Strangest thing you have seen in a store?
 

I was in a TRU the other day and I saw they had some of the new comic Two packs. I heard how everyone was going ga-ga over the comic two pack Fred/Crimson guard that came with the scarface trooper. I looked at the package and noticed the Crimsons guard had a Neo Viper commander head on him.

"How Cheesy" I thought. I could have sworn they had a head and a helmet. So I looked at the bottom of the package and ...nothing. Then my wife noticed that in the bubble packaging there were two holes where there should have been a helmet and backpack. She reach down to the bottom of the display where there was a complete one and showed me. It didn't astound me that someone would steal his head and helmet, but to put on a head from a Neo Viper Commander? WTF? Now, here's TRU trying to sell this as a complete set, and because some dillweed went and swapped heads, it will probably get sold to some poor unsuspecting kid.

I'm thinking maybe someone bought this, took it home and did that to use the head/helmet on their 25th single pack CG and brought the doctored one back. But why not just pop the 25th CG head on? Doesn't it fit in the bubble pack? Has anyone else seen anything this strange?

Yeah, I've seen that done to Star Wars figures lately. People swapping older figures in newer packages. Like you said, some poor kid will buy it thinking they got a variation. It sucks and it's just plain wrong.

The JBL is having all sorts of sightings of this sort of things now. Most people want the DOC sticker but are fooling around with the figures too.

i saw someone on ebay trying to sell a swapped out pack saying it was ultra rare :confused: i feel sorry for the person who buys this without knowing any better

The levels of assininity that some people display is disgusting.......but I'm not that shocked by it anymore.......I deal with it far too often. :rolleyes:

Well Outrider and other non-25th fans will enjoy these I think. I think if the VAMP is roomy enough for 25th, then ARAH should be able to see through the window. I love the my original VAMP, but it is hard for Clutch to see through the window...

Unfortunately behaviour like this is all too common now. It is a sad sign of the times, I'm afraid. :(

This is nothing new, when the 2004 VOTC Stormtroopers came out, there were tons of them returned with the POTF Stormtrooper in there. I was at the DOLLAR Store & found several single pack figures with holes poked through the back & all the accessories removed, on $1 figures! I am suprised you all aren't finding all kinds of VvV figures in 25th packaging. Maybe with the cost of gas it is just cheaper now to buy the figure & not make a 2nd trip to scam the next guy.

I bought a potj snowspeeder when they came out several years ago and someone had switched the dead dak in the back for the first release of biggs. I took it back and got a replacement, ...weird and sad that someone would do this.

Senior Command 3 packs
 

3 packs are available on ebay for 25th figures. They are a toys r us exclusive not available online at T@ R They include a Crimson pack, with red CC and Crimson officer, A Gi Joe Pack with Grunt figure ,Duke and Hawk and regular Cobra Commander with two blue cobra troopers. Look on Ebay for senior rank officers for 25th search. Cost is bout 30 bucks without shipping. Cheaper if you went to your local Toys R Us store and looked.

Top Ten to be Decided on by Fans! ~25th Anniversary Related Poll!~
 

Here it is..........get to voting!!!

Just when you thought the amazing 25th Anniversary G.I. JOE action figure collection had ended...along comes the new fan-generated Hall of
Heroes!

In celebration of over 25 years of G.I. JOE VS. COBRA, Hasbro is creating the Hall of Heroes single-carded 3-3/4-inch figures.

Starting today, April 15th, Hasbro¹s 25th Anniversary line of G.I. JOE
figures will be posted on http://www.hasbro.com/gijoe/ , where fans will be able to vote for their favorites. All 62 single-carded 3-3/4-inch figures released
through 2008 will be eligible for the vote.

The ten figures with the most votes through May 12th will be announced
at the G.I. JOE Convention in Dallas (June 27-29). These top ten figures
will be released in spring 2009 like you¹ve never seen them before * with
unique deco and commemorative packaging!

