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Originally Posted by Colder Soldier

Yes.

Every single figure should come with a stand, and they need to take the damn numbers off!

Hasbro is always doing something dumb with the stands. Like when all the GIJoe stands had "Codename: ..." written on them. Obviously the person in charge of figure stands is full of bad ideas.

The numbers help for collectors and come in handy when trying to make the checklists. If it wasn't for the stands many of the figure numbers wouldn't be in the checklist now making it easier for others to find them on shelves. Though I can see why it'd be annoying for those that don't like having a break in the numbers on their figures. Going from 14 to then 17 is weird, and having repeated numbers because there's no series or year designation makes it even weirder. If there was no starting over on the numbers or they had some sort of first letter designation in the numbers like S01(Shield), H01(hammer), R01(Steve Rogers) then it wouldn't be much of an issue, but too late now. I mean it's not like they'll ever use that 3 digit place since they just restart the numbering every new series now. Kind of wish they did use the full numbers(no restart), then it'd be easier to keep a tally of how many MU have been made single carded.

As for the GI Joe Codename: That's fine to leave it. It's not like it is the characters real name. In the times it is, just leave the codename: part off.
I mean it's not like I think Snake Eyes birth name is actually snake eyes.

Though "Codename: Cobra Viper" is just stupid since it's a rank or army, not an individual's real name or codename, but "Codename: Destro" or Codename: Zartan is perfectly fine. In the second examples, it adds to the whole espionage aspects of GI Joe, in the first example, it just looks ridiculous.