NS, what park skis for this NZ winter?

Alright so here's the deal:

Im after a park ski which I intend to use 85-90% in the park. Im 6 ft, 165 lb (183cm, 75 kg)

My current/last skis were 171cm Line Invaders (07/08). I had a blast on these skis. Flexy, super light, poppy, true symmetrical, cool graphics... Amazing jib ski and a good jump ski, held up well. The trouble was that once I started growing a bit, they started to wash out whenever I landed even slightly backseat on 3s and mainly 7s and this became really annoying, especially on bigger jumps.

Im strongly leaning towards Line Chronics at this stage since they seem to hold up well on jumps and are still quite light and almost symmetrical. I was considering Line Afterbangs until I heard they were rather slow, a tad heavy and maybe a bit too noodly on jumps. To be perfectly honest I havent had a proper look into anything other than Lines and K2s so NS, give me your thoughts.
 
I would say anthems, but if you're finding invaders too soft, then anthems probably wouldn't be much better. Afterbangs aren't too much stiffer than the anthems and aren't featherweight light either. So I'd say the chronic cryptonite would be my pick out of the line range so you can ski the freshies when they come or maybe the chronic if you are super concerned about weight.
(I ski anthems and chronics)
Look at the armada ar6. Nice and light, and still soft in the tips for butters but stiff in the tail for landing airs. If being symmetrical is super important for you I wouldn't go with these though, and they're only a 86 waist.
Either of the skis mentioned above (the anthems not much longer) are all available at www.basenz.com if that makes things easy.
 
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