Stuff
Stuff
This page is dedicated to showing some of the cool 1:6 scale stuff I find here and there that could be used for GI Joe play. Many of the items I intend to showcase here have already been used in photo shoots I have done.
Tin Decoration from Home Goods
I haven't been actively collecting GI Joe items lately. My hobbies have expanded, or perhaps contracted? Back to computer coding again. Most of this year's hobby time went into coding a text adventure called Piracy 2.0, and entering it into an annual competition, in which I took 5th place. Not at all bad. And this coming winter I plan to code some games in Assembler for GEOS on my old Commodore 64/128. I repatriated my old computer, bought some new (old) components, and even converted some of my old Koala graphics to PC format for posterity.
But one thing I've wanted for a long time, to the point I was about to make one for myself, was a K6 Red Telephone Kiosk. My original plan was to do my own take on Doctor Who with a guy who uses a booth such as this to travel in time and space. I've been planning to build a model of one of these since the late 1980s. I even got a raftload of glass photo slide panels to use as windows for it, but I never did build that project.
Even now, when you go to an incorrect page on my Huxter.org web-site, you get a picture of a red phone kiosk that's actually about 8 inches tall, not nearly tall enough for my purposes, but it's a coin bank, and quite nice. That one is pictured here:
I even have a small, die-cast one that I put a miniature GI Joe in. This one stands about 3 inches tall and is quite nice for its scale.
I even bought one of the Bratz phone booths, though it's way too short. I was hoping to get a second one and do a slice-n-glue to increase the height.
But while shopping for Christmas gifts for my wife this weekend, at Home Goods, I spotted some tin home accents. Bi-planes, scooters, gasoline pumps, all made of tin and plastic. While browsing, my heart nearly stopped... there it stood. $25.00. I will remove the over-large phone and put a better one in. There are no window panes. It's open space. But you could easily put plastic in place where the panes are. Other than the fact that the clock doesn't really exist on K6 Kiosks, this is a highly acceptable item. I will say no more. Pictures will say the rest.
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Secret of the Mummy's Tomb
I guess Hasbro gave up the license to make Christmas Ornaments based on GI Joe. I'm guessing their last one didn't take. It was an odd cross between a vintage GI Joe diver with the Sea Sled, and the 3.5 Joes with the ugly joints. I didn't buy one. I bought two of the AT Helicopter ornaments!
Anyway, this year Carlton has taken up the mantel and I have to say they did an awesome job!
First up (because it's the most impressive) is the miniature ornaments based on the Mummy's Tomb set, one of the most iconic of the GI Joe Adventure Team sets ever!
This is the entire set. I have removed the golden screw-eyes that they hang
by. These are molded out of a tough rubber, which means they're durable and
yet can hold good detail.
(Click any image for a larger version)
The figure is almost 2.5 inches tall. He's wearing the tan outfit, carrying the pick-axe from the set, he has a very nice tiny AT logo on his chest, and holds one of the gems that came with this vintage set. on the ground are the other two gems. Nice eye for detail. I think I would have put the pith helmet on him, though, for completion.
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The ATV is very nice. It has the logo to scale. However, the black text that appeared on the real ATV isn't here. Other than that, it's all there. The wheels do not roll, they are solidly molded to the body. The winch is soft plastic, and can bend, rather than break.
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The sarcophagus is amazingly detailed. Even the paint is exactly the right color, with the faded black details. We're talking amazingly accurate detail, and while the sarcophagus is a solid molded piece (and does not open and close like the original it is based on) it does include the three gems. It even has the small tab at the rear base that the front cover clicked into.
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Even the Box is amazing! It is like a miniature window box of a Joe set. The back has the original painting of the Mummy's Tomb set!
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1966 Astronaut with Capsule
The second ornament this year is the larger format ornament, of the vintage 1966 Astronaut Joe. The space suit is chromed nicely to mimic the original foil fabric of the suit. This one has the three zippers, the most desirable of the various space suits Hasbro made for Joe back in the day.
