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Anonymous Tue 25 Nov 2025 15:05:08 No.11634179 View View Reply Original Report

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Previous one:
https://boards.4chan.org/toy/thread/11622444#bottom

Recent releases out now:
>Joe/Cobra divers 2-pack
>Steeler/Short Fuze 2-pack
>police officer

Reaction+ out now:
>Mara
>red-glow Snake Eyes
>Cobra Commander with cape
>Acrtic Scarlett

The apparent only release for the rest of the year and first two months of 2026:
>BAT (retro-card cartoon colors)

Coming in April:
>Big Lob
>Cobra-La Royal Guard
>Lifeline
>Night Viper
>Hit-n-Run
>Mole Rat (v.2)

Coming in March or April:
>Female Crimson Guard
>Zap
>Crazy Legs

Unknown 2026 release dates:
>Zanya
>Ninja Force Zartan
>Hydro-Viper
>Taurus and Red Dog 2-pack
>HISS (arctic version)

>G.I. Joe A Real American Hero:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM0FaPp2oenPi6zQOTBUCRoYnjhp0eEKQ

>G.I. Joe Renegades:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9iSDGvA4UNCGK-QiRUoxNHPun1PAIXON

>G.I. Joe Spy Troops (PAL version, ripped and edited by a very kind Aussie Anon/Spy Troops anon):
https://mega.nz/folder/UbgRhCQA#9MNOu25I6Rqv0BlaSUj8XA

>GI Joe movie intro:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ah2I166f_U [Embed] [Embed]

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Dec 2025 01:17:04 No.11641532 Report

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>>11641154
And just for $20 more than a Hasbro offering, which doesn't seem that bad nowadays

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 04 Dec 2025 04:42:55 No.11641679 Report

Quoted By: >>11641692 >>11641698 >>11641834

>>11641318
No. But NOW everyone wants the O-ring figures and that's a lot of nostalgia sales.
And might turn off new customers.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Dec 2025 05:05:48 No.11641692 Report

Quoted By: >>11642578

>>11641679
New customer here, just bought like fucking 12 Joes. But I chose classified, I am really not sure the allure of the 3.75 figures. Why do you say everyone wants the o ring figures?
In my opinion it is just sunk cost fallacy, once you picked one you stick with it?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Dec 2025 05:18:19 No.11641698 Report

Quoted By: >>11641834 >>11641906 >>11642287 >>11642578

>>11641679
i don't think people actually want o-rings.
Like Classified, people are only buying it because it's the ONLY option in America if you want a 1:18 scale GI Joe line.

And part of the reason why o-ring engineering is popping up is because it's cheaper to produce than modern 1:18 lines.

BTW, I don't care for o-ring and I've been buying GI Joes since 84.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 04 Dec 2025 12:12:27 No.11641834 Report

Quoted By: >>11641898 >>11642287 >>11642432

>>11641679
Maybe for you, but I'd love another round of reissue vehicles since even the 25th anniversary reissues have gotten a little bit pricey.

>>11641698
Speak for yourself. Like 5 POA Star Wars, a lot of people appreciate and enjoy the original format.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Dec 2025 14:36:01 No.11641898 Report

Quoted By: >>11641919

>>11641834
>Like 5 POA Star Wars
Yes people enjoy goose stepping and heiling

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Dec 2025 14:51:58 No.11641906 Report

Quoted By: >>11642582

>>11641698
o-ring is based

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Dec 2025 15:22:22 No.11641919 Report

Quoted By: >>11642287

>>11641898
>poorfag coming up with a nazi excuse for why vintage is too rich for his collecting means

Something's only new and original once. The first Darth Vader in all of its simplicity will always be worth something, while the 100th version is a waste of money no matter how well-detailed it may be.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Dec 2025 17:21:51 No.11641975 Report

Quoted By: >>11642002

Well the year's pretty much done with the last figure of 2025 (retro-card BAT) trickling out now. Anyone have any top-5 lists of their favorites for the year?
My personal favorites:
1. Rattler Baroness
2. the cop
3. Rattler Gunner
4. Battle Armor Cobra Commander
5. Crystal Ball

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Dec 2025 17:28:27 No.11641981 Report

