To celebrate reaching $55,000 on their Kickstarter Campaign, the folks from Boss Fight Studio revealed some concept art for an upcoming Wave 2 item, a fantasy based Half Orc!
These kinds of peeks into the future are really awesome, and hopefully drives some folks to give support, knowing what’s on the horizon.
Check it out below, and hit up the Boss Fight Kickstarter it is getting CLOSE!
Joining Alpine and Spearhead, we now have our third look at the upcoming FSS 3.0 roster, and this time it’s Night Creeper Leader! I love that they went with the purple and yellow color scheme, and I did hypothosize that they might elect to use the removable bandana (though I wasn’t sure why it wasn’t on the accessory list posted yesterday).
Figure design is great, I love the choice of web gear… a really great update to a fun later year character. Check it out below and keep watching GIJoeClub.com for the latest info!
So last night the G.I. Joe Collectors Club launched the Figure Subscription Service, and while we didn’t see images of all the figures, they did release a short description of each figure as part of the check out process. Last night I was in the midst of recording a podcast episode, so I wasn’t able to dive too fully into it, but now that I’ve checked out the list and digested it, there are some interesting elements. A lot of this stuff has been shown before, but still.
After “the jump” I’ll run down the full list of figures with descriptions and break down what some of this means.
Thanks as always to Twitziller who manages to find the coolest concept art out there. Recently Josh Nizzi, who not only did concept work for Captain America 2, but also Rise of Cobra and Retaliation, has posted some of his work for the Marvel Studios sequel.
Fans of G.I. Joe: The Pursuit of Cobra will likely smile at some of these and identify pretty strongly with them. I’m not sure if there was some influence somewhere along the way, or it’s just a happy coincidence, but pretty cool seeing some of Falcon’s concept art looking pretty close to Skydive/Ripcord’s flight suit.
Check out those two images below, and be sure to comb through Josh Nizzi’s site for some actual G.I. Joe goodness while you’re at it.
Things are certainly started in a whirlwind for the Vitruvian H.A.C.K.S. Kickstarter campaign! Here we are, less than 36 hours into this thing, and it’s already brushing up against $50,000 worth of funding. Of course, with this flurry of activity comes some questions and comments about pledge levels, etc…
Boss Fight Studio has stayed right on top of things, and posted some updates to their Kickstarter Campaign.
Also, Andrew from BFS spoke up about some questions and concerns that had emerged in other areas of the fandom, and wanted to reassure folks:
Hi guys,
I’m Andrew from Boss Fight Studio, and I’m seeing A LOT of confusion about us and the Kickstarter setup, so I thought I’d pop on and try to answer some questions.
First, Boss Fight Studio has been around for just over a year – we were founded in last March. While all of us have worked for different combinations of freelance and in-house with Hasbro, we are a START-UP BUSINESS, and as such, do not have a great deal of operating capital. This is our FIRST original product line, and when you aim to produce a very premium product at a not particularly high volume, there are a lot of expenses associated with that – tooling, labor, shipping, packaging, etc. We’re not going to get rich off of this Kickstarter, in fact, even if this thing is fully funded to all of the stretch goals, that’s about what it will cost to run the entire production of our first series of figures. We can’t even pay our salaries out of that.
So yeah, we’re the little guys. We’re fans just like you who grew up with Joe and all the associated toy lines, who are trying to inject some of the creativity and originality that we loved as kids, and that inspired us to follow this career path back into the marketplace. It’s unlikely you will ever see our product at major retailers. This is BY COLLECTORS, FOR COLLECTORS. By helping fund this Kickstarter, you’re helping our creative dreams come true and help a new company get off the ground that wants to be there to serve YOU, the collector community.
In terms of questions about specific combinations of items in the Kickstarter, we tried to keep our offerings relatively streamlined to reduce confusion. We didn’t want to offer hundreds of different combinations of items, and we’re working to clarify what’s in every reward in both the body of the KS and in the FAQ attached to it.
