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darthdre758

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I'll be interested to see who's in those.

The three packs seem to be the best of everything so far.
 

K-Tiger

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Well the pistol and holster are obscured by the insert, which does show the aforementioned items.

Still, FF should come with more than a pistol and a street luge that lights up.
 

fogger1138

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The lineup given:
GI Joe Night Ops: Agent Mouse / Snake Eyes (infiltration )/ Sgt. Airborne
Cobra Invasion Team: Firefly (invasion) / Storm Shadow (invasion) / Cobra Invasion Trooper
 

K-Tiger

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Ugh, why the hell is the Invasion (read: movie accurate) Trooper have to be in a 3 pack with a useless damn Storm Shadow?
 

darthdre758

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Cause it's the only way to get people to buy more Storm Shadows.

I won't be getting the single card one at all.
 

K-Tiger

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Hope I don't have to wait long for that Black Dragon ninja to come out. I'd much prefer to paint over a black base than a red one when I do Slice.
 

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Airborne: now exceeding the maximum cargo weight of the C-130 that he's supposed to jump from...

Yay, Hasbro...

"Get in ma belly!!!"
 

K-Tiger

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Just found out what the Cobra Invasion Trooper from the wave 2 3 pack is.

It's that Shock Trooper I thought I saw from Toy Fair. The one that's gonna be painted like this:




:weepingemoticonhere:

Looks like I'm gonna need to invest in a dedicated dye pot.
 

K-Tiger

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No, but the ST on his period comes with another Storm Shadow and a Firefly that's 'sposed to be vintage-inspired grey.

Apparently they were at Toy Fair, but no one was allowed to photograph them, and yet i distinctly remember seeing the damn red ST.
 

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I'm probably in the minority opinion about this, but I think it might be worth it to try and revise the Hasbro Q&A to see what their plans are for the next 9 months. At the very least, we might get some insight about the DG figures (variants? Family Dollar?) and the future of that line.
 

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Not since Nov 2011, but they were doing it every couple months before that. I was actually pretty surprised they didn't start it up again in anticipation of the movie line release (before shit hit the fan).

I just thought it might be worth trying to revise it...or maybe a charming and charismatic member of the News Staff might score some exclusive statements from Hasbro.

I care less about the movie figures than I do about the DG figures. Besides them popping up once in another forum, those took everyone by surprise. I wouldn't mind knowing Hasbro's motivation creating that alternative line and what they plan on doing in the future with them.
 

MAJOR BLOOD

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Well they canned the MU Q&A last year so it was inevitable. Why answer questions for a line that apparently they don't care about? It would be the same shit from every site.
 

fogger1138

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I'm guessing that just about everyone who is going to Joe Con will be asking them about their plans for the rest of the year, so we'll probably get a bunch of contradictory reports after that.

"Well, I talked to a guy on the floor [who may or may not have even worked for Hasbro] and he said they were cancelling the line!"
"I talked to one of the reps [read: some guy who said he worked for Hasbro] and he said we'd be getting a bunch of stuff from the 25th line that was never released!"
"Well, I talked to one of the Hasbro higher-ups [read: some other guy who said he worked for Hasbro] and he said that we'd be getting everything from the movie released to ROSS and they'd be tooling up new figures for next year!"
"Well, I heard we were only getting Kwinn and Data-Viper!"
and so on.