Amazon.com has started posting cover images and details about several upcoming items from IDW and other publishers tied into the G.I. Joe motion picture and comic property. Here is a rundown:
Wired.com has posted some screenshots and information from the upcoming Nintendo DS version of G.I. Joe: The Rise of COBRA. The game appears to be a top-down view with some pretty cool old school graphics. One of the screenshots even showcases a version 1 HISS Tank.
Check out the article here, and see the images in the gallery below:
Earlier this morning, we posted an image from HissTank that looked to possibly be a COBRA Trooper, but the figure appears to have a Joe logo on his shoulder armor. The identity of this figure and character is currently a mystery, however it is definitely based on the Resolute Firefly design.
Thanks to cmderinchief from Coil Club and JoeBattleLines, we’ve been able to gather down a pair of much larger, better pictures of this mystery figure, with and without the armor! Check it out below:
Now compare that to an image of the Resolute Firefly:
There are at least a few distinct similarities there. The lower “apron” has that same pouch on the belt, and the overall armor looks remarkably similar (although there are pouches rather than a strap). It’s currently unknown who this character is, if he’s a Joe or a COBRA, but whoever the character is, this figure rocks my world! It looks AWESOME. Gotta love the Resolute.
Last night TaoBao.com apparently was inundated with many upcoming auctions for Rise of COBRA action figures, and while I got a post up for the Crimson Twins and Snowcat, a few snuck under the radar. Well, not any more. Thanks to a combination of cmderinchief from the Coil Club, HissCommander from the Terror Drome, and the folks at HissTank, I think I’m all caught up this morning. 😉 Check out the auction links below, and the gallery at the bottom for some interesting images! Keep in mind, I’m going with auction listings, which (as in the case with “Dial Tone”) may or may not be accurate.
Destro from HissTank also uncovered a potential new COBRA Trooper (though he looks to have a Joe logo on his shoulder) but I haven’t found a link to the actual auction yet. The image is posted below.
My thoughts? I’m not buying the “Flint” or “Duke” labels. Duke’s head looks like the Breaker head from the 25th Anniversary, and nothing like Channing Tatum… I have no idea who he is, but I don’t think he’s Duke. Same goes for the auction listed as “Flint”. That head sculpt looks a lot like Dennis Quaid, and the figure itself looks like the promo pics we’ve seen for Hawk in the film, so I have a suspision that’s a single pack Hawk figure. I might be wrong.
Considering all this, I’ve also gotta consider the fact that the other auction isn’t Dial Tone as the seller states, but I’m still holding to that. 😉
Up for auction on TaoBao is what appears to be an upcoming Rise of COBRA figure of a mystery female character. Click here to check out the auction. Keep in mind, the seller has stated this this is not a custom figure. Of course, there’s no way to know for sure if this is an elaborate custom, or a real figure, but I gotta go with what the seller is saying. Who knows for sure?
If it is a real figure, it’s quite a departure from the movie style, this particular figure is very bright and unusual. It would be my guess that it’s a figure that’s not based straight on the movie, but perhaps something that might come in the Headquarters for Heroes line, or it may be a figure as part of the Rise of COBRA toyline that doesn’t necessarily appear in the film.
I actually have my own hypothesis about this particular figure that suddenly came to me while I was writing this…it probably won’t be a popular hypothesis, but my guess is this may be an upcoming Dial-Tone figure. My reasoning is this:
To me, the pieces all fit. I expect some “nerd anger” over this, and to an extent I think some of it is justified. But this is a “new” G.I. Joe, and apparently in this “new” G.I. Joe, Dial-Tone got himself Starbucked. In a way they did him a favor, though, I think… the character of Dial-Tone hasn’t been this much of a focus of attention in twenty-five years! 😉
EDIT: Just ran this page through a Google Translator. The title translates as: GIJOE 09 years Special Forces were female version of casual telephone
Guess that settles it.
As the Black Sheep Toy Store has been uploading new auctions, I’ve been grabbing the high quality images from those auctions, particularly the carded ones. Here I’ve collected all carded images so far, and I gotta say the pics are awesome. In case readers haven’t been able to tell, I’ve been drastically warming up to the movie toys and I’m really enjoying the design aspects of these figures. Granted, I’m a Sigma 6 fan, so…
This isn’t an endorsement of the movie at all, I’m still firmly on the fence about how I think that’s going to turn out, but from a pure toy standpoint, I think Hasbro is doing some awesome stuff with these figures and I think if fans can keep an open mind there will be something for everyone in the months to come. I can’t wait.
