Previously:https://boards.4chan.org/toy/thread/11828248/gi-joe-military-general-high-hopes-and-low#bottomJuly 1:>Destro with Despoiler>Sundown>Overkill>Snake Eyes (Dawn Moreno)>Airtight>Hydro-ViperJuly 15 release:>retro-card Wild Bill>Techno-Viper>GruntJuly 19:>Scarlett and T'JBang Ninja ForceJuly 22:>Taurus and Red Dog 2-packJuly 23 - July 26 SDCC:>Fatal Fluffies>Shipwreck and Cadet DemingSeptember 1:>Action ManOctober 1:>Deep Six >Legacy Avalanche Rescue>Dusty and Sandstorm>Grand Slam with HALOctober 8 NYCC:>Lara Croft 30th anniversary crossoverNovember 1:>Snake Eyes/Varmint vs Stealth Viper/Trouble Bubble>Cobra Commander with Cobra throne>Clutch with Desert VAMP>Iceberg>Toxo-Viper>rugged Duke>SynapseUnknown release dates:>Mistress Armada>NightForce Psyche-Out>HASLAB SNowcat>made-to-order Arctic HISS>Cobra Arctic 3-packSuper7 unknown release dates:>Zartan (color-change)>Deep Six>Lady Jaye (cartoon colors)>Cobra Commander Ninja Force>Snake Eyes Ninja Force>Cobra Viper Gunner>glow-in-the-dark Cobra Commander, Serpentor, and BAT>glow-in-the-dark Duke, Snake Eyes, and Cover GirlRumors:>retro-card Firefly kicked to 2027>Golobulus SDCC 2027 for 40th anniversary
>>11832431Peggy Hill?
New waifu dropped
I think BigBadWorkShop is going to give us the vietnam team. Pretty sure this is storm shadow.
>>11832457The color palette sucks and is too "Chameleon" but other than that it looks pretty good. It looks like they couldn't decide if they wanted to borrow from Tron or Metal Gear Solid or both. If it's not stupid-priced, I'll be a buyer. >>11832462looks like the VC bastard who burned Snake Eyes back in 'Nam
>>11832462t-shirt, arm bands, head band, I'd say its him.
>>11832462unfortunately the rest of the wave doesnt really fit. I don't think this is Stalker.
>>11832470and no one close to snake eyes, but here's a woman.
>>11832470looks like he got aids
>>11832472and a larry
>>11832476oh there's slides.
>>11832481okay its a whole new line by Larry Hama, and since the LLRP team was based of his vietnam budies, it makes sense these guys look the same.
They look like ass. Their fit & finish immediately reminds me of the old McFarlane Walking Dead figures that weren’t even good 10 years ago
>>11832472That figure looks great. It looks like a great starting point to make a better Lady Jaye than what Hasbro made. >>11832470This one looks great too.
>>11832476Oh shit, that's cool. Friend of mine has met the dude and he's apparently a really nice guy in addition to being the mastermind behind Joe. Might need him now.>>11832486>based of his vietnam budiesThat's neat. Hope this line does well.
>>11832486>>11832472>>11832470>>11832462It's Larry's Proto-Joe idea he had for Marvel
>>11832431When they finally recolor Wild Bill to his animation color, I hope the give him horse and this Baroness with the alt Mary Belle head. Don't care if it's a con exclusive.
>>11832680I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
>>11832462Lou Diamond Phillips?
>>11832741You're thinking of La Bamba
>>11832457thats from hasbro
>>11832747No its from skeltron
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>>11832815would buy, she cute
>>11832817That's the whole team. Wonder if we'll get any sort of bad guy for them
>>11832819Her eyes look like she's seen some shit.
>>11832827she has, it's that top secret file
i need more space but finally got the joe and cobra collection set up. Definitely missing Tomax , Xamot and Dr. Mindbender on the cobra side, Any joes you guys would recommend? I wanna get Shipwreck and Bazooka.
>>11832835>Dear god, Larry. The Chuck E. Cheese pizza scandal, it's true. It's all true.
>>11832820>Jelly asks "So what's your codename">"...Sp... Reverent. Like a ghost."
>>11832942Lmfao
>>11832843MASS Device Breaker and Big Ben are nice, IMO. Outback is really nice, but I vastly prefer the Tiger Force grizzled old man version over the regular release.Tomax and Xamot are perpetually like 50% off everywhere, so there is really no reason not to get them. Most of the other Dreadnoks are pretty nice, and most of the rest of the Viper types (Ally Vipers, Night Vipers, SAW, Range FRAG, etc). You also need some BATs.
>>11832975I do have Tigerforce Outback and Big Ben in a bin, just no room to properly show all of them off. I wish i hadn’t slept on the Dreadnoks because in the canadian money they’re expensive as fuck
>>11832843Is that Sgt. Slaughter?
