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GI Joe & military general: "Dino-buddies edition."

Anonymous Sun 15 Feb 2026 17:36:54 No.11713244 View View Reply Original Report

Previous one:
https://boards.4chan.org/toy/thread/11696544#bottom

Coming between March and June:
>Big Lob
>Cobra-La Royal Guard
>Lifeline
>Night Viper
>Hit-n-Run
>Mole Rat (v.2)
>retro-card Female Crimson Guard
>retro-card Zap
>retro-card Crazy Legs

Unknown release dates:
>Zanya with Swamp Skier
>Ninja Force Zartan
>Airtight
>Hydro-Viper
>Iceberg
>Taurus and Red Dog 2-pack
>Cobra arctic 3-pack
>retro card Wild Bill
>T'Jbang
>DIRE-tech Night Creeper
>Legacy Special Forces Action Soldier
>Professor Rottclaw and dino-buddy
>Paleo Viper and dino-buddy
>Sundown
>Dawn Moreno alternative Snake eyes

Coming from Reaction+:
>250th USA anniversary Lady Jaye, Falcon, Duke and Snake Eyes
>Flash
>Daina
>Chuckles
>Hydro-Viper

>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]

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Anonymous Sun 15 Feb 2026 17:39:27 No.11713250 Report

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>>11712969
Let me guess: Wal-Mart exclusive, and even then maybe 10% of all Walmarts in only a select few cities will actually get it in stock. Also it'll be $20 more than it should be.

I posted that, and was just being sarcastically joking when I did. I didn't know that it was actually the case. Well there's another one my city will never see thanks to shit distribution, and another one pretty much designed to be scalper-exclusive.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 15 Feb 2026 17:43:10 No.11713256 Report

Quoted By: >>11713264 >>11713266

All the new fan-fic Joes look lame and like they're not part of ARAH. Sundown and the Raptor guy both look like jeets. And I don’t really need another Night Creeper repaint.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 15 Feb 2026 17:44:35 No.11713257 Report

Quoted By: >>11713266 >>11713300

>>11713244
Apparently Classified is now near the era that killed Joes, maybe we are lucky and we get Manimals figures

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 15 Feb 2026 17:52:27 No.11713264 Report

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>>11713256
Sundown looks like a Mexican vaquero

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 15 Feb 2026 17:55:31 No.11713266 Report

Quoted By: >>11713270 >>11713285

>>11713256
i just don't understand why they're making new characters when theres hundreds of existing figures to remake, all of which would sell better, even the 90's shit >>11713257 is bitching about

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 15 Feb 2026 18:02:02 No.11713270 Report

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>>11713266
But I'm not bitching about them, I legit want new Manimals figures, I'd love Mega Monsters and Star Brigade aliens too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 15 Feb 2026 18:17:03 No.11713285 Report

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>>11713266
The success of the Ghost Viper and GRIM Viper ensured that there's money to be made off of new figures made out of recycled parts.

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Anonymous Sun 15 Feb 2026 18:26:22 No.11713294 Report

Quoted By: >>11713302

Toyhabbits confirmed with Super7 that Visionaries will have holograms like the vintage toys, but be based off the Sunbow character. We're getting steps and steps closer to a Hasbro shared universe O-ring figures. Would be neat if they also brought back Inhumanoids.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 15 Feb 2026 18:31:39 No.11713300 Report

Quoted By: >>11713304

>>11713257
I just want them to remake 90s Joes. These new characters just feel like slop aimed at casuals, instead of filling holes in our collection

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Anonymous Sun 15 Feb 2026 18:33:59 No.11713302 Report

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>>11713294
>that Visionaries will have holograms like the vintage toys, but be based off the Sunbow character
Cool. It's actually possible to make a 3-D hologram off of a 2-D image. Companies did that a few times back in the 80s, and the results were alright. And it's about time that holograms made a comeback.

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Anonymous Sun 15 Feb 2026 18:36:15 No.11713304 Report

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>>11713300
This is the only 90s Joe I want in Classified form.

