Ha Ha Ha whats the point of misinforming your customers??
LoL!

Surprise them even more when the actual theme gets revealed...
In the meantime, it creates discussion about what it might be.

O-ring is endless....




http://www.joecustoms.com/forums/vi...hp?f=14&t=16127

Could this be one of the "international heroes" said to be a part of the con set?

http://generalsjoes.com/2009/04/09/...e-on-taobaocom/

Only problem with that is that this time it really backfired, because they got people so hyped up for Red Shadows even though a couple people saw "not in the shadows" and figured it mean't "No not Red Shadows"

Also it's not like 2002 when a Viper was something awesome to see and not everything was made into Crimson something or other

Yeah, it could have been a cool set at one time, if I wasn't basically swamped with CGs in their various forms. They're losing their eliteness as it is!!!

I think you hit the nail on the head. The Crimson Vipers were special. Something to go after on ebay. But a 25A version? I can understand Hasbro grasping at straws to get back the love, but... C'mon... They should be more imaginative tho it seems hard for them. Honestly, I'd take Red Shadows over the Crimson Army. I dunno, maybe Outrider can agree. Hasbro takes one step forward and 20 steps backwards.

OR they are putting all effort into their OTHER toylines. Yet, Playmate is throwing down with the StarTrek and Terminator Salvation toys! I just picked up the HK (which comes w a t700!)!!! While it's not in-scale, fotoshop will be a must to make it look right. ;)

The Con set isn't done by Hasbro, it's done by Fun Publications. Hasbro just lends the molds for the production run, and approves of character usage.

It is entirely possible that legal mumbo-jumbo is preventing Hasbro from doing Action Force and Red Shadows stuff.

And frankly, if it were Red Shadows, the "preview blurb" would've hinted to something else entirely. Like I said, misdirection.

Jay, does that equate to all the toylines that hasbro does? That they don't actually produce the stuff, someone else does and Hasbro just stamps their name on it?

Or is it con-set specific that the Master Collector has someone else to the actual production process?

Fun Publications rents out their own factory to do their own production runs on figures. Hasbro may end up helping them secure a factory, but in the end it's all Fun Publications's show. Hasbro supplies the molds, gives approval to the characters and makes sure they have the trademarks.