The figures battling for a position in the Hall of Heroes are:

1 Storm Shadow in grey camo
2 Snake Eyes and Timber
3 Cobra Officer
4 Cobra Commander with hood
5 Flint
6 Serpentor
7 Cobra Trooper
8 Lady Jaye
9 Buzzer
10 Beachhead
11 Zartan
12 Shipwreck
13 Sgt. Stalker
14 Red Ninja
15 Firefly
16 Cobra Commander with helmet
17 White Storm Shadow
18 Gung-Ho
19 Scarlett
20 Destro
21 Roadblock
22 Cobra Air Trooper
23 Duke
24 Snake Eyes in all black
25 Sgt. Flash
26 Destro with blade
27 Snow Job
28 Crimson Guard
29 Wild Bill
30 Armored Cobra Commander
31 Sgt. Rock 'n Roll
32 Lt. Torpedo
33 Duke with jetpack and flag
34 H.I.S.S. Driver
35 Cobra Viper
36 Spirit Iron-Knife
37 Snake Eyes with butterfly knife
38 Major Bludd
39 Flint Tiger Force
40 Arctic Snake Eyes
41 City Assault Roadblock
42 Cobra Commander with striped helmet
43 Cobra Officer Night Force
44 Baroness in blue uniform
45 G.I. Joe Hawk
46 Sgt. Bazooka
47 Barbecue
47 Storm Shadow in black
48 Snow Serpent
49 B.A.T.
51 Duke Tiger Force
52 Cobra Wraith
53 Mutt & Junkyard
54 Cobra Para-Vipers
55 Cobra Bazooka Trooper
56 Cobra Croc Master
57 Pilot Scarlett
58 Specialist Trakker
59 Sgt. Airborne
60 Cobra Eel
61 Swamp Zartan
62 Flint in Cobra gear



Thank you for your support!

The Hasbro G.I. JOE Team

Scarlett,how are we supposed to vote? :confused:

Do we pick one each?

Thanx!

-Nikki ^_^

I'm sorry, I'm at work right now.....so I can't really do all the 'surfing' I'd like to.

But if you click on the link, just check it out the site!! If you come across anything, post it up for the group to know....or send me a PM about it and I'll figure it out!!


How's that?

i havent actually voted yet, but as i was going through the process early this morning it was letting me pick more then one. i think when/if we all vote, we should try to get a character we know we wont be getting any others of. we know well still have tons of snake eyes, storm shadows, cobra commanders and dukes. we have a few hawks, there is already confirmed to fix flint with gloves, were supposed to get another rock n roll. i say lets vote on characters like Beachhead, Zartan, Sgt. Stalker, Gung-Ho, Sgt. Flash, Spirit Iron-Knife or Major Bludd.

Well DUH on me! :rolleyes:

Thanx,Scarlett ^_^

Nikki

Do they have a button for "Quit making crappy 25th Mold figures and go back to ARAH"? ...oh, nevermind....

lol, as soon as i saw this thread,i knew either you or Outrider would have something like this to say.

my VOTE goes to : I HATE 25TH figures , bring back ARAH molds ........... :confused:

So basically Hasbro is saying they're going to release a bunch more repaints, but dressing it up to present them as something fans want...?

I find it hilarious that they're doing a commemorative series for a commemorative series, already, not to mention you can vote for figures that haven't even been seen let alone released!

My thoughts exactly. Hasbro has some real "geniuses"in charge of the Joe line right now :rolleyes: . Lets see old school again please! :(

Well,I voted for all the girls and the cooler Cobras,like Snow Serpent. ^_^

I love seeing GI Joe in stores again!

Gotta jet,

Nikki

I do too, but unfortunately, distribution is spotty at best and non-existant for the most part. Hell, we're up to wave what? And I have yet to see some of the figures at all and most of the ones I do see are 1-2 of the same in every store. Nuthin but Peg Warmers from San Diego to Victorville! Gotta love Hasbro!

As for Vehicles, I have yet to see ANY in the stores and they're already "Out of Stock" on HTS. I read a thread on JBL about how TRU is trying to purposely NOT cater to collectors....All I can say is....Job well done, guys! You, Taget and Walmart have effectively destroyed my love of collecting!

Guess it's back to paying top dollar for ARAH Molds from Master Collector!

And what the heck is this?;

http://www.hasbrotoyshop.com/Produc...O&ID=21694&PG=1

$19.99 a piece for a figure, a DVD and a PIECE of a toy? So If I want the WHOLE Mass Device or the Whole Weather Dominator, I have to pay $100.00 and end up with 5 DVD's I don't want and 4 Action figures I wouldn't pay a dime for! Errrrggg!!

There's been talk of doing a Hall of Heroes thing for a few years now. But yeah, I'm guessing these will just be repackaged figures in new packaging. Star Wars does the same thing, y'know.

Well, the Mass Device was... at least it looks to scale now. All the shots i had seen leading up to the cartoon pack... I thought you got the whole thing. THey are so trying to take advantage of the collector market.

I'm pretty sure it was announced back at Toy Fair that the MASS Device would be coming in five pieces. A lot of people seemed to miss that little bit of info though... Doesn't bother me yet, because there's enough stuff in the first two sets to get me excited. I just hope the final three sets are as impressive.