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Anonymous Sun 15 Feb 2026 18:48:46 No.11713313 Report

Quoted By: >>11713467 >>11713478 >>11714687

Bravo to Hasbro for calling a deinonychus correctly instead of doing like Spielberg/Chricton and calling it a velociraptor because it "sounds cooler." Jurassic Park calling a deinonychus a velociraptor has annoyed me for quite a while. Velociraptors were the size of turkeys.

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Anonymous Sun 15 Feb 2026 18:49:15 No.11713315 Report

Quoted By: >>11713347 >>11713356

The comic pack Cobra Commander has been confirmed to be priced at $30. Surprisingly not as expensive for Super7. Brian Flynn said at Toyfair that it's a collab with Todd Mcfarlane's Skybound comics. It sounded like it may be McFarlane trying to revive his G.I. Joe Page Punchers idea. I'd love to see more comic packs in the future.

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Anonymous Sun 15 Feb 2026 19:03:30 No.11713338 Report

Quoted By: >>11713384 >>11714085 >>11714092 >>11714175

>>11713250
Exclusives should be banned legislatively unless they provide proof to the government that they made and distributed more of the exclusive than of any other figure in the line to that point.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 15 Feb 2026 19:06:49 No.11713347 Report

Quoted By: >>11713510

>>11713315
$30 for that is still obscene

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 15 Feb 2026 19:13:55 No.11713356 Report

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>>11713315
Skybound is Robert Kirkman (the Walking Dead, Invincible) company fyi. He's also the Chief Operating Officer for Image comics.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 15 Feb 2026 19:39:13 No.11713384 Report

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>>11713338
I agree. GV was such a needless source of frustration for many collectors. The price was just as bad as the distribution. It was just $15 less than a fucking Stinger with figure.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 15 Feb 2026 20:47:41 No.11713467 Report

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>>11713313
With some tan paint that masked head would work well on a Desert Scorpion.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 15 Feb 2026 21:00:04 No.11713478 Report

Quoted By: >>11713489 >>11713501 >>11713685 >>11713688 >>11713745 >>11713779 >>11713884 >>11714259 >>11714318

>>11713244
>>11713313
>>11713250
this looks like retarded HeMan shit.

Has GI Joe lost its way?

I wonder what real GI Joe fans are saying about this shit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 15 Feb 2026 21:05:31 No.11713489 Report

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>>11713478
>I wonder what real GI Joe fans are saying about this shit.
The oldest ones are probably dead by now... I'm a zoomer and I like this shit, give me crazy stuff

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 15 Feb 2026 21:14:33 No.11713501 Report

Quoted By: >>11713513 >>11713823

>>11713478
>Has GI Joe lost its way?
No. They're just running out of "the best years" figures (1982 - 1986) to produce, and There's a few bad ones they did early that new versions would improve on (like Baroness, Lady Jaye, Destro, and cobra trooper) that they just don't want to revisit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 15 Feb 2026 21:16:56 No.11713504 Report

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It's time to do the weird stuff from 90s like monsters and aliens.

/toy/ room dumbie

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/toy/ room dumbie Sun 15 Feb 2026 21:18:59 No.11713506 Report

Quoted By: >>11714005 >>11714053

I like how these guys kinda go together.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 15 Feb 2026 21:21:45 No.11713510 Report

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>>11713347
Yup. I think ,$25 is too high but an extra $5 for a reprint is outrageous. Shit, it's like they don't know times are hard out here for us too..

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 15 Feb 2026 21:23:02 No.11713513 Report

Quoted By: >>11713657

>>11713501
>they just don't want to revisit
It's not that they don't want to, it's that they want to stretch it out. The sooner people get their preferred rosters done, the more likely it is that they completely check out of the line

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 15 Feb 2026 21:40:39 No.11713563 Report

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I didn’t know Overkill has the “Robert Skelton” underneath.
I think I may get it then.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 15 Feb 2026 23:03:51 No.11713657 Report

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>>11713513
If they can vac-metallize CC's face plate, then they can do it for Destro. Just saying.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 15 Feb 2026 23:17:33 No.11713685 Report

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>>11713478
Strange that a fake fan is talking about real fans

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 15 Feb 2026 23:19:39 No.11713688 Report

Quoted By: >>11713823

>>11713478
You mean the ones who bought the original gi joe dolls in the 60s?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 00:00:33 No.11713745 Report

Quoted By: >>11713754 >>11713823

>>11713478
I been playing with Joes since the 80s and I'm all for new stuff in Classified. I bought the same damn ARAH figures a half dozen times over my life by now, so a Cobra scientist who makes Dinosaurs or a Cowboy figure who *isn't* useless outside of a Helicopter are welcomed additions to my collection.

I would love to get Ghost Viper and that new Night Creeper too, but being Wal-Mart figures, I doubt that'll happen. I'd be curious to see if the Night Creeper and Viper's heads are cross-compatible because even a simple headswap would be a good way to make each character feel more unique.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 00:04:58 No.11713754 Report

Quoted By: >>11713758 >>11713766

>>11713745
I'd like DIRE Night Creeper more if he wasn't Walmart exclusive and is in the same "team colors" as Crystal Ball and Ghost Viper are.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 00:08:12 No.11713758 Report

Quoted By: >>11713766

>>11713754
I wanted a new ghost head. Now Crystal Balls head isn't special. I don't know if this is a real criticism or just autism.

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Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 00:13:41 No.11713761 Report

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Retro card soon surely

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 00:19:03 No.11713766 Report

Quoted By: >>11714318

>>11713754
Oh being a Wal-Mart Exclusive is certainly a kick in the balls. In the whole line those are always the worst. That said, the black and grey seem close enough and the clear green helps bring em all together.

>>11713758
Yea, it was kinda lazy to use CB's ghost head. Almost wish they kept the snake head out of the Ghost Viper's box and saved it for this guy. Though getting one of each would fix that issue and still give CB a team to work with. However I feel they're not done with this DIRE line just yet.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 00:30:18 No.11713779 Report

Quoted By: >>11713961

>>11713478
The original Dinosaur box set from the OG line was a super duper limited edition set with a small production run, store exclusive to a chain that had very limited footprint outside of New York, and zero promotion, making it one of the rarest pieces of GI Joe ARAH out there from the last couple of years of the line's existence.

Also, the ghost trooper shit was a literal black swan thing where NO ONE thought it would be as popular as it was and even then, a good chunk of it's popularity was centered around how insanely difficult it was to find the figure. Who knows if this second figure will do as well, especially if they increase the availability of it.

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Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 00:33:57 No.11713784 Report

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I've got more in my pile of shame, notably serpentor, clutch and vamp and the haslab hiss tank. Oh and I think a trouble bubble maybe.
I'm reorganizing my storage.

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Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 01:01:26 No.11713823 Report

Quoted By: >>11713889 >>11714259 >>11714328

>>11713688
No. Besides, their opinions never mattered and they almost never post online anyway.
And after looking for a bit of the old forums... are there any old GI Joe fans left? Or are they so uninterested no one is even bothering to comment?

>>11713501 >>11713745
I honestly don't get why they go after the early 80s stuff, since like you've said, they're remade a millio times over. There's so much shit after the 80s that almost never gets attention.
The GI Joe Vs 00s line are full of original designs that were fairly popular that have never been redone, and they sorely need it, since they''d look 3x better in a realistic style. Even the 90s stuff can look great without the dayglo colors, yet only the Alley Viper got (popular) redecos/redesigns.

I grew up with the 80s shit too. I started a bit late, since i was into HeMan, so my first actual gI Joe was Spirit. Fuck yeah, an animal companion, but the new animal companions are all ridiculously huge now. I get it, they want higher price point figures to charge you double, but why not do the shit they did in the 00s and give you a neat minivehicle? Rocket packs, air gliders, power armor, motorcylces, etc, wouldn't be that much more expensive and probably cost less to produce than some articulated animal.

