Shame on me for not mentioning this sooner… I know there are a lot of devoted 12″ fans out there, and this year’s 12″ Convention Set looks like a potential winner! Marketed as a “Last Man Standing” set, it apparently comes with two figures and an “Adventure Team heavy weapons” theme. Loving the box art.
Keep checking GIJoeCon.com for the latest details, and I’ve also mirrored an image of the box art below.
One of the top G.I. Joe events of the year has been announced for a while now, but advanced tickets are now on sale! Please check out the announcement below:
“We’ve set up pre-sale tickets online for the 2012 CanJoeCon. No one likes Ticketmaster, so we’re using BROWNPAPERTICKETS.COM to take care of everything for us, and you! They’ll ship your tickets to you for FREE if you live in North America, and by pre-purchasing your admission tickets, you’re ensuring that you’ll get into the Canadian Joe Con quickly with minimum time in line! Check them out and order your tickets online now!
Tickets will only be available online until July 10th.
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/245185“
How cool is that? Buy your tickets early and get ready for the 2012 Canadian Joe Con! Taking place at the Sheraton Toronto Airport Hotel & Conference Centre on August 10th and 11th, it’s the “go to” event for Joe fans north of the border, and a huge event for the United States based fans as well. Don’t miss it.
Keep your eyes on CanadianJoeCon.com for all of the latest details.
In the aftermath of the huge G.I. Joe: Retaliation trailer marathon last week, there is still some big Retaliation news breaking! Russ Sheath, (who also was awesome enough to contribute to GeneralsJoes last week about his experience with the G.I. Joe: Retaliation screening) had a chance to speak with Jon Chu on behalf of Aint It Cool News, and with some needling from me, asked Mr. Chu the big “Cobra Commander” question!
WARNING – THIS POST COULD CONTAIN SPOILERS. PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK
So after the bombshell that was the G.I. Joe: Retaliation trailer last week, viewers were directed to CobraSpecialForces.com where you could take tests to determine where you ranked with the Cobra Special Forces. There was also an opportunity to visit the Cobra Special Forces Facebook page.
Well, no landmark events have happened yet in regards to that, but a few images have cropped up, looking to be screen shots from the G.I. Joe: Retaliation motion picture. Check out the mirrored images below, and make sure you hit up Cobra Special Forces to find out where you rank!
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Of course they had to wait until the Renegades set sold out, but hey, better late than never, right? We now have official images of the upcoming G.I. Joe: Renegades and G.I. Joe: Retaliation 4-Packs, and man, that Renegades set is blowing me away. That almost looks like all new tooling.
Craaaazy. Take a look at the images below, and don’t forget to order! Amazingly, the G.I. Joe: Renegades set is SOLD OUT currently. This is awesome news and tells me that there is still a consumer audience out there for Renegades. Fantastic. Now that I see official images, I’m even more excited to get this set in hand.
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I’m actually surprising myself here, too, and I’m coming around to that G.I. Joe: Retaliation 4-Pack. It’s the small things like the movie accurate file cards, the webgear for Snake Eyes, and the better colored machine gun as well. Cobra Commander is looking sharp in black, too. ARGH. Links for ordering are below. Keep checking back for the Renegades set, I love that it’s already sold out!
Happy Monday!
As I sit here Monday morning preparing to do some catch up posts I see that Amazon.com now has the G.I. Joe: Retaliation Sneak Preview 4-Pack and the G.I. Joe: Renegades 4-Pack in stock and ready to ship.
I will admit, though, the $40 price tag took me by surprise. I’d think a benefit to buying a 4 pack is that maybe it would be cheaper than buying the 4 figures individually… but not so much. That being said, I am ALL OVER that Renegades pack. Click the links below to order ’em up!
I’m hoping these sell well and convince Amazon to continue doing stuff like this in the future.