by generalsjoes | Oct 5, 2009 | Behind the Curtain, Dio-Stories, G.I. Joe
So the construction on my diorama sets for Darkness Falls have been continuing on, even if I haven’t said much about it recently. I had three fairly elaborate sets to build, and I think they’re pretty much squared away. I need to add some trimming to the throne room, but the foundations are all set. The three sets are as follows:
Basically a large cavernous room the focus of a pretty major shoot out. The last element I really needed were sandbags, and as I should have expected, Marauder, Inc. came through! They carry some great PTE sand bags that I used for the set, though I did clean them out of all their stock. I need to pick up a few more once they get more in.
This was pretty straight forward, thanks to Joe Amaro’s fantastic G.I. Joe Base templates. Some foamcore, some print cartridges, glue sticks, and I was able to cobble together a pretty effective COBRA tech center. Tried to make it appear as if it was an underground room, though it didn’t come out quite as good as I’d hoped. Still, I think it’ll be workable.
Anyone notice a theme here? :shifty: The throne room is fairly obvious in purpose, I’d think. I know it doesn’t look like much now, but I plan on adding some neat accessories to hopefully spice it up a bit. Once that’s done, I think I feel good enough about these to lock ’em up until I’m ready to shoot in them next year. Check out the pics below!
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by generalsjoes | Oct 5, 2009 | G.I. Joe, G.I. Joe: The Movie
We’re used to seeing Alex’s unique viewpoints on various Rise of COBRA figures, but now he’s tackling a vehicle as well with the very cool G.I. Joe Sky Sweeper. A Firebat repaint/retool, this is an awesome minijet plane with some very cool details that I hadn’t noticed before.
I especially love those landing skids with the heavy firepower mounted on each ski. A very cool touch that I hadn’t noticed previously. Anyway, I’ll let the rest of the pictures speak for themselves. The original thread can be found on JoeBattleLines.
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by generalsjoes | Oct 5, 2009 | 12" Scale, G.I. Joe, Sideshow
A huge thanks to Mysterious Stranger, who received his Sideshow Collectibles COBRA Trooper very recently, and took some time this weekend to snap some pictures and write up a GREAT review of this figure.
Sideshow is sure making it hard for us armybuilders. Their first nameless soldier out of the chute is the infamous blueshirt Cobra Trooper and man would I like to have a few more of this guy. From the scowling face to the detailed boots, this figure is literally head to toe awesome. He is lacking very slightly in the accessory department but I’ll get to that in a minute. Overall though he’s a great figure and I’ll tell you why.
I didn’t take any pictures of the packaging. If you’ve seen a Sideshow 12″ figure in the last couple of years and the G.I. Joe figures specifically you know what you’re getting. Magnetic flap opening. Tray for the gear and tray for the figure. Awesome ARAH inspired box art with filecard on the back. Collector friendly and display worthy for you MIBers. Same old same old and it works incredibly well…
Click the “Read the rest of this entry” link below to read the full review and see a bunch of great images.
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by generalsjoes | Oct 4, 2009 | G.I. Joe, G.I. Joe Toys, G.I. Joe: The Movie
Over at Hisstank.com familiar pre-production fan Rulz has come up with the entire third wave of upcoming Alpha vehicles, and has kindly posted a number of images of said vehicles. The assortment includes the Polar Sharc Sub w/ Ice Storm, the Cobra Lava Pod w/ Volcano Viper, and the Tiger Claw ATV w/ Leatherneck. Personally, for as much as I love the Rise of COBRA, I do feel like the vehicles have been somewhat lacking, especially the Alpha class stuff. While the Snarler and the Skysweeper were both pretty cool, I’m not wild about the Rockslide, the Molepod, or the Cobra Snake Trax. Now, only in the third wave, we’ve got another Molepod, and another ATV Ferret repaint, with a Rockslide repaint coming with Dusty in Wave 4. It’s getting a bit silly. Dealing with repaints and mixed tools in the figure line is one thing, but paying $18 for repaint vehicles 2 months after they were released the first time is really pushing it.
But as mixed as I am on the vehicles, the figures are actually looking pretty damn good. I love the Rollbar and Air Raid from the Snarler and Sky Sweeper. Ice Storm and Volcano Viper both really kick ass, too. I even think the upcoming Dusty looks spectacular.
But this post is about Wave 3 isn’t it? :shifty:
The Polar Sharc Sub actually looks really neat, so I think that one is a home run all around. Ice Storm is an awesome looking new figure and new character to boot. The Volcano Viper has some serious potential, but I really didn’t dig the Molepod the first time around, I especially don’t dig the Lavapod repaint. I will say the Tiger Claw looks a lot cooler than the Snake Trax, though…but Leatherneck doesn’t offer a whole lot of new stuff to love, even in the jungle camo. Maybe I’ll let the images speak for themselves.
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by generalsjoes | Oct 3, 2009 | G.I. Joe, G.I. Joe 25th Anniversary
Notpicard keeps the 25th Anniversary unreleased goodness coming, giving us some great pictures of not only the already seen Python Patrol Tele-Viper, but also rounding off the full compliment of Python Patrol figures with the Trooper as well! Like the Tiger Force Roadblock, the Python Trooper is one we hadn’t seen a sniff of before now, and hadn’t even gotten any rumors about either. It seems interesting that all of these subteam remnants are leaking out there, perhaps they were originally planned as some sort of series of exclusives. Obviously the Tiger Force Roadblock was slated as part of Wave 15 (at least that’s the hypothesis based on silhouettes), but it does seem interesting that two Python Patrol figures not seen anywhere have suddenly shown up around the same time as the Roadblock.
Curiouser and curiouser…
Anyway, check out the original thread on JoeIntel, or you can check out the images below that they’ve graciously allowed me to mirror. You know…I’ve spent my fair time sorta slamming the Anniversary concept, or at least complaining about it’s repetetive nature in comparison to the Rise of COBRA and Pursuit of COBRA, at least from my own perspective. But you know, even though I much prefer the new over the rehashed, I can’t help but get a silly smile on my face when I see those Python Patrol guys in a group shot down there. That looks pretty bad ass, and in a way, I’m sorry those never made it to retail.
Granted, I’ll take the Pursuit of COBRA awesomeness over garish neon repaints of already-flawed tooling any day of the week, but those figures would still look pretty neat on display.
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by generalsjoes | Oct 2, 2009 | G.I. Joe, G.I. Joe 25th Anniversary
notpicard, the lucky Joefan who got his hands on an unreleased Training Snake Eyes figure has come through again with another gem, this one quite possibly more desirable than the last. Through sources known only to him, he was able to get a full paint sample test shot of the unreleased Tiger Force Roadblock! This long rumored figure was originally thought to come as a single pack in Wave 15 (judging by silhouettes on the back of Wave 14 carded samples).
Until now, however, no actual samples had ever been seen. Well, thanks to notpicard and the guys at JoeIntel, we can now get our first glimpse at this figure…check out the thread here, or the images I’ve been allowed to mirror below!
One has to wonder that if he managed to get this figure, what else is out there in unreleased form? Some of the rumored Python Patrol figures perhaps? I, for one, look forward to the revelations!
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