You and all the rest of us! I started adding up the preorder and shipping, and I'm glad it's a little spaced out.
I would have agreed that we'd see it by the end of this year before they shifted the release dates with the coming preorders. Croc Master has moved from January to April and the wave with Spirit/Storm Shadow/Cobra Officer moved from February to July. And the first wave of Target stuff still doesn't have an official date as the preorders are just saying 2022 with no month. So it makes sense that the other leaked waves would have been pushed back from their original dates as well. If I had to guess the wave that was originally going to be in April will now be September and the wave that was going to be released in June will now be December and any planned waves for the second half of the year that wasn't on the leaked list have likely been pushed back into 2023.
I get where you're coming from but we haven't even seen reveals of most of that list. We HAVE seen a regular B.A.T. Maybe it'll be as far back as a fall to early winter release, but I'm putting my chips on something we've seen coming out before something we haven't.
Well, I would love to be wrong since I know a lot of people love BATs even though I don't personally buy troop builders. The best-case scenario is that they decided to shuffle the waves around since that list leaked. Seems to happen a lot with Classified. When we originally got listings for Major Bludd and Barbecue they were both part of the mainline, but apparently when the Origins film got pushed back they were moved from the mainline to Cobra Island due to the Origins figures now coming out around the time they were originally slated to.
For what it's worth, Target shows no expected arrival date, in the app, until you check out. At one point during the process, it says expected Sept 10 - Sept 15. And that's using my Red Card. Whether or not that's even remotely accurate... *shrug*
Cool, I’m eager to see the Twins and Stalker. But I have to ask, again, where the hell is the Alley Viper?
UK and European dealers (since Target doesn't exist here we are also getting distribution in the hobby channels) so far have all indicated a June release for the Python Patrol army builders and Outback.
Classified joes(not counting Breaker) are in sale this week at Target for $2 off(so $17.99 instead of $19.99) BUT at a Target I went to, they only had Cobra Commander and Origins Snake Eyes/Storm Shadow/Baroness and….only Cobra Commander scanned for $17.99. Storm Shadow was $18.99, Baroness and Snake Eyes were $19+. Not sure if Target will price match, show them the circular if you’re trying to ask them to price match. That 12” electronic snake eyes is on sale too. I like it, it’s modern yet close enough to be acknowledge the ARAH roots without replicating them 1 for 1. Hopefully we see the Operation Blackout 1 down the line too since most of the tooling is there to reuse(and I didn’t mind the mask and gauntlet designs). I do wish Hasbro held back on Arctic Storm Shadow until this tooling was available since they could’ve reused the legs and torso from this upcoming Storm Shadow for a more accurate ARAH look, would just need long sleeved arms and new shoulder pads/web gear.
If I were in charge of the line, I’d hold that figure back until the very last wave of the line just to F with everyone because I know it would drive them absolutely nuts. I’m only partly kidding.
Personally I hope we see something similar to what happened with SW, where they maintain releases for TVC, the Retro Collection and the Black series. Personally while I like the details and articulation of the Classified series, I know I'd probably switch my focus over to a modernized 3.75 if Hasbro ever decided to give it proper focus. The 3.75 scale really gives GI Joe the option to go all out with a display, especially with playsets and vehicles.
That explains why the club made that fig 5 yrs ago, but that still doesn't explain the drastic hair color change. He went from ginger to 70yo white-headed for no reason other than not clashing with his obnoxiously orange shirt.
He's been out surviving in the wilderness for yyyyeaars, lol. Yeah, I never liked the vintage one mostly because of the hair thing, but also frankly, because the shirt is dumb. C'mon, a tiger face instead of tiger stripe motif like everybody else? Still salty the club pushed this guy out in their quest to do all the European TF but never bothered to do TF Tripwire. Still bought the Classified one though.
Well, I've pre-ordered Classified Storm Shadow, but nothing else revealed at Pulsecon interested me. Disappointing that they didn't reveal a single Dreadnok to be honest. Also, the release date for SS on Pulse says 01/07/22... now is that the first of July or the seventh of January?.. bearing in mind I'm UK based.
I hope they repaint the C.O.I.L. for Python Patrol. Dunno who they'd pair it with, but I'd be down for 2. The Vipers look great on the red one.