10 minutes into the future mechanical shit like like that actually fits in with gI Joe, instead of the increasingly fantasy animals that they're releasing. It doesn't look like GI Joe anymore

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 02:02:17 No.11713884 Report

Quoted By: >>11713932 >>11714318

>>11713478
Gen X’er here. And I’m fine with it as long as it’s detailed and looks cool.
You kids must realize Cobra-La and dna melting pot Serpentor, are more farfetched than cloning dinosaurs, right?

Dino Hunters was already part of G.I.Joe anyway.
And it’s not like they’ve given up on the military aspects. Look at Action Soldier Special Forces

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Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 02:05:53 No.11713889 Report

Quoted By: >>11713932 >>11714253

>>11713823
Are you kidding?
Those things looked fucking stupid even back then.

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Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 02:42:38 No.11713932 Report

Quoted By: >>11713961

>>11713889
I said 00s, not 80s.
There was similar cooler shit than that in the 80s, but they didn't come with figures. Hasbro doesn't want to give you lower price point shit anymore... or rather, stores don't want to carry it. $20 toys don't cut it anymore.

>>11713884
All that shit you mentioned didn't have staying power though. Seperantor, Cobra La, dinoshit, was quickly forgotten about and treated as a joke for ages.
Hasbro tried to do that shit for Venom Vs Valor too and that spelled the end for the GI Joe Vs Cobra line from the early 00s.

TRU making subsequent Robot leftovers and more grounded figures as a store exclusives actually saved the GI Joe line since Sigma 6 failed horrible, hence Hasbro returning to 1:18 for the 25th line.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 03:18:38 No.11713961 Report

Quoted By: >>11713972 >>11714253

>>11713779
>The original Dinosaur box set from the OG line was a super duper limited edition set with a small production run, store exclusive to a chain that had very limited footprint outside of New York, and zero promotion, making it one of the rarest pieces of GI Joe ARAH out there from the last couple of years of the line's existence.

....well shit, now I feel really bad for losing almost everything from that set and breaking the Desert Fox repaint that came with it. I mean, yea I was a kid at the time, but it was still a cool set.

Also, Classified Desert Fox when?

Also also, Classified Dino Hunters Haslab with to scale articulated T-Rex when?

>>11713932
>Sigma 6 failed horrible

I thought Sigma 6 actually did well in stores and only got sidelined because of the movie coming out. IIRC, the 25th stuff was just supposed to be the two box sets and some random single packs, but was unexpectedly popular and Hasbro had to pump out more then expected of that line.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 03:33:25 No.11713972 Report

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>>11713961
Sigma 6 was a dud.
Lots of posts about shit being clearanced out... not Classified levels of being clearanced out, but back then, toylines needed to meet a higher standard of sales and Sigma 6 quickly lost support from Walmart, which was the entire reason why Hasbro increased the scale in the first place.

Weirdly enough, the 2.5 mission sets seemed to sell better than the 8" dolls. The minisets actually seemed to sell, since they'd sell out sometimes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 04:03:12 No.11713998 Report

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I like sigma 6 characters and armor designs, but not the dolls

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 04:09:48 No.11714005 Report

Quoted By: >>11714107

>>11713506
Some dope 90's shit.

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Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 05:18:40 No.11714053 Report

Quoted By: >>11714107

>>11713506
The SAW Viper is soo cool. They took a goofy ass design and made it work.

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Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 05:56:35 No.11714085 Report

Quoted By: >>11714396

>>11713338
>Exclusives
>banned
>they made/distributed more
>than any other figure

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 06:09:07 No.11714092 Report

Quoted By: >>11714253

>>11713338
the thing about exclusives is that they likely wouldn't exist if they weren't exclusive, because those types of products are made to entice a retailer to carry the product AND/OR because no other retailer wanted it.
So if it wasn't exclusive, the product would not exist and/or the line itself wouldn't exist.

