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Post by S. Griffin on Apr 12, 2021 12:46:28 GMT -5
Flint and Lady Jaye are the douchey looking guy with the black beret and the woman with the blue baseball cap.
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Post by frinspar on Apr 12, 2021 12:48:14 GMT -5
OK, it was Duke and Scarlett. LOL They reissued the first wave with some paint changes. They have Zartan and a Cobra trooper added in with the wave now.
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Post by okcomputer on Apr 12, 2021 13:37:01 GMT -5
Flint and Lady Jaye are the douchey looking guy with the black beret and the woman with the blue baseball cap. Those are the ones. They looked good. The way they did the removable hat on Lady Joe is clever. Instead of designing the hat and hair sculpt to fit together (which would make both the hat and the hair look weird), it looked like they sculpted some hair as part of the hat so you just pop the regular hair off her head and stick on the hair-hat.
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Post by frinspar on Apr 12, 2021 14:07:51 GMT -5
Woah! Those aren't supposed to be out till June or so. Maybe I'll get my pre-order stuff earlier then.
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Post by okcomputer on Apr 12, 2021 14:10:52 GMT -5
Crap, if I'd known that I would've bought them. Either give them to you guys or sell them on ebay and buy a new car.
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Post by frinspar on Apr 12, 2021 14:22:09 GMT -5
I'm sure my pre-orders will all fill. I had Destro on order last summer and only just had it added to my loot pile last month. But that's because I waited until the very tail end of the first release to try to order him, so I was put in line for the second wave. I have Zartan on order, too, and will leave him there. If I end up with 2 of him that's fine.
Regulars like those shouldn't be too hard to scrounge up for people. It's guys like the troopers, Firefly and exclusives that are the problem. I am still flabbergasted that I found Baroness on the shelf. Those go for upwards of $200 now.
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Post by S. Griffin on Apr 12, 2021 14:54:28 GMT -5
Flint and Lady Jaye had a Target street date of 4/1. Some of the online retailers are saying June, but that's probably because Hasbro tends to fulfill their orders last. I'm curious if POPfindr is still a useful too for finding Joes or if it remains unreliable since Target pressured them to make it even fucking harder to find the Cobra Island figures a few months back.
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Post by S. Griffin on Jun 4, 2021 14:27:00 GMT -5
Amazon exclusive classic-style Roadblock, the rhyming black guy, with pretty much exactly the interpretation of an M-134 Minigun (referred to repeatedly in the livestream this morning as a "gatling gun")one would expect from the putz who designed Flint's boxy breech-loading pump-action shotgun. www.amazon.com/dp/B08S59Z446?psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&ref_=chk_typ_imgToDp&fbclid=IwAR12kyGC2kXs-UsnbGOJFdPqYfDT35fzDSCKzlhFurw4M_DklA4v--n4QOU&tag=enewsi-20I'm wondering if the skintones match between this Roadblock and the Cobra Island one, because I'd love to swap the head and tattooed arm from that one onto this one. They're also giving us Commando Snake Eyes with Timber, which is pretty damn cool, but isn't up for pre-order yet. It might be an Amazon exclusive, or a Pulse exclusive (hope it won't be a fucking Walmart exclusive) but it's definitely not a Target exclusive, and I doubt it'll be a wide release. Our mute ninja friend comes with a knife and a bunch of guns (not pictured here, because I didn't feel like it), and Timber comes with an alternate growling head (also not pictured here, because I didn't feel like it). A classic style Barbecue is coming to Cobra Island via Target to fuck with anyone who actually wants him, and so is Breaker who comes with a bike and the idiot's minigun with a pod thing. Unsurprisingly, Lenny from design, the brilliant mind behind Flint's shotgun and this minigun that might be pissing me off more than it should, didn't know the fucking word for windshield.
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Post by frinspar on Jun 4, 2021 23:19:50 GMT -5
The RB is nice, but I have the other 2. The Breaker is fucking sweet. At least any Amazon exclusives will keep me from getting some of these, which isn't horrible since I've got to draw a line somewhere anyway.
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Post by S. Griffin on Jun 4, 2021 23:31:07 GMT -5
I wish they would actually listen to fans about the Target issues over the last year (their big announcement was that they were going to be re-releasing the Cobra Island Baroness and COIL bike, Roadblock, Beachhead, and the Cobra Trooper AT FUCKING TARGET AGAIN), because they've clearly listened to fans who said they don't want the character designs to stray too far at all from their classic looks, because everything revealed today has a very RAH feel to it. It gives me hope that when they finally get to the Crimson Guard, the figures won't look ridiculous, and that a hooded Cobra Commander might not be too far away. Cobra Commander will probably be an Amazon exclusive (easy enough to get if one doesn't wait more than 12 hours), but the Crimson Guard will likely be a Cobra Island Target exclusive, which would suck, because I'll need at least fucking four of them.
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Post by S. Griffin on Jun 5, 2021 13:24:36 GMT -5
Rumor is that Snake Eyes will be a Pulse "exclusive" starting June 10th and then available to order from "select retailers" (usually means BBTS, Dorkside, and EE) on July 1st.
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Post by okcomputer on Jun 11, 2021 13:28:13 GMT -5
Anybody want a Major Bludd? They had 2 on the shelf at Target today and I grabbed them both. I got one for me (because this figure is cool as shit) and I got the other one because I didn't want the local scalper to get it because fuck that guy.
$20 plus whatever shipping is. DM me if you're interested.
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Post by S. Griffin on Jun 11, 2021 15:59:16 GMT -5
Anybody want a Major Bludd? They had 2 on the shelf at Target today and I grabbed them both. I got one for me (because this figure is cool as shit) and I got the other one because I didn't want the local scalper to get it because fuck that guy. $20 plus whatever shipping is. DM me if you're interested. You were able to grab those for only $20 a piece? Lucky bastich. The Targets around here have all adopted the new price point already.
