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Oh wow!  Oh WOW!  Look at these figures.

I’ve made no secret of the fact that I’m a bit bitter that Hasbro scrapped G.I. Joe: Renegades without hardly even giving it a chance, and a part of my complaint lies within the fact that they ditched the animated aesthetic due to fandom outcry.

Now a big part of me doesn’t blame them one bit.  I don’t have any false ideas that animated style figures would fly off the shelves…I have my doubts.  Hasbro could have potentially shrugged off their long standing fans, and not drawn in any new ones, and the entire line could have gone straight down the crapper.  I’m not sure G.I. Joe as a brand is quite strong enough for Hasbro to totally overhaul the realistic styling and still come out swinging.  So, I don’t blame them, even though the animated figures were items I really wanted to see.

So Amazon.com comes through in a big way, offering a Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow figure that apparently use this discarded tooling to great success.  Keep in mind I don’t yet have these figures in hand, and I will fully admit those hip joints immediately make me scared.  I hate those hips on the Marvel figures, so I really, desperately hope the Joe design team has found a way to make those joints work better than the Marvel folks have been able to.

Aside from that, the angular sculpting of the figures, the articulation…everything else looks very cool, and I’m really digging the animated look.  Part of me hopes we get a more normal Snake Eyes in this format, too.  I don’t have any aspirations that they’ll do an entire Renegades run in this style, but I’ll take what I can get.  Check out the original post by G.I. Joe: Renegades fan edhellman over at HissTank.com, and I’ve mirrored the images below.

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