Figures are rarely ever taken out of a normal wave and usually they're just redecos anyway. So most of the time, you're not missing anything except some new color or NEW HAT.

/toy/ room dumbie

/toy/ room dumbie Mon 16 Feb 2026 06:25:57 No.11714107 Report

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>>11714005
Heck Yeah!
>>11714053
Great photo!
Man I love your eye for composition!

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 08:30:04 No.11714175 Report

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>>11713338
I always find it adorable when autists sperg out about something and demand government intervention. It's so quaint.

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Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 11:58:28 No.11714253 Report

Quoted By: >>11714269 >>11714591

>>11714092
It wouldn't be a problem if it weren't for shit distribution as well as "always the lowest price" Walmart price-gouging.

>>11713961
Dinosaurs was a Jurassic Park cash-in. Yeah I get that Cobra dinosaurs pre-date JP by several years in the "Primordial Plot" episode, but it doesn't change the fact that Hasbro didn't do dinosaurs until the competitor did dinosaurs.

>>11713889
I applaud Hasbro for doing that. Back then Hasbro actually cared about affordability, and producing stuff that even poor kids could afford. So there were kids who's parents couldn't afford the big expensive stuff, but at least they still got something. Modern Hasbro doesn't give any fucks. They've abandoned the cheap "authentics" line without producing hardly anything for it while they keep upward-pressure on prices.

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Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 12:03:49 No.11714259 Report

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>>11713823
Helix and Zanya are modern-era figures. There's more for Hasbro to do if it weren't for the fact that millenials want the Joes from their era done now (late 80s/early 90s).

>>11713478
>I wonder what real GI Joe fans are saying about this shit.
I've an oldfag OG fan. I'm OK with new stuff keeping the line fresh. I just wish they wouldn't do this "IF YOU WANT US TO GET TO STUFF YOU REALLY WANT THEN YOU HAVE TO BUY THE SHIT YOU DON'T WANT TO KEEP THE LINE GOING FORWARD" crap. It helps the line last for years but it also makes people wait for years. It doesn't take this long to get a fucking Skyhawk or Firebat. It doesn't take this long to repaint Rattler Baroness in her OG blue.

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Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 12:17:20 No.11714269 Report

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>>11714253
>I applaud Hasbro for doing that. Back then Hasbro actually cared about affordability, and producing stuff that even poor kids could afford. So there were kids who's parents couldn't afford the big expensive stuff, but at least they still got something. Modern Hasbro doesn't give any fucks. They've abandoned the cheap "authentics" line without producing hardly anything for it while they keep upward-pressure on prices.

Hasbro was putting out a line of like, $8 GI Joe figures that ran concurrently with Classified the first year it was around. The only actual issue is that the line had the SE movie branding on it, when only like three of the figures were from the movie, and all the rest were figures like ninjas and night creepers and other troopers. These guys were like 5" and even though they weren't as articulate as classified, they had a lot more articulation than you'd think and multiple accessories. They weren't even really that bad of figures.

In fact, Hasbro still does this stuff for Marvel and Star Wars. There are options for like $10 figures right now for major brands. It isn't like the only options are the nearly $30 Classified/Marvel Legends/Black series, etc.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 13:45:02 No.11714318 Report

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>>11713766
>Yea, it was kinda lazy to use CB's ghost head.
CB sold out kind of quickly and the scalper prices are a bit much, so maybe they saw it as a second chance to get that head. A different head would have been cool. I would have settled for a "skull face" helmet/visor like GV got.

>>11713884
Finding intact dinosaur DNA is impossible because even under the best conditions DNA completely deteriorates after around 100,000 years, so splicing the human genome is more realistic.