Quoted By: >>11642025 >>11642287 >>11642582 >>11643251

What is the alternative to G.I. Joe for a child who comes from an anti-military family, anti-army family, a family that hates weapons and whose parents are against guns?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Dec 2025 18:04:37 No.11642002 Report

Quoted By: >>11642068

>>11641975
C Ball
His troops
Big scorpion
Rattler and its figure accessories
Donner party from Monster Force but if I cant pick him then Beef Range Viper

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Dec 2025 18:48:11 No.11642025 Report

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>>11641981
Wrestling figures? Sci-fi and capeshit stuff? Robots? It must unbelievably suck to have liberals as parents.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Dec 2025 19:39:53 No.11642068 Report

Quoted By: >>11642077 >>11642583

>>11642002
I wish Fresh Monkey Fiction or someone else would make highly-stylized pirates, samurai, and other historical types in this scale.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Dec 2025 19:53:07 No.11642077 Report

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>>11642068
>samurai
Budo too accurate?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Dec 2025 20:18:14 No.11642098 Report

Quoted By: >>11642101

Artic Hiss going on sale today, 30 day window. 4pm eastern. $199

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Dec 2025 20:25:20 No.11642101 Report

Quoted By: >>11642111

>>11642098
A Name only reveal of Deep Six, and a what looked like a swamp skier fin to me as a teaser.

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Anonymous Thu 04 Dec 2025 20:34:46 No.11642111 Report

Quoted By: >>11642126 >>11642249

>>11642101
Oh is that what this is

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 04 Dec 2025 20:35:48 No.11642114 Report

Quoted By: >>11642249

I have the 12 Oz Mouse theme song stuck in my head

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Dec 2025 20:42:27 No.11642126 Report

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>>11642111
We're getting Ninja Force Zartan next year, and if this comes with yet another Zartan, that'll be 6 zartans before RnR v2 (and a whole lot of v1 figures)

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Anonymous Thu 04 Dec 2025 21:51:28 No.11642249 Report

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>>11642111
Definitely looks like a rear strut and ski for the swamp skier.

>>11642114
Who's been demanding this one?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Dec 2025 22:18:33 No.11642287 Report

Quoted By: >>11642327

>>11641698
That's how I feel, I've been collecting Joes since the 80s and I still have a box of original O-Ring figures buried somewhere in my closet. But I don't really care to buy them these days because modern figures are just so much better in almost every way. I get it, the nostalgia factor gives them a bit of charm, but even as a kid I wanted my toys to be the *best* toy it could be, which is the whole reason why I loved the G.I. Joe figures. Other lines had less articulation, less detail, less accessories, intrusive gimmicks, boring characters and so many other problems. But G.I. Joe in the 80s and early 90s were just awesome figures in almost every way. Once those Modern Era build figures hit, it was like being a kid again, the early ones were kinda rough but they improved by leaps and bounds and towards the end of the run each figure was a little work of art (Retaliation Wave 3 is still one of my favorite waves of the line).

I view Classified in kind of the same way as the ME stuff, the first few figures were rough, and there's some low spots and nit picks, but overall it's probably the best western toyline being made and one of the best Joe lines overall.

>>11641834
They really need to put out a mass market HISS V, one that's not a DTC release or Con exclusive.

>>11641919
The first Vader isn't worth something because it's good, it's worth something because it's old. But I'll gladly take a newer, cheaper, *better* toy over an expensive old figure because the value in the figure for me isn't how much I can resell it for, the value is in how much fun I can have with it.

>>11641981
.....Super Heroes? I mean, there's a billion marvel figures you can get that have nothing to do with weapons, army or guns. Hell, most toylines these days have nothing to do with military stuff, you should be buying stuff based on what the kid likes, not what his family hates.

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Anonymous Thu 04 Dec 2025 22:45:03 No.11642327 Report

Quoted By: >>11642432

>>11642287
The O-ring stuff will always have stuff over the other scales that the others just don't have. That keeps them appealing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 05 Dec 2025 00:49:18 No.11642432 Report

Quoted By: >>11642779 >>11642825 >>11642889

>>11641834
>Speak for yourself.
I don't think I am, since the o-ring stuff doesn't seem as popular as modern 1:18.