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The back of the text reads:
Enthusiasm for space exploration was at its zenith in the '60s, and fans of the popular toy action figure G.I. JOE were treated to an authentic astronaut suit and space capsule set for their favorite hero. This detailed version, featuring the three-zipper suit, space gloves and boots, was released by Hasbro in 1966
Thanks, Carlton, for picking up the Joe line! I hope sales are good, and you do it again next year. If you need ideas, please contact me.
While visiting Newfoundland this past week (August 9, 2005) I came upon this beauty! When I was growing up, people called this a "half-cat". I never knew why, until I realized it was just a Newfoundland version of "amphi-cat". (Say it fast...)
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The Commander has a look at an Adventure Team All-Terrain
Vehicle (Amphicat) |
Here's me, standing with the Commander... yep. This
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Blue Peter is a TV show for kids in England. During the 70s they did several Doctor Who pieces, and on the DVD for the Doctor Who episode "Talons of Weng-Chiang", a DVD extra shows exerpts from the show.
Here's a pic from the show.
Note in the stacks behind the host is a red jet. It is clearly a red version of Irwin Toys' Jet Fighter for GI Joe (and Action Man, I guess) from the 1970s.
Here's a close-up of the jet:
Here's an ad for the Irwin Toy line from the late 1960s.
How cool is this? This is this year's Hallmark GI Joe ornament - an accurate 1:36 scale reproduction of the GI Joe Adventure Team helicopter, with a 1:36-scale GI Joe in the cockpit. So while it's a mystery why the Joe is not an Air Adventurer (blonde with orange jumpsuit) it's still a great item.
(Click any image for a larger version)
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I got this set from a BudK Catalog they sent me. It's a Samurai Daisho set that I got on sale for $4.99 plus shipping. Dragon motif on a fairly good ivory-like plastic handle. This 1:6 scale set is excellent for GI Joe. (It may be 1:5 scale, a little larger than 1:6, but it's very close.)
Katana, Wakisashi and Tanto on three-tiered display stand. Go to BudK, and enter item #RT995 in the search window at the top, or click here.
Thanks to a heads-up on one of the GI Joe groups I read, I found at my local KB Toys a set of carded military accessories. Of the three sets I bought two. Mostly I got them because there are two very cool pistols. (The third's pistol didn't interst me as much.) The two pistols are pictured here:
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But also with each set comes a different pair of sunglasses. Quite cool.
There's also some very well-made military stuff with each carded set, as well as things like sledgehammers, crowbars, etc... far better molded than I've come to expect from this company. Well worth the price I paid, which was $1.67 at KB Toys (on sale) - regular price $1.99
Hasbro's new Destro figure (from the GI Joe Real American Hero line) is actually a pretty nice figure. He has one of those stupid molded-on sweaters but it's molded in black and therefore kind of works. The hands have gray fingerless gloves and he has wrist bracers. I bought the recent 1:6 scale Harry Potter (from the Prisoner of Azkaban film) and put his robe on Destro.
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With hood up
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With hood down
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The results aren't bad. But what the hell is up with those boots???
This is a shot of my young AT Commander (too young to grow a full beard apparently) wearing a Le Gourmet Chef apron with chef's hat. He's carrying a colander.
This came from a kitchen shop called "Le Gourmet Chef" and cost around $12.00. The purpose for this apron and chef's hat is actually to dress up a bottle of champagn or wine. But it fits Joe almost perfectly. I thought I'd have to adjust the hat, but nope. Fits a flocked original Joe perfectly. The apron is a bit too wide and wraps too much in the back, but that can easily be hidden. Or adjusted with sewing abilities.
This is actually a Top Cop body with the first head of the GI Joe Club Exclusive Talking Commander. The flocking was spotty so the club got new ones made and sent them out to buyers. The better head is now on the AT Talking Commander, while this guy ponders whether or not to get a shave.