>>11713478
>this looks like retarded HeMan shit.
Mattel made billions off of rmaking new figures out of recycling molds to other figures, and it can work with Hasbro too. Grim and Ghost Vipers proved that. Even Hasbro proved that way back in 1982.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 13:57:13 No.11714328 Report

Quoted By: >>11714362 >>11714645

>>11713823

The dayglow colours are kind of the whole point though? I get theres a sect that like the more militaristic idea of Gi-Joe but the brand has always been goofy sci-fi to some degree. I'm here for the day-glow plastic just as much as any more serious designs like the Grenadiers or Troopers.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 14:29:05 No.11714362 Report

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>>11714328
Crystal Ball and Ghost Viper would have been cooler in flourescent day-glow clear plastic instead of the dull green with blackwash we got.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 15:01:21 No.11714396 Report

Quoted By: >>11714412

>>11714085
Anon, what is being excluded is the other retailers since only 1 retailer carries it, not the customers.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 15:21:23 No.11714412 Report

Quoted By: >>11714424

>>11714396
>not the customers.
Tell that to the people who lived in cities that never got ghost viper while some stores in some cities had endcaps full of them while their online site did an absolute shit job keeping it in stock. I'd say they did a pretty good job at excluding customers with that one.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 15:32:28 No.11714424 Report

Quoted By: >>11714451 >>11714502

>>11714412
That is why legislative action is needed to force them to make more figures if they do store exclusives. So while other stores may be excluded, the customer is not.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 15:47:06 No.11714451 Report

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>>11714424
It was $60, which was $20 more for a comparable figure box shortly earlier. They knew it was a bullshit price but they wanted it anyway as an exclusive that no other retailer's gonna get to price-compete against them. And they got it through limited production paired with squeezing distribution to make collectors go "jingle all the way" with rushing to what stores that did get them in to pay that $60 for turboman excuse me GV without hesitation "before it's too late."

IF they had produced a lot of them, then that $60 wouldn't be such an easy sell as many would sit on it while telling themselves they'll wait for the clearance price. They knew what they were doing. It was a complete sell-out success through market manipulation of making people want it more by making it harder to find.

And they'll do it again with DIRE Night Creeper.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 16:38:25 No.11714502 Report

Quoted By: >>11714506 >>11714554

>>11714424
This is the most immature, childish thing I've seen posted on /toy/ in a hot minute. And I witnessed someone have a melty in the Marvel thread yesterday for being called a slowpoke.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 16:40:28 No.11714506 Report

Quoted By: >>11714514

>>11714502
Well, zoomers do need big brother to control every facet of their lives, they can't really think or make decisions for themselves, so they need the government to control toy prices so they don't spend all their neetbux at once.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 16:50:59 No.11714514 Report

Quoted By: >>11714527

>>11714506
It's laughable

>the government should force retailers to prioritize toy higher than any other product sold in their stores
I mean holy shit. It's like these retards don't understand the reason for such shit distribution is because toys are the LOWEST priority for a retailer like Target or Walmart. The toy section is always rife with trouble, be it collectors causing a fuss, or retards being retards. It has a high theft rate, and only sees any actual traffic two months out of the year. You wonder why the toy section at Target is rarely updated? Because toys are such a low revenue stream for these places it's actually kind of a miracle they even still carry them at all.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 17:05:11 No.11714527 Report

Quoted By: >>11714579

>>11714514
Why do stores carry toys if they're such a poor source of revenue?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 17:33:47 No.11714554 Report

Quoted By: >>11714570

>>11714502
We must control the immoralities of business, not just in toys. This exclusive idea is but one way businesses take advantage of their customers. For we are the prey, and businesses are the predator. If you wish to be preyed upon, continue defending Hasbro and retailers and keep having to bend to their whims.

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Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 17:45:34 No.11714567 Report

Quoted By: >>11714606 >>11714645

Chances of these being written by AI?

