Future GI Joe Classified Series Figure Concepts

We come across a myriad of talented individuals and Roel Robles is no exception. He’s created some of the best digital renders for GI Joe Classified Series we’ve seen and it’s great to imagine what a future wave of GI Joe Classified Series figures could look like! He’s a master of photoshop and although it appears that the Joe Team is surprising us with name only reveals that are going straight to production and skipping the digital render phase, it is nice to see some future concepts by fans who are passionate about GI Joe. There are two figures in this bunch that have been pipeline, name only, revealed so it’s great to see what a GI Joe Classified Series figure would like as the digital render or production image has not been created yet. These Gi Joe Classified Series concepts are spot on and give us fans a look-see into future figures Hasbro could be cooking up!

Footloose

Footloose is rendered in his classic jungle camouflage pattern, and he wears a PASGT helmet with additional camo over it! He stuffed the helmet with leaves for added camouflage, which is a great touch and harkens back to the vintage figure. The illustration is spot on and this is what his head sculpt would look like if the Joe Team created a Footloose.

Footloose is a G.I. Joe Team infantry trooper who debuted in 1985. Footloose came with a distinct green PASGT helmet with brown leaves molded on it, a tan backpack, a black M-16 rifle with a solid shoulder strap, and a black M73-A1 LAWS rocket launcher with a solid shoulder strap.

His bio reads, “Meyers was Valedictorian of his high school class, captain of the track team, and an Eagle Scout. He was going for his degree in Phys. Ed. on a state scholarship when he suddenly dropped out, moved to the coast and became quite weird for about three years. He was standing on the boardwalk in Venice pondering something cosmic when the utter pointlessness of his existence hit him between the eyes like a runaway freight train. “I think I’ll join the Army,” he said, and promptly did. Took basic and AIT at Fort Benning, graduated jump school and desert training unit. Qualified expert all NATO and Warsaw Pact small arms.” The quote on his file card reads: “Some of the Joes think that Footloose is out there, but all he’s trying to do is find himself. He’s the All-American Boy who got lost on the way to the fair and he’s simply trying to go home any which way he can. Most folks think they know who they are and where they’re going…They’re the dangerous ones!”

Airtight

Airtight is one of the most color Joes in the bunch! He stands out with his green and yellow coloring. Roel nailed the coloring on this figure and he even created a second head sculpt. He has a tube coming out of uniform, which is exactly how the vintage figure was sculpted and the attention to detail is what makes this render amazing!

Airtight came with black air hoses, a black sniffer, a green compressor pack, and a black hose to attach the weapon to the backpack. According to Joepedia, “Airtight, in the GI Joe lore, has always been the unrepentant practical joker. He dabbles in all sorts of pranks. Itching powder, whoopee cushions, plastic barf, everything you could ever think of and more. Such actions would have tested the patience of his teammates to their very limits. He would probably have been thrown out long ago if it weren’t for the fact that he’s the only one who volunteers to suit up without hesitation for the missions that would make one’s skin crawl. Cobra continuously comes up with ever more lethal concoctions and the fact that any one of them could be so corrosive enough to eat through that suit of his never seem to bother him at all.Airtight specializes in CBR (chemical, biological and radiological) science. An interest nurtured by his strange childhood. As a boy, his obsessions include testing his limits in offbeat ways (he could hold his breath the longest), collecting plastic dinosaurs and thinks peanut butter and tomato go together perfect as a sandwich.”

His file card reads, “Kurt was the kid who could hold his breath the longest. He was also the kid who had the largest collection of plastic dinosaurs on the block. He was a weird kid who grew up to be an even stranger adult. It takes a mighty weird person to walk into a cloud of toxic gas strong enough to fell a mutant weight-lifter cockroach wearing a protective suit built under contract for the government by the lowest bidder.” The quote on his file card reads, “Airtight is an unreformed practical joker; sneezing powder, plastic barf, whoopee cushion – the whole bit!! No prank is too low for him. You’d think that other Joes would hate his guts, but they don’t. Because when the bad guys escalate the fire fight and start playing dirty, it’s old Airtight who suits-up and wades into the thick of it.”

Quick Kick Modern

Roel has taken a more modern twist on this classics character and has illustrated him with a vest similar to Breaker and the green shirt Joes! The devil is in the details and it looks like he is rendered with a dragon design for his vest along with ammo on the left strap!

Quick Kick Vintage

Roel also did a render in his vintage attire and his classic set of weapons and nailed his vintage look!

Quick Kick

Until 2008, the only Quick Kick action figure to ever come out was part of the 1985 series of A Real American Hero toy line. He came with a small, dark silver backpack (round on bottom), a silver sword with round hilt, and silver nunchakus.

