Over the weekend, GIJoeClub.com showed the first image of the carded Cobra Commander from the G.I. Joe: Retaliation toyline, and yesterday they also released the first image of G.I. Joe: Retaliation Duke.
I’ll be the first to admit this card “art” is pretty underwhelming, especially considering all of the great package art G.I. Joe has been known for over the years. Hell, even the Rise of Cobra had fantastic painted artwork. Alas, those days are behind us, at least for the moment.
Check out the image at GIJoeClub.com.
HAHAHA Pull ripcord to unleash 4 missiles. Sorry thought that was kind of funny.
see…ripcord IS in the movie afterall!
Haha. I saw that and my thought was about the character Ripcord, also. Apparently he has now morphed into the trigger on Duke’s gun. Watch as Duke and his talking gun, Ripcord, have saucy banter and go on wacky adventures in Hasbro’s new G.I. Joe toyline!
I wonder if Hasbro is hoping the understated (cheap?) look will help the toys sell. Maybe the PoC/30th stuff looked too expensive for parents to buy?
It’s a bummer the packaging is so bad because these sculpts are pretty good.
Weird. There’s an Arashikagi logo after Duke’s name in the same place as a Cobra sygil after Cobra Commander. Are they trying to use Arashikagi as the sign for good guys?
theres a handful of Retaliation figs i want……………..this…..is not one of them.
I forget how Snoopy used to say ick or was it yelch or maybe uchk, but I’m with him
Maybe it was Blech!
Hasbro totally lowered their level to the A-team figures. And these figures might suck like the A-team figures. I see discount stores in the near future. So much for progress, they should have stuck with cartoons.
He’s got an ORANGE gun. Hasbro promised us a few JoeCons ago that they would never again make silly colored weapons like in the 90’s. “Lies and unsubstantiated fantasy”.
huge fail, i hope the kids like them
I have to say, I’m just not feeling these. I think the generic packaging is definitely really out of character for G.I. Joe: I can think of so few times when G.I. Joe has used generic packaging.