After months of trying to locate some at brick and mortar, I'm giving up. Anyone able to get me Cobra Island figures?
I still have a blue-eyes Beach Head, if you're interested. Full disclosure: I did open up both it and my brown-eyes Beach Head, and swapped some parts, to try to make "the best possible brown-eyes Beach Head". So while the blue-eyes one is un-displayed etc and back in its box, it is no longer MISB. It's perfectly fine, but the brown one does have a smidge better elbow and shoulder joints etc now, after the arm swap.
My local Walmart actually had stuff! I guess now the NTWRK KMNDR will become someone’s Christmas Present, if I ever actually get it. Was pretty surprised to see some of wave 1 and Wave 2 Retro figures!
Picked up the Hiss, Baroness and Stormshadow this morning. Is Destro already out? I thought he was in wave 2.
Yeah, he’s out. He is in wave 2, but for some reason wave 2 started hitting stores almost right after they announced them.
Picked up a retro HISS today. Never had one as a kid... I was born in '81 and by the time I was old enough to really start asking for Joes, the HISS was off the market. So nice to finally have it. I put an "Ultimate" Cobra Commander in the turret... the one that came out in the "Retaliation" line; and placed Scarface in the rear.
May I ask what state you found Destro in? I found 2 cases of the Retros at Walmart but it looked like wave 1 for the most part. Do you remember the case breakdown?
Whoa..is it really molded in dark blue or is that just reflected light hitting the surface? I like that tone.
Well another rabbit hole entry as I just ordered both Classified Cobra Commander and Snake Eyes. Man, I now one of you guys. YAY!!
Missouri. They actually had Roadblock and Scarlett there too. In hindsight, I probably should have picked up all of them. I was actually surprised to find them because our local Walmart here, usually has nothing. No vehicles though. I’m sorry, I can’t speak to the case breakdown. The ones I found were all on pegs. I’m not sure if Destro is short packed, or just sold quicker than the others, but there seemed to be more Roadblocks and Scarletts than Destro. I bought the only remaining Baroness and Snake Eyes from wave 1 that was there. Storm Shadow must have already sold out because there were none of him there. Of the Classifieds, I found one Gung-Ho and one Cobra Commander there, and the Red Ninja had of course, already sold.
I always wonder who at Hasbro comes up with the case ratios. Ok we need to pack Cobra Commander 3 in the case 2 of Gung Ho and to really piss of the collectors 1 Red ninja who is the army builder.
Oh, I completely agree. They short packed one army builder and made two other ones Target exclusives. Ridiculous.
Cobra Commander is one of the most popular GI Joe characters so no wonder he would get more figures in the case.
Yup. Some have blue, some have brown. I saw one report of someone who actually saw the case, and it was packed 50/50.
I'm glad Joe has zany characters and hi tech stuff amongst its more realistic soldiers and stuff. It really helps it stand out from the crowd.