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G.I. Joe Convention 2009 Hasbro Marketing Panel – 2010 and beyond

Lots of stuff planned for 2010, and Hasbro covered a huge amount of it at their 2010 Marketing Panel.  Folks from The Terror Drome and JoeBattleLines were both there and provided up-to-the-minute coverage via Twitter and Cover It Live!  This is what we know:

  • 45 Figures and 15 Vehicles planned for 2010
  • 4 Themes for the year, Desert, Jungle, Urban, and Arctic
  • Bravo 2010 Wave 2 HISS Tank! – Treads Move, HISS Body “pops up”
  • Wave 5 2009 Figures
    Ripcord (Jungle Assault)
    Duke (City Strike)
    Snake Eyes (City Strike)
    Storm Shadow (Arctic Threat)
    Desert-Viper
  • 2010 Figures – Different Environments
    Snow Job (Arctic Threat w/ nasty sniper rifle)
    Storm Shadow (Jungle Assault – Resolute body!)
    Destro (Arctic Threat w/ Water Shooter and frosted head??)
    Zartan (Desert Battle, almost looks like Raptor)
    Elite Ice-Viper
    Ripcord (Desert Battle w/ Delta Suit “next gen” for Air Operations)
    Snake Eyes (Arctic Threat w/ new sculpt Timber)
    Duke (Jungle Assault, looks like one of the guys from Predator)
    COBRA Commander (Jungle Assault)
    Jungle-Viper (Sniper, lots of elements of old school Night-Viper)
    Recondo (Jungle Assault)
    Scarlett (City Strike – Resolute Scarlett body)
    Firefly (City Strike – Some elements of Wraith)
    Heavy Duty (Desert Battle)
  • Ice Cutter COBRA Vehicle w/ Snow Serpent Officer
  • Hiss Attack Scout w/ Sand Viper (HISS Tank w/ no armor?)
  • Armored MotorCycle w/ Ashika (new character) – CYCLE TRANSFORMERS INTO ARMOR!  COOL AS ALL HELL.
  • Armored Panther w/ Outback
  • COBRA Fury w/ Alley-Viper Office
  • Snow Cat w/ Whiteout
  • Sand Serpent w/ Star-Viper (Night Raven repaint)
  • COBRA Commander MAIL AWAY FIGURE!
    New Breastplate, new helmet/mask
    HISS Drone comes with it

I’ve mirrored a sampling of round table images below…more to come from the sales floor!

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Fantastic Images of Display Cases with G.I. Joe Convention Exclusives

Never fails…whenever Fred from JBL shows up at the G.I. Joe Convention, you can be assured that some awesome pictures will be coming forward.  On the JBL Convention Coverage page, Fred has posted a short series of images of the Convention Exclusives, and the pics are pretty much the highest quality I’ve seen yet.

He’ll be hitting the display floor today at 2:00pm as well, so expect big things!  Check out the images mirrored below.

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Convention Exclusive pricing structure and some more images

spiderpumpkin from HissTank has come through again with some pictures and details of the convention exclusive items that are being purchased as I type.  This appears to be the lowdown (and what an expensive lowdown it is!):

  • Blades w/ SAF Gyrocopter: $28.00
  • JUMP 2-Pack w/ Starduster and Manleh: $45.00
  • 3-Pack w/ Sgt. Shimik, Sgt. Redmack, and Sgt. Topson: $65.00
  • 12″ Crimson Guard: $50.00
  • Crimson Command Copter: $30.00
  • Joe or COBRA Weapon Set: $8.00 (still no inclination on exactly what this contains)

Actually, in all honesty, the prices aren’t terrible…well, except that 12″ Crimson Guard.  Yikes.  I can appreciate the production costs and the limited run, but that’s far and away the most expensive parachute figure ever.  It’s a beautiful figure, but you’re definitely paying for it.  The other items are about standard for Convention stuff…

spiderpumpkin also posts some great pics of the filecards and stuff at his photo gallery, which I have mirrored below.

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