Transformers Rise of the Beasts Box from Hasbro

Happy New Year!  If you’re not sure about the new year yet, here’s ten things that will make 2013 an awesome year.

Overall, 2012 was a year filled with surprises for tried and true toy collectors, with some stunning toy lines both new and old coming to the forefront.

The G.I. Joe sequel gets yet another awesome, ass-kicking trailer, one that makes it increasingly hard to figure out why it got such an embarrassing last-minute delay.

Hasbro’s GI Joe Retaliation line is still in limbo until early 2013, but the new Ninja Combat Cruiser has been sneaking its way to store shelves.  Let’s take a closer look at the new Joe movie jeep.

Is there any way the GI Joe sequel can actually be as good as the trailers make it look?

The first wave of vehicles in the GI Joe Retaliation line suffered from extreme cost cutting, does the new Tread Ripper continue this trend?

Hasbro has sent out some brand new GI Joe images to go along with their presentation at GI Joe Con this weekend. Some of the new figures look good enough to soften the blow of the 9-month delay us Joe fans are going through.

There’s a lot of vehicles out there for the GI Joe Retaliation series, and much like the rest of the line they range from pretty good to downright bad. While it looks like we won’t get past wave one of any size vehicle until 2013, on shelves now is the first assortment of larger scale…

News just broke that GI Joe Retaliation, originally scheduled to be released in four weeks, has been pushed back to March 29, 2013 to be converted to 3D.  This is not good news for Joe fans…

Ending our look at GI Joe Retaliation Wave One, we’ve got a pair of troop builders that complete the collection, and quite frankly, put the rest of the line to shame. The GI Joe Trooper and the Red Ninja remind us that when Hasbro wants to bring their “A” game, they still can– these figures…

Continuing our look at GI Joe Retaliation Wave One, here’s a look at Duke and Cobra Commander. The Joe leader and the villainous head of Cobra are the final two character figures in the new assortment, and both make decent– if not Earth-shattering– additions to the Retaliation ranks.

We’re only a few weeks away from the release date of Hasbro’s GI Joe Retaliation toy line, but some shipping snafus meant some figures were shipped early via toysrus.com, and I was lucky enough to score Zartan and the Cobra Trooper before they were pulled from the website. Check out a sneak peek at both…

Rumors of an Amazon exclusive GI Joe Retaliation preview set started swirling months ago, and after a lull of no information, we quickly went from confirmation of the set to an in-stock listing, and now the first batch of Retaliation preview sets are shipping out. This set features four figures from Hasbro’s upcoming Retaliation toy…

We’ve got just about two months left until GI Joe 2: Retaliation hits theaters, and I’m already increasingly impatient, thanks to the new trailer that debuted today. The new preview gives some more story details, lots of great looks at Cobra Commander and Firefly, and reveals of some pretty badass looking vehicles! Check it out…

The GI Joe Collector’s Club revealed the second figure in their 2012 Convention exclusive set– Oktober Guard mainstay Schrage! On top of that, the Club has also set live this year’s reveal grid, which indicates the 2012 Con set will include 10 unique characters… Six will be Oktober Guard, with four adversaries yet to be…