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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