I’ve been talking to the guys involved with the SpecOps podcast for a while, and I’ve made several promises to be on the show, but I just haven’t been able to make it happen yet. Shame on me, and I’m especially disappointed that I missed this inaugural episode.
A lot of their conversation focused around the awesome Cobra Island Playset, a concept from the 80’s that unfortunately never came to pass. But the podcast goes way above and beyond that. Tons of great conversation about design with a whole cast full of informed and “in the know” Joe fans. The podcast is a must listen. You can check it out at the JDSO Podbean page, and also the embedded player below.
Make sure you hit up JoeDeclassified.com for the awesome Cobra Island design sketches, too. I’ve mirrored a few of them below, but the rest of there. Awesome stuff.
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The second I seen this I knew I’d have to attempt to build this Ultra Cool Playset, and that’s exactly what I’ll be doing. The guys who brought us these images are patriots to the G.I.JOE community (as are you Justin). So Yesterday I spent a few hours looking through my various playsets to see if I had a template to use as a “skeleton” and I found one that I’ll have to resize and create textures for. The long and short of it is I will build this and offer it as a FREE build your own Dio, just as I have for all of my past dio work. I’ll post W.I.P. pics as this project gets off the ground, it won’t happen overnight, but with the sketches and my imagination, this playset will get into everyone’s hands.
You can view my past dio work here:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Living-the-Adventure-Dios/194305793925133