[FredVIII]

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Originally Posted by Dod Ear

The first two especially would be great.

50th Destro goes for $30 or so right now and the production quality on 50th (especially paint) was lacking. It’s never been clear to me if Hasbro has rights to tooling the club used - but I hope so for RB especially.

Now Scarlett. There’s no easily translatable well sculpted mold. They could use the Renegades mood and give her pants - and I guess that would work. After seeing quite a few newly sculpted parts on Crankase and HISS driver I think there’s a good chance they do the same for her.

Would anyone not love an ultimate Duke on retro card using the Retaliation Firefly torso?

Gosh, I'd absolutely love a new '84 RB with the club head! Fingers crossed. I was lucky to get a 50th Destro with good paint and non-wonky knees, but I'd re-buy for sure. Especially if the plastic is a bit sturdier.

Looks like there might be some new tooling inside the HISS cockpit. The grating pattern (for lack of a better term) that was on the seatback of the altered 25th version seems to be gone.

[DerStahlhelm]

Honestly, I could care less about the packaging, as I’m an opener. The vehicle boxes are outstanding though!
As long as this line gets some more cobra army builders on the pegs I’ll be a happy man.

[Sataninjaku]

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Originally Posted by Dusty Ayers

I just saw that. It is odd.

Probably pre-production.

[Dolemite]

Nabbed a HISS Tank, mostly for the updated driver. The HISS Driver has always been one of my favorite designs and it'll be nice to have a better-looking one without a holster the size of a fucking lunchbox jutting out from his thigh.

I wouldn't mind a second HISS Driver, actually, but not enough to buy a second Tank. If anyone is ordering multiples and wants to unload one of their HISS Drivers, PM me.

[Jay West]

This may be too far outside the realm of possibility but I’d really like a Scarlett with the Classified head shrunk. Casters do it all the time should be easy for Hasbro. Also 50th/POC parts plus the head the Club used for an Ultimate Classic Bludd. Then if we get any new sculpting - a new Serpentor. Oh and as someone mentioned a new Baroness head. I don’t mind the body but a new head please.

[Matt82]

I'm super happy with these ending up being 4" modern figures. The fact that there are new parts on Crankcase and the HISS driver, plus they mixed parts, has me optimistic to finally get true "ultimate" versions of Roadblock, Scarlett, and Duke. I feel bad for the folks that were hoping for vintage figures, but all in all, I think this retro line is pretty great.

I understand Walmart is evil, but it's been my go-to store for buying Joes ever since I was a little kid. It's a little sad, but there's not much else I love more in this world than seeing Joes hanging in a toy aisle at Walmart, so this is all terrific news for me.

[vtxcalibur]

That's what I get for having to work today. Is there anywhere to get SS or SE at this point?

[Cross Country]

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Originally Posted by HitandRun

Damn everything is sold out - hopefully by collectors and not by the bots. At least this shows their is a market for the product. Any ideas on production numbers? Glad to see attention brought to 4" Joes and looking to the new figure waves. Slightly bummed that this is a re-hashing of the 25th anniversary line instead of retro though (poor choice of marketing on Hasbro's part) - was expecting a little more of a game changer. After looking everything over I can't really justify adding anything except Storm Shadow to my collection.

As I look to get my 4" collection back up to snuff I may just end up buying the original 25th anniv figs on cards - it will be interesting to see what/if any effect the retro line has on after market prices.

Robotkingdom has them all but is only selling figures by the case of 6 (2 of each). The shipping is a lot but if you’re ordering the entire line vs a single item it may it may worthwhile vs scalping prices for all 5 items. I can attest that the few times I have used them the items arrived mint as hell in boxes lined with custom cut styrofoam boards to keep the box mint.

[jscott991]

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Originally Posted by vtxcalibur

That's what I get for having to work today. Is there anywhere to get SS or SE at this point?

Go to Walmart and have them send you an in stock alert.

These might pop up throughout the day as people cancel their orders or they add new stock (all the Star Wars stuff just came back in stock). Many people ordered blind earlier.

[vtxcalibur]

Where I live I've been to 3 different walmarts and none of them even carry anything from gi joe

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Originally Posted by Matt82

I'm super happy with these ending up being 4" modern figures. The fact that there are new parts on Crankcase and the HISS driver, plus they mixed parts, has me optimistic to finally get true "ultimate" versions of Roadblock, Scarlett, and Duke. I feel bad for the folks that were hoping for vintage figures, but all in all, I think this retro line is pretty great.

I understand Walmart is evil, but it's been my go-to store for buying Joes ever since I was a little kid. It's a little sad, but there's not much else I love more in this world than seeing Joes hanging in a toy aisle at Walmart, so this is all terrific news for me.