[Toa Maximus]

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Originally Posted by Bac

Yeah, lots of new tooling. Even the Despoiler doesn't seem like a guarantee.

I'd be curious to see how people would react to the Iron Grenadier repaints of existing vehicle tooling. It wouldn't be that outlandish in story since Destro is an arms dealer.

Maybe a black, gold, and red VAMP with the Stigner doors?

[AWOL]

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Originally Posted by SuburbanHell

This. Like, you know Shipwreck is running a poker game during downtime at Joe HQ, Beachhead, BBQ, etc aren't masking up for that. And we all know Airtight 's famous hairline, none of these are necessary for the figures, just nice to haves for display options.

That image would make a great addition to the Classified Picture Thread.

[Jeffrozup]

Starting to see a pattern here. Slice makes a custom figure then Hasbro releases the figure afterwards.

[SuburbanHell]

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Originally Posted by AWOL

I loved my Steel Brigade figure, but remember being confused as to why he was wearing what looked like a flight helmet. Maybe the goggled look of SE would've been the way to go.

Maybe, yeah, I actually found a rubbery hat (think Recondo's hat with half the brim tied to one side) that fit the helmet very well and I guess that sort of helped me personalize it further, plus my dude was an airman if memory serves so I didn't mind the flight helmet so much.

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Originally Posted by Jeffrozup

Tundra Ranger is an awesome figure design in the ARAH line. Then it got better in the GIJCC version.

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Originally Posted by Short

That design was great. Made the figure feel new without adding neon or a gimmick.

Agreed - Stalker & Rock N Roll's redesigns made me so happy. Roadblock's was cool too, but was really only a different jacket whereas Stalker and RnR came with these amazing loadouts with the Kayak & mini-gattlings, respectively.

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Originally Posted by WilliePete

Its not 3D printed, Darklon will be a standard wave figure in 2025.

Please tell me they have a better head for Darklon, he looked so bizarre with his original release I couldn't get into him. I was on my way out of Joe collecting at the point he arrived, but that weird head on the neon didn't help at all.

[WilliePete]

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Originally Posted by SuburbanHell

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Please tell me they have a better head for Darklon, he looked so bizarre with his original release I couldn't get into him. I was on my way out of Joe collecting at the point he arrived, but that weird head on the neon didn't help at all.

His weird mask and outfit is why I like him.

[SuburbanHell]

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Originally Posted by wedge1968

I am with you on the Steel Brigade side of things, but the comment about Hawk later being the leader does not track. He was the leader long before any of us ever even heard of Duke.

I wouldn't say ANY of us. I didn't know the comics even existed as a kid, only the cartoons. Duke was my first leader, and I'm sure I'm not the only one here in who can say that. Hawk was my second leader, and hell, if kids hadn't freaked out so hard about Optimus Prime's death, who knows where this line would have ended up, maybe Falcon would have gotten his shit together and taken over for Hawk down the line...

[sevreed]

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Originally Posted by SuburbanHell

I still have to ask, what is really going to be the Snake Eyes v1 & v2 at the Classified level, the v1-v2 upgrade made sense on the o-rings, it brought him up from the OG13 style, but they haven't really "updated" the Classified line in such a drastic way to release him again, like... I'd rather have radioactive Snake Eyes and Blind Man 2-pack or something specific like that to an episode or whatever, not just "Snake Eyes with slightly less dark visor".

I want a figure that looks like the OG card art on the right. The modern classified figure, on the left, is not the same. The OG was my fav as a kid and I would love a retro Classified version. That's not so bad, is it?

[SuburbanHell]

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Originally Posted by AWOL

That image would make a great addition to the Classified Picture Thread.

It's one I hope to bring to life someday. Maybe have like... Angry Leatherneck throwing his cards down while Low Light laughs at his misfortune, Shipwreck has an extra ace in his glove or something, lol. It would be nice to have some of the helmeted/masked guys unmasked for that depiction. Hell, I'll take Sci-Fi or we could turn it around and have some Cobra Vipers now that we have Scrap Iron and Wild Weasel without their helmets on doing the same thing. Might need a "hasn't left yet" Mercer for that game though lol

[AWOL]

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Originally Posted by SuburbanHell

if kids hadn't freaked out so hard about Optimus Prime's death, who knows where this line would have ended up, maybe Falcon would have gotten his shit together and taken over for Hawk down the line...

Here's how it was meant to go down:

[07GT500 COBRA]

The design of Darklon will have to wow me. Otherwise, he's a pass for me.