More pics form Hasbro. http://www.hasbro.com/gijoe/en_US/retaliation.cfm

Gi Joe trooper = Spy Troops?

VEHICLES!!!!!!

Jinx a SDCC exclusive.

Also transformers cross over Shockwave HISS.

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Ninja Roadblock

LOL FOREVER

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I like the Ninja Combat Cruiser.

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Isn't it a repaint of the Steel Crusher, or whatever that was?

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Yeah, that's actually pretty sweet. - Billy, it's a VAMP with doors and a cover on the cargo area.

Jinx (unmasked) looks great - hopefully there's a non-SDCC version. I'm guessing red unmasked for the wide release. Bad move otherwise.

I kinda like Shockwave HISS - but I'll just grab a regular movie version and slap a Deceptaloid sticker on it - it'll go with my Skystriker Jetfire and Skystriker Thundercracker (WIP)

Interested in seeing a closeup of the Flint headsculpt.

Ninja Commando RoadRock FTW.

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aka VAMP mk II



The Skystriker was a nice cross over. This one feels forced. But I am loving the new canopy on the HISS. That was the one thing I didn't like about the previous releases.

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Great stuff.
Ninja car, ninja bike, ninja jeep. That's a lot of ninja stuff.
Great line up. I hope the other characters will get single card release as well.

Jinx as a SDCC exclusive is a bit lame.
They'll probably release her in her yellow spandex uniform as a regular figure.

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Jinx is an SDCC exclusive. Should have seen that coming.

"LASER BLAST" OFF, HASBRO

Only worthwhile figure of the bunch and she's going to be so hard to get that she may as well not exist. Whoopedy doo! Why bother even telling us, most of us will never even get to own one. "LASER BLAST" SDCC.

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SIG'D!!

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This.

Jinx is a great looking figure, but lets make her largely inaccessible and scalper bait.

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Girls don't sale, so let's make every new female figure an SDCC exclusive.
Oh and let's make variants too, so people will be angry even more.
And then the marketing geniuses at Hasbro high five.

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Lots of cool stuff and yeah that SDCC crap is dumb. They need to get off of that old world idea that cavemen came up with about female figures. This is a movie line and that appears to be one of the prominent characters.

Hut anyway, even the repaints stuff looks neat. I think it's fine and appropriate. This seems like a good way to do this line. Until we see it all and if they forget something obvious from the movie, I have no complaints. Well of course the SDCC idea is dumb. Then if they use this HISS tank and that's not even close to how it looks in the movie...

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Looking at the pics again, I think Hasbro learned a lot from RoC. For Ret, the product offering is better, the color palette makes the toys pop and they use spring-loaded launchers where it makes sense to, rather that forcing them into every toy. Personally, as much as the RoC toys were blah, the Ret toys are much more exciting. Can't wait. Gonna start saving up now for May.

One thing that has me a bit worried is that I don't see any leg screws on the figures. It might be because these are prototypes and they aren't completely engineered yet. But with the rumors of reduced articulation in the Marvel line, I hope that it doesn't happen with movie Joes.

OB

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Zarana's are selling for $40-$50 on eBay last time I looked. I guess it depends if you want to spend that much on an action figure.

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This is my problem. The people selling them know it will get up that high. It's "LASER BLAST" of someone to do. I want a Cold Slither one without having to pay through my "LASER BLAST" nose.

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