It was also believed these would all be unique sculpts, especially as far as characters went. So I'm not holding my breath for single carded troopers.

I'm seeing "business as usual" here. Not that surprising, but not a good thing.

Swapping heads does not a Snake-Eyes v2 make. The boot are wrong for one thing. Likewise Storm Shadow's arms are wrong and he's still got the sandals. The vintage tribute and update theme fans saw in 25th anniversary has been mangled for economics.

Cobra Officer's got knee pads, has no distinct cuffs, the collar is mix of trooper and officer.

Only Cobra Commander is "right". And he still should've been saved for wave 3 at least (assuming this is wave 1 of single cards).

Flint...the sleeves are wrong. I suppose the rest is passable, depending on how decent Duke is. Still, for a popular character to be little more than a new head...Flint deserved more.

And really, if they were gonna do this, why go right to doing second versions of the main characters as soon as possible? Why not use Snake-Eyes parts for Grunt or Stalker or even Zap or Breaker?

If this is the first wave. It's like we are right back the repaints and redo's of the same "core" characters mode that sapped a lot of ethusiasm out of both the 2002-2005 new sculpts and the RAH reissues. 15 figures, only 10 characters plus two cobra troops that are very, very similar.