Can't miss this ToyFare -- has Snake-Eyes and a big G.I.Joe logo on the cover. Obviously tons of movie coverage, including interviews with the stars who play Duke, Scarlett, Baroness, and Rip Cord; an interview with one of the writers; an interview with Mark Bellomo about the history of G.I.Joe; an interview with Hasbro; and an interview with the video game designers.
(It is just me or has there NEVER been a really good G.I.Joe video game?)
One thing caught my attention in the video game article. The game designers mention that Hasbro allowed them to use a design for a "modern HISS tank" that apparently preceded the movie and was never made into a toy.
Now, I like HISS Tanks. I'm very pleased with the Arctic HISS, and I thought that the DTC HISS a few years ago, the "HISS V", I suppose, was a hugely impressive upgrading of the original design, making the HISS look more dangerous and yet more plausible than ever. That was a great HISS that I'd love to see back someday.
There is one small picture, a game screen, in the magazine, that shows this so-called "modern HISS". And while I could be wrong -- it's a little hard to tell, it looks like it's a dual canopy HISS Tank, and distinctly larger than any previous HISS.
Um -- Hasbro? Any chance we could still get this in toy form?
In non-Joe news in the issue, there's a poll for a Fans' Choice DC Universe Classics figure, which Mattel says will be part of Series 15 in the fall of 2010 (nice to see they're planning ahead). The contenders are: Captain Marvel Jr., Raven, Libra, Geo-Force, Uncle Sam, and Toyman. I'm going with Geo-Force. He's been around long enough he deserves it in my opinion. I have a hunch we'll get Raven and Cap Jr at some point anyway, and I couldn't care less about the others, especially LIbra, who was a core character in that horrible Final Crisis storyline that even ToyFare admits having trouble making sense of.
On that note, I would like to think that somewhere in one of these assortments, we'd finally get Martian Manhunter in this line, and I DON'T mean the Skrull-chinned black-costumed version.
McFarlane Toys is adding VEHICLES to the Halo 3 line. Apparently an upcoming assortment of various Spartans will include "Mongoose" vehicles -- futuristic ATVs of some sort. That's pretty cool.
Inside back cover has a slightly cryptic advertisement from Mattel. Shows the silhouette of a rather muscular figure with silhouettes of cheering fans and what looks a WHOLE lot like the entrance screen for the WWE in the background behind some pyro. The text on the ad reads, "1.1.10 - Two of the World's Heavyweight Champions will come together." I assume that's when Mattel takes over the WWE license?
(PS - Am I the only person a little shocked that we're less than half a year away from 2010? I seem to remember worrying about the Y2K bug not that long ago. Think I'll try to spend New Year's Day watching the movie "2010" -- good film, and not nearly as incomprehensible as "2001")
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