25th Anniversary Line

[efranks]

That VAMP looks awesome!  One of my favorite vintage vehicles.  The HISS also is nice and I like the black better than blue. 

Do we know what the price point on these is going to be yet?  Will it be in the $10 range like the Target exclusives or will be be looking at the $15 range (higher and I'll probably pass).

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[iFett]

You'd think they'd release the Cobra version of the Vamp (clueless on the name) with the doors/top/windshield thingy to go along with this release.  It would be a perfect Joe vs. Cobra battle.   

I guess the SHARC and Firebat are next.  Lame.  Hasbro obviously has the molds - so where's the larger vehicles?  The figures are selling like hotcakes and Hasbro is pulling out the big guns this year with the AT-TE and the BMF Falcon, so why are they so timid from the Joe vehicle standpoint 

Do we know what the price point on these is going to be yet?  Will it be in the $10 range like the Target exclusives or will be be looking at the $15 range (higher and I'll probably pass).

Pretty sure I heard that these are $15 a pop.

[JohnH]

You'd think they'd release the Cobra version of the Vamp (clueless on the name) with the doors/top/windshield thingy to go along with this release.  It would be a perfect Joe vs. Cobra battle.   

It was the Stinger.  If I was collecting vehicles I'd be all over it, but I'm just going for the figures and we already have a Stinger Driver.

I will say that all vehicles have looked good so far (including these) and it makes me wish I had more room for them. 

John

[iFett]

Now that's what I'm talking about!  That's one bad ass vehicle!      - compared to the Vamp that is.



Are you listening Hasbro?  Don't make me go on eBay.   

[CHEWIE]

Now we're talking!  Both of those look nothing short of fantastic.  I really like the Vamp a lot more than the Striker.  I'd like to get about 2-3 of them for display, and make a Cobra base diorama with the Joes attacking it... and speaking of vehicles, I'd love to see them reissue the ASP... and the Stinger too naturally.

I've decided to go with a new strategy on the Joe figures that I don't care for too much - I bought a few Rock-N-Roll figures today, and am going to use that figure as a base for a few simple Joe customs... I like the plain generic look he has.  Probably my favorite figure they've made actually, and he was always one of my favorites as a kid.

[efranks]

Hey, don't forget about the VAMP Mark II!  That was actually my first VAMP version but that same year, 1984, Sears had an exclusive boxed set with the original VAMP and HAL which I think I got for Christmas from my grandparents.

I don't really need to get into the vehicles either, but I did buy the AWE Striker and I'm tempted to get the new VAMP and HISS.  I might get the RAM & Trouble Bubble set also.

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[Sprry75]

Man, that's a nostalgia jolt.  The VAMP was the first vehicle I ever got that was just mine, from any toy line.  Because all my brothers collected Star Wars, all of the vehicles were shared domain.  But when it launched, I was the only one interested in GI Joe.  One Easter, I got the VAMP, and it was all mine.

I guess I'll be picking that one up....

The black HISS looks cool, but I've already got a fleet of blue ones, so I'll probably pass.

[Jesse James]

Hey, don't forget about the VAMP Mark II!  That was actually my first VAMP version but that same year, 1984, Sears had an exclusive boxed set with the original VAMP and HAL which I think I got for Christmas from my grandparents.

The first GI Joe vehicles had come out back in the day...  It was Summer time I remember, and I was taking swimming lessons at the local pool.  I'd just pass my classes really well, and I was pretty excited to be done with it because it was a weird thing I didn't want to do particulary at that age. 

My mom picked me up and my brother up, we went shopping for groceries and stopped at Gold Circle where my mom picked up a Vamp for me because I did well on the lessons, and my brother got Flash and the Launch Pad w/Jetpack. 

It's funny but I can remember every GI Joe purchase like it was yesterday.  Loved my Vamp too, easily my favorite vehicle in the Joe line.

[Daigo-Bah]

Oh man- what a wonderful reminder!  I had forgotten about the Vamp II and Stinger, lost in the mists of antiquity of my past (ok, so it was just 25 years ago  ).  Like you guys, the Vamp was my favorite too.  I greatly prefer the more standard military designs of the '82 and some of the '83 lineup.  Like Chewie said, Rock and Roll is to me more exciting than some of the stranger character designs of a few years later.

[iFett]

pretty    - not my purchase btw

[CHEWIE]

yeah... I saw that on RS... SICK!

[DoctorPadawan]

Wherever that guy lives, other Joe collectors are jumping in their cars with really big tire irons.

Seriously, who needs that many Snake Eyeseseses?   

(You're goddamned right I'm jealous) 

[Ben]

Guys like that are the reason I had to ebay a set of wave 6 a couple weeks ago.

Edit- bitch and ye shall receive. I walked into WM tonight needing saline solution, and I walked out with a full set of wave 7 plus a SW comic pack. I did what the government wanted me to do with my stimulus check- spend it frivolously.  Of course, I just bought one set and no extras of Snake Eyes or the Viper, even though they were there.

[Neal]

The guy who took that pic bought all of those extras for other local collectors.  I do the same thing with Star Wars figures for the guys around here.  I just don't post pics of it.

[JohnH]

So I was late for work this morning and didn't make my usual trip to the Wal Mart a block away from work.  Sure enough I go there on lunch and they have the entire new wave....minus Wild Bill.     Damn me and my morning laziness.

Good looking wave overall.  I couldn't give a turd about the new Duke but everything else is peachy. 

John