This is a nice little item I got at Home Goods for $8.00. It's a brass ship's Engine Room Telegraph. This is highly detailed, and the handle clicks as it moves around the dial. Here, Dylan Hunt from Andromeda tells his helm room to stop.
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Here, Dylan Hunt calls for the engines to stop.
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Close-up detail of the Engine Room Telegraph. A very
nicely detailed piece.
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I can see this having some cool decorative potential in the Adventure Team HQ or elsewhere.
These next three items came from a very cool shop in Brookline, MA called Brookline News & Gifts. Just across the street from the Coolidge Corner Theater, it's a small cigar shop completely packed with stuff, including old toys, tin robots galore, models, space ships, porn magazines, ornaments, just about everything from schlock to collecting gems! The place is one of those little packed shops that are just a joy to pore through. You need at least an hour to get a feel for what's there, and even then you've only skimmed over a tiny portion of what they have. All in a room not much bigger than an average bedroom.
(And as a side-note, please look at the shirts these next two Joes. They are two of the newest Ken shirts I got at Target recently. I love the short-sleeved Hawaiian-type shirts for my Joes.)
Sword letter-openers have been popular among us Joe collectors for some time now. The problem is finding them, and at a good price. I found one once, and a fellow collector sent me a couple others. The metal hilts of the ones I had were shiny gold or copper-color. This one has a rich bronze look to it that I quite like. The guard looks like two inverted dragon wings, and the sword seems to come from the dragon's gaping mouth.
This was another find at the Brookline News & Gifts shop. In an old wooden box, about 15 or these swords were in their folded card packages. The back of the packet shows a number of swords including Robin Hood's and Excalibur. The shop had at least one of each except for Excalibur, which was sold out. For $7.50 I couldn't get more than one, but I got the freakiest one - the Barbarian Sword.
This is the third cool nick-nack I picked up at the Brookline News & Gifts shop, a veritable shack of stuff. You can barely fit down the aisles, and your eyes will never know where to look next. Anyway, this one is a keychain, it cost about $1.99 and will make a nice set decoration for a doctor's office or could be used in a more creepy manner.
When I was in High School I played trumpet, so this little piece really caught my eye. I saw this one and more instruments like it in Mystic, CA last year but they were $20.00 so I opted not to buy, figuring I'd pick one up eventually, somwhere else. Well, I never saw this anywhere else since. Until now. Even eBay searches showed that I'd have to shell out $20.00 plus shipping, so I really lost out by not picking it up in Mystic. The detailing is incredible. I've seen cheap plastic chrome-coated trumpets that were smaller, and had no detail, but this one is real brass, and even the spit-valve is right!
I had made the two above purchases (the Spine and the Sword) at the Brookline News & Gifts shop, and left. On my way out, my eye caught on to a very cool 1:6 art-deco radio (which was a housing for a small clock) and thought I'd love to have that, but then my eye drifted a little to the right, and saw this, my coveted trumpet. So I ran back in, and asked the price. He said it was $15.00, and he had more instruments. I looked at them all. The saxophone was by far the most detailed, but hey, I didn't play the Saxophone, I played the Trumpet, so I wanted Joe to have one. Perhaps I'll get the sax later, on another trip.
Yes, that's me. Yes, I take an awful picture from the front. However, the shirt is something to be proud of!
I got this at Hot Topic a few years ago. I was a bit apprehensive about wearing it around at first, but I normally don't care about what other people think of me, so I wore it at the mall. I had several people stop me and ask where I got it. Mostly guys, around my age, I think. They clearly wanted this shirt!
The beard and hair is actually flocked. Well, made of soft fiber anyway. It's an awesome shirt. Love the color. Love the logo. Just perfect.
A friend of mine sent me a mystery package for Christmas. She let me know something was coming, but refused to let on what. I got it just before Christmas, and opened it. She and her brother found this and sent it to me. And I'm grateful.