>>11832996yeh
>>11832805Hasbro is probably feeling back-stabbed by Hama right now.
>>11832820Totally not Snake Eyes >>11832817Totally not Storm Shadow >>11832815Totally not Lady Jaye >>11832814Totally not Breaker turned negro>>11832812Totally not Stalker>>11832809Totally not Gung Ho>>11832805Totally not Flint
>Fury ForceOther than no one really having appropriate mag pouchs for most of theor guns triggering my /k/tism, they look good. Probably the closest we'll get to a Vietnam line in the scale.
>>11832820>"There was an... accident... unloading toilet paper and glue from a supply drop. I don't wanna talk about it, it's kinda embarrassing."Jokes aside these guys are super cool. Hope it does well, feels almost like Valaverse but without the retarded spite element. And, you know, good.
>>11833188It feels like Hama is saying "HOW DO I REVISIT CHARACTERS I CREATED FOR HASBRO AND RE-DO THEM IN A WAY THAT'LL HOPEFULLY NOT PISS OFF HASBRO AND PUT ME INTO A WAR AGAINST THEM?"
>>11833081I kinda hope this lights a fire under Hasbros ass to do Sgt. Savage and his Screaming Eagles, finally get some World War 2 stuff.
>>11833069Totally a faggot.
>>11832805I'm buying this guy just because he's like 90% of the way there towards being a Naked Snake figure.
>>11833265They should do something with the property. Wouldn't be surprised if Bobby did Savage-lite in his Action Force 1944 line.
>>11833274oh good point i didn’t know valaverse was expanding into historical stuff i thought they only did futuristic junk
>>11833066If I had to guess I bet he feels backstabbed by them. I bet he brought this project to them and they snubbed it. >>11833193Basically this >>11832666I actually don’t believe this is a vintage drawing. Supposedly this team / story pre-dates GIJOE. Maybe it partially does but I don’t fully buy it. This drawing looks modern, faked to look old and rough. Hamma is a leftist and they’re all sheisters. He wants to double dip on creation at best.
>>11833381Hasbro did create the ARAH Joes around Hama's work, though. Hama wanted his own version of Nick Fury's team in Marvel Comics, Hasbro wanted a line that could compete against Star Wars and He-Man, and both crossed paths to produce something that's still awesome today. That's long-established. Whether or not we can authenticate the art as being from then, well all we have is Larry Hama's word.
>>11833389Thanks for the info that every real Joe fan already knows since we were children. You added nothing of substance to support or refute anything I said
>>11833288Yeah, he's showed off renders of the first wave of everything. Personally the only real hilights were the WWII Rocketeer and the Flak 38, but ymmv.
>>11833517Pics of said rocketeer?
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>>11833389Hasbro didn't know anything about Hama's rejected Fury Force pitch to Marvel Comics pitch, they didn't base 1980s GI Joe on Fury Force, and they came to Marvel with the 1982 Joe toys already designed, at least in prototype form, and Hama wasn't even in the room when they met with Jim Shooter, Archie Goodwin and some other Marvel guys. By his own admission, Hama got the GI Joe comic job after everyone else who'd been asked had already turned it down, and it's at that point where where he recycled some of his Fury Force ideas into characterization for some of the original Joes.Somehow over the years the story has been mutated into the 1980s GI Joe toys being explicitly developed out of Hama's Fury Force pitch, by the same type of people who actually think Hama was the one creating and designing all the new characters that became new toys every year.
>>11832815I like this one, I like them all really.
I wish it were easier to get these BBTS figures across the pond, basically nobody stocks them here. More and more of them are looking cool, but it's hard to justify their imported price vs getting Chinese and Japanese figures for basically the same cost.
>>11833610Thats exactly what I figured
Some ID help, please.I believe this lot I succeeding in winning is Cobra customs but don't know the lore well enough.Sorry for the shitty close-up, and no this isn't AI upscaled, I just tried to right click and crop the area I had no clue what it was.I assume this guy just got a bunch of Destro heads (or printed out?) and added them to what looks like maybe the #46 Stalker body buck? Except this picture also makes them look newer, like they were custom printed? Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
>>11833839That's a bunch of Metal Mouth figures from Hasbro's Fortnite line
>>11833844Ah, okay thanks!
>>11833839>>11833844So that's why that dude was so hard to find. Seriously though, Fortnite had some great figures, especially the Hasbro ones. I just wish their guns weren't so god damn cartoony.
>>11833852>Metal Mouth figures from HasbroIt looks like those tiny guns are in the holster, so I supposed it looks I'm getting those, but I don't see those things that look like bathroom toilet plungers.But yeah, the guns I found on-line that come in the loose figures look tiny as F. I won a fodder lot months ago that included a bunch of weapons with the heads I wanted, so I might see about subbing some of those guns out, but I'll probably still try to sell off at least three of those 5. But first want to see if a Legends/Joe replacement head works on these, before I feel I need to get rid of them. Or maybe some helmets?
