Check this out:

http://i.toynewsi.com/g/index.php?m...ize=600&start=0

Pics of carded figures (black Timber...?) including a cardback with silhouettes of forthcoming figures. Since they're using vintage card art, it's fairly easy to determine who they are...

Middle row: Beach Head, Lady Jaye, Buzzer, Serpentor (not vintage art, but it couldn't be anyone else...), Cobra Trooper (will it be different from the 5-pack version? Red bandana, maybe, or silver chest logo?)

Bottom row: Firefly, Satan (it's the Argentinian Satan card art... might be a Red Ninja or Ninja Viper, either way it'll be a total v1-costume Storm Shadow repaint...), Stalker, Shipwreck, Zartan (using the Funskool card art here)

I kinda like the line-up; mixed feelings over "Satan" although on the one hand I like the idea of exploring EVERY aspect of the brand's 25-year history, on the other it's the third use of that mold already... Nice that Buzzer got a shot considering he never got a new sculpt version (although it's a shame this one will be v1-based instead of DDP). Dead characters I don't really care about but I'll probably buy anyway, and the rest are good choices IMO. Still, I'm glad the line's definitely continuing past this...

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I commented on this yesterday over at JBL.............


I really hope that they either change their minds and 86 Lady Jaye's hat, or at the very least make it removable and give her a decent head............

Here's hoping..............

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I thought JBL had probably covered this but wasn't sure how many members here also went there. It keeps getting referenced, I should look at it myself sometime...!

Oh, and I TOTALLY agree regarding Jaye's hat. The character may be dead to me, but that's all the more reason to show her some respect!

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I am pumped about the 25th Anniversory figures. I notice there is going to be a Pimp Daddy Destro as a convention figure (no surprise there) I can't wait.

Interesting... I suspected we'd be seeing Shipwreck, Firefly, Lady Jaye, Serpentor, Beachhead, and Zartan (and if you don't believe me, check the post where the 25th figs were first announced to see my predictions!)...

It's great that we're getting Stalker, because even though he was an integral part of the comic, he was virtually nonexistent on the cartoon, which is what these figures seem to be drawing from for inspiration. I'm not sure why we'd need another Cobra Trooper, but I'll wait till we see it. Likewise for another repaint of Storm Shadow, but I guess ninjas sell, so I can't blame Hasbro for wanting to get as much out of that mold as they can.

Buzzer is the only one that really makes no sense to me since they aren't doing the other Dreadnoks. Why not Major Bludd instead??? I would've grabbed him up in an instant, but Buzzer is just going to be a "wait-and-see-and-probably-not-buy-when-I-do-see-him" figure.

But... Get this-- An entire 25th anniversary line without Hawk represented at all! Take that, Abernathy! Duke fans unite!!


(...I honestly bear Hawk no ill will, but I just like Duke a lot better)

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Un F'n Believable. They are making v2 SE chase variants (different timbers)!!!

I am pretty pleased with the list. Beach Head! Zartan!!! No f'n Bludd???

So will we have a Snake Eyes v1, v2 and v2.5? Hasbro is really pushing us into buy many versions of the same character. But as G. stated no Bludd?

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yeah, i really thought we would see a bludd, and we should have. im glad theres a beach head and zartan and sepentor, and like scarlett im hoping they can do something with lady jaye as she was one of my fave characters in the cartoon. im also glad their doing a buzzer, but if their doping him then they should have did one version of snake eyes and CC and the trooper and made torch and ripper too. or wated and did the rest of the noks but came out with a zarana or roadpig.

With the inclusion of the likes of "Satan" and another Trooper (maybe it'll be a Python Officer...?) and the exclusion of the likes of Bludd and Hawk, I cant help wondering if this selection, which is now the first 25 of an ongoing line, is any different to what the lineup would have been if it were only going to be 25...?

Maybe they had Bludd & Hawk in there but decided to keep them back for later waves so there's still some big characters to come...?

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