Here's what was in the package:
The tent is a nice miniature with all the features. Real zippers, two layers, flexible tent poles, a perfect model of a modern tent. And in yellow and blue! What more could an Adventure Team fan ask for?
Update: My friend found this on eBay. I was under the impression she found an outlet for them, but sadly, no. She searched eBay for "display tent" and she says that at the time, there were quite a few available. Last time I checked, I didn't see anything like this.
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Joe drives up in his new AT H2 Command Vehicle to check
out the beginnings of the new Training Tower.
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So far the top has no structure, but it could be fitted
with a deck or other functional piece that allows for various training
missions. Joe can climb it easily.
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This is a three-foot-tall blue infrastructured tower that came from a "Tech Dude" Downhill racetrack set. As you can see, it would make a good customized Training Tower, or an excellent power line tower, or radar tower. It could be fitted with a radar dish, power lines, whatever you see that works.
This thing sells (with all the rest of the skateboard racetrack gear) for over $30.00, but I got this one on eBay for about $11.00 shipped. Needless to say, I was thrilled!
I'll post more as I update the tower. I also have plans to use it as a power tower in an upcoming shoot.
Gabi, the Get Real Girl, comes with this Karate Gi. Like most Get Real Girls outfits, it's top notch quality-wise, made well of good fabric, and fits other 12" figures well. This gi fits all 12" GI Joes I've put it on. The green "dragon" motif is nice. I'm not sure if it could be removed, but I like it as is, so I won't try.
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Here, the Commander shows off the gi, complete with
denim bag (also with dragon motif) not well pictured here.
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The outfit comes with three other belts. White, green
and brown.
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The Commander shows his moves.
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Although I love this outfit, I got it on eBay (because it's hard to find anywhere else) not for the outfit but for the body. I needed a mocha-toned well-articulated body for a photo shoot I could pop a new head on. The result, by the way, was excellent, but I won't be revealing it for a long time.
Target's Exclusive Empire Strikes Back Speeder this year is driven by Leia. She is made from the GI Jane body, a bit paler than usual. The neck is also slightly unusual. It has the same base as Jane, but the neckpost is made to fit Barbie-style heads.
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Princess Leia as she comes packaged.
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She removes her Huge helmet...
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Hey!
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"You were expecting maybe someone else?"
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"Vampires or Imperial Soldiers - I can take 'em all!" |
So I removed the ridiculously smiley Leia head (though her hair was nice) and popped on instead the head of Buffy the Vampire Slayer from the original 8" Buffy doll I found on eBay. (You can also get a Willow... something I'm considering!)
I've bought Ken tuxedos before. The last one was satin, and had a "Chippendales" shirt and pants combo (sleeveless) with silky stripe down the pant-leg. Looked pretty good. Can't remember how much I paid for it. But this new one cost $3.00 or $4.00 and is a much better tuxedo. I've had Ken tuxes that were made of velveteen and had a blue collar on a black tailed coat. Weird.
This one takes the cake! Similar to others, with the Chippendale-like sleeveless shirt-pant combo, but it's made of good linen. This one fits well, looks elegant, and so far is the nicest tailed tuxedo I have for Joe.
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Full front on the tux. Shoes fit new, smaller-footed
Joes. No socks. (The pants are too long, and I have them rolled up. Proper
adjustment would eliminate the need for socks.)
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Full frontal. The fine linen is hard to see in this
picture, but it's really very nice!
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Best full-tail tuxedo I've owned for Joe yet!
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So because of my photo stories I am in constant search of clothing for GI Joe and GI Jane that is not drab, khaki or camouflage. I don't really do much with military figures, and most of my shoots have to do with my Adventure Team which is a rather casual organization at times. Often they will wear color-appropriate outfits for ops, but when operating out of the office, they often wear normal day-to-day clothing.
