This seems to have gone under the radar, Hasbro announced an Action Man movie will be in the works. It sounds like it is far off, but I’m excited for another GI Joe property to make it into theaters. Now if only they were good…. 

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-hungry-hungry-hippos-action-man-monopoly-movie-20121004,0,4066248.story

On to a rant about Retaliation: I just don’t understand how hard it is to make a movie about GI Joe… The story, and world is there. It could even be a rehashed/mash up from the comics or cartoons and it would work. Casting has also been terrible. Duke and Ripcord, were awful. I will definitely see Retaliation but my bar is set low. It will be entertaining but probably not good. Reshooting scenes and the rumors of it being terrible scare me. 

It looks like Andrei Koribanics (former Hasbro artist) will be doing a longer interview. Either here with me or on a podcast. More to follow later. 

I was able to have a short conversation with Andrei Koribanics, he was an artist for Hasbro and he did quite a bit of pre-production artwork for the GI Joe line. He worked on Joe from 1983-1985 and did a number of pencil concept sketches as well as full-blown illustrations (in oil on board) for characters that had “passed the first round” of approvals. He was also behind many of the motorized backpacks. And his work was for internal review.

Well I went and made this a ‘real’ website and bought the domain. Do not know what will come of this but it was definitely worth it, even for my personal enjoyment. I’ll slowly be adding things. Defintely more to come on the collection I purchased. 

So I promised pictures and here are the first few. I am utterly speechless at the size and condition of this collection. It’s overwhelming.

I was a late adopter to listening to the two main Joe podcasts in the community: Flag Points and WOJM. I have listened to all of FP and now 11 episodes of WOJM. I have to say I prefer FP so far. And Chuck on WOJM is something… 

I have also been busy collecting prototypes. I have picked up unassembled resin prototypes of eco warriors BBQ and Deep Six. I also snagged 83 Scarlett and a test shot 1982 cobra officer. 

Tomorrow is the big day I pick up a near complete 82-00 gi joe collection!!! I’ve rented a 14 foot uhaul to transport everything in. Pictures and thoughts to follow. 

Well guys (haha all none of you) I just purchased a guy’s collection. Its just about the ENTIRE 82-94 line figures and vehicles! Plus he has everything from 95-00!!!!!! This is amazing. Very excited to pick everything up on Saturday. I will be posting tons of pictures!