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News · 2026-08-15

Ninja Force Snake Eyes and Jinx Leaked Ahead of Hasbro's Own Reveal, and the Thread Is All About Target

By gijoe.army news desk

Ninja Force Snake Eyes and Jinx Leaked Ahead of Hasbro's Own Reveal, and the Thread Is All About Target

At the SDCC 2026 Classified Series panel Hasbro gave the Ninja Force Snake Eyes and Jinx 2-pack a name-only reveal, and said renders would follow somewhere between the convention and New York Comic Con.

The renders did not get there first. On August 13 a photograph of the finished, boxed set went up on r/GIJOEClassifiedSeries, posted by Cuanzai0813 under the sub’s “New Reveals” flair. It has since taken 404 upvotes and more than 100 comments. Nobody in the thread is arguing it is fake.

We have not seen the packaging photo at full resolution ourselves, and Hasbro has published nothing, so what follows about the figures is what the outlets that ran the image describe, not what this desk has verified. Toy Habits reports a windowed box with a blue inner tray and a spread of swords, sai and what appear to be kunai. It puts Snake Eyes in the black and blue Ninja Force deco with wraps across the torso and limbs, and Jinx in a red and black top with muted purple pants and arm wraps. The back of the box is described as promotional photography of both figures in a cherry blossom courtyard, Snake Eyes with a submachine gun and katana, Jinx with a crossbow and wrapped leg guards, with inset panels showing alternate head sculpts.

The single most repeated observation in the thread is that Snake Eyes’ alternate head reads as an animal mask, and that at thumbnail size a lot of people mistook it for Black Panther. That is a comment-section reading of a low-resolution photo, not a spec.

Jinx is the interesting one, because this version never existed

Jinx got exactly one figure in the vintage run, in 1987. Ninja Force did not start until 1992. She was never a Ninja Force release, whatever role she played in the comics of that era, so there is no vintage deco for Hasbro to have followed here.

Commenters in the thread reach the same conclusion from the other direction, saying the look does not match anything they can place. Several read it as closer to Ibuki or to Ghost of Yotei than to anything in the Joe catalogue. Taken together with the absence of a vintage reference, the most defensible reading is that this is a new design rather than an adaptation, which would make it a rarer thing than another Snake Eyes variant.

The thread is not really about the figures

Read the comments and the sculpt is a side issue. What collectors actually want to talk about is what happens when a Ninja Force 2-pack goes up for sale.

The precedent is the Ninja Force Scarlett and T’Jbang set, number 212, which ran as a Target exclusive. Multiple people in the thread say Target cancelled their preorders, in at least one case a week before the set was due to ship, and that stock never returned. Ninja Force Zartan is described as having sold out immediately. One commenter, Degausser2342, opened the thread with “I can’t wait for this to be a Target Exclusive so my preorder can get cancelled again,” and it set the tone for everything under it.

Hasbro has not said this set is a Target exclusive. The expectation is inference from the last one, and it is worth keeping those apart.

Ninja Force Scarlett and T'Jbang, packaged, showing the windowed box and the Ninja Force flash

Ninja Force Scarlett and T’Jbang, the 2-pack that came before this one. Hasbro has released no photography of the Snake Eyes and Jinx set, so the images on this page are of the previous release. Product photography: Hasbro, via CMD Store.

If you missed the last one, it is still orderable

This is the practical part, and it came out of the thread rather than out of a press release. CMD Store is listing the Scarlett and T’Jbang 2-pack at $55.99 as a pre-order shipping August 2026, SKU 5010996415141. We loaded that listing this morning. Hasbro’s own copy on it counts fifteen accessory pieces: two claws, a sword, two kunai, two alternate hands and an alternate masked head for Scarlett, and two alternate hands, a claw, a hook knife, an alternate tiger masked head and the two signature hook swords for T’Jbang.

A commenter also reports getting the set from a Canadian retailer, and notes that the exclusive arrangement does not appear to apply outside the United States. We have not checked that ourselves and are not linking it on one account.

BigBadToyStore has no current Classified Ninja Force listing, checked this morning. The only Ninja Force result there is the 2018 G.I. Joe Club Zartan with Cold Slither Cycle, long sold out.

What is still unknown

No price, no number in the line, no confirmed retailer and no release window for Snake Eyes and Jinx. Hasbro said renders were coming before New York Comic Con and that is still the next thing to watch for. When official images land, the head sculpt question settles itself.

For a sense of how quickly the picture on a Classified release can move once Hasbro does speak, see our coverage of the first 6,000 Cobra Commander throne sets, where the brand team put a number on a production variant in an Instagram comment.

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