JoeCanuck

Martin - how about a review of these figures. I saw in another post that it looked like you had received your order?

Well I was at TRU yesterday and at clearance they had 1st wave of sailors. $5 each.
Finally broke down and bought 3. $16 was nice.

Quote from: akpayne on November 15, 2024, 08:55:44 AM

Sadly not a legit location.  It was at one point hosted on several Torrent sites.

SHAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   (hahahaha)

Yeah downloading complete runs was great.   I had a number of different runs downloaded for awhile.   However the computer I had them stored on died and I never bothered to transfer them or try and download them again.   

I hear the digital services aren't too bad for reading, but I don't know that I would be willing to pay a monthly subscription just to read them once in a whlle.   Although I guess I could sign up, read them, and cancel.   Then rinse and repeat down the road if I wanted to do so again.

I think i stumbled on  a website back in the early 2000's of scans of the entire original comics. I think it was something like www.cobraaa.com or something. That was awesome because i finally got to read through everything that i had missed earlier in the 80's. Good times.

I'll say again.. if its cartoon appearance, I'm not super interested...unless they were unreleased figures, then maybe.

Honestly, I would be down for as close-to-reissues as possible of the originals, except update the 82/83 figures with a little more detail. I also would want better plastic for hands and feet so they don't break. Keep it to '83-'88 lineup with a smattering of some later year figures. Trooper builder packs would be great. Vehicles too but I think due to small run it would be too costly for me to buy them....depends on what it is.

Lots of my current figures are becoming too fragile and I'm not interested in just setting them up to stand on a shelf and never be touched.

These toys need to be played with by kids, if that can even be done anymore.

For the current images:
- I just can't get excited about twins in business suits.
- Cover girl looks good. Could use some colour on her face to make her look a little less plain.
-  I'll wait for a better coloured snake eyes and bat (you know there's a repaint coming in vintage colours).
- CC looks excellent and would be my for sure get from this wave. I think I like this better then the original battle helmet version. Would be nice if wave 2 had hooded version (are they doing that anymore?)

If these were $15 CDN I'd try and make a go of it.

Rattler is awesome but wings are a bit to short. I get it but yeah looks a little off. Should have included a hanging harness as a tier.
Interesting in the comments about the patches whether there is a hint to a next vehicle being a tank or whether that's just reference to just one of the purposes of the A-10.
I'm probably reading into it too much.

The figures look good for the most part. Except for the expressive face of Road Pig. He looks like Wreck it Ralph.
Hasbro needs to stop with the animals already.

Otherwise everything looks real nice.

The transformers / joe crossover really irk me because i want the figures but don't care at at all for the transformers themselves. haha.

Wow. Sorry for coming back to this but i hadn't seen this before today and just felt like i needed to say something.
Dave was actually the one who pointed me towards Joe Canuck website back when Yojoe-the pit yahoo mailing group was still going on. I think his handle was Chef Morgardee if i recall.
I never met the man but i enjoyed his content here, he seemed like a pretty funny guy in his posts and i know he loved his son and wife deeply.  Was sad when he dropped off the forum and now I'm sad for his family. That must be incredibly tough for them.

I guess you never know when your time has come and i think i often never say the things I should have said a long time ago. Thanks Dave! Rest in peace.

Peace to all you guys who are still here. Thanks for keeping this place alive.