David Hingtgen

Awesome! I want a G8, but simply cannot get one this year---but there won't be any Pontiacs next year! (and actually, most G8s this year have been sold, due to discounts etc). Still----the Pontiac front end looks the best of all of them IMHO. I imagine the new Caprice (god I hate that name) will use the front end that the Mid-East Lumina does, as it's a ready-made Chevy front end. Heck, maybe I'd get a "Caprice" and find some G8 that'd been rear-ended and swap noses...

??? I meant last choice out of the actors, not last choice out of the various GLs.

Well, IMHO part of the problem has always been that cars seem to use aircraft terms for "things on the trunk" that are completely opposite or unrelated of the actual aerodynamic function. Mounting things upside down can actually "restore" their correct name-function link. I'm waiting for someone to mount something on a car's doors and call them ailerons...

??? It's the 11th. All 3 local Wal-Marts have no figs or vehicles. Also, Target/TRU have not restocked since the 4th. Did find an "exclusive"??? Firefly at TRU. Had a "Heroes" something sticker on it. Doesn't use the Beachhead mold, I recognized the arms as being those from the upcoming Target lavender-green AVAC (the ones with the shoulder armor, not the bicep patch). Neon green goggles. Pretty neat, and I still don't have a Firefly at all, but I've just never been a big fan of the character. ::edit:: Here it is: http://generalsjoes.com/wp-content/gallery...exc/firefly.jpg What mold are the lower legs from? Reminds me of WWI US doughboy look. Found this Barbecue too: http://generalsjoes.com/wp-content/gallery...xc/barbecue.jpg

Hmmn. Debating buying one of those TRU F-22s for my Strato-Viper, or acquiring an original Night Raven. The F-22 is cool, and it's already black--but it doesn't really DO anything, while the Night Raven had more moving parts than just about any other Joe toy. I've bid on a few Night Ravens over the years, but never won one. What's the current price for a mint, complete Night Raven? (sticker condition doesn't matter, I'd re-do them regardless). It's hard to check since 90% of the "complete" ones on Ebay seem to be missing a half-dozen parts. People have a strange definition of "complete" sometimes...

Gah, he was my last choice of the 3.

Yup.

RAAF Super Hornet time-lapse construction video: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=be5_1247196550 They sure seem to attach and re-attach the canopy a lot.

Just assume they're twins, separated at birth (thus the different last names), who both went into the military.

Ok, the line's effectively over now (or, for at least a while), with the Cobra Island sets soon to be released. That said----what do you still want that wasn't made? So that we don't have giant long lists, please just list ONE from each category: A. Character that wasn't made at all. B. Character was made, but not the way you wanted---the wrong version, wrong color, or just done poorly. For me: A. Techno-Viper. B. Dress blues Gung-Ho.

My copy of Avast! has been going nuts with various pages lately... (though 1 was legit for sure)

I'd love a new Nitro/Moto-Viper, but I see little/no homage to the original in the new one. Silver visor? Pads? Two-tone blue? From pics I've seen, the 2 shades of blue are so close I don't even see it as intentional---I have Cobra troopers with more variation in shades of blue just between their arms and torso. The originals really had kind of a "Motorcycle driver" thing going on---these look much more like lackey troopers.

I thought only Aussie ones had problems with non-existant, and were retrofitted to non-functional. AFAIK Spanish etc ones still have none.

Land--yeah. Catapult off of--maybe. Launch-bars are a weird issue with the Hornet--there's "working, non-working, and non-existant" options.

Yeah, but the scrim itself looks really fake... Anyways---I hope Australia does a more interesting paint job than this when it's actually on their soil: (I hate to link off someone else's photobucket, but Boeing recently changed things and made it impossible to link and hard to download media pics)

E-hobby is apparently reporting that Buster Prime will have chrome. Don't know how much, but hopefully a lot.

If they REALLY wanted to hide the shape, they'd have built some "misleading shapes" with plywood and cardboard around the edges, THEN draped it. This was done for the F-117 during moves IIRC.

I saw my previous car (not mine, but similar make/model/year) very riced out last week. When you're ricing out an American 4-door sedan...

Ice-Viper so should have come with a snowboard. I've re-named him Boarder-Viper for his pants alone.

If they don't even know what the overall configuration is, then it's a LONG way from flying. It'll be another MiG 1.44......

We must set up a fund to pay that guy to go to AgentOne's house...

Yup, saw the Peterbilt on Ebay last night. Blue's a bit too dark and it's missing the tool boxes, but it's very nice. (tool boxes could be added fairly easily--I'd swap out to smooth-sided battery boxes, too)

The new figs do have Joe and Cobra-specific stands (look underneath). While it's nice Cobra finally got a 2-peg stand, it's almost useless---the pegs are quite far apart.

People should have voted what they really thought, and not try to out-think the "it's too obvious" factor. Then we'd probably have like a 95/5 split...

First Australian Super Hornet to be handed over Jul 8 in St Louis. Not sure when it'll actually be delivered to Australia (or even how)----it's quite possible it'll be disassembled and flown over in a C-17 or something.