Others who are more informed than myself may have tumbled to this fact already, but I haven't seen anything about it posted here...

Those who don't appreciate the 25th-style figures probably won't care, but I realized today that if we count the Rise of Cobra Cover Girl as a "real" Cover Girl figure, then Hasbro has, as of the release of the RoC figures and Attack/Defense of Cobra Island sets, released every single Joe figure from 1982 - 1984 in 25th Anniversary format! This even includes all vehicle drivers!

And 1985 is only short five characters before it, too, has all of its figures produced in the new format! Those would be Airtight, Footloose, Frostbite, Keel Haul, and Tollbooth. I kinda doubt we'll wind up with all of them (particularly Keel Haul and Tollbooth), but stranger things have happened! I do recall reading some time ago -- I think in one of the Hasbro Q&A's -- that the Viper 5-pack was canned in favor of a pack that would include Footloose. I wonder if that's still in the works, and if any of the others might show up there, too...?

Anyway, I just thought it was pretty neat that, in the past two years, Hasbro has churned out every Joe from the first three years of the original line (in addition to many other figures from other years) in the new format! Way to go, Hasbro!

(I honestly can't remember the last time I ever even thought, much less said that...!)

EDIT: I've just discovered that the Rise of Cobra Ice Dagger comes with Frostbite. So I guess that means '85 is only down four characters!

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an update for you theres a footloose in the new desert 5 pack on the way with zartan in disguise female dial tone footlose dusty and one other joe .theres a cobra counter set with a joe disguised as a cobra but can't recall who it is .its a sweet pack that comes with the night adder the cobra dog handler

The desert pack is Dialtone (female), Law (and order), Repeater (now dark skinned), Footloose and Zartan in disguise.

The other is Neo-Viper, Elite-Viper, Duke in infiltrator gear, MARS Officer, MARS Trooper.

thanks for that . couldn't recall who was in it just recalled female dial tone zartan and footloose and people complaining about footloose

Huh. I wonder how I totally missed these desert packs. Obviously they're what Hasbro was talking about when they said they'd replaced the Viper set with a set containing Footloose, but I have no idea how the announcement slipped past me! Well then, 1985 will only be short three figures!

EDIT: So apparently they had the desert sets on display at the San Diego Comic Con. Which I attended. And I totally didn't notice them. I probably saw all the desert camo and assumed it was some lame movie-themed troop builder.

Anyway, I guess it counts as Footloose (in the same way Cover Girl counts), but it's not really a Footloose I have any interest in owning, since he's not in green!

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Frostbite is the Ice Dagger's driver too, guys.

Pretty impressive, but I can't help that with the release of Resolute and Rise of Cobra toys... the older 25th anniversary figures feel a bit... outdated. The attires and gear are just incredibly outdated, being based on how things were back over twenty years ago.

I really hope Hasbro pretty much scraps the 25th Anniversary "new sculpts looking like they did 25 years ago" deal they made and sticks to more modernized takes on the characters that they've accomplished during Resolute and ROC.
This is JvC/ST/VvV done right, people!

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