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GIJoe.com totally revamped for the Rise of COBRA

by | Jul 1, 2009 | G.I. Joe, G.I. Joe: The Movie

Along with the Join the Team promotion, Hasbro has also totally revamped the GIJoe.com website with new wallpapers, some awesome new animated intro’s and a bunch of great cosmetic changes.  You can view upcoming Rise of COBRA toys, buy The Pit or the Night Raven, or just have fun cycling through the different options at the opening screen.  It’s very cool.

Below I’ve mirrored images from the G.I. Joe Intel section as well as the wallpapers, just to show how freaking cool the artwork is.  Anyone who has been talking bad about the quality of the art in recent releases needs to take a long, hard look at this stuff.  Gorgeous.

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GIJoe.Com hosts contest for personalized custom figure

by | Jul 1, 2009 | G.I. Joe, Web Stuff

In celebration of the upcoming G.I. Joe: The Rise of COBRA motion picture, GIJoe.com has launched a contest to “Join the Team”!  This contest is for children aged 6 – 12 (or in Germany aged 7 – 12) and gives the child the opportunity to join the G.I. Joe or COBRA team and create a unique character for themselves.  Entries will be judged, and the winners will receive custom figures of themselves as a 3 3/4″ G.I. Joe figure!  Click here to go directly to the contest page.

While us adult collectors are out of luck, pass the word onto your kids, your relatives, or anyone else and join the fun!

Official rules can be read below the jump.

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Mini review and spoilers from G.I. Joe: Above and Beyond

by | Jun 30, 2009 | G.I. Joe, G.I. Joe: The Movie

I’ve seen various places online talking about this G.I. Joe: The Rise of COBRA prequel novel written by Max Allen Collins, who also is writing the Rise of COBRA novelization.  This creates a nice seamless writing style (for better or worse).

Above and Beyond is about 260 pages long and features Duke and Ripcord as the leaders of “Able Team” a special forces team that gets caught in the middle of a MARS Weapons deal with a South American country.  There is military action galore, Ripcord is fairly obnoxious with his one-liners, but for the most part it was an enjoyable read.  I was honestly very surprised at the level of violence in the book, with various soldier deaths described in disturbing layers of detail.  It’s fairly apparent that this book was not meant for kids.

Throughout the whole book we follow along behind Able Team, who is also being shadowed by G.I. Joe’s “Alpha Team” consisting of Gung Ho, Snake Eyes, Scarlett, Heavy Duty, and Breaker.  Seeing Gung Ho used as the Team Leader was a pretty cool touch, and this actually really got me fired up for the whole launch of this movie “universe”.  Gung Ho appearing in Above and Beyond as well as the Wal-Mart 2-Packs, then also tied into the video game all really started to make me realize how neat this whole interweaved universe is shaping up.  I know everyone has their own issues and complaints with the movie, but to me, it’s an opening door to another fresh take, just like Sigma 6 was, or even the whole Spy Troops/Valor Vs. Venom storyline was.  Don’t get me wrong, I love my old school Joe, but I’m always enamored with a fresh take as well.

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