by generalsjoes | May 7, 2009 | 12" Scale, G.I. Joe, SDCC, Show and Convention Coverage, Sideshow
Sideshow Collectibles has posted their latest installment of Sideshow TV, this time around focusing on their San Diego ComicCon exclusives. Of course included in these exclusives is the semi-revealed Crimson COBRA Commander, and this video gives us a great look at the complete figure. COBRA Commander appears at about the 7:00 minute mark and is one impressive looking entry into the exclusive field. As a straight-up repaint/rerelease of the standard version, I wasn’t all that impressed, but I gotta tell you he looks really striking in full on red and silver, and looks like he comes with a gorgeous cape instead of the trenchcoat. Dang. I wanted to not like this figure, but looking at this I just can’t help but love it (even if I won’t likely be dropping the massive coin for it). Obviously patterened after the Crimson Guard, COBRA Commander looks amazing, and Sideshow did a spectacular job taking a figure that normally I wouldn’t care less about and making it just a little bit painful that he’s an expensive SDCC Exclusive.
Click here to check out the video, and some screen shots of the figure have been posted below.
Big credit goes out to friend of GeneralsJoes Mysterious Stranger for the info!
by generalsjoes | May 6, 2009 | Sponsor News
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by generalsjoes | May 6, 2009 | G.I. Joe, G.I. Joe Toys, G.I. Joe: Resolute, G.I. Joe: The Movie
You can always tell what the potential popularity of an upcoming toyline is by the number of overseas sellers who are offering pre-production product for it. So far there seems to be a rather large groundswell of G.I. Joe related sellers, and the buyers must be speaking with their wallets, because the stuff keeps on popping up. Well known seller unitedwell923 has listed a number of new auctions with some pretty neat pictures mixed in amongst them, including Resolute Destro, Wal-Mart Gung Ho and Copperhead, and a mysterious red uniformed Viper.
Also, thanks to some digging around by HissCommander from the Terror Drome, we’ve also got some neat images of Rise of COBRA Combat Heroes figures. These don’t appear to be listed on eBay yet, but I would imagine that could be coming at any time.
by generalsjoes | May 6, 2009 | G.I. Joe, G.I. Joe Toys, G.I. Joe: The Movie
There’s a question mark on the end there because I have no idea if this is a single pack Hawk or what…just looking at the head sculpt, it’s definitely Quaid-like, and he’s considerably different than the version that comes with The Pit, but we still don’t really know where this figure is going to come from.
Check out the thread on JBL here, and I’ve got the images mirrored below as well.
by generalsjoes | May 6, 2009 | G.I. Joe, G.I. Joe Toys, G.I. Joe: The Movie
One of the more underwhelming toys coming in the Rise of COBRA line, in my opinion, is the COBRA Gunship. It looks mostly like a helicopter with no rotors and no real physical way to fly, yet is shown in trailers whipping through the sky. How exactly does that work? Well, I suppose it’s no more out of the ordinary than Trubble Bubbles, etc… but one thing this picture showed me is the size of the Gunship. I don’t know why, but I didn’t realize it was so large. That actually impresses me a bit more, though I’m still not wild about the whole look of the vehicle.
Anyway, check out this thread on AC Toys, or check out the trio of images below.
by generalsjoes | May 6, 2009 | Customs, G.I. Joe, G.I. Joe Toys, Kick Ass Custom
I know it’s been a while since I did one of these, but I just couldn’t resist. The inclusion of Matt Trakker into the 25th Anniversary line created quite a ripple in the fandom with arguments about a non-Joe character taking up a “slot” for what could have been a better choice, or wondering why MASK was getting any G.I. Joe love at all. Myself? I thought it was a very cool idea. Well, HissTank member BHiga6181 takes it one step further and whipped up a full blown M.A.S.K. and V.E.N.O.M. team with masks and all. Both BHiga and myself have to give huge props as well to Tri-Gate Creations for their awesome work on the masks that were used for this project as well.
Check out these two threads on HissTank for all the names and details, and you can hit up the images mirrored below. Nice work on this one!
by generalsjoes | May 5, 2009 | G.I. Joe, G.I. Joe Video Game, G.I. Joe: The Movie
Continuing the onslaught of news tonight, tkprime from HissTank.com discovered an image of the Rise of COBRA video game cover at his local GameStop, and a little investigation revealed that Electronic Arts had revealed the cover image at their site as well. There appear to be two different covers, one for the Nintendo DS and one other for all other systems. Check out the pics below.
by generalsjoes | May 5, 2009 | G.I. Joe, G.I. Joe 25th Anniversary, G.I. Joe Toys
HissTank has received some very high res, nice clean pics of the upcoming Arctic Hiss w/ Hiss Commander action figure. While I personally don’t have much use for another HISS, I can’t deny that this vehicle (and figure) looks downright bad ass. A very nice job, even with only some minor tooling additions. The Stinger’s an absolute must buy, but this one ain’t so bad itself. Check out the thread here, and I’ve also mirrored the images below.
by generalsjoes | May 5, 2009 | G.I. Joe, G.I. Joe Toys, G.I. Joe: The Movie
Any Joe fans or fans of G.I. Joe: The Rise of COBRA know all about the Black Sheep Toy Store, and he’s now got a few more nice loose auctions posted with very nice pictures of some upcoming items including Covert Operations Scarlett, Desert Ambush Duke, Heavy Duty, and Technical Surveillance Breaker.
Check out the great images mirrored below, and thanks to Destro of HissTank.com for the intel.
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