I know I’ve posted most of these images before, but when I got these again in the mail, I took an even closer look at the rediculously high resolution images and a few more things caught my eye. Let’s see how many folks had this all figured out before I did. :shifty:
Wave 5 is something that I’ve bounced back and forth on relentlessly since we first got images. City Strike Snake Eyes makes that wave, but other figures were really starting to impress me, too, even if there are a lot of reused parts. Both in Waves 4 & 5 there is an almost brutal amount of reused tooling, though Hasbro does their best to camouflage it.
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Now Duke and Arctic Storm Shadow are obvious (though Storm Shadow is actually better masqueraded than I initially thought). Desert-Viper and Ripcord, though, I think are masked fairly well. Desert-Viper is essentially an Elite-Viper with the MARS Officer webgear in a different paint scheme and with the scarf from Hostile Environment Major Bludd. It all comes together nicely, though. Ripcord uses a lot of the Pit Commando as a base, it would appear. I’d bet the boonie hat is from that set, and of course, the combat vest as well. Not sure where the arms come from, but if the Pit Commando is used as the base, I’m glad we’ve got new arms, because the Dusty arms are a lot less poseable than many of these new ones. Ripcord also comes with a bevy of reused weapons, a lot of them from the still unreleased Resolute Baroness.
So while it’s not nearly as obvious with Wave 5 as it was with Wave 4, there seems to be just as much reused tooling, though perhaps disguised a bit better.
Also got the images from the latest round of Target Exclusive vehicles.
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That SNAKE w/ “Viper Commando” (again, why are they phasing out the Neo-Viper codename?) is absolutely KICK ASS. Love the black, and I really dig that darker colored Viper. I may grab a couple of those, though I’ll probably skip the rest. No real interest on the movie Wet Suit, that funky colored Air-Viper is bleh, and I’ve got no real interest in the Arashikage Cycle Storm Shadow either. The “racing suit” kind of looks neat, but I’ve got 3 of those bikes already, don’t need any more.
Lastly, we also got the first look at the upcoming Arashikage Temple set w/ Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow, due to be a Wal-Mart Exclusive.
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What was it your mother said? If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all? Well, a ton of accessories come with this set, that’s for sure. Beyond that the colors are pretty lame, and the figures don’t offer anything interesting either. A swing and a miss on this one, I really think. Would have been neat to have seen the unreleased Training Snake Eyes from the Resolute Comic Packs in here, but as it stands, pretty dull stuff.
The colors used on some of the figures are just odd. The tan and gray on Snake Eyes is not flattering at all and the Air Viper has this odd gray neck covering that makes him look like a zombie corpse. I hope they don’t forget anymore re-tooling in the foot peg arena.
the good thing in all this is that i’ve been saving a lot of money NOT buying any of the stupid “specific-scene” movie figures. in fact, i haven’t bought none of the movie toys, but resolute snake-eyes? count me in! it’s a shame it comes with the awful roc movie blister, though.
I don’t think the accessories used in the SE/SS Wal-Mart set are going to be enough for me to buy another one of those Temple playsets. I liked it ok the first time around but I definitely don’t need another one. Looks like it still uses the old style of foot-pegs too, hence the need for stands to display them on it.
singles:
looks like someone is suffering from “joe love” syndrome. dont get me wrong, i suffer from a slight case of it myself, but that singles wave, save for the snake eyes, is a total sucker wave.
target Xs:
ill get the snake and wet suit (anyone out there want to buy a cheap neo-viper and wave crusher?)…but regardless of the contents, the target exclusives are always more nicely priced than WMs (the worst) and TRUs (better than WM though).
WM temple:
not even on my radar….until its clearanced for $5 or less. (stess upon “or less”)
Singles, I like the City Strike SE and Duke. Duke is definitely going to be custom fodder. Stormy is a cool repaint. You know they were going to re-use the PP SE mold.
As for the Target exclusives, I was looking forward to Wetsuit, until I saw him in detail. I was hoping for a Camo pattern ala ROC Deep Six. Oh well. The Snake is still a win.
No interest in the Ninja Temple set.
Justin: Ripcord has Desert Duke’s arms.
“You know they were going to re-use the PP SE mold.”
Except they didn’t here. That’s ENTIRELY wave 1 Storm Shadow, but with PP Snake Eyes’ belt and jacket. Seriously. Compare it to the Target Storm Shadow (who is wv1 SS, with the Cobra Island Range Viper belt.)
Now… if you were talking about DUKE, then you’d be a bit more on the ball, because he has PP SE legs.
Ripcord has desert ambush dukes arms
I have a trick, It has worked for me many times,
Go to toys r us right when it opens on thursday morning.
I used that trick last week and got The Doctor,Arctic Snake and Arctic Storm Shadow, and Accelerator Suit Duke.