JoeCanuck

Lady Jaye is the voice of Onstar. That is almost enought to make me want to buy a GM. 

same here....   


This is incredible news!  I'm dying for the convention to start already.  I can't believe I'me gonna meet the voices of one of my favorite Joes ever and my absolute favorite Cobra, amazing.

Man, now you're inspiring me to say something great.

nahhh, the praise is deserved!

These were meant to be "What if" in the first place, meaning I tried placing myself back in time and imagine that these were actually offered for the first time 20-30 years ago along with the 1982-1994 wave of figures, what they could've possibly looked like.

Well, Backstop was released in 1987 and look at the color scheme he ended up with.  Yuck!  I like to think that Hasbro could have repainted him in normal, TACTICAL colors if they'd cared to later (no, I'm not counting Static Line because he was a new character with the same digs, and while his colors were more subtle, they weren't much better).  And Chacal Noir might have looked like that if he'd been released in 1983-1986 or 1990/1991 (SAW Viper was the lone awful exception)... but within any of those other intervening years he would have either been ridiculously designed (see all but one Cobra [WORMS] from 1987 and half of 1988) or his colors would have been neon enough to ruin a good sculpt (see Heat Viper v1 & v2 and most every figure 1992-1994).   

But I still didn't reach the end result as these figures look more like artistic customs rather the actual toy representations of the past.

They're customs, man, it's not a bad thing if they look like personal creations instead of mass produced toys!    Personally I think these guys were tremendous successes. 

I hope to do more customs in the near future as this is not really a regular base hobby (nor a job). I just did these out of pure fun, without a lot of customizing experience in my portfolio

You just proved here that a ton of experience isn’t a requirement to create something really awesome. 

I do customs for the sake of just creating something.   Yeah it’s for fun/relaxations and usually to show how things look in my Joeverse, but it’s a creative release above all else for me when I make my customs.   I’m pondering making a new style figure of Snowbank at some point in the near future, just because I can. 

Terry, it's definitely awesome to read your own viewpoint on this matter!   IMO it would be great to see Back-Stop version 2, Chacal Noir, and the Frostback troopers in the official Yojoe archive. 


I can see why maybe the previous figures wouldn't qualify, for the same reasons THE Mike pointed out, but if Redclaw says they could be considered it's got my support (what little that's actually worth  ).   And since Larry Hama wrote Snowbank's filecard I'd say he's got as much clout as all the figures in last year's set.   In any case though, no matter what figures get added to the Yojoe photo archives, I'd just love to see the newly created CHARACTERS from the Canada branches of GI*Joe and Cobra acknowledged as official in the mythos, all on par with Robert "Backstop" Levin. 



yeah I hoop this goes away someday to be replaced by "Version 1 1987" and "Version 2 2009"

This was the only version of Backstop ever made.

 

one of the Canada JoeCon exclusive figures is using a Tri-Gate head!?


great issue of the newsletter!

Where'd that huge chrome gun come from on mortal?  Did it come with the roc destro 2 pack?

Funskool Cross Country came with a whole weapons tree of vac-metallized firepower and a Mario mustache!

Quote from: "THE Mike?"

The Hasbro one, we respected the wishes of Hasbro and did not allow any video, audio or still images to be taken.

But there is a Tan Armadillo tank coming out for the movie - with guns on the side - just like our own Dead Eye tank. :-)

And the Viper Elite looks cool.

Thanks.

I was just wondering if there were answers given to specific questions asked here.  I'm not sure if this followed the same format as the typically Q&A with Hasbro.

Definitely no real surprises or big revelations in the slideshow (they save all that stuff for SDCC), except to people to who maybe haven't seen a lot of movie merchandise up early on ebay...  that's I think the only place I have seen most of the early movie stuff.
   
While what was shown might not have been much, but what was said was a different story, especially for those who live up over the border.  Wal-Mart Canada does plan to carry most (all?) of the movie themed exclusives all over Canada.  I think he said something about this a big push for Walmart in the summer movie season so having the exclusives in Canada too was important.  And he explained why that huge PIT playset (and some other electronic talking things from the ROC line) would not be availible in Quebec and it was disheartening even for a guy who lives in the states: too expensive to program it in French for mass production but the stores there won't be ordering it if its got English voicetracks only.   :-   I THINK he mentioned there was one exception for the electronic toys that would be carried there but damned if I can recall what specificallly that was. 


It was cool to see the whole first wave of movie figures, carded, in person though on hasbro's table in the showroom.   And there was a Night Raven out for demostration so people could pick it up and try the features out.