Every attempt at o-ring is extremely niche and doesn't s eem to get as much support as any modern 1:18 line. Every modern engineered 1:18 line that got a kickstarter got way more support than an o-ring line by 2-10x.

Like i said, the only reason we're even talking about o-ring right now is because it's the only thing that Hasbro allows to be released in the US for GI Joe.

>>11642327
Vehicles and playsets like that are just 1:18. So it's not that o-ring is appealing, it's just that it works with anything 1:18 scale.
o-ring is just outdated engineering and purposely outdated sculpts.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 05 Dec 2025 03:53:36 No.11642578 Report

Quoted By: >>11642779

>>11641692
There seems to be a lot of demand for them.
At least in these threads.
>>11641698
But WHY has HASBRO gotten stuck in this "retro" and O-ring bullshit.
It may be cheaper -but it looks it.
It's like those terribly articulated old Star Wars figures that were worse than joes by any yardstick.

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Anonymous Fri 05 Dec 2025 03:56:50 No.11642582 Report

Quoted By: >>11642587

>>11641981

Get figures from Marauders and gear them up with science shit.
Adventurers use guns for protection.
>>11641906
Not really an argument there.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 05 Dec 2025 03:58:15 No.11642583 Report

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>>11642068
I wish they would put out replacement helmets for their Space Force - especially with new figures coming out.

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Anonymous Fri 05 Dec 2025 04:02:06 No.11642587 Report

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>>11642582
no guns

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 05 Dec 2025 12:06:29 No.11642779 Report

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>>11642432
The last O-ring attempt by Hasbro flopped because the figures were noticably lower quality while being over-priced. And the original stuff is still holding its value, which wouldn't be happening of the demand wasn't there.

>o-ring is just outdated engineering and purposely outdated sculpts.
Yet it still sells and the original stuff will always be worth more than what you decide is the best version. And I noticed your mental gymnastics with wanting the O-ring stuff repurposed for 1:18.

>>11642578
It actually doesn't look cheaper to me. That's you inserting your tainted eyes that have gotten accustomed to Classified.

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Anonymous Fri 05 Dec 2025 13:52:16 No.11642825 Report

Quoted By: >>11642832

>>11642432
Dude. When Hasbro did the "retro" O-ring Joes, they had crappy plastic rivets, and a paint job and overall feel in the hands that made them look noticably lower-quality than the originals. And they were $20 each (in 2-packs for $40) against the $25 average price of a Classified. Then Reaction+ charges $25 for one against a $27 average price for a regular Classified.

It's the economics that fuck over the O-ring line, not the demand.

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Anonymous Fri 05 Dec 2025 14:01:00 No.11642832 Report

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>>11642825
The retro figures sucked so much it was like they deliberately sabotaged the line so people wouldn't want any more from them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 05 Dec 2025 14:14:36 No.11642838 Report

Quoted By: >>11642844

I'm surprised no one is chimping over the artic hiss being 199.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 05 Dec 2025 14:21:21 No.11642844 Report

Quoted By: >>11642888

>>11642838
At this point I think people are getting used to bullshit prices.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 05 Dec 2025 15:31:59 No.11642888 Report

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>>11642844
I mean it's cheaper than the haslab. I was wondering if anyone even noticed it dropped.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 05 Dec 2025 15:33:32 No.11642889 Report

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>>11642432
>Vehicles and playsets like that are just 1:18. So it's not that o-ring is appealing, it's just that it works with anything 1:18 scale.
Technically, O-ring stuff being (slightly) smaller than modern 1:18 figures means they're easier to fit into 1:18 vehicles than actual 1:18 figures; same reason why 1:12 figures fit better in 1:10 cars than 1:12 ones (unless you use smaller than average figures like Figma anime characters). It's one of those weird things with action figure design where unless the cockpit/vehicle seat is intentionally oversized and simplified it's quite hard to squeeze a same-scale figure in.

