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Originally found by an eagle eyed member of JoeDios.com, a website for concept art company Massive Black has been unveiled, and along with it, a bunch of great looking concept pieces for potential use in the G.I. Joe line.

Actually if you look, a lot of these ideas were borrowed for G.I. Joe throughout the Pursuit of Cobra, G.I. Joe: Renegades, and even the Ghost Hawk II has some strong elements from the VTOL in this artwork.  Some of this stuff looks fantastic.

For obvious safety and cost reasons, Hasbro cannot make toys with this many hard edges and details, but for sure the inspiration was there for the HISS, the Black Dragon, and the Ghost Hawk II.  The stuff that wasn’t used like the APC and the Tank wasn’t used for pretty obvious reasons, in my mind, as they are very evocative of similar vehicles from Aliens and HALO.  While G.I. Joe has clearly pulled some inspiration from those properties in the past, those two examples strike me as being extremely blatant.

To me the biggest loss is the incredible concept for The Baroness, a much more combat ready soldier looking version of that character.  Amazing looking figure there.  Pretty neat to see some of the steps taken towards our retail offerings.  Check out the gallery below, and hit up the site itself, too.

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