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General Joe Talk / Re: New Dollar Store G.I. Joe
« on: April 22, 2012, 06:57:37 AM »
These just arrived for sale in Manila, Philippines today selling for 349.75 Philippine pesos, which comes to approximately $8.15 Canadian dollars per each. Of course, the price in the Philippines might not be the same price you'll have to pay.

This series comes in six to a box (one of each figure), and the cardbacks read Hasbro Canada on each.

Lucky for Canadians! It's no wonder that the card art is all red and white on the card face.

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General Joe Talk / Re: 1982 Cobra missile base
« on: March 26, 2012, 07:25:30 PM »
It is my opinion that Joe is making these much more quickly now than before. He seems to be mostly caught up on these orders.

When I ordered mine from D&J Toys back in January 2011, it took all of eleven months for him to complete and mail out to me, but when it did arrive in December, it was flawless and amazing.  I could easily see the amount of work he put into the assembly, and was glad that I didn't try building it myself.

If you have some money and the time to wait for it, I highly recommend getting one of these for any collection. Maybe someday these will be worth more than the originals!?!

He recently posted a video on YouTube showing part of the assembly process. Here is a link to watch it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c54xlafGs4c&feature=youtu.be

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My youngest child (age 5) asked me a pretty good question today regarding the POC Croc Master repaint figure pack.

“Daddy, why is Cobra painting the crocodiles red?”

I paused for a moment, and thought to myself, that’s a really good question, and I doubt that the file card will make any mention of it.

So I told him, “Well, if you did paint a crocodile red, I imagine that the paint would make it really angry.” Then I added, “You know how Cobra Commander makes his elite units and vehicles crimson? Well, maybe he had Mindbender do a slight DNA swap with a red scaled reptile to change the color of some crocodiles recently.”

Being a little kid, he seemed okay with that answer.

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Quote from: "NeoDragonKnight"
wow thats awesome info, thanks!  It would be cool if they updated Blowtorch to be an expert on these new Incendiary weapons.


Agreed. Blowtorch is already an expert in these new incendiary weapons. Just like both his 1984 and 2011 filecards say, “Blowtorch is thoroughly familiar with all military incendiary devices and flame projection equipment…”, and on the original 1984 filecard his primary MOS is Infantry Special Weapons, and his secondary is Small-Arms Armorer.

Because he has some futuristic version of an M-7 styled flamethrower, small children get stuck in the moment and think of him as only a Flamethrower soldier. In this Pursuit of Cobra series version, Hasbro tried to keep all of the details consistent with the 1984 and 25th Anniversary versions of this character, but also to take it to the next level with more realistic accessories.

For instance, he comes with two olive drab colored High-Explosive Incendiary (HEI) Anti-tank landmines (designed to pierce armor, fragment, and ignite readily combustible materials) with a very distinctive 220 lb. trigger visible on the top, and six magnetic firing mechanisms radiate upwards from the outer edges of the mine (to enable it to detonate even if the tires or tracks of a vehicle do not touch it).

Once a Cobra vehicle detonates the landmine, Blowtorch and his fellow Joes must assault the surviving enemy victims. During this phase of the attack, a M-7 flamethrower wand is not needed to spray liquid fire on the burning enemy, and Hasbro knows that.

Instead, Blowtorch should be correctly equipped wearing his backpack fire extinguisher (which says “Powder” on it, but we know it really is Purple-K, a dry chemical fire suppression agent used in dry powder fire extinguishers of the military. Very effective, but should not be inhaled, thus Blowtorch would still have to wear his facemask.

In his arms would be his FN SCAR-H assault rifle, but he has those two important canisters of Purple-K behind him when needed.

It's just a very realistic way of using the Blowtorch character in a military capacity, but it seems that some collectors just aren't appreciating it or understanding it.

Oh well, I'm glad Hasbro tried.

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Quote from: "ARROW"
Quote from: "5h4rK"
Quote from: "B"
...but seriously if PoC is a modern time joes would they even have a guy with a flamethrower?

Good point..good point..
Although the US military has not used Flame-throwers since 1978, and have stopped using them as a matter of practise, doesn't mean the weapons still have some uses. Its like a crossbow, a very effective weapon, in certain circumstances, but so specific in its use that its not the kind of thing you'd carry into the field as a matter of course.
Blowtorch is like a number of Joes on the roster, like Charbroil, Skydive, Flash, Cover Girl, Cutter etc with a MOS that says they'd sit on the sidelines more than they'd be used.

