by generalsjoes | Sep 9, 2009 | G.I. Joe, G.I. Joe: The Movie
With much thanks to Dave Thornton for the link, The CGSociety has posted an absolutely exhaustive look at the myriad of special effects and CGI work that went into G.I. Joe: The Rise of COBRA, and posted their feature right here. Granted a lot of the information is based on the various different pieces of software and technical expertise required for such an endeavor, but there are some pretty cool images and details mixed in that are quite interesting to those of us out of the CGI “loop”.
Once again, check out the article here.
by generalsjoes | Sep 9, 2009 | G.I. Joe, G.I. Joe Toys, G.I. Joe: The Movie
With thanks to kennywr22 on HissTank.com, apparently Wal-Mart’s online site now has the following Alpha Class Rise of COBRA vehicles available for order:
While the Snarler Cycle utilizes new tooling, both the Mantis and the Skysweeper use existing molds (though the Skysweeper at least modified the Firebat somewhat), and all figures are repaints of previous releases. Ironically, Rollbar uses the parts from the 25th Anniversary Airborne, yet doesn’t use his name, and the “Air Raid” figure that comes with the Skysweeper uses Airborne’s filecard information (including his file name) but has a different code name. For a quick peek at these vehicles, check out the gallery below, and of course, for all release information, hit up the Rise of COBRA SuperPage.
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by generalsjoes | Sep 8, 2009 | G.I. Joe, G.I. Joe 25th Anniversary, G.I. Joe Toys, G.I. Joe: The Movie
Terror Drome member RainbowViper has posted a really nice review with some great pictures of the very recently released Serpent Armor w/ Viper Commando Target Exclusive set. This set features a nice black and red repaint of the infamous SNAKE Armor, as well as an absolutely BAD ASS dark repaint of the Neo-Viper. Though, again, he’s being called a Viper Commando for some strange reason. No matter what his name is, though, the figure looks absolutely awesome in the dark black paint scheme with those crazy looking red eyes. Love it.
I’ve hosted some of the images below.
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by generalsjoes | Sep 7, 2009 | G.I. Joe, G.I. Joe Toys, G.I. Joe: The Movie
Chrysophylax over at JoeCustoms manages to get his hands on a lot of toys early over in the Philippines, and this is no exception. To the best of my knowledge, no one has seen anything about a Wave 4 Night Adder with tattoos in black instead of blue. At least I know every picture I’ve seen so far had blue tats, but maybe I’m behind the curve on this one.
Anyway, has posted a nice round up of all the tattoos and an exhaustive gallery, and I’ve hosted the images below.
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by generalsjoes | Sep 6, 2009 | Dio-Stories, G.I. Joe, G.I. Joe 25th Anniversary, G.I. Joe Collectors Club, G.I. Joe Toys, G.I. Joe: The Movie, Pursuit of COBRA
Warning – This is gonna get long. If you just want to check out the latest project, click here.
Without a shadow of a doubt the most asked question I get is “when are you going to do more dio-stories?”. And well, at least, for the moment, I’ve got an answer, though it might be one that ticks off some folks.
Ever since I began my Dio-Story adventures way back in 2002, it was because I was inspired. The new Real American Hero Collection figures did it for me back then, sparking me into my massive review archive and monstrous dio-story universe that has spanned 7 years, hundreds of characters, and lots of obnoxious special effects (not to mention many an oversized blade of grass representing mysterious “jungles” in different parts of the world… :shifty: ). But, as the years roll on and real life takes its place amongst my hobbies, time grew shorter, and for me to tell the types of stories I wanted to tell, well…it was going to take a lot more time and a LOT more effort than I was putting in.
But I stand before you, still determined to finish what I started. However, this little project is NOT a continuation of what I started. Confused yet? Check out the “Read the Full Story” link to…well…read the full story.
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