Now as many folks are probably aware, I know the Boss Fight Crew and have known them for many years, and please trust me when I say they truly are fans and collectors just like the rest of us. They don’t have some huge, lucrative contract with other manufacturers that allows them to spend “fun money” on making their own toys. They want this to be their career. This is their dream, and they’ve worked long and hard to get to this point. The fact that they have already grown so close to achieving this dream makes me very proud and I’m very excited for their success, so please forgive me in advance if you see a bunch of these Kickstarter updates going forward. The design and execution of these toys is simply phenomenal and I’m confident that everyone will be pleased with the end result.
The software issue that the G.I. Joe Collectors Club has been working with has been apparently resolved and the Figure Subscription Service is now live!
Click here to order now! There is about a four-week window to get your order in.
FSS 3.0 will feature:
The world of G.I. Joe continues rolling this month with Issue #203 from IDW Publishing! It should be hitting comic stores tomorrow, check out the preview below.
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #203
Larry Hama (w) • S L Gallant (a & c)
While G.I. JOE continues to adjust to their new circumstances, COBRA COMMANDER begins making his play to unite COBRA. However, his serpentine plot has many twists and turns, and with ZARTAN, DESTRO and BARONESS in the mix, the results may be unexpected—and dangerous! All the pieces fall into place in G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #203!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
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Also coming this week is the G.I. Joe: Origins Omnibus! Collecting the first 12 issues of G.I. Joe: Origins, find out how the team got its start.
G.I. JOE: Origins Omnibus, Vol. 1
Larry Hama, Chuck Dixon, J.T. Krul, Marc Andreyko (w) • Mike Hawthorne, Tom Feister, Agustin Padilla, Rick Ketcham, Alex Cal, Andrea Mutti, Klaus Scherwinski, Ben Templesmith (a) • Andrea Di Vito (c)
A new era calls for a new type of fighting force. It’s a time of wars fought in city streets and back alleys, not on open battlefields. Read from the beginning, as the team known as G.I. JOE, is formed to deal with this new breed of warfare.
TPB • FC • $24.99 • 296 pages • 6” x 9” • ISBN: 978-1-61377-867-8
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The day many of us have been waiting for has finally arrived! Boss Fight Studio has launched their Kickstarter Campaign!
The Vitruvian HACKS action figure toyline promises to set the collector’s world on fire, but first it needs your support. Check out the embedded video below, and please do your part to support this endeavor. We’re all really familiar with the folks behind this, and if you’re like me, you have the utmost faith in what they can deliver.
There is still some hard feelings among the G.I. Joe community over the original 25th Anniversary Alpine, which came out in a very difficult to find boxed set and promptly soared to wallet-busting levels on the secondary market.
So when the G.I. Joe Collectors Club announced during JoeCon that they were doing an Alpine, the collective cheer was only muted by the questions on the fans’ lips… why the new sculpt version?
Personally, I’m a big fan of the Kwinn figure, as I think pretty much every G.I. Joe fan in history is, so using him as a template for Alpine makes a lot of sense and the figure looks fantastic. I love that they actually went with the Firefly torso, though with that knit shirt underneath. Nice touch. The new head sculpt has those unique ridges that the original one had, too, and maybe, just maybe those removable goggles can be used in such a way that the original head is at least somewhat replicated? I don’t know. I’m one of the lucky ones who got my 25th Anniversary Alpine for retail prices, so I’m pretty excited to see this one. I’m a big fan of recreating new sculpt designs in the modern format (though I’ll admit Alpine wouldn’t be on top of that list). Check out the image below and keep watching GIJoeClub.com for the latest FSS 3.0 intel.
I know the reviews have been few and far between as I focus on the Dio-Story, but I’m hoping over the next few weeks to get some more stuff out there. I’ve currently got the Hot Toys Roadblock, a few excellent Acid Rain items, and a few new wonderful items from the great guys at Codename: Iowa which should hopefully provide some reading material throughout the next month or two.
Starting it all off, though, is the latest assortment of G.I. Joe Kre-O items! I’ve posted reviews for all three of the new assortments, including the Firebat/Wolverine, the Outpost Defender/Ferret, and Wave 3 of the Mini Figure Kre-Ons. Check out my G.I. Joe Kre-O Review Section, or just click the direct links below:
