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Sorry for posting non-Mego toy rumors, but I figured we all like toys here, and I thought this could be kind of cool.
Some people may know that I run one of the few M.A.S.K. websites around. After MEGO went away, I transitioned to Star Wars and Transformers like everyone else - but one line that always captured my imagination was MASK, and is still one of my favorite toys to this day (hence the website)
Anyway - a little "mystery" has appeared over the last few days in the GI Joe world. Hasbro has been releasing the 25th Anniversary line of GI Joe figures which are really cool. A few weeks ago listings for a new wave showed up in Wal Mart computers and one of the figures was just listed "MASK". No biggie.
Yesterday Hasbro officially announced a new wave of figures, one being called "Specialist Trakker". Now, the leader of MASK was "Matt Trakker".
So you have a WalMart listing for a figure called "MASK" and that figure being called by Hasbro "Specialist Trakker" is leading folks to think they could be doing something sort of cool, which is integrating a character from another property into the GI Joe line. For a MASK fan like me, who basically gets NO love in the toy world, this is HUGE NEWS.
Apparently there are a couple of characters in GI Joe history that could qualify as a “Specialist Tracker” (note spelling) but I guess those characters came much later in the GI Joe line and are sort of obscure.
I sure hope this is true, so cross your fingers for me! I'm like INSANELY excited about this, not only because I would love to have ANY new MASK toy, but also because it's kind of neat to think a big corporation like Hasbro, in a market mostly driven by 'research' and the 'bottom line' could pull off something this cool.
Anyway just wanted to share...
Some people may know that I run one of the few M.A.S.K. websites around. After MEGO went away, I transitioned to Star Wars and Transformers like everyone else - but one line that always captured my imagination was MASK, and is still one of my favorite toys to this day (hence the website)
Anyway - a little "mystery" has appeared over the last few days in the GI Joe world. Hasbro has been releasing the 25th Anniversary line of GI Joe figures which are really cool. A few weeks ago listings for a new wave showed up in Wal Mart computers and one of the figures was just listed "MASK". No biggie.
Yesterday Hasbro officially announced a new wave of figures, one being called "Specialist Trakker". Now, the leader of MASK was "Matt Trakker".
So you have a WalMart listing for a figure called "MASK" and that figure being called by Hasbro "Specialist Trakker" is leading folks to think they could be doing something sort of cool, which is integrating a character from another property into the GI Joe line. For a MASK fan like me, who basically gets NO love in the toy world, this is HUGE NEWS.
Apparently there are a couple of characters in GI Joe history that could qualify as a “Specialist Tracker” (note spelling) but I guess those characters came much later in the GI Joe line and are sort of obscure.
I sure hope this is true, so cross your fingers for me! I'm like INSANELY excited about this, not only because I would love to have ANY new MASK toy, but also because it's kind of neat to think a big corporation like Hasbro, in a market mostly driven by 'research' and the 'bottom line' could pull off something this cool.
Anyway just wanted to share...
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