Sean's 'blog for 2010
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Project
- GI Joe Dragonhawk Conversion
Feb 9, 2010
A couple of years ago, Hasbro tried to re-invent GI Joe as Sigma Six. Most of us GI Joe fans knew this wouldn't work very well - though they managed to make some cool figure sets in the 8" range, and even attempted a much-welcome, but doomed, Adventure Team revival in the format - with a few quality sets that I may highlight later.
One of their lines was a line of Sigma Six Joes that were even smaller (by about an inch) than the world-beloved 3.5" GI Joe figures. The best thing they did in this line was the Dragonhawk ship, which was a wonderful toy that could give a kid imaginative play for hours. It was feature-rich with lights, sound, a drop-cage with magnetic clasp, a LED light to line up on the cage to retrive it magnetically, the ducted fans could rotate, a lever triggered various sounds, and the drop-cage itself triggered interesting sounds. The ducted fans made different sounds when they were angled using a thumb-wheel. A marvelous toy!
While these were selling off at about $20.00 in many places a couple of years ago, interest has risen in this amazing thing, and they are now routinely selling on eBay for $60.00 or so, which was the original price.
But my interest is in the 1:6 scale Joes, and immediately, I saw the potential for a back-pack ducted-fan jet-pack for Joe: (forgive the rough sketch - click it to enlarge)
I'm documenting my progress on the project. Today I cut the nose off and assembled the tail fins:
Go to the Dragonhawk Project Page
These photos were e-mailed to my wife, and I was fascinated. Photos were taken in Nova Scotia.
Snopes clears up the part about them being albino, though I don't know why it matters so much. The rare white-haired version is - rare.
Note: One is rare. Two in the same place are absolutely lottery-winning!
