G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero

[Ran]

It is part of the Avengers' 4" line. Some toy sites already have the wave up for pre-order.

[anarky]

I'd just be worried about having some huge woman if I pre-ordered... or never seeing it if I didn't.

[Ran]

The way Hasbro's distribution has been over the past year or so, who knows if it will even show up in stores.

It seems like Star Wars and GI Joe's distribution has been bad. Has the Marvel line and whatever else they make been ok?

[anarky]

Transformers was pretty bad. They had two concurrent lines (Generations Classics and Reveal the Shield, both of which were old characters), and the large and small RTS figures wound up as de facto Ross or Marshalls exclusives. Meanwhile, Classics had one new wave (two figures) that was supposedly canceled, but suddenly showed up on shelves.

All due to someone thinking it was a good idea making a million Darkmounts Straxxuses, a comic-only character with limited appeal (especially since he had a new tank alt-mode that was nothing like his flying cannon from the comic), then release a repaint as fairly obscure Pretender Skullgrin (without, of course, the shell) in the next wave, both in heavy numbers, which pretty much fucked both lines.

No clue on the Marvel stuff, but I see a lot of things listed on packaging that I've never noticed in stores.

[anarky]

Seriously, if they're going to do any fan service at all, they need to accurately gauge what we want.

They made a shit-ton of Arctic Destros. Adult collectors wanted, of all things, the IDW re-imaginings of Crystal Ball and Croc Master (who are nothing like the uber-shitty vintage characters).

[anarky]

Amazon pre-orders for the 2-packs are up.

$40.

Damn. That's $10/figure. Ninja Viper and black Cobra Commander are the only unique figures here. I'm not so sure about these anymore.

[Ran]

Basically toys r us priced. Easy pass for me.

[Ran]

Hisstank posted more pictures of the movie Combat Cruiser. It is a modified 30th Anniversary VAMP painted black. Its pretty cool. The Night Fox figure that comes with it is kind of boring.

Reading through the comments on the forum, someone made a good point that it could easily be a modern Stinger since it is black and has missiles.

[jjreason]

Here's life imitating toys. For what it's worth, the arrested party here was investigated by a team I worked on. We wound up seizing around 20kg of cocaine from him that time. The subsequent case that they refer to in the article is one that took place after I had come back to Ontario. Do these Mexican coppers not look like the spitting image of Cobra Infantry???? Dig the red glasses on the one guy!!!!

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Vancou ... story.html

[anarky]

I don't see it. Their uniforms are too dark and have no red trim.

[Ran]

There is a guy on Hisstank saying that he found POC Beachhead, Recondo, and Destro at a Marshall's in Florida.

[anarky]

At this rate, I suppose the missing figures should show up in 2014.

[Ran]

There is a chance the guy is full of shit. He said there was no price tag on them.

[anarky]

Even if he is, I'm guessing they'll hit soon. All of those were Wave 1 & 2 of POC. Arctic Destro is doomed to rot at Marshalls soon.

[Ran]

A bunch of people are saying that some Target stores are starting to put the remaining of the current line on clearance, including Skystrikers, 12" figures, and whatever figures are still there (which I'm assuming are Arctic Destros, Renegades Cobra Commanders, and Renegades Firefly). If they blow out Arctic Destros for $2 or less, I might buy a couple. His body is good for cold weather version Televiper or Scrap Iron.