Law and Zartan have worthless, no-sit hips, the uniforms and gear are boring, and most of the gear/parts/frankenjoes are not the best of the best? THe only thing in this set worth getting would be Hardball… er Repeater and Footloose, only barely.
Someone should tell Repeater Robert Downey Jr wants his roel from Tropic Thunder back.
good news everyone!
if i get to TRU before you and theres only one of each of those sets left, its yours!
but i have a feeling that there will be plenty to go around.
I really dislike that Zartan / MP body mold.