WildWeasel over on The Terror Drome has gotten his hands on a pre-production version of the upcoming Ripcord (Desert Battle) and posted a ton of images online here. Of course, I’ve also mirrored the images below.
Sweet Lord this is one awesome looking figure. My only concern is that he does seem a bit bulky, and it might be tough to move around, but what a cool looking version of Ripcord. Absolutely bad ass.
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Almost an equal amount of accessories to points of articulation. Another G.I. Joe value brought to you by Hasbro.
Something makes no sense to me about the assembled suit. Why are the thrusters placed at the shoulders and the mini-missiles placed below the wings. Wouldn’t it be more logical in a gravity = down environment to reverse those?
Hasbro often does pre-production Transformers wrong, could this figure be getting some mixed up gear shots?
Maybe they’re intakes…yeah, that’s the ticket…
I love this figure. I can’t wait to get mine in.
You know with the designs of some of these figs and their accessories I would be willing to bet that an animated series of some kind is in the works. If so then I would be very pleased ;).
This guy’s gear, especially the jetpack, looks like something out of Metal Gear Solid 4. And that’s a good thing.
I wish Konami would give Hasbro the license to make 3 3/4 MGS figs in the GI Joe line. But then Jin Saotome would lose some income…heh.
Man, that would be awesome, having snake eyes side-by-side with solid snake? that would be mind-blowing stuff. But hey, why not? if hasbro put street fighter into the gijoe universe, (although some folks would like to forget that) anything’s possible!
This reminds me of a take on the 1991 General Hawk.
I haven’t been shy about expressing my disdain for almost all these new RoC and PoC toys as they seem like pure garbage to me, but this figure is amazing. Just totally awesome really. It’s at the top of a very, very short list of RoC/PoC toys I will buy.