I feel like a Classified Flagg would have to be delivered by freight.  And as a not-so-proud nerd, I draw the line WELL SHORT of taking a toy delivery from a semi truck...

@fuzzybluedemon And here I am with a life goal of having to use light batons to spot an 18 wheeler backing up to my house.

@docsilence you should at least try, yeah.

As an absolute fogey who was already 11 years old by the time G.I. Joe's 3 3/4" line launched, I can tell you that all of my Joe lore came from my and my brother's play styles than from any tie-in media.  Even the file cards didn't impact us much beyond teaching us the phrase "proficient in all NATO and Warsaw Pact weapons." 

Just as importantly, I was the little brother and didn't qualify for cool characters like Snake Eyes or Stalker.  So a lot of my favorite characters to this day are the B-teamers I got like Breaker and Scarlett (who, despite being The Girl, had ninja stars on her glove from day one and thus is way more ninja than Snake Eyes could ever be).  We also only had one Cobra between us (which feels really weird to my troop building mind of today), so they were more an exploration team than a combat team.  Those guys climbed a shit-ton of beds and dressers, let me tell you.

So my wife told me we will move once more in our lives to live whereever our son settles to raise his family.   I told her thats fine but my condition is a basement I get to finish as my hobby space.   Someday I'll have enough room to display it all.  

@docsilence So would I. I have absolutely no space for a Classifieds level USS Flagg or Skystriker to display.  However I would still buy them even if I have store them somewhere and come up with a plan later for display. Those two vehicles are basically grails for me in the classifieds scale. I don’t think I could pass them up if offered.

I would have absolutely zero interest in a Flagg.  If I had space for an 11ft-long table to display joes, it would be either a forest vehicle ambush diorama or some sort of base/building raid, both of which I made using modern 1/18th Joes, back when I said, "Please no Classified Joes, I love my existing scale collection!".  Back before 00 Snake Eyes where I changed my tune, big time.  I always had an appreciation for model train sets, it would be more like that, crammed with details and little easter eggs.  Flagg is just kinda boring by comparison!

BTW, these Alley Viper grapple guns are 10x more fun with some string or stretchy cord:

There's so many fun ways to kit out this guy.  His armor screams "redneck samurai" so he looks good with katanas, too.  He looks like a low-tier villain from an 80s movie that you secretly want to win out over the protagonist.  He's got main character vibes.

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  He's got main character vibes.

I think that goes opposite of his "superpower". Just as Zartan was a master of disguise and camouflage, and used that to get what he wanted. Zander always seemed to be forgotten, unseen and ignored even when he was right there. He was always dismissed and other than being emo and cranky about it he never did anything about it or used it to his advantage.

But he is a cool figure that is kinda of a blank slate that you can do whatever with. His harpoon(?) gun is kinda lame, but I'm not sure what long arm would really suit him.

Psych nerd that I am, I slot the “Z” siblings into personality disorders: Zartan is narcissistic, Zarana’s dealing with Borderline Personality Disorder . . . and especially based on the Classified figure, Zandar has Antisocial Personality Disorder: in other words, he’s a psychopath. Zartan is a grandiose performer, while Zandar is like Dexter Morgan: quiet, inconspicuous (relatively speaking, for a guy with orange hair and no shirt), coldly calculating. You won’t see him coming, and he won’t leave you alive to tell the tale. The other siblings have higher profiles and more “charisma”, but Zandar is the *scary* one. 

Does he have a singular obsession? Like how dudes who always wanna shoot politicians have 50 copies of "A catcher in the rye"? Does Zander collect pre-1997 blue fountain pens? The largest un-opened collection of canned crystal pepsi? All of Peter Torks solo albums, signed?

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Does he have a singular obsession? Like how dudes who always wanna shoot politicians have 50 copies of "A catcher in the rye"? Does Zander collect pre-1997 blue fountain pens? The largest un-opened collection of canned crystal pepsi? All of Peter Torks solo albums, signed?

@spongyblue I imagine his harpoon gun as an anti-vehicle measure, like shooting into the engine of a car chasing the knoks.  Wish it came with a removable harpoon, as-is the posing options are pretty limited

From a ToyHabits source, Hasbro is exploring the following as potential HasLabs with focus groups:

Snow Cat-Presumably with Frostbite, not explicitly stated. Winter Baroness mentioned as possible inclusion.

H.A.V.O.C.-Cross Country shown, apparently the most expensive option of the 4.

Mauler-Heavy Metal and Steeler listed as included.

Hammer-No figures mentioned, dependent on the license to the Hummer being available? 

Their source has revealed accurate information in the past, so I felt it was worth sharing. 

https://toyhabits.com/future-gi-joe-classified-series-haslab-ground-vehicle-possibilities-leaked/

Of those,  I think the Snow Cat is the only one I'd have to pledge for.   The Hammer would be boring... I already have a Jeep, so a converted Humvee feels duplicative and unnecessary.     I'm not much of a tank guy,  and they aren't great for interacting with figures so I'd skip it.    The HAVOC would be cool,  but if it is too big I'm not sure I'd want to accommodate it... especially not if the price tag was super high.     But I don't think I could skip the Snow Cat.

Snow Cat was my first main Joe vehicle, but I think I'd pass as a HasLab. Wouldn't pass if it was regular retail, up to $150. Pass on all the rest.