Quick Kick was released when the vintage cardbacks were moving away from the classics peach coloring to a gray backdrop for the file cards so you will see two versions out there. His bio readsSubject’s Japanese father and Korean mother owned a grocery store in Watts. Not accepted by either the Japanese or Koreans because of his mixed ancestry and too short to play basketball, Quick Kick turned to martial arts. All martial arts. He is a ranking black belt in Tae Kwan Do, Go Ju Ryu, Southern Praying Mantis Kung-Fu, Tai Chi Sword, Zen Sword, and Wing-Chun. He was working as a stunt man in Hollywood when he was recruited for the G.I. Joe team. Qualified Expert: All NATO and Warsaw Pact small arms. The quote on his file card reads, “Here’s the situation. You want to gain access to a fortified villa. Twelve foot tall continuous wall topped with razor-spiral and only one gate through it. Two inch steel plate on the gate, two sand-bagged guard houses with direct telephone link to the main house four guards with submachine guns, two Dobermans and a silent alarm hooked to a deadman’s switch that one of the guards is leaning on at all times. How to do it? Have Quick Kick hit it, that’s how!”

Alpine

Alpine has always been one of the classic Joes and the Roel nailed the render for his head sculpt! We don’t see many Joes with baseball caps and I am imagining that this hat could be removable. He is also rendered with a realistic rope across his chest, very similar to the Shipwreck was made in the Classified Series. The coloring on his is a little darker than the vintage figure but it’s a great look nonetheless!

Alpine has always been one of the classic Joes and the fun factor was all of climbing gear he came with. Alpine came with a tan mountain pack, a black GR8-88 grappling launch line, a black Barretta SMG-12 submachine gun, a black climbing axe, and two black grappling hooks connected by black string.

His bio reads’ “From the middle of the flat dusty Snake River Plain where Alpine was born he could see the mountains on the horizon in almost every direction like a physical barrier between him and the world he wanted. He took up mountain climbing during college and continued as a recreational climber during his brief tenure as an accountant for a large publishing firm. The G.I. Joe team gave Alpine the most hazardous of all conditions: With COBRA shooting at him! Graduated Ranger School, Fort Benning. Qualified Expert: M-16, M-14, M-60, M1911A1. The quote on his file card reads, “Every time Alpine scales a sheer cliff face piton by piton, overcoming granite and gravity with muscle and persistance, he is symbolically climbing out of the quagmire of his past. That’s why we send him up first on vertical assaults. He doesn’t take to being knocked down too easily.”

Torch

Torch has been pipeline revealed during SDCC 2023 We are always exciting to see new Dreadnoks coming to the Classified Series as they are one of the most unique characters in a faction. Roel was spot on with designing the figure with his classic vest and he even added some chains around the shoulders that makes the vest completely pop! His facial hair and head sculpt are updated as he also gave him a more modern pair of sunglasses. The weapons are resued from the vintage figure as we are guessing he would come packed with that black tubing that was made for the GI Joe Classified Series Barbecue.

According to Joepedia, If Buzzer is the smart aleck of the Dreadnoks, then Torch is the witless stooge of the team. Not quite smart (he’s illiterate!) and never really aspiring to be anything higher, Torch only does what he is told. To that effect, he is valuable not for his brains but for his penchant for sudden and unexpected violence. Perhaps, his only bright spot is his skill with the acetylene torch which he has modified into an actual functioning flamethrower weapon. Torch was a juvenile delinquent who joined the merchant marines and became a sure hand with a cutting torch. With that knowledge, he began running chop shops, gutting and remodeling stolen cars, sometimes getting too carried away with his work and transforming a hot car into a smoldering scrap pile. A former member of the Melbourne Maulers, he joined the Dreadnoks after the latter gang absorbed the former. A stupid, unrepentant thug, he is tolerated by the others for his skill in motorcycle repair.

Torch’s file card comes in 3 flavors, two of them being a light peach and a darker peach and the classic gray color the file cards were transitioned to. His file card reads, “Subject was remanded to Borstal* at age fourteen. Escaped and went to sea in the Merchant Marine where he learned the use of the cutting torch. Later rode with the Melbourne Maulers M.C.**Torch is an illiterate, unrepentant thug whose penchant for sudden and unexpected violence is matched only by the utter depth of his stupidity. Specialty and M.O.***: Works with Oxy-Acetylene torch as a general cutter mostly on remodeling stolen cars and occasional safe crackings. Scavenges the swamps for fun and profit.
*Reform school
**Motorcycle Club
***Modus Operandi