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Re: Thoughts on Classified and Retro lines?
« Reply #324 on: January 04, 2024, 01:50:02 PM »

Hope you all have a happy new year.

My 2023 sucked because my Mum was diagnosed as terminally ill in October 22 and died in April. A brain tumour she'd had twice before came back and it wasn't third time lucky.

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Re: Thoughts on Classified and Retro lines?
« Reply #325 on: January 04, 2024, 03:51:37 PM »

Hope you all have a happy new year.

My 2023 sucked because my Mum was diagnosed as terminally ill in October 22 and died in April. A brain tumour she'd had twice before came back and it wasn't third time lucky.

Damn.  Sorry to hear this.  My condolences.
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« Reply #326 on: January 05, 2024, 05:00:12 AM »

My condolences as well Sundance.
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Re: Thoughts on Classified and Retro lines?
« Reply #327 on: January 06, 2024, 09:37:58 AM »

thanks, guys.
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Re: Thoughts on Classified and Retro lines?
« Reply #328 on: January 17, 2024, 03:42:46 PM »

Found a feature on the Classified HISS tank, I haven't heard about yet.  If you press and hold the button, it goes into a demo mode of sorts,  All the lights come on, including the interior light, for a few seconds and then turn off. This repeats every 15 seconds or so.

Are there any other secrets this thing is hiding?
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Re: Thoughts on Classified and Retro lines?
« Reply #329 on: January 17, 2024, 05:01:59 PM »

Found a feature on the Classified HISS tank, I haven't heard about yet.  If you press and hold the button, it goes into a demo mode of sorts,  All the lights come on, including the interior light, for a few seconds and then turn off. This repeats every 15 seconds or so.

Are there any other secrets this thing is hiding?

That's a neat little feature.   Does it keep going until you shut it off, or does it eventually turn off on it's own?

There are probably a few other unknowns that will eventually be discovered.
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Re: Thoughts on Classified and Retro lines?
« Reply #330 on: January 18, 2024, 08:42:21 AM »

I let it run for roughly 15 min, and it was still going.  I suspect it has to be turned off.  I am looking forward to the VAMP.
What really set ARAH from everything else was the vehicles and playsets.  The size constraints in this scale is going to be the limiting factor, but I am in for anything they produce.
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« Reply #331 on: January 18, 2024, 02:18:45 PM »

I let it run for roughly 15 min, and it was still going.  I suspect it has to be turned off.  I am looking forward to the VAMP.
What really set ARAH from everything else was the vehicles and playsets.  The size constraints in this scale is going to be the limiting factor, but I am in for anything they produce.

Don't be surprised if we see maybe 20 vehicles by the end of this year.  Granted there are a lot of small, single person vehicles right now.  However those, combined with mid-sized vehicles like the VAMP, will add up quickly.

Here is what we have so far at the beginning of 2024:

COIL
RAM
TF RAM
Flight Pod
PP Flight Pod
Serpentor's Air Chariot
HISS Tank
Draonfly (already sold, just waiting)
Maybe the Drone from Scrap Iron due to it's size??

Then we have coming:

SMS w/Techno Viper
Ferret w/Scout
VAMP w/Clutch

So that is 12 vehicles already confirmed/out.  We know there will be another Haslab vehicle, and at least two more vehicles in those leaked lists.  That gets us to 15 (counting Scrap Iron's Drone).   It isn't a big stretch to get 5 more this year through repaints and exclusives.  I won't be surprised to see the MMS repaint from the SMS and a VAMP repaint into whichever version.  Plus another couple small vehicles we have no inkling of yet. 

So yeah, 20 vehicles by the end of 2024 is doable in my books.

Personally I am hoping/excited for any possibility of the Devil Fish and Firebat.  Those two are great single person vehicles I am dying to get in Classified.



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Re: Thoughts on Classified and Retro lines?
« Reply #332 on: January 23, 2024, 06:58:55 AM »

If they don't retool the VAMP into the TF Tiger Sting and the Stinger, they're missing a trick. Hell, a PP Stinger too and a VAMP mk II. Make the most out of the mold...

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Re: Thoughts on Classified and Retro lines?
« Reply #333 on: January 29, 2024, 09:48:36 AM »

I think after the VAMP, we are going to see either the Thunder Machine or the SnowCat.  I personally would love an aircraft for Cobra.

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Re: Thoughts on Classified and Retro lines?
« Reply #334 on: January 31, 2024, 09:53:22 AM »

1. Sorry to hear about your loss Sundance. I can't imagine the emotional journey that has been for you and your family.

2. and not nearly as important, I think classified should really start to branch out into the smaller playsets as well as vehicles. We could use a good bivouac or cobra bunker.

3. Question on the vamp: did they properly allow for a figure sitting in the vamp to see clearly or does it suffer the same issue the original vamp had?
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Re: Thoughts on Classified and Retro lines?
« Reply #335 on: January 31, 2024, 02:44:16 PM »

Found Mutt & Junkyard at my local EB today.  I have been waiting for this one. 

https://imgur.com/a/MTH0qqk

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