Hi – here is a quick update from http://www.bigbadtoystore.com about a
variety of new arrivals, some great new preorders, and our latest sale:
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FALL INVENTORY CLEARANCE SALE
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We’ve just reduced pricing by 10% to 20% on well over 1000 older items.
We now have around 4000 items priced between 20% and 90% off, with 1000 of
them priced at 50% off or more! Take a look through the sales menus and
grab some great deals before they sell out: http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/content.aspx?content=18 (more…)
Phil Kost over at JoeReloaded.com had a chance to talk with Andy Schmidt and got together a fantastic Q & A session with the IDW editor who is responsible for nearly all of the G.I. Joe books produced.
The conversation ranges from the ARAH continuation by Larry Hama, to the status of the Trade Paperbacks, and touches on many new projects that are waiting in the wings.
Check out the full Q & A session right here!
If you’ve checked out the banner up above, you already know about the Canadian Joefan who needs our help. Well, a member of JoeCanuck.com is generously offering up his Canadian JoeCon exclusive Frostback Trooper on eBay in order to help the process along!
Check out the following email I received from JoeCanuck:
Thanks to the kindness of our very own LatinJoe22, there is now a Frostback Trooper posted on ebay to help raise money for Deanna and her trip to India (Read this thread if you have no clue what this is about – http://www.joecanuck.com/joe/board/index.php?topic=4872.0).
Along with the Frostback Trooper, his two weapons, stand, filecard (with the HATE card on the back), there is also a signed Larry Hama card, and a signed Zack Hoffman (voice of Zartan) trading card. Both of these cards were only available at the Canadian Joe Con, August 7th 2010 in Toronto. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260665642290
Anyone who wants this figure, here’s your chance, and you can help out a Joefan while you’re at it!
By and large, the Pursuit of Cobra has been a lovefest. Hasbro has been on a roll, and most of the figures released for this line to date have been home runs, or at the very least a solid double or triple.
Well, nobody’s perfect, I guess.
These two figures come from each side of the spectrum…one of them has pretty much nothing of merit, while the other one is just chock full of lost potential. The end result is still a couple of disappointments. Check out the Pursuit of Cobra Review Page, or hit the links below to go direct:
While I’m working on my own reviews for the recently released Pursuit of Cobra Ice Cutter and AWE Striker, here are a couple of galleries from The Terror Drome featuring some fantastic images of these upcoming vehicles.
Something of note to check out is also the YouTube video of the Ice Cutter’s treads. The reason I point this out is because I was not aware of the way these treads worked before I got my hands on the Ice Cutter, and it actually disappointed me somewhat. I was really hoping maybe the treads would either be static or able to rotate, but instead, they just spin freely and rotate as the vehicle moves, which is kind of a bummer. Beyond that, the vehicle looks very, very cool.
Check out the images below, with links to the original galleries at The Terror Drome as well. Cobra Ice Cutter w/ Snow Serpent Officer
I know I posted the Dusty review already, but now as the rest of Pursuit of Cobra Wave 2 has arrived at my doorstep, I’ll start pumping out those reviews starting with the Arctic Threat Destro!
Wave 2 really continues on the great trend started with Wave 1, and it certainly doesn’t look to be stopping. Check out the Pursuit of Cobra Review Page as I continue to post figure reviews through the week, and get those latest two Alpha Vehicles posted as well.
Along with the aforementioned Baroness focused episode, Hasbro has also posted the 8th installment of G.I. Joe: Operation: HISS, this time featuring a showdown of Storm Shadow vs…. Kamakura?! Sweet. Love seeing those somewhat obscure Joes getting their due.
And yeah, as much as the G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra video game didn’t inspire much love among the fandom, I did enjoy the costumes they used (a neat mixture of the movie themed Reactive Armor, and some more toy-centric colors). Since these are obviously the same models they used for the video game, it’s neat to see Kamakura sporting those togs here, too.
Check out the episode right here, and I’ve mirrored some images below.
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And yes, if I go through the trouble of screen-capping even these cheesy mini-webisodes, can you just imagine the kind of treatment Renegades will get once it hits? It’ll be epic, I promise you.
Thanks to tkprime of the MS GI Joe Collectors’ Club for pointing out that GIJoe.com has updated with a new installment of Operation: HISS, so to speak. It’s a short 60 second episode that shows The Baroness infiltrating a G.I. Joe base. Nothing exciting, but hey, it’s new content.
Another interesting thing I noticed while checking this out, was that Hasbro’s online video site, MonkeybarTV has a banner on top proclaiming that the content is all moving to HubWorld.com! So apparently the Hub’s website will also be a repository for Hasbro’s other video content. Interesting news.
Check out some mirrored images below from the webisode.
For the first time that I can remember, the G.I. Joe Collectors’ Club exclusive incentive figure for 2010 has SOLD OUT. According to this post on the GIJoeClub forums, the figure has sold through and is now out of stock.
This is a first for the Club exclusives…and if nothing else, I think it proves as a bit of a warning into potential things to come. I was extremely fired up about getting an o-ring version of Big Lob, but most of the love these days focuses around the 25th Anniversary style and the characters…so when Dial Tone makes his debut next year, I think folks are going to want to sign up early.
While this might prove frustrating for some fans who might not have gotten their hands on the figure yet, I think it’s cool news for the Club, and hopefully they can find the right balance going forward between production and demand.
