GI Joe Con Reveals Dawg and Repulsor

The final figure in this year's convention exclusive set has been revealed. Repulsor, a new character based on the original Sludge Viper uses parts from the 30th Techno Viper, and a helmet from the Zombie Viper. Also to be included in the set is his zombiefied K9 companion, Dawg, who is newly tooled. Check out Dawg here, and Repulsor here.

Dawg is interesting, for sure, and nice that they made him as a newly tooled piece. I also really like what they've done with Repulsor. He nicely finishes off the Eco-Warrior updates, and is much nicer as a new character than if they had done a less accurate Sludge Viper.

More Images of GIJCC H.A.V.O.C. MK-II

The official G.I. Joe Collector's Club has posted final images of their exclusive H.A.V.O.C. MK-II that will be for sale later this year along with some information about it. Most notably the price which is to be set at $42, before shipping. It is also noted that the vehicle will not include a box, but be shipped instead in a bag.

 

Not a bad price, though it's disappointing that it won't have a box. Personally I'm not feeling this vehicle much, though I see where they were going with it. It does look similar enough to the H.A.V.O.C. to work, but I suppose that both the Snow Cat and H.A.V.O.C. were strong enough identities in my mind that painting one into the other just doesn't work.

Joecon Reveals Clean Sweep Head Sculpt

Today's reveal regarding this year's GI Joe convention set was an updated image of Clean Sweep featuring the figures new head. See it here or check it out below.

Frankly I'm not too impressed with the head on this one. I really wish it were more faithful to the original head, which was bald. The overall figure is still rather impressive, so I think this can be easily overlooked, especially since the head itself doesn't look bad.

Toy Fair Interview with Derryl DePriest

Bloomberg has posted an interview with Derryl DePriest from Toy Fair. The interview mainly talks about where the brand's been, but also touches on where Hasbro intends to take it, and they also talk about what image Hasbro intends to portray with a military toy line in the modern world, click here to see it.

So, he didn't really say much, but Derryl didn't make me feel too good with his responses here. I'm not one of these who's constantly fretting that the line is over... but when asked about how GI Joe is innovating, it was like he blanked out. I'm sorry, but in the end of the day a Lego knock-off isn't innovation, even if it's moderately successful. I think GI Joe still has a future to it, although this interview gave me a feeling Hasbro has no clue what they're doing anymore.

50th Anniversary Flint and "Danger at the Docks" Set Not SDCC Exclusive

A rumor based on the file name for the official images of the 50th Anniversary Danger at the Docks set had fans believing that this set would be a San Diego Comic Con exclusive, but this is not the case as we now know thanks to GeneralsJoes. After getting in touch with Hunter PR, he discovered that the set will only premier for sale at the convention, but be available at retail similar to the Masterpiece Soundwave set Hasbro did for Transformers last year. Click here to see where the General tells all.

2014 Joecon Toxo Zombie Revealed

And today we see one of the last reveals for this year's convention exclusive Joecon set, a Toxo Zombie retool of the Toxo Viper from this year's set. He features reused tooling from the 30th Zombie Viper and a new head sculpt inspired by the 1992 figure. Click here to check him out or view the image mirrored below:

A pretty good update in general, the zombie parts were worked in really well and the head they made is fantastic. It's spot-on to the original card-art featured on the Toxo Zombie's card, so that's very nice. I do hope that they might work in the original figure's colors as an attendee item, but it's nice they went with consistency for this figure.

Toy Fair News Roundup

As it's mostly safe to assume the news for GI Joe from this year's Toy Fair is mostly out, here's a collection of the bits we learned.

First, Hasbro's offering for the 50th Anniversary. The whole assortment is to be a Toys R' Us exclusive, with one variant of the VAMP and Night Landing set being rumored to be an SDCC exclusive. There will be two-packs and three-packs, and the figures shown below are all there is to be available for this year, with the exception of a Cobra Trooper and Officer two-pack that isn't pictured currently.