So I keep my eye on the pink aisle for new Ken fashions. About 80% of Ken outfits will fit GI Joe. Usually the pants may be too long, or the chest too narrow, but usually it fits. Also, usually, about 80% of Ken outfits are completely useless, as they are so... how shall I put this? Well, you know Ken. He's not the most masculine of guys. No GI Joe would ever wear most of Ken's outfits.
However once in a while a Ken item of clothing comes along that's quite appropriate. Over the past few years, I've found their short-sleeved shirts quite good for use with Joe, especially the Hawaiian-type and plaid shirts.
Just this weekend, I found several new Ken clothing sets, only two of which were usable, but they weren't bad. The sad thing about Ken clothing is that usually they are closed with a very unsubtle velcro strip up the back making rear shots impossible with these outfits. These usually cost just under $5.00 a set.
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Striped dress shirt (multi-tone blue with yellow stripes.)
with polka-dot tie. A bit bold, but certainly usable in a civilian setting.
This set also came with nice black pants (a little over-long), black oval
glasses that won't fit this figure, and wing-tip shoes that won't fit
this GI Joe's feet. (He's wearing Joe sized shoes)
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Gray sweater with yellow white and orange stripes. The
pants are brown corduroy. The inseam is about 3/4" too long, so I
tucked it up inside. The Ken shoes, as usual, fit only the smaller feet
of the new GI Joes. Comes with the silver sunglasses and a CD player.
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These next photos are of two Barbie and Ken multi-sets I got this summer. Each set cost $10.00 at Toys R Us and contained about 4 complete outfits for Ken and Barbie. I gave most of it to my daughter, and kept just a few shirts. Not sure which shirts came with which set, but here are the four that were salvagable.
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Simple white dress-shirt with red tie. This is, in my
opinion, an attempt by Mattell to pay homage to a shirt set for Ken that
was done in the 60s. I have two shirts, plain white with red ties, from
that era.
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This shirt is light blue with two-tone purple wiggly
stripes. Meant only for seriously casual.
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This is probably the nicest of the new shirts. A pale
blue pin-stripe with a burgundy tie. Extremely usable for just about any
business purpose.
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An ok t-shirt. The appliqué is a bit unusual,
and I haven't made attempts to remove it, but again, for extremely casual,
it's ok.
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Get Real Girls are good sets. The girls are nicely articulated, but their heads are too large, and caricaturish, so they're no good for my purposes. However, my daughter loves them, (and I'm guessing that Mattell did too, which is why I'm certain they made the unusual step of giving their Barbie figures oversized, caraciture heads in their new line "my scene" Barbies.) These are the figures that come with the gorgeous backpacks that are incredibly detailed, and you see in my photo stories such as "Mountain Retrieval" and "GI Joe and the Search for the Pygmy Albino Sasquatch".
The Get Real Girls come with some of the finest, most detailed gear ever. So recently I found four carded outfit sets which were very nice indeed. Below are four of the outfits I got, and here's how they fit Janes and Power Team female figures. Each set came with a carry-case of some kind, one a nice messenger sling-bag. Each also comes with appropriate shoes and two had over-large hats. Shoes seen below are not necessarily those that went with the sets.
The best part is I got each of these sets for about $1.00 each.
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This Power Team figure sports a satin skirt with yellow
tie-belt. She has on a powder-blue baby-doll t-shirt with a bunny appliqué.
The prize of this set is the thick red hooded sweater!.
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Jane is wearing a nice jean skirt with a nice red t-shirt
with "Get Real" on the front with stars. The cool silver jacket
is a bit small around the neck and rides up a bit. Probably better for
the figure it's meant to fit.
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I like this outfit a lot. The jean jacket is not cheesy
like so many miniature jean jackets are. The pants are killer! The shirt
is white with black sleeves and says "Get Real" on her chest.
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Also a nice outfit. The jeans have a flame appliqué
down the legs, and the two-tone blue hooded shirt has a silver dragon
on the chest.
