I thought exactly the same and was just reading through the whole thread, because before posting how much this line reminds me of old MASK toys (well, as far as we can tell from that one picture...), I wanted to make sure that not dozens of other members had written that before.
So the credits go to you, zz-80!
;-)
Otherwise I want to agree to those who are becoming sick of all the fighting lines LEGO comes up with, including the heavy use of weapons. I'm not generally against weapons in LEGO sets, I just think it gets a little too much and too strong lately. And by the way: Same goes for all the vehicles included in sets, for example the tons of vehicles in the Batman line. Personally I find that boring, but as we know by now, internal studies have shown that kids go for the sets with lots of vehicles. So that's an obvious choice for LEGO.