JoeCanuck

There's been a lot of talk of RIT dyeing GI Joes as a fast and effective base-coating technique. Raptor's been practicing the technique and showing off his results. I know it takes a pot of simmering water to do, but is there anyway we hook-up a backyard-burner or something and have a demo of this technique at the Con?

To anyone that's interested, I have a Terror Drome box that's in kinda rough shape. I'm hesitant to throw it away because it is an obscure piece of GI Joe memorabilia. If anyone wants it, it?s theirs. If you?re going to the Con, I?ll bring it. Just PM me.

Just curious how many Joe Canuck Meets each member's been to. This is my second meet coming up. Who is coming for the first time? Who's pulling a threepeat?

Hello and welcome to the Joe Canuck TCG section. This is the area you'll post tactics, observations, and news about the Wizards of the Coast-produced GI Joe Trading Card Game.

If you are interested in trading cards, you should post in the trades section. And if you want to play a game online, there is the online games section. For the moment, as Mike mentioned, we are not hosting pics. But once we are, we will play games using pics for Set-Up and Firefight, and strictly adhereing to the Honour System. There is nothing to gain from these games, cheating just makes you a jerk.

In another thread, Loop asked if we could save styrofoam for the Cobra base set at the meet. I thought it would be worthwhile to start a new thread about what else we might need. Obviously this list will grow and evolve as we flesh out the story, but here are a few fundamentals we should consider:

Cobra:
We need a Cobra army. Most of us have been picking up the many basic Viper variants that hasbro has offered us over the past five years. And we also have the Cobra Infantry packs. So it won't be hard making a Cobra army. It will be hard keeping track of them, however. Should we assign someone known for his legion as Cobra Infantry Provider? Or maybe divide it by types of troops, like Infantry Provider, Alley Viper Provider, etc?

The Hierarchy shouldn't be hard to fill. There have been enough Cobra Commander, Destro, Zartan, Baroness, Storm Shadow, and even Mindbender figures to chose from. But, again, who is in charge and how do we keep track? What if a mint v1 Stormy someone offered breaks during shooting? Does the owner accept the loss or do we all pitch in to replace it?

Finally, the base. Raptor's Terrordrome with the Battle Planet cannon is a given, but what about the styrofoam? Will it just serve as formless blobs in the background? Should we get a styrofoam cutter to form them into mountains and snow banks?

Joe:

Everyone is more or less expected to provide their own custom figure, I think this is understood. But will these figures be interacting with established Joes? The whole team? A couple of specific characters, like the Joe Commander Hawk and Canada's liason Back-Stop? If the Joes are to use vehicles, where do these come from?

And do we have any ideas for a Joe HQ?

Technical Requirements

We need a camera, and we could use a laptop, I think. I haven't done much Dio Shooting since Gay GI Joe Theater, but I remember the massive lights we needed to get the details on the figures to show. Is there anything else we might need to get? A food table for the extras?

And finally, how are we going to keep Loop's ego in check? Ritual pandering of his ideas? Distractions from hookers? Nearby rope if we need to hog tie him?



I think that's a hefty enough list of issues for now. If anyone has opinions on the matters, feel free to provide them. And any other issues anyone else can think of should probably be brought up here.

I happened upon an Apocalypse at TRU today, which I understand to be a shortpacked fig so I picked it up in case anyone needs it. I'm selling it for $14 Canadian plus shipping if anyone needs, or I'm willing to consider trades.