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Finally, an extra bonus is that the red hooded sweater fits Joe fairly well. This fabric is a bit on the spongy side, so it puffs up a bit. I wouldn't close the zipper, though that does work.
That Power Team girl is quite a tall lady.
I found this today at WalMart. It was on an end-cap rack with other "Sports pullchains." These are meant for childs' lamps, I believe, and instructions are included to convert them to keychains. All that has to do with a length of chain attached to the mit itself, but that is easily removable.
My Commander is a General Lee head on an ERTL Top Cop body, so his hands are the "Captain Action" hands, which I find perfect. The seams near the wrist opening are loose enough to fit other hands in, but I haven't yet tried the wide-open Hasbro footballer hand, or grenade thrower hand, though I will try those as well. But as you can see, the ERTL hands work well.
Here, the Commander, dressec completely inappropriately for ball, is waiting
for the ball. The "leather" strapping is a little overlarge, but wow.
This is a nice piece for $2.50
Here, the Commander is preparing for the ball. Looks as if he doesn't care really
where the ball is coming from, or he's very confident he's going to catch it.
Note how the "leather" straps look very realistic.
The Commander dives for it! A little fuzzier than I hoped, but another good
shot of the glove.
This is General Lee wearing his Rhett Butler outfit. Look at this thing! The outfit is rich, luxurient, and has a hat that fits General Lee to a T. Which is lucky, as it's meant for a Barbie Rhett Butler, and usually that means it's not going to fit the General.
Check out the vest! The pattern on the shirt's lapels, the tie. It's an amazing piece of work, this outfit.
In fact, this is for a large project I'm working on, but what that project is is currently top secret. :-)
Looking for the set of sword letter openers at eknifeworks.com, I found they were out of stock. But I found this gorgeous number that will go in my GI Joe Headquarters. The Claymore fits in the shield.
The armor bust is molded from some material. It's solid, the armor and shield do not remove. However, the real metal sword does. It's got a gorgeous blade, and the handle is nicely molded, though made of a very coppery metal that looks a little too chromy. Not bad, though, for $9.99
Here, the Commander poses next to the armor bust, sword in hand. The sword fits into a hole in the shield.
My wife reported a month or so ago that she saw in a store in the Boston area several very cool retro-design chairs that might fit my GI Joes. They cost around $15.00 a chair, so I told her that was too much for me, and thought no more about it. This weekend, my wife reported that the same chairs were now available at iParty at a local mall. I investigated. I bought these two for $9.95 each.
Here, Hawk and Elliot study the new chairs the Commander purchased for the AT
Board Room.
Hawk tests the waters first, then invites Elliot to have a seat.
Elliot and Hawk agree that meetings in the board room may be a little more comfortable
from here on out.
Strangely, these chairs are made of painted ceramic, but they mimic perfectly plastics used in avant-garde chair design during the 1960s and 70s. The legs are thin metal wire.
For those of you who like these chairs, I found a place to order them. Go to McFee.com and order these retro-design chairs in Yellow, Blue or Red. Each color is also a different design.
I'm a fan of any Gerry Anderson show. Recently I rented the new DVDs of UFO, Anderson's first live-action show. In the episode Conflict, Straker meets General Henderson to insist that the space junk in orbit be cleared, as he suspects it can be used by aliens as cover. In the office behind General Henderson is - The GI Joe Space Capsule!
I had a heck of a time trying to capture these images from a DVD-ROM drive on a computer at work. Special capture programs were required.
This is a small sub-set of the things I've gathered up over the years for dioramas and photo stories. These items either have been seen, or will be seen in photo stories I have done and will do.