You are partially correct. The U.S. military had kept the flamethrowers in their arsenal until 1978, but last used them prior to that date during the war in Vietnam (specifically, the M9A1-7 flamethrower).

The military continues to use incendiary weaponry, but the delivery system has changed over time. Burning the enemy with a liquid stream of flame just isn’t efficient compared to using today’s rocketry.

The M202A1 FLASH (Flame Assault Shoulder Weapon) is 66 mm  4-Tube Rocket Launcher which fires M235 Incendiary Rockets some 200-500 meters which consumes the enemy using thickened pyrophoric agent (TPA) when exposed to oxygen. The weapon is issued as needed, usually one per rifle platoon, in the war in Afghanistan.

In 2009, Hasbro released an accurately sized and colored version of this weapon as a spring loaded missile launcher toy with the Conrad "Duke" Hauser action figure in collection 1 wave 1 of the G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra toy line. Most collectors which I know dismissed this weapon because it was a spring loaded missile launcher toy, and had no idea what the M202A1 FLASH was.

So, now you know. And knowing is half the battle.

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General Joe Talk / Cobra Stickers is back up now
« on: June 03, 2011, 09:40:49 AM »
Hurray! After eight days without Cobra Stickers, this website is back up and working fine. Glad you're back, Cobra Stickers.

As the website reads: "June 03, 2011 - A Fresh Start, Back in Business - Please recreate your accounts. I apologize to everyone for the down time. Our host updated their build of PHP without warning and the site basically ate itself. Restoring from backups failed (there was some fundamental incompatibility with the new build of php in the code) so things had to be rebuild from the ground up.

On the plus side this gave me a chance to improve some things that always bugged me, like the Lightbox image viewer. The site images have now been unified under the same viewer.

On the minus side, the customer database was not ported over to the rebuilt site, as we were experiencing isolated login issues very near the time the site went down. You will have to recreate your account.

Thank you to everyone who shops at Cobra Stickers for your patience."

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Nearly three decades ago, Hasbro made G.I. Joe history in Canada when they released a Cobra Combat Set M.S.V. exclusively at Sears, and a Cobra Motorized Tank exclusively at Consumer Distributing.  It’s time for Hasbro to make history again.

Because it is easily possible to update these fine products in their all black plastic glory using the 2008 VAMP, the 2009 Heetseek Missile System (from the Battle Stations pack), or the 2008 MOBAT Tank (from the Ultimate Battle Pack), why not allow these products to receive the make-over they deserve, for sale in both Canada and the United States?

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Yearly CanJoeCon Discussion / Re: 2011 CJC Debut : CAPTAIN RUIN
« on: May 06, 2011, 05:00:39 PM »
Captain Awesome is ruin. Oops. I mean, Captain Ruin is awesome.

The sketched version was interesting, but hardly did this creation any justice.

This figure is just too good for words. Congratulations to the creator(s) of this custom.

Will the rest of this set be of this quality? I hope we won't have to wait long to see more photographs of the other figures.

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Introductions / Greetings from Germany!
« on: May 01, 2011, 04:19:18 PM »
Hello Canuckleheads,

Greetings from the land of the Red Shadows (and the Black Major, etc).

I've enjoyed this website and forum for the past three years now, but never bothered to register or contribute to it.  My communications have been limited to e-mails to Mike Heddle, to which he always courteously and promptly responds, so I have never had much reason to ask a question to the rest of the members on this forum.

Never have attended a Canadian G.I. Joe Convention, and doubt that I ever will.  Loved visiting Ontario when I was a kid, and was delighted to see bilingual G.I. Joe toys in Canadian department stores while shopping (it was the early 1980's).

Always befriended our Canadian military counterparts, and enjoyed visiting Newfoundland for R&R while returning from the middle east.

Even did my cold weather survival school right at the Canadian border.

As a United States military family relocated to Germany from Texas, we have corresponded with many Joe collecting Canucks, and have appreciated the kindness of our northern neighbors.

My sons and I are avid G.I. Joe fans, and incorporate the Cobra North characters into our joe-verse.  We are package openers, and my kids play on the carpet with their 2009 and 2010 Canadian G.I. Joe Convention set figures and vehicles the same as they do with their other Joes.

I don't know if a 2011 convention set will be doable this year, but I will at least make it a point to buy a t-shirt and be with you in spirit.

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