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SAND SERPENT W/STAR VIPER (NEW HELMET)


COBRA ICE CUTTER W/SNOW SERPENT


REAR VIEW


HISS ATTACK SCOUT W/BROWN HISS DRIVER


CYCLE ARMOR W/ASHIKO (NEW CHARACTER USING MOSTLY WRAITH PARTS)


COBRA FURY (aka RAGE) W/ ALLEY VIPER OFFICER


SNOW CAT W/WHITEOUT (CAMO DECO)


ARMORED PANTHER W/OUTBACK (JUNGLE CAMO)

Hasbro panel update!!!!!  Pics around 6pm

- post movie theme is "Pursuit of Cobra"
- focus on four themes: desert, arctic, jungle, city
- 25 new figs/10 new vehicles for 2010
- figs shown today are:
- jungle Ripcord, city Duke(also a bit of ninja theme)
- Desert Viper, arctic threat SS fully clothed w/long jacket
- arctic Duke is all new sculpt w/snowboard
- Snow Job w/parabolic skis, HUGE sniper rifle, arctic shroud that goes over skis and poles to make a sniper cover and a ton of accessories on the backpack ala comic pack Firefly
- Arctic Destro w/ water shooting backpack, ice shards and "frosted" helmet
- Elite Ice Viper basically more red
- jungle SS.  Resolute body with flying squirrel type pack springs open
- desert Zartan.  AWESOME fig.  Comes with falcon on walking stick very resolute looking ( hood etc) machetes, GI Joe vest and alternate Joe head.  Falcon has removable hood, probably smallest accessory ever
- desert Ripcord w/flying Delta 6 suit.  Sort of bat wing look
- arctic SE.  Comeswith mountaineering gear and timber
- jungle Duke.  Think of Predator movie type look.  Bandana head
- jungle CC basically same with some colour diff. and new short coat
- jungle viper!?  Comes with large sniper rifle and sort of Archangel type wings wait for pic
- Recondo green color
- city Scarlett.  Resolute body w/resolute jet pack, oxygen mask and forearm blades
- city Firefly.  All new sculpt with two heads, one is special helmet wait for pic
- desert Heavy Duty. Blah

Vehicles:

- Cobra Ice Cutter
- HISS Attack Scout
- Cycle Armor w/Ashiko (new character) think Robotech Cyclones
- Armored Panther jungle repaint
- Cobra Fury (rage) w/Alley Viper Officer new wheels
- Snow Cat w/ Whiteout camo design
- Sand Serpent w/Star Viper (new helmet) Night Raven repaint
- new CC with red scheme will be mail away fig.  It will come on thefirst ever Cobra card rather than Joe card.  Card will be primarily red.  Comes with little red HISS drone that can attach as a weapon for.......

NEW Bravo class HISS Tank.  Very similar to Resolute HISS with moving treAds missile launcher and Gatling gun.  Turet can elevate and rotate and "pop up" to twice the height.  Driver enters from lowered base of canopy ala Night Raven and gunner has similar feature

Ok.  Just watched parChute drop.  Here is the panel update.

Kirk & Greg from hasbro (original 80s team).

Kirk talked about early 90s and all the aborted movie attempts. (live action)

- 1992 saw two attempted scripts a few months apart.  Second script basically added to first and changed a few points.  Lots of recognizable characters.

- funny note.  First script had all realistic vehicles except for the Cobra Pogo?!!
- later movie would have had planned toys for Pitt, new Terrordrome and flying fortress.
- new terrordrome would have had trees that turned into cannons?!
- last script in 94 would have had no recognizable Joes. 
- idea was knights of round table. Keep getting reincarnated into new generations of teams.  Ie: Texas rangers, ww2 soldiers, near future Joe team?!  Needless to say it was a quickly crushed idea.

Greg
- Heavy Metal was based on him.
- ideas started in 1980
- used "rough truck" line as a basis to start on Joe line vehicles
- line was codename "Blast Off" before offical GI Joe
- responsible for Hal, Wolverine, Jump early on
- military model kits/parts influenced early designs
-APC originally didn't have a gun.  Like many toys, final features added during presentation meetings
- tomahawk went through about 20-25 design sketches before final design
- JUST SAW LARRY HAMA!!
- Mauler was born out of rough trucks designs
- unmade toys shown: Swedish based bomber jet, another Hammer with Equalizer turret/missile rack, Joe battle train
- Swedish jet was based on Vigen??!  Had intrnal bomb bay that could really drop bombs and "turkey feathered engine" that would close up to simulate afterburn
- train was last "big" toy attempt, but line was shrinking. And too costly.
- would have actually worked on track and was meant to be a compliment to a Cobra mountain playset.
- would have circled cobra mountain on the track and fought each other.
- caboose his a scout car, tanker opened into missile launcher, thunderclaps stupendous cannon and then engine
- USS Flagg was originally ten feet long and bridge tower couldn't be removed
- again presentation meeting shortened it and made bridge removable
- stated by Kirk that inital molding for train was $250,000 to get production

Just saw someone with a HATE set!!

I have pics of the toys to post later, so be patient

Pricing was a little crazy.  To get one of each exclusive (not counting SDCC) was about $235 after tax!!

Here are a couple pics as promised.  I will upload more this afternoon after they open the dealer room.

The attendee exclusive FANG repaint.


Manleh, Starduster & Crimson Command Copter.  The blue is a bit darker than the flash makes it seem.  Also FLAME STANDS!!


Commandos 3 pack (L-R) Topson, Shimik, Redmack [background is the SAF helicopter]


Blades w/SAF helicopter


Filecard Posters


I can check here with my Iphone through WiFi, but I can't post pics until I get back to the hotel.  So if you have a question or suggestion let me know and I'll post more pics later today.

Much thanks to Realboss.

Still looking if anyone has any.

Hey all,

I'll be heading down tomorrow and will do my best to post pics and important updates as quickly as possible.  This will be the thread where I do it.  If you have any suggestions, please post them and I'll do what I can.

Marc