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Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 17:52:08 No.11714570 Report

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>>11714554
Just move to Venezuela or something then

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Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 17:58:06 No.11714579 Report

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>>11714527
Because it's a good way to get parents into the store. Promise the kid a toy if they stay quiet while mommy buys all her clothes and food and bath supplies and stationary all in one place. Back in the day these stores had to put *some* effort in to keep people from leaving and going to TRU. But as soon as TRU collapsed, all these big box retailers dramatically shrunk their toy sections, dropping em by more then half in many locations.

It's the same reason why a lot of places sell things like milk at a massive loss. It's something to bring people into the store so they can buy more of their better selling stuff. Mom won't go to the store with out a toy section because the KID won't go to the store unless they get to look at toys.
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Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 18:02:19 No.11714585 Report

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>>11714579
>Mom won't go to the store with out a toy section because the KID won't go to the store unless they get to look at toys.
This is how I know you're not a parent

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Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 18:04:28 No.11714591 Report

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>>11714253
>It wouldn't be a problem if it weren't for shit distribution
Blame yourself for not buying more GI Joes. The only reason your Walmart doesn't get those GI Joe exclusives is because the computer blocks them from getting stock, because of how poorly it sold in your store/area.

>Modern Hasbro doesn't give any fucks
Hasbro would LOOOVE to sell you more types of products, but it's stores that don't want to carry it, because GI Joe is such a poor seller now.
Like that other anon pointed out, they have released budget figures, but only because they thought GI Joe would sell in great quantities thanks to the movie. They (hasbro and retailers) thought the relaunch would actually big much greater than it was, since they released the 1:18 line with updated figures too. so there were THREE toyline options back then. Now there's one and that one has 1/3rd the space it got in the relaunch, because sales are that low.

You can only blame the consumer for your not being able to get any of this shit, but you can also blame Hasbro for not making products that consumers actually want to buy.
This is a chicken or the egg dilemma.

Personally, I blame Hasbro, because I'm not a fan of most of what they've released for Classified and they also fucked up the 1:18 releases with their fortnite-tier sculpts and tired re-re-re-re-re-releases (this applies to their 1:12 figures too).

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Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 18:15:35 No.11714606 Report

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>>11714567
>White guy grew up privileged
>Brown guy struggled and had extra hardships in life thanks to Headman, who's the one drug dealer in Mexico who's a White dude and also dresses like a 1920 zoot-suit pimp.
That sounds about typical with liberals.

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Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 18:33:02 No.11714628 Report

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>>11714585
And this is how I know you're underage.

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Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 18:36:49 No.11714633 Report

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>>11714591
Actually it's the retailer that's to blame. Hasbro is only going to make as many as they ordered and retailers don't care about specific characters or items outside the biggest names, just that they have enough product on a shelf.

If there isn't enough of an exclusive to go around, that's because the retailer, not Hasbro, not the end Customer, didn't want that many of said exclusive. Because again, retailers don't care about specific single toy releases.

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Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 18:37:37 No.11714634 Report

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>>11714628
>No U
Great retort

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Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 18:46:44 No.11714645 Report

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>>11714328
>The dayglow colours are kind of the whole point though?
Not really.
It was to grab kids attentions, but it looks outlandish once you actually own them and put them in with the rest of your collection. Shit like that kept me from buying figures in the 90s, despite my initial likes.

There's a lot of cool designs that are hard to see because they're so bright, and hasbro has given us a FEW much needed remasters, but there's a lot more out there that need that. So i don't think Hasbro needs to be realistic, but there's a very happy medium that made GI Joe stand out for decades.

>>11714567
ZERO, because that's way too wordy (left wing meme?) and actually pretty Larry Hama-ish with the way they mock their names. That Mexican's name is hilariously long and then the much shorter twin bother's name is almost funny.
It almost makes me sad that the designs are so shit.

>>11714606
Larry Hama started it in the 80s with Baroness being a rich white girl who joined the revolution because she was bored... but that's actually pretty edgy? Larry Hama is a real leftist though. Read about some of his actions here: https://digitalpriest.com/legacy/comics/adventures/frames/chips2.htm (starts at the 3rd part: enter the dragon)

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Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 18:48:06 No.11714647 Report

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>>11714634
I figured I'd keep my reply age appropriate, it's not really fun to pick on kids.