>>11833852Nah, that line was horrible from the start
>>11833839>>11833844They look a little bit like Cobra troopers from the first live-action GI Joe movie. Whoever has them is probably using them as such.
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>>11833600this is the first valaverse I will actually buy he should make more unique stuff like this instead of his usual knockoff Joe slop
>>11833600It actually doesnt look bad, and if the pic is legit it looks like Vala is doing more to bring the arms downs traight than Hasbro is. Now Vala can stop being a fag who hates attractive women, and give us Jennifer Connelly from the movie, too.
>>11834047I believe he mentioned Betty, so movie canon girlfriend isn't likely from him.
>>11833852I picked up a few at Ollie’s years ago for $10 each. Nice figures.
A few more BBWS figures were on display at Joefest that didn't get posted yet. I'm looking forward to their classified scale eagle force characters. I had exactly one of them as a kid, so now I want them all as an adult with no self control.
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>>11834341No idea who this is, but it'd go well with those Valaverse insect guys if you got any of them.
>>11834342Finally, an absolutely terrible head sculpt monster guy.
These figures are a bit neat until you remember that they'll cost $40-50 a piece and not release for another 2-3 years
>>11833938>>11834000He hasn't shipped them but 'is packing them up' so hopefully I'll have them from his coast next week.I have some standard Hasbro Joe's but a shitty backdrop so I will need to go out the BBQ grill on the roof of our complex or someplace else to photograph like 5 of these and 5 standard vanilla Joe's but I'll put them through poses and upload it to IMGUR so I'm not spanning the thread and y'all can decide.I still probably won't keep them but I guess that's a 'see them in-hand decision?'>>11834341He looks great. I think I want a superior officer with a smaller weapon, like a handgun, but in context, it depends.>>11834343>absolutely terrible head sculptyeppersPants could be a bit more interesting, but the torso looks good, however. I want to see him with a futuristic weapon, I think.
>>11834341Only a shoulder cord? He need's a full-blown aiguilette for that right proper African dictator swag. Maybe a set of questionably acquired jump wings, lol.>>11834343Cool ammunition belts, I guess?
>>11833902I will never understand why people choose to post lies on the internet. >>11834061Nice, he's such a perfect troop builder figure that goes well with Joes. I wish I was able to grab multiples for cheap back in the day, but now I'm glad I settled for one. >>11834341Oh snap, is that General Mamba? I may have to grab some of these guys now. I've always wanted more villain factions for my Joes to fight that aren't related to Cobra. Stuff like the Red Shadows or I.R.O.N. Army or S.K.A.R., so getting R.I.O.T. is right up my alley. ....hot damn the 80s loved their villainous acronyms.
I kinda want these Fury Force guys for Predator scenes, think that would be pretty fun.
>>11834340That's not a big beautiful woman
>>11834446Good use for them.
>>11832476Larry needs to make more Bucky O'hare comics
>>11834343It's a homage to the Mamba Men, obscure villains that appeared in the UK's 'Battle Action Force' comic back in 1984.
When did General Mamba get race swapped?
>>11834340I don't see the point of eagle force without the gold uniforms. Were they scared they wouldn't look good in a larger scale (they wouldn't, but I'd still want them that way).
>>11834479Are they helmets or are those their mutant faces?
>>11832457Are these Skeletron figures any good, quality/articulation wise I mean? I rarely hear anyone talk about them anywhere.
>>11834340Posts like these make me feel poor. I can't even keep up with Classified and Valaverse, now there are 3 or 4 more military themed lines. At least in the 1:18 era Joes, Corp and other lines were affordable.
>>11834672Masks
>>11834485>When General Mamba>race swappedWhen that cheap Mego toy release came and they were too cheap to use different plastic to properly do a brown skinned, or whatever latino/hispanic nationality was intended by this kind of line art.
>>11834903He was meant to be a sub-Saharan dictator in the vein of Idi Amin, but MEGO was chickenshit and white-washed him when it came time for the figure to release.
>>11834485Woketards have been around for a very long time. It's just another case of "the villain is always White." Larry Hama is the same way with GI Joe. That's why 80s Cobra is entirely White except for the ninja, for which Hama has a change of heart to re-establish as a Joe. Of course it unintentionally backfired. The Joes have one iconic character while evil White Cobra has many.
>>11834402I got several of these as henchmen for Firefly since their colors match so closely. Unfortunately I’ve really fallen out of love with them because their proportions really are too cartoonish to fit in with classified. They do have pretty good articulation though. At this point my favorite thing about them is their backpacks. I have them on several classified figures, they look like something straight from 89 ARAH
>>11834931So you're not going to buy his figure?
>>11832820This would be great if you wanted to make a custom Joshua Graham or a Naked Snake
