Perhaps I missed the conversation somewhere, but I just received this year’s San Diego ComicCon Design Sketchbook in the mail, and holy crap! There is some awesome stuff in here. There’s a fair share of Anniversary design sketches, but what’s really got me is the cool stuff that was either unused concepts or potential future stuff. I scanned a couple of pages below with what appear to be some very cool designs for Flint, Zarana, Storm Shadow, and a couple of other items that are unknown.
I especially LOVE that Storm Shadow. A spiffy new design that builds very nicely from the original look, yet looks current, too. Absolutely awesome! Check out just a small sample of the images below…there’s lots more in the book, too, from many of Hasbro’s different brands.
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Hopefully Hasbro will have this thing up for sale somewhere down the line. I haven’t seen it on HTS yet, but hopefully it’ll be out there. I love this stuff.
One of those looks like either a Wraith upgrade or possibly a movie themed BAT. Either way it would be nice to see in figure form.
I would personally love to learn more about this sketchbook, these look great.
Awesome. I LOVE design sketches and concept art. There really needs to be a G.I. Joe book that is just concept art and unused designs for RAH, Joe vs Cobra, Sigma 6, movie stuff, etc.
I would have been talking about this…but didn’t know it existed. I would definitely pick this up. Very cool stuff it looks like.
I was waiting for you to talk about it! Yeah, I got this at SDCC…$10 even. It has some very cool stuff across the entirety of the Hasbro toy family. My fave GI Joe design is the SS design pictured above and the “new” Trouble Bubble, which looks like a fully enclosed pod bristling with heat. In the back is the GI Joe “Arctic Lion”, which has a label of “From the Vault” and looks to be a retool of the old Iron Grenadier tank. For me, I’d like to see a Cobra Ice vehicle…my Snow Serpeants are lacking defenses!
Hey, Yo Joe has it up and a few of pages to view.
http://www.yojoe.com/archive/art/sketchbook09.shtml
as well as Robert Atkins Sketchbook which was also available at SDCC and has few pages available to view
http://www.yojoe.com/archive/art/atkinssketch.shtml
I have a funny story regarding my sketchbook. I was getting it sketched at the Hasbro booth by Aaron Archer, who is the Hasbro man in charge of both Joe & Transformers line, well after he finished I set it down on the counter right next to me as I talked with them. Now on this counter is lots of free giveaways, and it just disappeared right of the counter as we were standing there. And of course the crowd was so big the person just disappeared into that same crowd. Needless to say Archer replaced my book and the sketch. But it was a pretty funny moment.
the center picture reminds of the sigma 6 short fuse, although movie inspired. i love the idea of a mcguyver gadget guy.
btw aaron archer seems like a cool guy and hes a fellow canton ohio native. a very good friend of mine had him as a teacher for a commercial art class in high school at glen oak.