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Anonymous Fri 05 Dec 2025 17:07:57 No.11642967 Report

Quoted By: >>11643001 >>11643009 >>11643098 >>11643127 >>11643613

Do people care about the new Classified HISS tank?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 05 Dec 2025 17:44:44 No.11643001 Report

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>>11642967
I did up until the $200 price. I don't like it that much to pay that. Personally I think it would have been cooler in a dark red for a Crimson HISS. But I guess that they wanted it as a counter to the Snowcat.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 05 Dec 2025 17:59:12 No.11643009 Report

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>>11642967
Not winter themed. If it had been the blue one then great, but don't need arctic shit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 05 Dec 2025 19:29:11 No.11643098 Report

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>>11642967
They should have just re-released the regular one

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 05 Dec 2025 19:52:30 No.11643127 Report

Quoted By: >>11643188

>>11642967
i like the red canopy and the snake skin tampos, and the new machine guns look way better than the original ones
but i don't like the missile rack and don't really care about winter stuff enough to dedicate this kind of space to it
can't justify dropping $200 to steal some parts off it

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 05 Dec 2025 20:46:04 No.11643188 Report

Quoted By: >>11643336

>>11643127
It would have been cheaper if they had just remade the same thing but different color. But they had to alter and re-tool a bunch of shit, so now it's $200.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 05 Dec 2025 21:38:18 No.11643251 Report

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>>11641981
Transformers, He-man, Ninja Turtles, Power Rangers, Jurassic Park, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Halo, Fortnite, Gundam, Marvel, DC, Adventure sets from Chap Mei, Star Wars and stuff like that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 05 Dec 2025 22:32:03 No.11643336 Report

Quoted By: >>11643357

>>11643188
There's nothing new there, though. Maybe some of the railing around the missile launcher, and the little rolled up tent or blanket or whatever that hands off the side, and I am pretty sure that comes with the SnowCat.

The missile launcher was already on the Stinger, and the Joe version of the Trench Viper set with the Steel brigade guy. The figure is just a Snow Serpent with a HISS Driver head. There might be a new gun part on the turret, but that's about it.

I thought it was pretty obvious it was going to be $200.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 05 Dec 2025 22:32:31 No.11643337 Report

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>>11634250
I wish they gave her a better body, I would have bought two and did some head swaps with my spare Baroness heads.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 05 Dec 2025 22:42:39 No.11643357 Report

Quoted By: >>11643395

>>11643336
You might be talking to the guy who throught the Ghost Viper would be $30 because it was mostly reuse that pops up here and spams those walmart images

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 05 Dec 2025 23:19:15 No.11643395 Report

Quoted By: >>11643400

>>11643357
Or maybe no one expected Walmart to sell one figure that's mostly recycled for more than the average price of a 2-pack.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 05 Dec 2025 23:24:18 No.11643400 Report

Quoted By: >>11643443

>>11643395
Now hes saying there's only one figure because he doesnt consider the dog with more articulation than a Marvel Legend a figure

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 06 Dec 2025 00:11:32 No.11643443 Report

Quoted By: >>11643477

>>11643400
The Desert Scorpion sold at the same time was $44 and right next to it is the Ghost Viper in the same size box for $60. The Desert Scorpion is all-new. The GV is around 85% recycled kitbash. Hell even Hawk with MMS that was a whole lot more toy was like $12 more than the GV.

Ghost Viper is a cool figure, but they sold it at a "doesn't make sense" price.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 06 Dec 2025 00:31:37 No.11643477 Report

Quoted By: >>11643483

>>11643443
Ghost V was made for Wal Marts collectors con and was budgeted like a convention exclusive
D Scorpion was part of a wave and everything in a wave is budgeted together.
They're objectively not comparable if you're trying to say one cost more than the other to produce.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 06 Dec 2025 00:36:28 No.11643483 Report

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>>11643477
>part of a wave and everything in a wave is budgeted together.
Oh right that's how Transformers are budgeted.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 06 Dec 2025 03:19:05 No.11643613 Report

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>>11642967
I'm vulnerable toward getting one since I backed the snow cat. I already have the Haslab HISS but I could potentially see this thing in my vehicle fleet, if for no other reason than because I want to photograph it in the snow.

I think it's a good deal overall. $200 is a fair price, it doesn't devalue the Haslab HISS since it's a variant, it gives owners of the original a reason to double dip without being a "here's a better replacement for the thing you already have," and it comes with different accessories which makes up for it coming with less.

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