The SAW Viper looks great in the render, but I agree, that weapon is goofy. I'm excited for Footloose, I'd love to see an old school infantry figure wearing woodland camo BDU's and ALICE gear. Alpine looks great, but they really dropped the ball on his equipment. I loved the vintage figures backpack because it could store all of his gear. I'm not sure what they were thinking leaving that out. I fully expected the Alley Viper grappling launcher. I've seen a lot of folks griping about his head sculpt, but I think it looks good, especially with his hat and glasses on. Storm Shadow is good not great. He's too bulky looking, and I the hood is too form fitting to the head. The promo shots made him look a lot better than he did in the initial leaked images. The Iron Grenadier is too gaudy. I know GI Joe has a lot of over-the-top designs, but from just a uniform standpoint, they tried to do too much. Instead of having a classy looking formal uniform like the Crimson Guard, it comes off looking like some tacky made up uniform a 3rd world dictator would wear. And that darn double barrel AR! They need to burn that mold beyond recognition, and fire whoever created it! The saving grace was his ability to parts swap with the BATs. I really liked that look. I'm picking one up to use as an Iron Grenadiers BAT commander, with hopes we will get a retro Iron Grenadier later on. The IG BAT is a lazy repaint, but I love it. I guess I'm just a sucker for BAT's. I ordered a couple so I could use the clear chest plate on my original BAT, and use the classic BAT head with red face plate to give one of my classic BATs the Sunbow cartoon look. Retro Stalker was an unexpected bit of awesomeness! I will be replacing my Classified Stalker with him. Did he have a camo beret in the cartoon? Maybe? Although it wasn't shown, they mentioned he came with a scarf, so I 'm pretty sure they were talking about that shemagh the first Classified Stalker came with. The Cobra Trooper is a must have, but I'll be picking up a Dragonov for him. I really hope the blue isn't too bright compared to the older figures. Cobra Commander. My god I love him so much! My favorite figure from the ARAH line is the 82-83 Cobra Commander. I like the hooded version, but not as much. This figure is everything I was hoping for. Once I have him in hand, I will be able to die a happy man. Lol! I don't like or collect the Marauder figures, so I won't comment much on those. I will say I hope Spirit doesn't have a Navajo headband, because he was a Pueblo Indian. I did want the ditty bag from the Sarge, so I made my own. Good thing my mom taught me how to sew. Lol! The Stinger looks great, but I doubt I'll be able to pick it up. I just don't have enough space to collect the 1:12 vehicles. I'd love to have it, but I'm afraid the VAMP will be my only Classified vehicle. I do have the Ferret coming, and I have the RAM and Trouble Bubble. I can work smaller vehicles onto my shelves a little easier. I think they stopped making the VAMP too early, so they could switch over to making the Stinger. Most of the tooling would be the same. I imagine they'll make more VAMPS after the initial run of the Stinger. At least I hope they do since a lot of folks missed out on it. I ordered all four that have been released for pre-order. I'll order Cobra Commander, a couple Troopers, and Stalker. I hope IG Destro is the PulseCon exclusive too! They've rumored Raptor or Starduster, but those would be pretty lame compared to Destro. I could care less about the Once a Man CC. I like to pretend that never happened. Lol!

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I have been jazzed about the SAW Viper since they did the name only reveal. But when I saw that weapon I just thought, "someone's been playing too much Gears of War." If the chainsaw can be removed it may not be too bad, but right now it looks like something the Dreadnoks would use. I honestly feel the same way about Storm Shadow. I really liked that version when I was a kid, but this one they armored too much. I feel like the whole theme of much of this Fantstream was "excess". I gotta admit...the Iron Grenadiers and BATs being gaudy is kinda why I love 'em! This is what I meant when I was talking about Footloose and wanting figures that really jump out at you. And those BATs painted gold...you're not gonna miss them! The Retro line I'm pretty luke warm on. Don't get me wrong, I'll get them, but I didn't have an issue with the Classified Stalker, I kinda like the darker camo. Like I said, if they would have included a camera with him, that would have actually fired me up a little more for him! As for the Cobra Troopers...all things being equal, I would be all over those. But, since the Cobra Officers have come out, I've been building those out as my Cobra infantry. So at this point the Retro Troops are too little/too late for me. I do think they did a really good job on them though, considering their using a buck from allllllll the way back in Wave 1! Cobra Commander I'm honestly excited about just because I think the vac-metal faceplate looks REALLY cool! I'm one of the few that actually likes the Classified Commander! 😂 I'll still get him, but I don't know if he'll be my shelf Commander or not. I didn't have the chat turned on while I was watching the Fanstream, but I'm betting there were a lot of upset people about the lack of a hood. Since there were hints that something "special" was going to be revealed about the Commander's head sculpt, I think everyone thought it was going to be the hood and not the vac metal. For me, while it would have been cool, I don't think I was really expecting it. Man I really want a black hood for my Snake Supreme Commander though. The black coloring and gold accents, it just strikes me as something from issue 33 of the Marvel run. When I was a kid, I thought Tiger Force was cool. I REALLY liked Python Patrol! But by the time they got to Sky Patrol and the Marauders, even I, as a kid, realized how lazy the line was becoming! LOL So I never got into the Marauders either. I keep hoping for the Renegades. During the Fanstream when they were talking about Slaughter getting tough with Falcon I was sitting here talking to myself saying, "that was the Renegades...that was the Renegades...that wasn't the Marauders..." I didn't know that about Spirit though! I didn't have him as a kid, so I didn't read his file card. I never knew he Pueblo. Thaaaaat seems like a big miss now... I agree with you 100% on the Stinger. I looks really cool, but...money and space. I'm genuinely surprised by how many I know that skipped the HMS because of space. I've been wondering how long the one:12 vehicle craze has been going to last. I was so uninterested by the announcement of Raptor and Starduster that I completely forgot they were on their way! LOL