I'm really excited for the cartoon packs. I've already got my preferred line-ups picked out. I doubt they'll happen like this, but a guy can dream:

MASS Device
1. Duke w/new, cartoon-accurate head (or just a re-tool of the already cartoon-accurate VvV Comic Pack head)
2. Torpedo (cartoon colors)
3. Snake-Eyes (purple v1 costume with no gloves)
4. Scarlett w/new, cartoon-accurate head

Revenge of Cobra
1. Flint (cartoon colors)
2. Lady Jaye (no hat, cartoon colors)
3. Mutt & Junkyard
4. Zartan (cartoon colors)

Pyramid of Darkness
1. Bazooka
2. Alpine
3. Quick-Kick
4. Dusty

Arise, Serpentor, Arise
1. Dr. Mindbender
2. Scrap-Iron (cartoon colors-- ie, gray helmet)
3. General Hawk (cartoon colors-- black hair)
4. And if they could somehow secure a license to do it-- Sgt. Slaughter!

G.I. Joe: The Movie
1. Jinx
2. Pythona
3. Golobulus
4. Cobra-La Guard

I suspect, however, that we'll see some of these characters single-carded before the year is out (particularly my choices for the Pyramid of Darkness). If that happens, I'll change my dream line-ups.

Also, I didn't list Falcon and Nemesis Enforcer under the movie because I was under the impression that was going to be a comic 2-pack-- Just like how the MASS Device CC and Baroness are going to be single-carded.

Finally, I'm betting that this is where we'll see the promised Scarlett and Lady Jaye with new head sculpts show up. I'd rather not see a Scarlett in the MASS Device set, but that seems the most logical place for her so I included her there. I'd much rather see a Destro with new lower arms that have no grenades or wrist rockets, and a new cartoon-accurate head.

EDIT: Oh, and I forgot-- Naturally, all the Joes in these sets would come with Snow-Job rifles!!

DOUBLE EDIT: Also, I didn't include Serpentor in the "Arise Serpentor Arise" set since it appears we're getting a new carded version of him this year, and I'd be willing to bet he'll also come with the just-announced Air Chariot.

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Clinton, Obama & McCain Who? Here Pryce is President!
Source: Latino Review
February 16, 2008


Latino Review is reporting that Jonathan Pryce ("Pirates of the Caribbean" trilogy) has been cast as President of the United States in Stephen Sommer's live-action G.I. Joe adaptation at Paramount Pictures.

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Hasbro Previews G.I. Joe, Hulk, Iron Man, Indy & Clone Wars
Source: Edward Douglas
February 17, 2008

The G.I. Joe presentation kicked-off with some of the new figures to coincide with the 25th Anniversary of G.I. Joe's battle with Cobra, but more exciting was the preview reel for next year's movie, showing off concept art and animatics from the movie with sound bites by Sommers, producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, screenwriter Stuart Beattie and others, talking about the general principle behind the movie, while confirming all of the casting that's been discussed over the past few months. The two women on each respective team, Cobra's The Baroness played by Sienna Miller and Rachel Nichols' Scarlett, were said to anchor the movie with two love stories (just what guys need in a G.I. Joe movie, right?). Presumably, these romances are between the two women and men on their respective teams, unless there's some sort of "don't ask, don't tell" scenario going on that we probably don't need to know about. The movie, which just started shooting last Wednesday, will be more of a "James Bond adventure fantasy" that will take the characters to the polar ice cap, the Sahara desert and Australia, though we also got to see early animatics for one of the key scenes, which was an accelerator suit chase through the streets of Paris, which looks like something we might see in a "Flash" comic book (or movie, if that ever happens). The movie will also introduce a number of new vehicles including "The Scarab" and "Howler," but since the movie just started production, one probably shouldn't expect to see any movie-related toys from Hasbro until next year's Toy Fair.

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Accelerator suit? Sounds horribly Sigma 6...

And how much you want to bet the Scarab and Howler are the same basic vehicle type as existing ones, so we end up wondering why they couldn't have just made the things we know instead of making up more stuff just for the sake of it...?

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Might be a M.A.R.S. product - Who knows
I'm expecting the worst and hoping for the best for this movie

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It dosen't sound to far fetched especially when you think about the future warrior system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Force_Warrior

Oh, I know there's all kinds of technological enhancements and strength-boosting exo-skeletons in development, but when you are able to compare something to the Flash you're in the realms of wacky sci-fi that Sigma 6 reveled in. I imagine there's going to be virtually nothing that resembles conventional military in this movie, apart from maybe Hawk in uniform...

I can understand them playing up the sci-fi for the movie, especially since they'll want to sell this movie to countries who aren't necessarily going to jump behind a (US) military unit as the sole protagonists (at least Transformers had heroic alien robot monkey-clowns to get behind). It just gets to a point, with all the "tweaks and improvements," where I find myself asking why they bother calling it GI Joe when it only shares names with the source material.

Last I heard (haven't gone looking for a proper source, admittedly): Snake Eyes will wear shades but no mask, and will be a speaking role (Ray Park's Englishness helping the international team thing, I guess) and Baroness might be blonde. What is it with actresses not changing their hair colour for adaptations, do they think it won't fulfill the star's "brand identity" or something? (Nicole Kidman's character in the Golden Compass has black hair in the book as, I believe, did Michelle Pfeiffer's character in Stardust...)

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The shade part and snake eyes speaking is a rumor, nothing has been confirmed about that yet. (hopefully he shuts the heck up like the good mute Ninja he is).

Also a rumor is that he and Scarlett will be siblings, brother and sister... *sigh*

Like I said earlier, I expect the worst but hope for the best from this movie.

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That is all kinds of wrong.

It'd have to be the end of the reprints in comic packs, then, since you couldn't have kids who get into GI Joe through the movie then reading stories showing the two of them being all lovey-dovey...

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