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I didn't want to start collection Joes again for various reasons, but as of this morining consider me converted...

...when my friend's R.H.I.N.O. arrived via mail. He was bouncing like a kid on Christmas morning so I asked why. He pointed at the R.H.I.N.O.

Five minutes later, I ordered one for $60 (I would have gladly paid 80) and now must endure the unbearable wait of three months for it to arrive.

Good lord Hasbro, did you invent some new variety of visual and textual crack?

I've just ordered a bunch of figures online.

A Cobra EEL (**** Hasbro and it's refusal to let me buy more then one. It's a TROOPER!)
Duke and Red Star
90s Comic Snake Eyes
Artic Snake Eyes
Cobra Diver (for the figure and the MASS Device jar)
Tripwire (same reason as the Diver)
Cobra Flint (**** YEAH HOMAGE! Plus I can finally play out my fantasy of Flint getting sick of Duke's crap and jumping ship)
And a Ninja Viper

I was also curious if I was the only one who had decided not to troop build with the various Ninja Troops and instead go 80s movie style and just use one each for an army of colored ninja? For example, Red Ninja, Black Storm Shadow, Ninja Viper, so on and so forth (I'll be including Ninja Training Snake Eyes with Hard Master whenever I pick them up).

what Vehicle scale would support these G.I. Joes?

Enigma_Dragons wrote:what Vehicle scale would support these G.I. Joes?

The toys are 3 3/4 inches so the cockpits would have to support that size. I'm not good with scale, but I'm sure if you know scale then you can figure out what size would accommodate a 3 3/4 inch pilot.

Also if you just want to use the actual Vehicles Hasbro's been making new versions of classic Joe and Cobra vehicles, and I think the old ones support the new toys, but don't quote me on that. I'm only assuming that since they're the same size they'll work.

Picked up the target exclusive ultimate battle pack which comes with:
1. mobat tank and steeler
2. short fuse
3. sgt. stalker my third version of him
4. Iron grenader destro minus the cape
5. hiss tank with driver and gunner
6. cobra flight pod with cobra commander I don't know how many different version of him I have.

Merc With A Mouth wrote:I was also curious if I was the only one who had decided not to troop build with the various Ninja Troops and instead go 80s movie style and just use one each for an army of colored ninja? For example, Red Ninja, Black Storm Shadow, Ninja Viper, so on and so forth (I'll be including Ninja Training Snake Eyes with Hard Master whenever I pick them up).

I've decided to go that route when it comes to my ninjas, though that may change slightly if I ever do get the Red Ninja 5 pack, which I hope I do as I want the leader ninja from the pack.

My hopes for Black Friday clearing out the pegs at the local stores proved to be false ones. Joes were barely touched, but it was the same with the rest of the toy section.

Got my first figs last night -

Firefly/Storm Shadow Comic 2-pack
Snake Eyes 'Commando'

and something that has set impossibly high standards for me...

Para-Viper

Para-Viper is the greatest GI Joe figure I've ever seen. I'm gonna convert some people to Joe collecting with this bad boy.

In all the craziness yesterday, TRU had restocked joes. I found the black headed Destro variant comic two-pack.

I also really love the paratrooper, and picked up another 3 of him. I think I have 5 total loose ones, and 3 in package. If only he were all black...and not all these nutty colors.

Also, new head, scrape off the cobra symbol, new paint, and its Ripcord, one of my favorite Joes ever.

Enigma_Dragons wrote:what Vehicle scale would support these G.I. Joes?

1:18

Bikes are perfect, but it's hard to find a good car that fits these guys easily.

So has anyone else seen the target exclusive ultimate battle pack yet. Also congrats on finding all those single pack figures on black friday tigertracks 24.

shortround wrote:So has anyone else seen the target exclusive ultimate battle pack yet. Also congrats on finding all those single pack figures on black friday tigertracks 24.

Thanks and yes, I bought that the week before--the ultimate battle pack that is.

Haven't put batteries in my mobat tank yet going to pick them up this friday when I go pick up my copy of prince of persia looking forward to seeing it work. Now I have the red and blue hiss tank all I need is black one, also have both version of the flight pod.

Nickolai wrote:I didn't want to start collection Joes again for various reasons, but as of this morining consider me converted...

...when my friend's R.H.I.N.O. arrived via mail. He was bouncing like a kid on Christmas morning so I asked why. He pointed at the R.H.I.N.O.

Five minutes later, I ordered one for $60 (I would have gladly paid 80) and now must endure the unbearable wait of three months for it to arrive.

Good lord Hasbro, did you invent some new variety of visual and textual crack?

The RHINO was the first vehicle I bought in over 15 years. I wanted to use it with my 25th guys but they don't fit but anything that launches a copter is aces in my book.

Just got several e-mails from BBTS. The Flak, Stinger, Artic Hiss, CLAW and drivers have all been cancled. Wonder what's going on.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Just got several e-mails from BBTS. The Flak, Stinger, Artic Hiss, CLAW and drivers have all been cancled. Wonder what's going on.