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Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 18:56:21 No.11714660 Report

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>>11714606
That's >>11712096 a white guy?

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Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 19:03:50 No.11714673 Report

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>>11714633
You can't blame retailers if those retailers were left holding a ton of stock that needed to get clearanced out.
This is why the computer blocks those stores from getting stock in thefirst place.

Stores like Walmart don't dsitributor any products evenly as a rule. They know exactly how much shit sold the last month/week in every store and they decide whether enough stock sold to actually be worthwhile to send them more stock.
My closest Walmart hasn't carried GI Joes since a few months after the movie bombed and you can personally hold me responsible for that, because i didn't buy shit. From 2008 til 2013, i actually bought up shelf warmers, just to show my support. If they had nothing new i wanted, i bought something anyway. So i have more than a few Dukes, Jungle Vipers, Dustys, Snake Eyes, and other figures nobody wanted to buy, just to clear out their stock. And i have no problem owning triple/quadruples when they look this good.

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Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 19:14:13 No.11714687 Report

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>>11714645
I LOVED a lot of the designs from the 90s, but *loathed* the color choices for many of em, especially when everything went full blown neon. A great example of this is Barricade, as a kid the original was my favorite Joe. A golden Robocop looking dude with a kick ass battering ram missile launcher with a built in minigun that could mount on his back. But at some point, as O-rings did in the day, a thumb broke and I *had* to get a replacement. Well woe and behold said replacement was a repaint where his cool dark blue undersuit was recolored into *bright salmon pink*.

Like who's idea was that? His card are even showed the old blue deco. It sucked cause I couldn't even just swap the arms since the arms of the new one is where most of the pink was. Very rarely did those neon colors work back then and they certainly don't work today.

>>11714660
I was gonna say, >>11713313 looks pretty dark to me. I'll probably use the trooper head on my version, but if I get myself a decent lab coat build or something, the unmasked head would probably see use there. It's nice Classified went with an actual named Cobra character though instead of just another Viper.

That said, I still want a Classified Night Adder.

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Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 19:18:17 No.11714696 Report

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>>11714673
I can't even remember the last time I bought a Classified figure at a retail store.

.....because I buy all of em online like an intelligent person. Retailers have ALWAYS had too much power in what figures get out there, and buying direct from Hasbro is always a better way to get the figures you want. There's a reason why the *only* hard figures to get these days are Retailer Exclusives, especially ones from Wal-Mart.

You can't blame Hasbro as they make good figures people want, you can't blame customers as they're buying those figures and urging Hasbro to make more. The collapse in the chain falls squarely on big box retailers as they're the ones who under order, over price and fail to deliver.

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Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 19:24:00 No.11714701 Report

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>>11714687
I used Blu Tack for my broken-thumb figures kek

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Anonymous Mon 16 Feb 2026 19:27:11 No.11714703 Report

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>>11714591
Ghost Viper was a fucking scam. The distribution was deliberately shitty to create an artificial sense of scarcity to get people to forget about the bullshit price (and it worked).

>because GI Joe is such a poor seller now.
Here we go again. Store "A" overloads on an item, and Store "B" on the other side of town doesn't get the item at all. Store "A" has more than what it can realistically sell, so it ends up with a surplus that goes on clearance. That surplus never would have happened with more even distribution. That's their shit system and not the lack of sales responsible for what you call "poor seller."

>>11714645
Flourescent colors need to be used more tactfully than they were in the past. I am fine with bright colors personally. I'm definitely getting Airtight because they kept him in the right colors instead of dulling him like they did with Sci-Fi. And I get why others want them too because after a certain point Hasbro did a lot of flourescent colors with the line, and there's a lot of people who want modern versions of that. And that's ok. There's still plenty of gridark figures to choose from, and its alright that Classified has a variety in it.

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