I've now finally seen the pictures, so I'll comment:

Flint looks fine. I would've preferred longer sleeves, but the gloves are enough of a change to make him look good.

Snake-Eyes looks great. The head is right on, and as long as that's correct, I really don't care the body is just the v1 mold over again.

Cobra Officer looks fine too. I don't really care that he has kneepads. I do agree though that it would've made a lot more sense to put him in the 5-pack and single card the trooper.

Cobra Commander kind of disappoints me. I don't like the "hood waving in the breeze" look that Hasbro is so fond of. It's a fine representation of the hooded look, but that one minor detail bugs me a lot.

Storm Shadow: Lame! For starters, he has no sleeves. The head looks fine, but I've never really been a big fan of his v2 look to begin with, so I don't like this one. So far, this is the only figure in this line that I'm not planning to buy.

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I'd thought that in the original release about the 25th Ann. figures, and what was on the website before the current "click an artist's rendition" presentation, said the line would feature the "25 most popular characters" or something very similar, implying only one version of each (as it stands, we're down to 22 so far or 21 if the single card Trooper is correct). Now, it's more ambiguous and just implies they're not reusing any parts from pre-2007 figures.

As for my opinion on figures 11-15, I'll copy'n'paste what I said over on YoJoe:

I'm a little embarrassed to say it, since in theory I don't like the idea of reusing parts so soon or of repeating so many characters, but I really like these guys... CC's head looks better proportioned, and the sleeves on Flint and SS don't really look too bad. If nobody had said anything, I doubt I'd have realised Flint had Duke's body at all. It is a bit of a shame SE doesn't have more form-fitting pants, though, like v2 did -- baggy for commando, skintight for ninja, IMO...

Thinking about the Officer -- he reuses the Trooper body and the webgear is removable, and if they do have the easily-poppable ball joint heads (like Major Barrage) all you'd have to do is put a Trooper head & webgear on the Officer body (and switch the knees if the construction allows, for the black pads), and presto -- LBC Viper Pilot!

Maybe that's what the single-pack Trooper's gonna be...?

For those who haven't saw...

http://www.toynewsi.com/news.php?catid=9&itemid=10970

Dave

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Okay!!!! That SE is mine! That cobra officer!!! That Flint!!!!! So cool!!!
But Fall 2007!!???!!!??

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Hmmmmmmm......................

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My only question is whether these artist conception pics will reflect the actual producation figure, or whether the pics from the Toy Fair prototypes are what we will see on toy shelves. Collector sales might not vary one from another, but I'm pretty sure overall sales might be better if these artist rendition pictures hit the shelves.

Someone posted a "too many chiefs..." picture here long ago with a bunch of Cobra officers bossing around one Cobra soldier. I can see another one of those pictures coming after these are released. That is picky, and I'm sure I can adjust my Joe-Verse for this slight oddity.

Flint and Hooded CC look pretty neat. But we shall see when they hit the shelves. Thank you for posting the link!

Thanks, Jock! I seriously cannot wait for these to come out. I can't remember the last time I was genuinely excited about upcoming Joe products (as opposed to kind of looking forward to something). I think it may have been when the first comic packs were announced.

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Man that Stormshadow does look pretty sweet, but why oh why couldn't we get an O-ring.

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Hasn't changed my mind one little bit. Very disappointing.

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