Nice. I’d been stalking that cobra trooper page waiting for it to be orderable since Zartan had been coming in and out of availability for weeks.
Interesting. I have never heard of anything about the mail-in figures in this line or the TTBP. I'll have to put an asterisk next to my collection... it's complete from a retail release standpoint I never knew what any of them were named, as it's all written in japanese except their function/specialty on the cardbacks. Very cool. This is a site I would reference periodically when collecting the Takara stuff: NWKFG - GI Joe (www.ne.jp) They show the Wild Bill and Stalker variants of the Dragonfly, while they don't show the Breaker variant of the Dragonfly that I have. Not sure if any other variants exist or not.
Looking through that page I have to raise an eyebrow at some of the renamed characters and ask why? Like, why drop the S off the end of Snake-Eyes and make him Snake-Eye? Also, why does Rock N Roll get a normal dude's name (Mick)? It's very weird.
I think it might have to do with the English to Kanji translation (I could be wrong). There are some phrases/names that can't be directly transposed into another language so an indirect translation has to be done. Can the name "Snake Eyes" refer to more that one in Kanji? Maybe that's why its singular?
Has anyone found the redeco Roadblock in a store (Walgreens, etc.) or ordered Roadblock online and received the redeco? I preordered it from BBTS, but wondered if people were buying the old Roadblock on Amazon and maybe getting the new one.
I ordered both Roadblock and Scarlett from amazon two weeks ago and got the original decos. A week before that, I ordered Duke and got the new version. All were straight from amazon, not third party sellers.
Sounds like it's a crapshoot, at least for now. I'll wait for BBTS, since I would be too frustrated if I ended up with the original Roadblock. Thank you!
Wow, these are still up. Ordered Zartan and 2 troopers ( I have the same order from BBTS, so will most likely wind up canceling the BBTS after Amazon ships)
I really hope Hasbro will release more of the classified viper. Target pretty much erased any trace of it existence from the app and websight.
The redeco Duke and Scarlett hit my POL from BBTS a few days ago. I have Roadblock preordered at BBTS, but no sign of him yet. I have hit quite a few Walgreens in the last few weeks and managed to find one trooper but that's it. I would like to run across RB on the pegs just to confirm that I need him. That's what I was kind of hoping to do with Duke and Scarlett, to see them first just to make sure they're worth it, but the safety order from BBTS dropped first of course. Anywho, long answer is no, I haven't seen the redeco RB on the pegs yet.
This is why I thought the rumor from a few months ago that “all the Cobra Island and regular Classified stuff will be coming back and will be easier to find” was a lot of false hope/conjecture. While I still hope it’ll happen, I’ll believe it when I see it.
Probably, I was more or less just trying to justify another purchase. When the other 2 redecos hit my POL, I wasn't exactly devastated, I was actually somewhat relieved not to have to hunt them down anymore. Trust me, I've got issues my friend.
What was meant was not that Hasbro would be producing and shipping back to Target more CI sets, just that Hasbro would release those same characters in the mainline so collectors shouldn’t panic about not getting the character.
I'm with you. Still think it's total BS the Cobra Infantry has less stuff in box. It would be a crime if the CI Trooper wasn't re-released. Infantry and Trooper isn't the same value, hands down. Fuck Hasbro for even thinking this. Full fucking Trooper otherwise I'm done with Classified.