by generalsjoes | Aug 15, 2009 | G.I. Joe, G.I. Joe Collectors Club, G.I. Joe Convention, JoeCon 2010, Show and Convention Coverage
Announced during the Casino Dinner, The International G.I. Joe Collectors’ Convention in 2010 will occur April 29th – May 2nd and will be in Providence, Rhode Island!
Considering I’m on the East Coast, all I can say is W00T!! 🙂
I’ll start saving my pennies now.
by generalsjoes | Aug 15, 2009 | G.I. Joe, G.I. Joe 25th Anniversary, G.I. Joe Collectors Club, G.I. Joe Convention, G.I. Joe Toys, JoeCon 2009, Show and Convention Coverage
The JBL folks are on the case at the GIJCC roundtable with some information about Club offerings for 2009 and 2010!
- 2010 Club Incentive Membership figure is… BIG LOB. Quick, someone cancel my membership! :shifty:
- Lots of O-Ring tooling has been destroyed. 🙁
- Adventure Team vs. Dr. Venom set is STILL COMING! Anniversary construction
- Adventure Team FANG coming in the set.
- Mutant Flytrap for Dr. Venom
- Spy Troops Battle Blitz recolored as Adventure Team vehicle
- If sales warrant it, MANTIS sub for final Adventure Team vehicle
- COBRA “MANTA” Squad is potentially coming, o-ring tooling. 4-figures divided into 2 sets, but no real other details
That’s it for the moment…pictures to come soon, hopefully.
by generalsjoes | Aug 14, 2009 | G.I. Joe, G.I. Joe Collectors Club, G.I. Joe Convention, G.I. Joe Toys, G.I. Joe: The Movie, JoeCon 2009, Show and Convention Coverage
Still waiting patiently for pictures from the Sales and Display floor, but to whet our appetite, It’s All True.net has posted a few images. The one of most notability is Beachhead:
by generalsjoes | Aug 14, 2009 | G.I. Joe, G.I. Joe Convention, G.I. Joe Toys, G.I. Joe: The Movie, JoeCon 2009, Show and Convention Coverage
Lots of stuff planned for 2010, and Hasbro covered a huge amount of it at their 2010 Marketing Panel. Folks from The Terror Drome and JoeBattleLines were both there and provided up-to-the-minute coverage via Twitter and Cover It Live! This is what we know:
- 45 Figures and 15 Vehicles planned for 2010
- 4 Themes for the year, Desert, Jungle, Urban, and Arctic
- Bravo 2010 Wave 2 HISS Tank! – Treads Move, HISS Body “pops up”
- Wave 5 2009 Figures
Ripcord (Jungle Assault)
Duke (City Strike)
Snake Eyes (City Strike)
Storm Shadow (Arctic Threat)
Desert-Viper
- 2010 Figures – Different Environments
Snow Job (Arctic Threat w/ nasty sniper rifle)
Storm Shadow (Jungle Assault – Resolute body!)
Destro (Arctic Threat w/ Water Shooter and frosted head??)
Zartan (Desert Battle, almost looks like Raptor)
Elite Ice-Viper
Ripcord (Desert Battle w/ Delta Suit “next gen” for Air Operations)
Snake Eyes (Arctic Threat w/ new sculpt Timber)
Duke (Jungle Assault, looks like one of the guys from Predator)
COBRA Commander (Jungle Assault)
Jungle-Viper (Sniper, lots of elements of old school Night-Viper)
Recondo (Jungle Assault)
Scarlett (City Strike – Resolute Scarlett body)
Firefly (City Strike – Some elements of Wraith)
Heavy Duty (Desert Battle)
- Ice Cutter COBRA Vehicle w/ Snow Serpent Officer
- Hiss Attack Scout w/ Sand Viper (HISS Tank w/ no armor?)
- Armored MotorCycle w/ Ashika (new character) – CYCLE TRANSFORMERS INTO ARMOR! COOL AS ALL HELL.
- Armored Panther w/ Outback
- COBRA Fury w/ Alley-Viper Office
- Snow Cat w/ Whiteout
- Sand Serpent w/ Star-Viper (Night Raven repaint)
- COBRA Commander MAIL AWAY FIGURE!
New Breastplate, new helmet/mask
HISS Drone comes with it
I’ve mirrored a sampling of round table images below…more to come from the sales floor!
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by generalsjoes | Aug 14, 2009 | G.I. Joe, G.I. Joe 25th Anniversary, G.I. Joe Collectors Club, G.I. Joe Convention, G.I. Joe Toys, JoeCon 2009, Show and Convention Coverage
Never fails…whenever Fred from JBL shows up at the G.I. Joe Convention, you can be assured that some awesome pictures will be coming forward. On the JBL Convention Coverage page, Fred has posted a short series of images of the Convention Exclusives, and the pics are pretty much the highest quality I’ve seen yet.
He’ll be hitting the display floor today at 2:00pm as well, so expect big things! Check out the images mirrored below.
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