Just put my two cents in the Vote!!!:) Can't wait to see who the Top 10 are!!! :D

More 25th
 

At GI Joe.com you can see, General hawk with leather jacket and helmet, Bazooka, Barbecue, Black Storm Shadow, Bat and Snow Serpent. They run about 7 bucks and says it'll be out soon. We'll see. What do you think?

http://www.joedios.com/forums/showt...16&page=1&pp=10

All that info is in there somewhere... Around the last pages

I just made my picks. I too went with the less seen figures. I think there has to be on factory out there just soley deicated to mass producing Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow figs... so Bazooka and Barbeque got a vote and of course my favorite Cobra trop the EEl got a nod. Hope to see the results!
P.S. Did anyone else linger around on the site long enough to play the Do you know your GI Joe? It was pretty funny. I got a nine out of ten, couldn't for the life of me remember which Drednock was afraid of spiders :o

My thoughts exactly, I was hoping Quick Kick or someone else was in there, but I guess not...

Heh heh, I happily vote for none of 'em because they are all JUNK. ;) :D

Looking again at the figures who have a "?" instead of a head shot (and wouldn't that make Presidential elections more fun?) -- one of them is listed as "Specialist Trakker."

Now; it's possible that this is a misprint and they're doing Tracker, but he's not exactly a fan-favourite in the history of the line. Another thing is the "Specialist" prefix -- that's new. Why not "Sergeant" or "Agent" or use his codename in the middle of his real name?

The line is all about 80s nostalgia, and back in the 80s there WAS a cartoon & toy character called Trakker -- Matt Trakker, in the MASK toyline. MASK was made by Kenner, and Kenner was bought by Hasbro in the mid-90s...

I did some 'poking around' last night.........TONS of fun stuff and lots of nostalgia on the site!!!


YO JOE!!

We're getting a bit bogged down with threads regarding the 25th line...........

No ARAH, no vote... :(

This whole MATT TRAKKER business has got to be the goofiest assumption made by fans ever. Ever occur to anyone they spelled TRACKER's name "Trakker" for copyright reasons, too?

Really, why on Earth would they shoehorn in a character from a whole seperate toyline? Does Hasbro even own those character or does Dic (who made the cartoon)?

Also, how can they expect people to vote on all those unseen future releases.

Plus you have Cobra Commander helmet vs. Cobra Commander striped helmet. Tough decision there. I'm gonna vote for both, plus Hooded CC and armor CC. :p

There are a few reasons why people have made this assumption. Yes, Hasbro does own MASK, since they bought Kenner about ten years ago. Also, when the wave including "Trakker" was found in Wal-Mart computers, the character was listed as "Mask." Since then, that wave was put on this list, but the character called "Mask" was replaced with "Trakker." I was skeptical at first too, till I read all this info. Now, the more I think about it, the more sense it makes.

Must've missed or forgotten that MASK listing part. Not reading all the gossip these days.

Got that theme song in my head. "TRAKKER'S GONNA LEAD THE MISSION, BECAUSE...he's the white blonde guy and this is the 1980's" Okay, maybe I misremembered part of the song. :p

Considering they've done Action Man and Sgt. Slaughter before, Matt Trakker wouldn't surprise me at all.

If it IS Tracker with a typo, I still have the questions 1) Why the new "Specialist" prefix instead of all the other ways they've got around trademark issues before; 2) A misspelling on a Wal-Mart computer is one thing, but on Hasbro's own GI Joe website? And finally, 3) Why the hell would they be doing Tracker of all Joes at this point...!?

Question: 25th at Rite Aid?
 

So I just got home from Rite Aid pharmacy (stocking up on alcohol for the weekend) and I saw something interesting. At my local Rite Aid, they keep there toys in the aisle in front of the back one containing the "good stuff". So I always walk through through and browse on my way back. But today when I walked through there was a child in there holding 2 of the 1 wave 25ths begging his mom to buy them. Unfortunately she conceeded and gave into the brat. I am not a huge fan of them, but wave 1 is already fetching a nice profit on ebay and SE has good accesories, so I'll seize an opportunity when I see it. Well anyway I went back in a few mins, and could not find a peg or label for the joes, they had lots of hasbro junk like starwars etc, and even some older marvel legends, but no more joes. I searched hiss tank and other sites but cannot find a record for rite aid selling these yet. Does anybody know if rite aid will be getting older 25th stuff? or could this be a werid return of merchandise or in a box shipped with starwars stuff? any answer is insightful and any who, I guess keep your eyes open if your a 25th lover or like to sell crap. cheers-