JoeCanuck

Got my Valkyries yesterday.  Love 'em for the most part.


My only real gripes are the tan colours on the officer, some of the helmets not fitting well and the tight/poor range of motion on the core body.  None of which are deal breakers for me personally.


Otherwise I love them and they are great additions to the line and Cobra's troops.

Just got charged for the Valkyries 2-pack from Pulse.   Guess that means they should be shipping soon, and probably some of the other Pulse exclusive stuff will start charging soon.

You are lucky if you see GI Joe figs at your local Walmart. I have 2 store near my home and both have nothing,  not even 1 peg warmer.

Now I just pre-order and wait. Speaking of waiting, I have 11 Classified figs on pre-orders 🤦‍♂️

Only Joe stuff I have on pre-order is the Pulse exclusive stuff, except Chuckles, and Eel, who I missed (damn it).  Otherwise everything else is wait and get it when it releases.

I find the new waves, when wide release, don't sell out anymore so no need to rush to get them.  I mean even TRU is now sitting on a lot of figures when they were a barren wasteland just a couple months ago (outside of TF/PP exclusives).   So I can wait, especially after I got hit for that Shipwreck wave, and Scrap-Iron all at once. 

As for me, two of my local Walmarts aren't too bad.  They have gotten at least once case of the last wave (before Shipwreck) and one them had Shipwreck, R&R and Copperhead yesterday.   The closest one to me though is absolute garbage.  They haven't had anything Joe since the Snake Eyes movie figures and the blue Retro HISS.  The same goes for Marvel Legends there.  Nothing but the Retro 4" figures since the Black Panther movie re-releases.  They seem to do ok for SW stuff, but Joe and ML seem to have been abandoned by that location.

I'm going to wait a bit and see if I can get the set on sale.  I love it and all the accessories it comes with, but I am trying to be a bit more responsible with my purchases so I'll wait a bit and see if it goes on sale somewhere.

I am away this week and missed out on Chuckles.  So now I have to wait, and hope, that they have more stock coming, or Gamestop gets an allotment.  Maybe with PulseCon coming they'll do the same thing like they did with Mindbender and Serpentor last year and have more go up for preorder.   I know the Crimson Striker team is the PulseCon exclusive, but I'll keep hope alive for now.

From what I understand, we are going to have 2 versions of the PP Officer and still no offical PP Soldier. Funny how there was a switch back then, and in the Classified line, there is still a confusion with these 2 characters.

I think someone mentioned that Lenny said that it was just an error in the digital render reveal.  That it is supposed to be the proper Trooper, not an Officer.

My wallet.........

"The HORROR!!!!!!!!!!!!"  LOL


Well does anyone need spare body parts?  I am happy to sell off some of mine to get the money together for all these reveals.......LOL

What a great showing by the Joe team.

I don't even know where to begin.

Obviously Duke and Scarlett were givens (and already kind of known).  Glad to hear Emily mention they learned their lesson and the Retro cards will now be on stronger card stock.  Also these won't be Walmart exclusives, so hopefully they'll be easier to acquire (or ridiculously expensive as a Pulse exclusive).

Torch was also to be expected.

Jinx is great, and I like the Lenny said they did their best to make her look more like her animated movie version.  Can't wait to see pics.

THE VAMP AND CLUTCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  HELL YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  And this will be a retail release, not Haslab.  (Lenny also mentioned that the Thunder Machine, if they did it, wouldn't need to go the Haslab route).  I guess this shows the team, and Hasbro, that there is a market for this if they are willing to go this route.  The big question now is.....how much??

Oh and of course we know this means we can expect VAMP MKII and the Stinger sometime in the future.

PP Copperhead and Officer were kind of expected and look good.

Buzzer and Ripper look great, and I love the accessories.   Now the wait for physical models.

Shockwave!!!!!  A great figure back in the ARAH days, and this looks great as well.  Not a big fan of the colours, would have preferred something similar to the original (dark and light blue camo).  This version has a bit too much dark blue digital camo, but it still looks great.  I love that he has Cobra (kill?) count on his shield.

Helix looks good.  Not a big fan of her character, but I'll still pick her up.

HAWK!!!!  Man-O-Man is that a good looking update.  I love the greay streak of hair and the sort of classic 40s military man look.  Can't wait to see him in hand.  Can you imagine if they had put this behind the Dragonfly paywall???   People would be screaming bloody murder at Hasbro.

Fire Team 788 looks great, and I love the colour schemes, even without the attachment to the HISS.   Great overall look and I have already preordered them.

Tripwire....well, well, well.  I am super impressed with this update.  I liked Tripwire in the cartoon, but I was never a big fan of his figure.  This blows me away.  I can't believe how many options there are with him, and accessories.  Love he has a bomb sniffing rat as well.  I feel he is definitely worth the extra "deluxe" pricing.  Already preordered.

Steel Corps looks good, as we already knew.  I might, or might not, preorder them on Monday.   Have to wait and see.

Mutt & Junkyard.   This looks great!!!  Love that Junkyard gets an alternate head, and love his jacket.  This will be a great set.  Now where is Law & Order??