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The Big ZARANA & ZANDAR Super-Thread
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08-20-2022, 09:16 PM
Dreadnok Twins
Zarana & Zandar
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Nothing, not the comics, not Hama, not even the folks working on the line, have more say in who we get and when we get them than tooling does.
There is a limited tooling budget per wave, so they have to be very judicious in what new parts get tooled up to execute a given figure. Any new parts have to be balanced against a lot of re-use on the other figures in the wave to make the budget work.
What does it tell you that the LEAD DESIGNER for Classified hasn't made his professed favorite, Road Pig yet? Because Road Pig would require a lot of newly-tooled parts in order to do him correctly.
The good news is the success of Classified means Hasbro is willing to up the budgets as evidenced by all the new stuff we've seen pipelined.
And the announcement of Ripper is ultimately good news for you, Twins, because new Dreadnok parts mean we're likely to get more Dreadnoks sooner rather than later.
So take some comfort in the fact that the likeliest reason Zarana and Zandar didn't get released together isn't a conspiracy to erase anything about their history or lore, but rather, simple budget constraints. There's a lot of new tooling between Zarana, Dusty and the Siegie, and they probably just didn't have enough money left to make all the new parts they would have needed to make Zandar properly.
In short...patience, grasshopper. Isn't it better to wait for a damn near perfect version of your favorite character as opposed to getting a half-ass, close enough version using the wrong parts now?
Past creative teams have severed any semblance Zandar had to his original look, taken away the matching shirt/scarf and any punk elements from Zandar whatsoever, as well as discouraging the notion they are twins. I really really hope Hasbro doesn't do this. They've already released Zarana without Zandar, didn't mention him in her bio, and never included Zandar on gijoe.com.
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This is amazing! We're getting a ZANDAR figure! ZANDAR featured prominently in the Cobra Commander series! Character development! It's a great time to be a Zandar fan!
Thank you, Hasbro!!!
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