Cobra is at it again. IGN posted a new Cobra Special forces recruitment video today, check it out below! Personally i love how the Cobra unit emphasize skill, and even pride, while the G.I.Joe’s in contrast are humble despite their talents.
To talk about the Cobra Special Forces videos on our forums CLICK HERE. -revsears
I can’t be the first person to think of this!
as always hit up our forums to discuss Joe. Let us know if you have any Nerd themed memes!
Actress Adrianne Palicki Posted this on Twitter today. (picture below)
As always hit up our Joe forum to discuss the upcoming movie.
-revsears
Good news everyone! The G.I.Joe Contest I originally told you about here, is still on and the deadline has not only been extended, but the prize package has been sweetened ! I’ll be adding one Con exclusive Saw Viper to the list of prizes. To get your interested, here are pics of the prizes, for details about the contest, keep reading after the pictures.
This bad boy could be yours, for free! Just enter the contest as this is now one of the prize options!
The other prizes are:
The Hard to find Ashiko with Armor Cycle
Hard to find, and often sought after. I was lucky to get it at that price, but you can get it for a picture of a custom !
And the entire wave of Discount Store figures (First paint schemes)
The 2012 surprise and Hot Joe Item
This black trooper is the hardest to find in the set. this is the only one i have ever seen in the wild.
The New Deadline: April 15th. Yes that’s after Joecon, and possibly more importantly, that’s after the custom class you can find out about here. This way if your going to con you have an extra chance to work on your custom, possibly with the help form experts. Yes someone going to Con would already have the chance to own a couple of Saw-vipers, but it’s an army builder right! and it will be worth $, not to mention it’s not the only prize that can be chosen from. Being after con also allows me to get the saw-viper to the winner quickly, and if you hurry, will also allow a customizer more inspiration from seeing the Retaliation movie!
1st place will choose his prize, then 2nd place, and the third man will get the left overs.
The original post (with the rules) follows:
The Theme is Movie Verse 1.5. The idea is simple, with the upcoming retaliation movie there is a lot of hope it will do well, and reflection on what went wrong with Rise of Cobra. To enter the contest you have several options, 1. 1.5 can refer to an improvement on the designs of the original movie or the upcoming retaliation, such as repainting the Joes or Cobras to look more classic but using movie parts, 2. You can make a custom of a character appeared in the original movie but did not get a figure,( like Paris pursuit scarlet) or a character we have seen an image of in the Retaliation trailer or press releases but do not have a figure for (like spec ops or White uniform CC) 3. Finally you can make a figure of a movie character from the first movie, as they might appear in between the movies (Like using a Tatum head, but giving us an urban style Duke, or giving us a movie scarlet head, but in desert fatigues)
The rules:
1. You must be registered here on Toy Nation and have a post count minimum of 25 (which should be easy to do) to win.
2. You may enter as many customs as you like, but each person can only win one prize.(so if you place 1st and 2nd, i’d skip to number 3)
3. All customs will be shown on the forums, and will be open to vote by all members of the forums (invite your friends)
4. The point is to update or be in the movie universe, no 100 % arah updates please.
5. You may post work in progress threads, but if you do elsewhere, please also post them here!
-Revsears
as always you can join the discussion on the forums.
The G.I.Joe club has revealed their exclusive Iceberg figure. This is the club incentive figure for next year, and all you have to do is sign up before March 15th and you will get this figure in the mail. You can visit their site here.
I was really looking forward to Iceberg, and i thought he would make a great addition to my G.I.Joe arctic troops.
It’s been said that the head is not final, and we can only hope. The lack of detail would instantly stand out when placed with other figures, although the white stand will do that anyways.
The gear looks nice, it comes from the canceled ROC arctic Duke. The torso is from the 25th Snow serpent, arms from 30th airtight the legs came from the 25th spirit. The legs are where these figure becomes a catastrophic failure. He is far too top heavy The tight to the skin pants are clearly not think enough to keep him warm, or to balance off the upper half. The right upper leg remains warped looking which only adds to my disappointment.
I don’t want it said i’m always down on the club. last year’s footloose and con set looked phenomenal ! I loved the FSS Jinx (as a said in my review here) but something is off this year, and they are swinging mostly misses.
Jump to the forums for discussion. -Revsears
Credit in pic, give him a follow good toy fair coverage.
Like this variant a lot more than the retaliation dragon ninja, paint wise. The fig makes a great generic ninja. EDIT: Now that I look on more than just my cell phone I can see they reduced the articulation! oh well, it went from buying multiples to an easy pass.
To discuss the marvel’s reveals at Toy Fair head here.
To discuss G.I.Joe’s reveals from Toy Fair head here.
-revsears
A large amount of information was revealed at Toyfair. During the show I followed live tweets from several people but especially @generalsjoes of GeneralsJoes and @garygodsoe of the Coil Club, both from What’s on Joe mind.
Just a few quick notes
G.I.Joe, the Tomahawk is real baby! it’s a retool from the vintage and will be called the eagle hawk, comes with a liftticket, and all reports are that’s its great.
Saw some pics via Twiitter, Budo is classic historical samurai, stormshadow is amazing, as is CC but the Tomahawk is mind blowing. Rotors fold back, and this thing looks big.
New Wave 3 of the movie line has been rearranged to include more “Ultimates” like movie flint, sunbow CC and Sunbow stormshadow. Also included are a new Budo, Kwinn and Data Viper.
Transformers: A new 125.00 Titan class metroplex based on the recent video game is coming. 30th Annivary Tfs, including springer!
Star Wars, Star Wars Black series also has 3 3/4 ” figures, TRU has an exclusive X-wing coming,
Marvel, New wolverine Legends line announced, a 3 3/4 ” avengers assemble line based on the new cartoon has been announced, 10 figures for the whole year, New MU and ML announced as well as a Thor movie line.
wish I could have been there this year, I will be at Joe Con in a few months and will cover that. but for this event, I suggest checking out the following sites for pictures, and of course sticking around on our Forums to talk about it.
Head to our friends @ Serpentor’s Lair
One of my favorite sites on the web GeneralsJoes
or follow this guy on Twitter, who is posting pics now!
-revsears
If you haven’t seen this by now you need to.
-revsears
I should begin by saying, this is my opinion. My experience may not be typical, although I am seeing some angry waves in various places in the G.I.Joe fandom.
The club is run by funpublications. I have never been a member of the club until recently. In the past I have not seen enough value in their products to justify the cost, and often the product itself did not interest me as they focused on original o-rings rather than the new sculpt era for a time, and have often made figures i feel that even as a novice customizer I could replicate. I also knew of many who had bad experiences with the club, and last years credit card security issues, and the extreme delays of the FSS which concerned me.
If your heading to Indy, I’ll see you there.
Rathio 