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General Joe Talk / Re: Thoughts on Classified and Retro lines?
« on: February 14, 2024, 05:57:33 AM »
Both love, and hate, the new leaks of Mad Marauders Sgt. Slaughter and the two pack of Low-Light and Spirit.

Hate the Mad Marauders colour scheme.

Love that they didn't just do straight repacks/repaints, but actually changed up the accessories quite a bit to make the packs a bit more unique from their original releases.  Also another pet!!!  I am pretty surprised they gave Spirit a different bird, even though it is most likely a reuse of Freedom with different paint apps.

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General Joe Talk / Re: Thoughts on Classified and Retro lines?
« on: February 02, 2024, 05:35:03 AM »
Well hot damn!!

Talk about a bunch of great reveals.

Every single reveal was a banger in my opinion.  I love the update to Doc and Jinx.  Night Creeper looks great and I love that they included the V2 head.  GNAWGAHYDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I mean what is there to say about his reveal?  I love absolutely everything about it.  From the Pets (a highly articulate Boar with a nose ring and one broken tusk?  YES PLEASE!!) to the sniper rifle kit, to the bow and arrow, to Gnawgahyde himself!!!  This is a fantastic reveal and I can't wait for him to get a release.

I also loved the TF two pack of Roadblock and Tripwire.  Roadblock gets his Ma'Deuce and I am surprised that they gave Tripwire almost all of his kit from the first release as well.  I would have expected them to leave out M.A.C.L.E.O.D. and just give us the detector and backpack.  Also I love the TF print on M.A.C.L.E.O.D. that they give to the vehicles, a nice little detail.  I will say I can't unsee the "tiger stripe speedo" on Tripwire after someone mentioned that is what it looked like to them.

Another great set of reveals.

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General Joe Talk / Re: Thoughts on Classified and Retro lines?
« 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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General Joe Talk / Re: Thoughts on Classified and Retro lines?
« 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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General Joe Talk / Re: Thoughts on Classified and Retro lines?
« on: January 05, 2024, 05:00:12 AM »
My condolences as well Sundance.

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General Joe Talk / Re: Thoughts on Classified and Retro lines?
« on: January 02, 2024, 06:58:11 AM »
Happy New Year everyone!!

Well everyone who is left lurking on here.  (All 4-5 of us)

Hope you had a good 2023 and an even better 2024.

My last purchases of 2023 were Ripper and Buzzer who I found at a local Walmart.  Both are great representations of the Dreadnoks, even with some wonky bits (glasses, weapons).   They bode well for the rest of the Dreadnoks when they finally get released (hopefully this year).

2024 looks to be another expensive year, but I am hoping the Joe team does slow it down a bit this year to save my poor wallet.

I think I might bite on the latest PP figures and Trubble Bubble as my first purchases of the new year.  We'll see.

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General Joe Talk / Re: Delta-17: War in the shadows (new o-ring line)
« on: December 30, 2023, 07:01:26 AM »
Watched ToyKonnections and ToyHabits unboxing/reviews.

These are really nicely done figures, and they clearly put a lot of effort into them.

Even though a lot of the designs are pretty cool looking I don't see me being interested enough to buy them.  If they were on retail shelves, for under $15 I would probably bite on impulse.  However the way they are offered makes it easier for me to pass on them.

Here's hoping they do really well, especially since they have a Canadian foundation.

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General Joe Talk / Re: Thoughts on Classified and Retro lines?
« on: December 24, 2023, 09:49:54 PM »
WOW!!


The Full Force Podcast is reporting that JTPrime17, who is a notoriously accurate leaker, has posted finding a listing for another Joe x TF collab.  


Apparently it is Optimus Prime as the MOBAT with General Hawk!!!!


I highly doubt there will be working treads, let alone motorized ones at that.  Mostly because I can't see how that would work with the transformation.  Still I can't wait to see what they did to make this work for Prime. 


I do worry that we are going to get a bit of a mess of a transformation, ala Megatron/HISS.   Hopefully I'm wrong.


As for Hawk, it does say General Hawk so I would assume it is the 86 version and not the Colonel Hawk 82 version.

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General Joe Talk / Re: Thoughts on Classified and Retro lines?
« on: December 18, 2023, 11:59:51 AM »
IT HAS ARRIVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Man is the box big and heavy.



I guess I gave FedEx too much credit. It was only the HISS, no sign of Fire Team 788. Driver said it is probably on another truck. Oh well.


Oh and thank you Hasbro for the excellent packaging job. Mine looked like someone dropped it because there was a quarter sized chunk dented in pretty severely on one edge. However after opening it up the extra boxes protected the HISS box as there is no damage to it at all. Thank you.


Now to find the time, and space, to open everything up.

Oh and I did have to sign for it.

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General Joe Talk / Re: Thoughts on Classified and Retro lines?
« on: December 18, 2023, 10:32:30 AM »
WOO-HOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Got my email notification for the HISS. 

Double checked on FedEx and it should be arriving today!!!  Double-Double checked and my Fire Team 788 should also be arriving today.

I can't wait!!!!

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General Joe Talk / Re: Super7 GI Joe discussion
« on: December 12, 2023, 04:12:45 AM »
Well it's over, and it didn't fund.

I can't find the final number on the page for the Cobra Mothership, so I don't know what the final number was, but it didn't fund.

I hope Super7 takes this to heart for future releases and takes it into consideration when pricing whatever other vehicles/playsets they have planned for O-ring.

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General Joe Talk / Re: Thoughts on Classified and Retro lines?
« on: December 09, 2023, 06:29:21 AM »
Got an email from Pulse saying my item is getting ready to ship.

I was hopeful it was the HISS Tank, but it was for the Fire Team 788.  So while it was HISS Tank related, it wasn't the HISS Tank.  Oh well, the wait continues.

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