Hey guys,
the Leaky Suit Brigade will be giving away a FREE vintage GI Joe ARAH figure! All you need to do to enter is “like” our Facebook page Here. The prize will be given away after we get 35 “likes.” The winner will be chosen at random from those that hit “like.”
Grabbed some back issues, variant covers and filled in some holes. I also grabbed the Retaliation movie prequel comics to get me excited about the upcoming movie!
I added to more items to the growing collection. First up in a MIB Tiger Rat. I have posted several times on here about my love and appreciation of Tiger Force. It really caught my eye as a kid and became my absolute favorite Joe sub-team. This gets added to the collection of MOC and MIB TF stuff I have collected. I now only need the Tiger Paw for a complete MIB collection of the vehicles. I have all the TF figures MOC (except for the international ones, the prices on those $600 and up are not something I want to splurge on yet.) This auction had really good timing because of the David Jensen estate auctions. He was a no-name collector who amassed a HUGE collection. His estate’s auctions got front paged on http://www.Hisstank.com and the prices rose too high and all the auctions went for a premium. So while others had to pay as much as $213, I got my for less than half of that.
Next up is a 1983 Hiss Tank Driver prototype (Edit: this is more likely the 2000 Rip It test shot, because the plastic appears to be different than that used in the 80s.) It is a first/test shot of the figure. It will go nicely with the growing prototype collection I have. Now if only I could find any 2Up of a GI Joe, that would be awesome.
The surprises are in hand! (Well two of the three are here.) I won’t get a chance to post the reveal until tomorrow because it is the wife’s bday and that has to come first, haha. I will clean them up a bit and take some pictures!
I’ll keep it short and sweet, there are a lot of kids out there who aren’t fortunate enough to have the great Christmas days that many of us, including myself remember. So, if you can, please that the time to donate to Toys for Tots. Even just one toy will make a big difference.
While I was in Cleveland, I came across a store selling Iron Man, Star Wars, and Transformers toys all for $5, so I couldn’t resist and bought some and dropped them into a Toys for Tots box.
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I went to Cleveland for the weekend to visit the in-laws and I was able to stop by a vintage toy store/comic book shop called Big Fun Toy Store. It was an awesome shop. They had a ton of ARAH figures and vehicles as well as a bunch of the original Marvel GI Joe comic books. I passed on the figures and vehicles because I had them all, but I picked up 12 comics. Just a couple odd issues here and there for a complete Marvel GI Joe run! I also managed to find “Countdown to Zartan” at a local discount store for $5 and couldn’t pass that up, especially since I don’t have the DVDs yet.
I just pre-ordered a signed copy of the new GI Joe reboot for 2013! Its signed by Fred Van Lente and is available at Dynamic Forces, check it out! A scan of the cover page is below. While I was there, I also picked up the GI Joe #1 variant cover signed by Mel Rubi! It is a cover exclusive to Dynamic Forces.
I spoke with one of their community managers and asked him a couple questions about the difference between Blue, Black and Red Labels:
The difference is typically in the art. We commission the artists to do more elaborate, more time intensive work.
Blue Label is also stamped with the Blue foil imprint, bound in blue and has a blue satin bookmark ribbon. So there’s some really nice small touches.
The GI Joe art should be in the office soon and we will definitely be passing along previews of it. Can’t wait to see it!
So 2 of the 3 big items that I just bought have been shipped and now I’m just waiting and tracking the package until they arrive!
I also snagged some cool stuff from IDW Limited and when that arrives I’ll post pics.
JOECON 2013 Just Announced 2013 April 4th-7th At Indianapolis – Indiana
3 3/4-inch Nocturnal Fire convention set (whatever that means… Maybe Night Force?)
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