Is Coleman 2AA MAX new?

[LEDrock]

I did a search for this, but found nothing specific.

Yesterday at Walmart, I checked the flashlight isle to see if there was anything new. They had the large selection of Coleman lights as usual, but the packages were all different. I've always had my eye on the Coleman 2AA Cree in the past, with 115 lumen output. I don't remember much of the other specs from the past, but the ones in the new packages (which were much prettier!) had the following:

115 lumens
Cree XR-E (is that ugraded from before?)
5 hour runtime

I also don't remember if the lights in the older style packages were called Coleman MAX or not. If not, (and I don't believe they were), I assume these new lights are in some way an improvement over the ones in the older packages. However, with the same 115 lumens of output, I'm not sure. Can someone shed some light on this?

 

[Marduke]

New? No, they have had them for around a year now.

 

[LEDrock]

New? No, they have had them for around a year now.

A year??? It was only sometime during the last week that Walmart put them out. (I'm referring to the MAX version in the blue package, not the other ones before that). To be fair, it may have been called MAX in the past, but the package style was completely different, and I was just wondering if they made a change to the light itself, and not JUST the package.

 

[Cuso]

O yeah i see some new stuff over there 123 lights also...

http://www.coleman.com/coleman/ColemanCom/subcategory.asp?CategoryID=1110


Im diggin the Exponent...nice.

 

[Wyeast]

You mean this one? Greenish-grey with a red ring around the switch?

 

[LEDrock]

You mean this one? Greenish-grey with a red ring around the switch?

It's probably the same light, but the packaging it comes in is different. I can't find a pic of the new package on the web, but it is blue. The specs on it seem to be the same, so I guess it's the same product. I had originally thought that since the package was completely different that maybe they had updated the light itself.

Plus, not only was the package for the 2AA different, but ALL of the Coleman lights.