That jet is like a deployment vehicle for a monster, or something. Single pilot with a closed off single cargo section like the pilot is expendable and they don't trust the cargo "soldier". That's about all I'd know to use it for.

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That Quinjet is 5 kinds of cool! I might get one when they inevitably hit clearance (trying not to spend too much $$ on "unneccessary" vehicles so no full price purchases), could make for a decent New Republic airspeeder.

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Slim, did yours come with stickers and instructions? Mine doesn't have any of the markings on the wings (no Avengers "A", or no step warnings) and no instructions for how to put it together.

I actually like it without the markings. Makes it more multi-purpose for me.

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Yeah, had a sticker sheet & instruction sheet. The "A", "no step", a computer screen(which is oversized for the inside), "AVGR 03 13T" "Hatch", "caution intake", "caution exhaust", "danger" for the missle launcher, and a few small "A" which I guess you can stick anywhere as they're not on the instruction sheet.


After I took the pic's, I decided I'll keep it as SHIELD vehicle, rather than use it for the Avengers, so I may remove the "Avengers" markings.

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Maybe like a Hulk deployment ship ala The Ultimates?


And thanks for the pics, slim! It's a good looking ship design, I can see myself picking it up down the line.

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Winsauce!!!!!!!!

Yeah, I'm definitely getting this.

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Looks like I'll be calling Hasbro customer service to get a set of those stickers. Not to use on the jet of course, just to have for the Avengers "A".

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That could be neat. An Adamantium lined cargo hold where they land and deploy Hulk to wreck havoc on a directed Skrull unit.

OR, to use it in G.I.Joe, Cobra's vehicle they use to deploy the Mega Monsters... although it's probably too small to put one of those figures in.

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Stack BATs in the cargo hold, lower the door and point the nose up.

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So definitely a one-person cargo hold then? From the pic I couldn't tell if maybe it was deep enough for more.

Really too bad if so - stretching the frame just a bit to make it go from 1-person to 4-person back there would make it go from no-buy to def-buy for me!

The play feature eats up some of the inside of the body making the figure hold only big enough for one person. And it has a seat sculpted facing the rear so unless someone wants to go laps-ies you can only get one figure back there. I see it as more of a gunner or ops seat.

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Yeah, you can definitely fit more than one figure back there (I'd estimate at least two or maybe three) but there is only one seat molded in there, so they'd be packed in there pretty good.

I started finding the figures (only wave 2) and vehicles at our TRU, last week. Ended up buying more than I expected to. The Iron Man MKVII is really nice looking, and the color is great, but the figure is considerably smaller than the IM2 figures. Which bums me out. I was looking forward to adding it to my "Hall of Armors", but it just wouldn't look right next to the other suits. It would look like a teenager's armor, or something Tony made for Pepper. May try to bash parts of a MKIV figure with the MKVII to improve the size, but with the different construction on the figures, it may be a challenge.

Speaking of small, I was extremely disapointed with the Hulk figure. I wasn't expecting it to be very good, but it still fell pretty short of what I was expecting. The sculpt looks worse in person than it did in the pictures, and he is tiny compared to his movie appearances. This figure makes the first MU Hulk look like a masterpiece. The head isn't too bad, but it's not great either.

I really like the new Cap figure. The uniform is pretty cool, and the figure is pretty well done. He is a bit on the short side, as Bindy showed in his pictures, but I found that raising his head a little, made him look better, and brought his height up to about the perfect size. I really do wish he would've had ankle and wrist articulation though.

Loki is another win. Very well done figure, but surprisingly, I felt the need to shorten Loki. He was too tall for my liking. Taller than Thor, Cap, and even a hair taller than the IM2 MKVI armor. And that's not including his horns. While shortening his shins, I took the opportunity to add some ankle articulation to him, and also cut off his hands and gave him new ones, so he now has wrist articulation too. I tried to hollow out a helmet to fit on a Secret Strike Loki head, but it won't fit. Either the helmet is too small or the head is too big. He still looks good though with the Secret Strike Loki head on the figure, while holding the helmet.

As for the vehicles, I've gotten the Quinjet and two of the IM repaints of the Cap jet. I'm VERY pleased with both vehicles. I loved the design on the Cap jet, but hated the colors they used for the Cap movie version. The new version may be in "Iron Man" colors, but it's not as bad as the Formula1 car from the IM2 line. The grey jet with red trim and a gold exhaust housing looks nice, and the Avengers symbols on the rear fins add to the coolness. It doesn't look like something specifically for Iron Man, like the Cap tank does. The IM jet will look good with anyone in it.

I just picked up the Quinjet yesterday and it's great. Of course I wouldn't mind if it were just a little bit bigger, but I also really like it as-is. A great design, and the play feature doesn't really get in the way either. In fact I found that after you change to "attack mode", I was able to get the launcer to go back down, and stay down, and could still fire the rockets from it. The wing conversion feature is really neat too. Very fun jet.

I hit two Targets and three Wal-Marts today, but found absolutely zip for the Avengers figures, so I have yet to find the Cap movie WWII re-do figure (Rocket Grenade Captain America). He is about the only other figure I want, until Widow and movie Hawkeye start to hit.

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The blue Cap. tank is all kinds of awesome for Cobra! Picked 1 up, and want more.

Forget the new movie HISS tank, this is Cobra's new battle vehicle!!!!

I'm re-thinking the potential usefulness of the QuinJet for Joe/Cobra.

It could work quite well as a stealthy fast insertion/extraction vehicle, similar to how the hypervelocity transport was used in Resolute. It would just be used for highly sensitive missions where you are just inserting one or two top agents with SkyDive- or ParaViper-like gear.

Granted that's a pretty narrow mission profile to buy a whole vehicle for.

Saw the new Avengers figures at K-Mart today.

I give Hulk a D for the horrible torso joint.

I give the 2 Iron Man ones a C, simply because they are just nice looking repaints.

The two Thors are a B-, due to the lack of a waist joint.

King (whatever he is called) Loki is a B+, due to his horns and *look*.

Captain America was a C+.

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