So, we now know the date and place for the 2011 G.I. Joe Convention, which of course means that the guessing will start taking place! Well, over on the GI Joe Collectors’ Club forums, “The Commander” has made our jobs at least a little bit easier.
A single thread has been created over there where they plan on posting information about the exclusive set for the upcoming 2011 convention, and so far they’ve given us two clues, albeit very minor ones.
“1) The set will contain 25A-style figures!
2) We are not revisiting a previous Convention set!”
So begins the game!
I know when they first announced that the o-ring figure convention sets were getting phased out, I was disappointed. But it’s become quite evident that there is so limited a selection of tooling that really, we would only be shoe-horned into a very limited canvas that the club could work with. As I see the Pursuit of Cobra surge forward, with Renegades looming in the distance, and think about all of the 25th Anniversary homage stuff that’s still hanging out there, I can think of a wealth of great things the Club can do with the new selection of tooling.
Hell, maybe they’ll even dip their toes into the Resolute pool? One can only dream.
Regardless, they have so many more options with the new tooling format that I find it hard to complain, and I can’t help but get excited to see what they can do with this new format (when they’re not simply revisiting a set from years past). Don’t disappoint me, Collectors’ Club! 😉
Oh fun, fun. Speculation time!!!
I will say this. If they put together a boxed set that has the missing 25th style guys and gals from 82-86 (plus whatever else they may be able to fit in there I will sell my soul to be there so I can get my hands on it.
It’s the most obvious and most adavntageous decision for them. Hasbro isn’t filling in the blanks (with the one exception of Low Light) and most of the old school fans are wishing they existed. This is the perfect thing for a fan club to step in and give us. Maybe Hasbro is right, and Cover Girl, Airtight and Sci-Fi won’t sell well to the new kiddies on the block, but hardcore fans will buy them.
Here’s my guess (Only a guess) But let’s look at what Vehicles Hasbro brought back, My thoughts are a Drednok Ground Assault featuring the Drednok Ram cycle & Drednok Stinger (both were used for the 25th. It’s also possible that They could do the Drednok Air set featuring the Drednok “Ghost” Hawk & Drednok Fang (although I already can hear you all go…no not another fang). I can also see them do a 25th Thrasher, Zarana, Zandar But what would a Joe team be without Some Joes to fight (If I had to guess I’d say Night Force, The Cancelled LT. Falcon, Night Force Outback and The cancelled Arctic Scarlett (Without her parka jacket she has the right color pallet). Vehicles for Night Force If I had to guess, I’d Say a night force Sharctooth or Night force Ghost Hawk.
These once again are just my Thoughts as a guess (But it would be cool)!!!!
so we know we won’t get (fill in the blank) set Mark 2 like we did two years ago with the Crimson Viper set in 25th style.
Now if we can get some hints. i wonder if they’ll do more Action Force/foreign figues. We still haven’t gotten domestic versions of Quarrel, Cobra de Aco, Asa Negra, Sei Tin, Black Buzzard, Baron Ironblood, etc.
Not to mention there are plenty of cartoon/comic characters that have neer had figures including Billy, Mayday, Firewall, Damon, Soft Master, Teiko, Colonel Slash, Ophelia, Cool Breeze, and Mangaler
I for one hope MasterCollector does what they did with their Botcon 2007 set – they produced their version of Dirge, Thrust and THundercracker, completeing the popular ‘seeker’ group that Hasbro decided (at the time) not to pursue. So, they essentially gave the collectors what they most wanted.
If they did this with Joe, almost every part exists for a perfect translation of Dial-Tone, Lifeline, Airtight, Claymore, and so on. Granted, MC sets usually follow a thematic storyline, but it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to concoct some “Call In The Reserves!” plot.
Now, referencing the 2007 Botcon again, Hasbro has chosen to make their own version of Thrust and Dirge, while mentioning they know Thundercracker should be made in time. So, whether or not it makes sense for either Hasbro or MC to potentially intersect each other with a popular 25th figure… I guess that’s their call to make.
Oh, I wouldn’t mind the Oktober Guard, either! Hasbro probably isn’t in the mood to make former-Communist Bloc toys nowadays, so MC might as well. 🙂
Eduardo – between the Red Shadows this year, and the South American figures last year, I’d say that the foreign figures would be enough ‘revisiting past sets’ that they’d probably not do them.
Since Sgt Slaughter came out at Comic Con… would be cool to see his Renegades (Mercer, Red Dog, and Taurus) made 25th style and have them in a set with either motorcycles and/or Slaughter’s Triple-T and as far as Cobra…package in Thrasher, Road Pig, Zandar, and Zarana with the Thunder Machine…
I know I’m stretching big time with this one…but who knows…
Maritime Mayhem!
“Cobra Mortal is smuggling secret stuff across the Gulf of Mexico to the tip of Florida, where the Dreadnoks are waiting to steal it for themselves! Admiral Keel Haul is on the alert and has his crew already on patrol!!”
Cobra Mortal
Croc Master (to meet Mortal)
2-Swamp Vipers (assisting Croc Master)
Zandar
Zarana
Zanzibar
Zartan (smuggler edition…)
Admiral Keel Haul
Cutter
Muskrat
Rampart
Windmill
Extras and bonus:
2 Devilfish
3 Swamp Skiiers (’84 Zartan style)
1 “Air Skiff”
Cobra Pirahna (1990 for Mortal)
Ghost HAWK (Windmills aerial patrol copter)
Come on Collectors Club… hit this one out of the ball park and give us a respectable Jungle Kwinn!
Since we also have Slaughter from the SDCC… and Low-Light, Spirit, Mutt, Barbecue, and I be they could come up with a nice Footloose to make the Slaughter’s Mauraders. I’d love to see that set with the Renegades as mentioned previously.
I’d definitely be interested in a set that filled in some of the 83-86 team.
-Cover Girl would be pretty easy. I imagine the torso from the ROC Scarlett in BDU’s, some jacketed arms and a jacket piece, and maybe either Agent Helix or the cartoon pack Lady Jaye’s head with red hair.