Yes Flint, that is indeed Crankcase next to the A.W.E. Striker........

I have to admit, these vehicles are making me exited!!!

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me too. especially since i didnt collect vehicles as a kid. now its my chance to get some, even if they are repaints. and as they have said flint, it is crank case. a surprise to get a character like him, another good thing about getting vehicles.

Hopefully it's not lip service, and they will fix the figures so they can sit down.

Comic packs won't ship until next spring....soooo long away and the first wave mostly sucks. Torch and Ripper are good on paper, but Torch has Gung Ho arms with the awful elbow bands. New comic cover art not especially interesting to me. New Hama issues more interesting.

Vehicles:
Enough with the Sharc, you cannot polish that floating turd anymore. The interior was designed for Deep Six V1, yet it's been reissued 3 times without that figure and is now getting a fourth repaint. Make a new interior or an all new SHARC. Grand Slam piloting it??

I like the AWE Striker and HISS v1, but not very exciting. They are recognizable to "lapsed fans", though. No actual HISS Driver, but a urban camo Cobra who doesn't match his ride.

I guess they lost or altered the Stinger mold, if anyone would fit in it. The Stun is one they could do, too. But odds are if there's more RAH vehicle reissues, it'll be the Snow Cat again.

The 5 packs:

The cobra's camo doesn't do it for it. If they were RAH molds, then maybe, because they'd be adding to a great big collection. With 25th style, they seem out of place, introducing new look when the line is mostly retro. It's not a realistic camo, either.

Snake-Eyes V1,031 and some Red Ninja who have Storm Shadow heads. Huh? Maybe they'll change that. But how many red ninjas can you stand? Between the single card one (which looks better) and this pack, that's almost more than enough for me. But these packs are long way off I gather.

Basic figures:
Snow Job: cool as long as his coat tails are removable or he can sit...in theory

Crimson Guard: the masked is too beaked, plus the visor too short...DTC head looked better.

Flash: Not as cool as I'd hoped

Destro: head seems tiny, too soon for an all new Destro...but they are pushing the core characters.

Snake-Eyes: Why did they release the black timber as a chase figure when they could've stuck it with one the 50 future Snake-Eyes repaints they planned?

DTC wave 4 going to Master Collector, along with unmade Cobra Commander (sigma six look)....cool, I can write off ever owning these!

The one thing I got out of the convention: HASBRO cannot make 2 types of GI JOE figures at once anymore. Putting 8" on hiatus to focus on 3 3/4"? WHAT? 3 3/4" was all but written off a year before, and now former golden boy 8" is sidelined? Hasbro has too many properties (Star Wars, Marvel Legends, Transformers, Spiderman), they are competing against themselves in a dwindling action figure market...that's all I can figure out.

I'm more interested in the Awestriker than any of the others. I do not like the blue HISS. I had an original as a kid and that was the bomb. I'd rather find the DTC HISSs before this big cannon one.

That hiss and awe striker will be mine . Finally something that I can be excited about.

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