Crates from Soldiers of the World set. Coin stack from Captain
Action Kabai Singh. Grey cask from Sideshow Toy's 7" Mummy
figure. Lantern is a keychain (it works.) The treasure chest is
from a "The Mummy" playset. The scroll is from the
Sideshow Mummy set. The gold cat is from a "The Mummy"
playset. The canopic jars are from the 12" Electronic
"The Mummy". The alabaster amphora is from Polar Lights
"The Mummy" model kit. The slab of heiroglyphs is from
the "Mummy" 8" figure.
The skull is a pencil sharpener. The three lanterns are all
working, lightable keychains. The View Master is a Basic Fun
keychain. The book is from a "The Mummy" playset. The
tea set is a Barbie piece. Same goes for all of the pastries. The
clay model of a dancer is from a Barbie Generation Girls set, as
are the carving tools nearby. The divider and ruler are from
George Washington Joe. The bottles and wine glasses are from some
generic carded toy set. The watch is from Captain Action Kato,
and the communicator is from a 3.5" Star Trek figure.
The movie clapper is hand-made from foam-core and a printed
clapper. The axe is from a "Warcraft" figure. The left
chess set was sent to me. It's quite nice! The other set is a
Basic Fun set, with a custom-printed chess board. The roller
blades are from a generic "finger skate" carded toys. I
don't remember where the scroll came from. The bottle and the
yellow PDA and watch are from a Get Real Girl, as is the black
shoulder-bag. The hand-cuffs are generic GI Joe hand-cuffs with a
keychain chain put in place of the ugly chain that it came with.
The yellow robot is from a 3.5" Star Wars figure set. The
loot bag is from Captain Action Kabai Singh. The Guitar is a
Resaurus Pick-Up Gibson. Finally, though it's hard to see, that
is a light green Hoberman sphere above the robot.
The microscope is the base of a 3.5" Laser Cannon. (I used
the cannon in GI Joe vs. Aliens, as Vasquez's heavy weapon.)
There are two chest-busters from Alien Resurrection figures. The
two face-huggers are from the same. The brain is from Sideshow
Toys' Frankenstein's Monster figure. The Mars Pathfinder Rover is
a Hot Wheelz toy. The phaser is from a Star Trek figure. The
laptop is a kitchen magnet with the electonics removed. The club?
I think I picked it up off the ground somewhere.
The briefcase is a business card holder - has working clasps, and
metal highlights. Gorgeous! I have black and burgundy ones. The
Rocketman helmet is a candy container. The butterfly net was a
gift from my wife and daughter. Something they found at a craft
store. The steamer trunk is a painted Soldiers of the World
piece, with my own hand-made wall-paper interior. The black
briefcase on the right is an Action Jackson piece. A bit small.
The cappucino maker is a fridge magnet. The red tool box (with
the AT logo) is a Ken set. The red tray next to the coffee maker
fits inside, and all the small tools with red handles (and the
little duckie) fit inside. The ball-peen hammer and monkey wrench
came from an iParty store. The robotic cat is a keychain. The
scythe is from a wrestling figure. The screwdrivers are from a
skateboard toy, and glasses repair sunglasses. The Ouija board is
a Basic Fun keychain. The orange case was a gift, as were the
four metal tools at the lower right.
I found this wooden kayak at TJ Max for $8.00. I was a bit shocked to see it. Then I looked at it. Every detail clicked into place. It was perfect. There is a block of wood in the way of the legs, but with a bit of effort, Joe can fit fine. With some work, I could carve out more room, so I wouldn't have to struggle to fit him in. I haven't tested it yet, but it looks seaworthy.
The kayak measures about 28" long by 6" wide or so.
Hawk admires his handiwork. It took him months of weekend work,
but his kayak is complete.
He tests the fit. It's a squeeze, but he fits fine.
From the right.
From the left
I found these at a Decelle store. They come on card. The basketball is basically a ping-pong ball. It is meant to be a table-top basketball game. With some alteration, including an AT logo, this could be turned into a GI Joe one-on-one driveway basketball net for the Adventure Team Training Center. $4.99 for the set.
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