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Canadian Joe Con Section => Yearly CanJoeCon Discussion => Topic started by: Emags on September 05, 2012, 02:23:02 PM
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I left the convention early so I did not get to hear the panel. Of course, I downloaded the WOJM podcast and was able to hear it yesterday.
The Mantis release (Mantis, right ?) sounds like a great idea.
Is that going to happen? Any plans to do a Cobra North AND Joe version, like was contemplated on the podcast ?
That would be awsome.
Eric
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Everything is in place for a Cobra Manta to be done.
But, I'm a little pre-occupied right now. ;)
I would think / hope we'll have some news in the new year at the latest.
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Manta as in the MANTA wind-surf board?
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Manta as in the MANTA wind-surf board?
Yes.
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Everything is in place for a Cobra Manta to be done.
But, I'm a little pre-occupied right now. ;)
I would think / hope we'll have some news in the new year at the latest.
That's great....sounds like it will be awesome. Where did you find 50 or 100 of them? That is not a recent product.
I remember sending away for the Manta in 1984 and waiting the obligatory 8 - 10 weeks (remember those pre-Amazon days?). When it finally came, I thought it was the greatest thing ever.
Mail - in exclusives from back in the day where the greatest. For some reason, I can pretty much remember them all, going back to Bossk from Star Wars in 1980 in 1980.
Anyway, I digress. I think the Manta will be a great addition and like it as a sort of hat tip to the "mail away offers" from yesteryear.
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Everything is in place for a Cobra Manta to be done.
But, I'm a little pre-occupied right now. ;)
I would think / hope we'll have some news in the new year at the latest.
That's great....sounds like it will be awesome. Where did you find 50 or 100 of them? That is not a recent product.
These would be reproductions. They talked about that at the Q and A at the CJC this year. The Mantis is my one of my favorite vehicles so I am looking forward to seeing this project reach completion. It has a longer history then you suspect. ;)
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Everything is in place for a Cobra Manta to be done.
But, I'm a little pre-occupied right now. ;)
I would think / hope we'll have some news in the new year at the latest.
That's great....sounds like it will be awesome. Where did you find 50 or 100 of them? That is not a recent product.
These would be reproductions. They talked about that at the Q and A at the CJC this year. The Mantis Manta is my one of my favorite vehicles so I am looking forward to seeing this project reach completion. It has a longer history then you suspect. ;)
Fixed that for you ;)
But, you may also be a Mantis lover, who knows? ???
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Hey, any plans in the works to do an Internet figure too, as mentioned as a potential project at the Con?? That would be a win.
I still think someone in the mythos needs a proper animal companion....maybe a polar bear :) That has never been done, I don't think.
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get hold of Urzor's bear from Brazil and remould it in white?
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here is one:
(http://demandware.edgesuite.net/aabe_prd/on/demandware.static/Sites-CA-Site/Sites-Catalog/en_CA/v1346939635917/imagesOnline/content/5103.jpg)
;D
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get hold of Urzor's bear from Brazil and remould it in white?
When I was typing that, I thought to myself that there were probably some crazy Brazilian Polar Bear out there......turns out I was right :)
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well, it's not a polar bear, it's another bear. the actual toy is brown. getting one of them Playmobil ones and copying it or buying multiples and painting them might be cheaper.
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I am a sucker for the animal companion.
I'd like to get the Urzor bear, but I don't think I'll be able to find one. I did some searching on-line, but no luck. Granted there are better bears, but he is a small scale, so that sort of works. Plus, I mean, it's a bear.
Out of curiosity, I went back and looked at the Estraela offering. They really had some crazy animals....bear, lion, tiger, and kangaroo. Talk about over the top.
I found an article yesterday on google....it was GI Joe: When animals attack and it was a good read.
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there's a comic all about the Joe animals battling the Cobra animals. Order, Junkyard, Timber, Freedom and Polly VS Raptor's falcon, Croc Master's crocs, Undertow's pike, Hydro-Viper's manta and Voltar's condor, IIRC.
http://www.yojoe.com/comics/specialmissions/specialmissionsmanhattan.shtml (http://www.yojoe.com/comics/specialmissions/specialmissionsmanhattan.shtml)
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Thanks....I actually picked that up last year, but have not read it yet. It is actually a very cool issue for me b/c it combines (1) animal companions, and (2) NYC. I live in Manhattan literally right next to the Chrysler building, so any GI Joe comic based in NYC is extra cool. Any GI Joe comic showing the Chrysler is even better.
I think there was a Special Mission in NYC and a more recent one, as well, which pictured the Chrysler building. Though I'm not entirely sure.
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Chrysler building was the home of GI Joe and GI Jane in ARAH. it was where the SDI laser project was housed. appeared at least twice.
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Thanks, Sundance. I actually had no idea. It is funny b/c I literally live right next door to the Chrysler Building....you could toss a pebble and hit it. I think it is a pretty cool building, but I did not know it was part of Joe lore.
I did some searching tonight and it was part of the ARAH series from the 80s and was picked up again recently in the reboot.
Who knew I lived right next to a GI Joe base.
Growing up in the 1980s, I actually lived about 40 minutes away from Fort Wadsworth. My father was in the Navy and we would occasionally go to the Navy Exchange in Fort Hamilton, which was basically just across the river. I remember telling him the Joes were in the PIT across the water, but I don't think he believed me...little did he know :)
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Any update on the Manta project? Even though I've not be involved in the CJC staff since 2011 I'd still love to see this project finished if possible. It is a very cool idea and would probably generate some attention.
G.I. Joe in general has been pretty quite lately, even if the movie is only a few months away.
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Any update on the Manta project? Even though I've not be involved in the CJC staff since 2011 I'd still love to see this project finished if possible. It is a very cool idea and would probably generate some attention.
G.I. Joe in general has been pretty quite lately, even if the movie is only a few months away.
I too want to know if there is any movement on the MANTA? Saving it in case of a CJ Meet?
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More like it's been too brittle to use it.
The option is always there, I just don't want to release something that breaks when you snap it together.