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Post by frinspar on Jun 13, 2021 18:17:49 GMT -5
I almost took you up on Bludd. For whatever reason he never made it into my hands as a kid, and I've never picked one up since. There's no connection to him in my brain, but he does look really good. Thanks for the offer though. I've got 9 days left to ship the Destro I pre-ordered about a year ago, along with the others that have come in since. I always like to wait till the last day to get as much as I can, but either way I'll have 5 Joes - a 2nd Zartan among them - coming in soon. Maybe I'll see about turning Z2 into someone else with parts and paint. Depending on what happens with Crimson Guard distribution, I'll keep an eye out for extras when they come down the pike.
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Post by frinspar on Jun 13, 2021 21:01:15 GMT -5
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Post by S. Griffin on Jun 17, 2021 12:24:52 GMT -5
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Post by frinspar on Jun 17, 2021 22:53:58 GMT -5
Thanks, but I totally missed out. I was waaay too late. Damn.
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Post by S. Griffin on Jun 17, 2021 23:14:55 GMT -5
Thanks, but I totally missed out. I was waaay too late. Damn. Barbeque is still available, but I see that Breaker sold out. Breaker was available for probably a good seven or eight hours.
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Post by okcomputer on Jun 18, 2021 8:15:05 GMT -5
Has Hasbro ever addressed why the distribution of this line is such a complete clusterfuck? Obviously GI Joe doesn't have quite the pop culture presence as Marvel or Star Wars so it won't have as big a footprint in the toy aisle, but it's almost impressive how bad they are at actually getting these toys into stores.
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Post by S. Griffin on Jun 18, 2021 12:34:18 GMT -5
Has Hasbro ever addressed why the distribution of this line is such a complete clusterfuck? Obviously GI Joe doesn't have quite the pop culture presence as Marvel or Star Wars so it won't have as big a footprint in the toy aisle, but it's almost impressive how bad they are at actually getting these toys into stores. They've never addressed why, no. They have come close to acknowledging that there is an issue by saying they're working to make more product available and that they would be reissuing the first Cobra Island Wave (at Target again, unfortunately), as well as releasing stuff on Pulse for their Premium Members. And somehow these latest two figures were available for hours, and Barbeque is still available as of right now, so either there was much more product available to meet demand or Target put enough measures in place (1 per order and possibly some anti-bot measures) to keep them available for a reasonable period of time.
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Post by frinspar on Jun 18, 2021 17:30:58 GMT -5
Breaker would've been nice, but that's all on me.
It's been the same story with distribution and droughts since they kicked the 3-3/4" line back into action 10 years ago. And why the resale value is so fucking insane on many of them.
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Post by okcomputer on Jun 18, 2021 20:07:04 GMT -5
Maybe the new movie nobody wants will increase interest,
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Post by S. Griffin on Jul 8, 2021 0:52:45 GMT -5
I was unsure about Major Bludd, but I grabbed one, due to FOMO. Plus, I really liked his cybernetic arm and the super expressive and scarred face sculpt. The fact that Hasbro neglected to paint the red in the eyepiece was an annoyance, but it was also probably a blessing in disguise, because I'm convinced that I did a better job than some poor Chinese factory worker painting thousands of these a day. I first painted Molotow chrome into the eye piece. This was hard as hell, because it dries fast so I had to pump the pen a bunch of times to get it to pool and then pick up what I could with a very thin brush and apply it as carefully as I could, which wasn't super careful, but it's alcohol soluble, so I was able to clean up the excess very easily. Next I applied several coats of Tamiya clear red which I thinned down considerably with water like a wash, so I could just touch the tip of the brush into the recessed area and capillary action would do the rest. I built up the clear red coats over the course of several days to give ample drying time and until it looked to me like a lens instead of anodized red aluminum, which it did for the first two coats or so. I think there might be four coats altogether, but it's probably the equivalent of two, because of how much I thinned the paint. I fucking love this figure now. I refuse to put the helmet on him though. I think that helmet looks silly as shit, plus it covers too much of his scars and too much of his eyebrow and detracts from how expressive that ugly face is.
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Post by okcomputer on Jul 8, 2021 10:03:30 GMT -5
Target put some of the exclusive stuff up on their site today. Mostly troopers I think, and Baroness.
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Post by S. Griffin on Jul 8, 2021 11:42:01 GMT -5
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Post by okcomputer on Jul 8, 2021 11:58:36 GMT -5
I'm not sure how the Cobra Island trooper is different from the non-exclusive version.
Never mind, the Target one has goggles and an armband. Cool for people who want variety in their armies of bad guys I guess.
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Post by S. Griffin on Jul 8, 2021 12:12:42 GMT -5
I'm not sure how the Cobra Island trooper is different from the non-exclusive version. Never mind, the Target one has goggles and an armband. Cool for people who want variety in their armies of bad guys I guess. Armband, goggles, different skintone, black webgear and some other black areas here and there, silver paint detail on the mask, and an extra weapon.
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Post by frinspar on Jul 9, 2021 22:07:38 GMT -5
That Major Bludd looks much better up close. Wow. Nice work on the eye, dude!
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Post by S. Griffin on Jul 11, 2021 17:21:22 GMT -5
That Major Bludd looks much better up close. Wow. Nice work on the eye, dude! Thanks, buddy. I think he looks pretty damn good not so up close, too.
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Post by S. Griffin on Jul 12, 2021 20:47:28 GMT -5
My wife just told me that the Major Bludd figure looks like an uglier version of Adrian Pasdar's character from Agents of SHIELD, General Talbott. She's right.
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