G.I. Joe Rise of Cobra - Canadian Haul!

Today I am in Canada. The interesting thing about Canada, at least these days in particular, is that the G.I. Joe Rise of Cobra figures have already been released en masse! I couldn't resist stopping at the first Toys R Us that fortuitously presented itself, and was greeted with 2 free-standing islands of the brand new G.I Joe movie toys along with an entire corner of Transformers figures. Overall really, it was the nicest, cleanest, best stocked Toys R Us that I have ever seen - and even stocked UberStix - go Canada!

Of course, seeing the Rise of Cobra figures in person was more than I could stand, and some of them (Baroness, Destro, Zartan, Shipwreck, Storm Shadow) had to come back to the hotel with me, and of course the photo is below!


How exciting to have Destro in the collection - not to mention that everything that was purchased today comes on the tri-lang cards! This is of course a dangerous opportunity to have a collection of US as well as tri-lang cards, but fortunately I was able to resist buying all of the single-carded figures or any of the vehicles due to the huge prices! I was glad that I found the Combat Heroes Cobra Commander from the movie, aka. Rob Bricken's Bain!


There was also a 12" Cobra Commander that also looked outrageous, but I didn't go for it. The Alpha class vehicles also rang in at $24.99 (Canadian!) but it seems that the US prices may be better in a few days. Speaking of which, our Hasbro contacts have just sent us an email today indicating that the new G.I. Joe figures will in fact be available in the US for mass release this very coming July 6th - this Monday! Get ready to check your local store for this new line on Monday. Here's a round-up pic of the rest of our haul along with the Canadian Toys R Us bag!


Posted by charlie on July 3rd 2009, 02:14 AM
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