YoJoe contributor antarctica kindly notified GeneralsJoes that a very rare find was recently uncovered in the G.I. Joe comics realm… after over two decades, three new countries have been discovered to have published G.I. Joe comics. The latest YoJoe update features Poland and Finland, with Indonesia coming soon. It’s always really neat to see how these foreign countries tackle “A Real American Hero”. Check out all of the details here.
Episode 29 has been uploaded as Sidewinder, Chad, and Matthew crank up the release schedule for their excellent comic-themed podcast! This thirty-seven minute episode focuses on G.I. Joe #52 from Marvel Comics. The aftermath from the Battle of Springfield still lingers as Cobra has discovered the location of The Pit… Larry Hama at his finest!
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Some highlights:
– Rise of Cobra DVD review
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– Serpent Armor review
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The Terror Drome has revealed some images of the upcoming Pursuit of Cobra Desert Battle Ripcord, complete with awesome flightpack and assorted gear. I cannot tell you how fired up I am for these toys to start hitting. I’m enjoying the Rise of Cobra, but recent releases have been rife with repaints, retools, and minor cosmetic adjustments…I’m ready for some full bore new stuff, and the Pursuit of Cobra is right up my alley.
Sign me up.
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Thanks to Scoop from HissTank.com for pointing out that Toys “R” Us has placed their G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra Alpha vehicles on sale for $12.99, and ToysRUs.com has a number of them in stock on their website as well. See the original thread here, and links to the various vehicles below.
G.I. Joe The Rise of Cobra Alpha Vehicle – Rockslide ATAV With Snow Job – Hasbro – Toys “R” Us
G.I. Joe The Rise of Cobra Alpha Vehicle – Sky Sweeper Jet with Air Raid – Hasbro – Toys “R” Us
G.I. Joe The Rise of Cobra Alpha Vehicle – Mole Pod with Terra-Viper – Hasbro – Toys “R” Us
G.I. Joe The Rise of Cobra Alpha Vehicle – Snarler Motorcyle With Beachhead – Hasbro – Toys “R” Us
Holy crap what a difference a little color alteration makes. I’m getting pretty sick and tired of the same ole black and silver Neo-Vipers, but Hasbro gives the “Viper Commando” in the Serpent Armor set a black head with red eyes, and it gets whole new life. Damn what a cool looking version of the way-too-abundant Neo-Viper. Add that to the fact that he comes with a great looking black and silver SNAKE armor, and you get a win all around.
In fact, if you get your hands on a 25th Anniversary Stinger, a Heatseek Missile set, and this Serpent Armor, you get the start of a very awesome looking black/red color scheme COBRA strike squad… but I’ll let Alexx’s always funny pictures speak for themselves. You can see the thread on JBL here, too.
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With all the talk of the upcoming Resolute boxed sets, everyone’s been clammoring for Roadblock, Destro, Stalker and all of the guys that didn’t get the action figure treatment, but not many fans are really making mention of the arctic assault uniforms that Duke and Scarlett wore while they busted up Siberia. HissTank member meeko, actually goes even further, and he did up some great customs of the entire cast of characters from the Arctic battle…not only did he do some very nice versions of Siberian Scarlett and Duke, but also the Alley-Vipers, Ice-Vipers, and Zartan. He used some Star Wars parts, some Joe parts, and really thinks outside the box on some of these things. Nice stuff.
Check out the thread here, and the images mirrored below.
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I know the site has been somewhat vacant the past few days…been a whirlwind couple of days in the “real world” (yeah, there is a distinction… :shifty: ). Deploying a new mail server at work, revamping the IS budget at work for 2010 with a hard deadline, all alongside a 2 month old that decided to stop feeding from the bottle and a wife whose back went totally sideways, leaving her bedridden has made for an interesting week.
Of course, amongst all those events, I managed to make a toy run. Boy, I got my priorities straight, don’t I? :/
In all seriousness, I had to go south for work on Monday, so I had another chance to zip through an number of Targets, Toys “R” Us’ and Wal-Mart cruising through southern NH…and honestly? I was quite a bit more impressed and optimistic than I was the last time through. Obviously, as everyone is aware, both Wal-Mart and Target have slashed prices on the single packs, and I think it’s helped. A lot of those wave 1 pegwarmers had cleared out, at least somewhat, and many of them were replenished by the much improved later assortment offerings. I saw numerous Pit Commandos, Rex “The Doctor” Lewis (all black coats), Helix, Flash, Elite-Vipers, Eels, etc… I mean, I saw them in abundance. Pit Commandos were still the most rare, as I only saw 4 of them total in two different locations, but nearly every place I stopped had a nice assortment of Wave 3 items mixed in. Heck, I even found some Wave 4 Charbroils and Night Adders! Two Night Adders, one with blue tats, one with black, so I still have no clue which one is rarer.
But it wasn’t all sunshine and roses. Still didn’t see any Wave 2 Alpha’s at all (and I really want that Sky Sweeper!), and never touched either of the new TRU exclusives (Bench Press and Snow Serpent). No Wave 5, even though I hit a couple of K-Marts expressly for that purpose, and none of the Wal-Marts I hit had a hint of the Battle Station exclusives. Out of the 4 TRU’s I stopped at, one of them in Salem, NH had the Troop Builder 5-Packs, which was cool to see. Speaking of which, reviews of those should be going up next week, hopefully…
The week’s looking up. The Pats play the Colts on Sunday night, we actually have no plans this weekend, and the wife thinks she’ll be out of bed for Monday, but just in case you see spotty updates for the next couple of days, that’s why.
SuperHeroHype is reporting that G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra topped the sales and rental charts its first week of release, coming in third amongst first week sales, behind only Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Twilight. Guess G.I. Joe needs more androgynous vampires… :shifty:
Check out the full article here.
This is great news, but I don’t expect it to last long…Star Trek is hitting on the 17th and I’m sure that’ll take a chunk out of sales and rentals, but still a strong showing for The Rise of Cobra in its first week and more good news about the G.I. Joe franchise.