The live action movie. Hasbro hates to have competition from it's own lines when they make movie toys. Search your heart chuckdawg1999 you know it to be true.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Just got several e-mails from BBTS. The Flak, Stinger, Artic Hiss, CLAW and drivers have all been cancled. Wonder what's going on.

See I am not sure about that. I and many other fans, were really looking forward to this wave. I really do not think I will be buying many if any movie toys. I think movie toys in general are not worthy of a place on my shelf. The only recent exception are the Iron Man movie toys, but I only bought a couple.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:The RHINO was the first vehicle I bought in over 15 years. I wanted to use it with my 25th guys but they don't fit but anything that launches a copter is aces in my book.

Yeah, the copter is what really got me. Anyone else think it's a homage to Switchblade from M.A.S.K.?

Nickolai wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:The RHINO was the first vehicle I bought in over 15 years. I wanted to use it with my 25th guys but they don't fit but anything that launches a copter is aces in my book.

Yeah, the copter is what really got me. Anyone else think it's a homage to Switchblade from M.A.S.K.?

I hadn't connected the two before this, as the copter only folds up and stores on the vehicle, but does not have a 'jet' mode that I remember.

Merc With A Mouth wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Just got several e-mails from BBTS. The Flak, Stinger, Artic Hiss, CLAW and drivers have all been cancled. Wonder what's going on.

The live action movie. Hasbro hates to have competition from it's own lines when they make movie toys. Search your heart chuckdawg1999 you know it to be true.

First call me Chuck, Charlie, or Charles; whatever you prefer. Secondly when I look into the cold blackness that is my heart I'm confronted of repressed memories from childhood. Thank God for Jack Daniels. Third I had a hunch that it had to do with the movie line but to tie into something Tigertracks wrote I remembered about an hour ago that this happened once before with the Firefly/Greenshirts, and Segies sets; both were canceled then later found on TRU shelves. Hmmm. Personally I hate to see them go but with how my wallet is I'm also grateful.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

Merc With A Mouth wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Just got several e-mails from BBTS. The Flak, Stinger, Artic Hiss, CLAW and drivers have all been cancled. Wonder what's going on.

The live action movie. Hasbro hates to have competition from it's own lines when they make movie toys. Search your heart chuckdawg1999 you know it to be true.

First call me Chuck, Charlie, or Charles; whatever you prefer. Secondly when I look into the cold blackness that is my heart I'm confronted of repressed memories from childhood. Thank God for Jack Daniels. Third I had a hunch that it had to do with the movie line but to tie into something Tigertracks wrote I remembered about an hour ago that this happened once before with the Firefly/Greenshirts, and Segies sets; both were canceled then later found on TRU shelves. Hmmm. Personally I hate to see them go but with how my wallet is I'm also grateful.

JD and THC work wonders don't they Chuck?

tigertracks 24 wrote:

Nickolai wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:The RHINO was the first vehicle I bought in over 15 years. I wanted to use it with my 25th guys but they don't fit but anything that launches a copter is aces in my book.

Yeah, the copter is what really got me. Anyone else think it's a homage to Switchblade from M.A.S.K.?

I hadn't connected the two before this, as the copter only folds up and stores on the vehicle, but does not have a 'jet' mode that I remember.

For me it's the similarity of the cockpit and how the rotor blade stores (and unfolds).

Yeah, it's kind of an out of the blue correlation, and if I didn't see a Matt Trakker ( ) Joe fig it probably wouldn't have come to me.

I found one of those Agent Trakker figs at my local Target this past weekend, got snapped up quick with the rest of the wave. They also had the Ultimate Battle pack at the Target on 202 in Delaware. Nice set, I love the little missle flying away from the flight pod.

We got the last wave of DVD 5-packs in as well.

I was sad to hear about the artic hiss and stinger both of these vehicle I was really looking forward to had a stinger as a kid couldn't wait to have it again and now on to some happy news:
Found the following single pack figures today at target:
1. Cobra paratrooper (tigertracks was right about this figure a must have for any true G.I. Joe fan)
2. Flint in Cobra Disguise
3. Sgt. Airborne
4. Cobra Bazooka Trooper

shortround wrote:1. Cobra paratrooper (tigertracks was right about this figure a must have for any true G.I. Joe fan)

Got mine today too, and yes, it’s a must have. Kept the clear band on his rifle though, keeps it together better. All the extra gear was awesome too, I seriously need more of him. Like, five more of him.

I also got an Bazooka Trooper today, would have been perfect had they not used the old crotch. I don’t know why they keep using it either. To my knowledge, the corrected one's only been used for the Python Officer so far.

Looking forward to getting the next two dvd packs order them from hasbro because my local target and toy r us always being raided by scalpers looking to make quick buck on the must have items of the moment. Also still looking for the new version of zartan the one that comes with his swamp ski can't wait to get that version. I tried out my mobat tank today put batteries in it for the first time ran it across the floor just to see what it did sounds like a really tank just as noise as my friends sounded when I was kid.